Gatorade from God

Today’s guest speaker is Rev. Renny Domske
 
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Gathering  Around  the  Word
 
Prelude                     Music Director               Robert Senay
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS   
CHORAL INTROIT         “40 Days and 40 Nights” 
                                                                          
CALL TO WORSHIP                                         from Psalm 4
Leader:    Answer me when I call You, O my righteous God.
                Give me relief from my distress.
People:   Be merciful to me and hear my prayer. Know that
                the Lord has set apart the godly for Himself.                      
Leader:    In Your anger do not sin- -trust in the Lord. When you
                are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent.
People:   Many are asking, “Who can show us any good?”
                Let the light of Your face shine upon us, O Lord.
Leader:   You have filled my heart with greater joy than when
                their grain and new wine abound. 
People:   I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone,
               O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

INVOCATION                                                          Dr. Domske
       
HYMN        “When I Survey the Wonderous Cross            258
               
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Lord God, I wish I were more trustworthy. I wish I were more consistent in my longing of You.  My only consistency is my failure to follow You each day. My sin is following my own leanings and desires, while ignoring You. I confess that I have failed You. I confess that I live my life in a selfish theme. Help me. Forgive me. Reach out to protect me from myself and lead me into the way everlasting, Your way, O God.
 
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
*Time of silent prayer
*Passing the Peace
 
L: The peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
P: And also, with you.   
*Response – Gloria Patri 
 
CHILDREN’S CHAT
CHOIR ANTHEM         “Take Me to the Cross”
                                   
Prayer for Illumination
Scripture reading                 John 4: 1-15
                                               l Corinthians 3: 16-23

John 4:1-15
Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John-- 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
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15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

​1 Corinthians 3: 16-23
16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
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18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”; 20 and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” 21 So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23 and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.

                   L: The Word of the Lord
                  P: Thanks be to God!
 
Sermon           “Gatorade From God”
                       
HYMN        “The Old Rugged Cross”                                   256
 
*Apostles Creed (found inside the back cover of the hymnal)
Presentation of our tithes and offering
Offertory       Choir Anthem      Organ Solo    Robert Senay
Doxology (Hymnal page 382)
Prayer of dedication
Concerns and Celebrations
                                                                
Prayers of the People                                           Dr. Domske
The Lord’s Prayer
 
HYMN               “Beneath the Cross of Jesus”                  253
Benediction                                                                       
CHOIR POSTLUDE   “God Be With You”         Robert Senay                               ​

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BIRTHDAYS        Dillion Durila                                  
ANNIVERSARIES      Bill and Ida Reese

JOYS AND CONCERNS -  Evelyn Wood will be 100 years old on April 3rd, pass the word and send her a card shower!  Maybe we can get her 100 cards. 

Ina Henderson’s surgery went well this past week.  She is home recuperating, please keep her in your prayers.  

James O’Hara will have his wisdom teeth removed on Thursday, March 17th.  Please keep him in your prayers.  

Also added to our prayer chain this past week was Mike Diedier, Betty Fisher’s son-in-law.  He was working on a well site in New York and was taken to the hospital.  After tests for appendicitis it was revealed he had food poisoning and is home recuperating.

Prayers for our soldiers that have been deployed to help overseas and pray for the Ukraine people. 
  
SYMPATHY        Family of Dayle Esther McCoy Kelley
            Family of Jamie Lee Kearns
                
Continued prayers for Susan Schively, Melissa Pedigo, Aaron Blake, Chuck Dicks,  June and Keith McGill, Tim Knabenshue, Frank Huffman, Nellie and Frank Baker, Tom Westfall, Mary Ann Durila, Elaine Belcascro,  Sandy Stone, Diane Bednarski, Matt Petrola, Laura Davis, Nancy Hepinger, Betsy Martin, Ed Horne, Sarah Wilson, Robin Durila, Bill Poland, Amy Ward, Don Matthews, the Warlow Family, Pat Haggerty, and Nancy Youmans. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 
Remember our Food Collection.  - And Jesus said, “You give them something to eat.”  Mark 6: 37.  Please let Betty Fisher know if you are aware of anyone within the community that may be in need at this time.