Your Marriage By Zoom

Today’s guest speaker is Dr. 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 5
Leader:   Give ear to my words, O Lord. Consider my sighings,
.               for to You I pray.
People:   Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God. In
                the morning, O Lord, You hear my voice.        
Leader:    In the morning I lay my requests before You.  I by
                Your great mercy will come into Your house.
People:   You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil.
                The arrogant cannot stand in Your presence.
Leader:     Lead me, O Lord, in Your righteousness.  Make
                 Straight Your way before me.
People:    I by Your great mercy will come into Your house.
                 In reverence will I bow down toward Your great
                 Temple.   

.INVOCATION                                                         Dr. Domske
       
HYMN       “Holy, Holy, Holy”                                            323
               
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Lord, often we are not good at keeping our promises.  Because of our failures, sometimes we find it hard to believe You will keep Your promises.  Sometimes it is hard to have faith enough to believe. The world tells us we are foolish to believe in You and put our trust in You.  We put off committing ourselves completely to You.  Forgive us.  We are slow to love anyone but ourselves.  Continue to love us.  Help us to give ourselves bit by bit completely to You.
 
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         “Beyond  the Cross”
                                   
Prayer for Illumination
Scripture reading      New Test.   l Corinthians 12: 12-31
                                    Gospel        John 5:        1-9

1 Corinthians 12:12-31
Unity and Diversity in the Body
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

​27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.


John 5:1-9
The Healing at the Pool
5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
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The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,

​                   L: The Word of the Lord
                  P: Thanks be to God!
 
Sermon         “Your Marriage by Zoom”
                       
HYMN        “The Church’s One Foundation”                     547
 
*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               “Softly and Tenderly”                                  432
Benediction                                                                       
CHOIR POSTLUDE        “Christ Be Beside Me”  

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BIRTHDAYS:    April  3   Evelyn Wood
                                    5   Bob Clifford
                                    7   Susan West
         
ANNIVERSASRIES:   10 Jim &Sue Gregg 

SYMPATHY:  Family of Jamie Lee Kearns
                       Family of Zona White

JOYS & CONCERNS   Evelyn Wood is 100 years today. If
You did not get that card in the mail, you can still send it.  She can celebrate all week.
 
Prayers for our soldiers that have been deployed to help overseas and pray for the Ukraine people.

CONTINUED PRAYERS for:  Susan Schively, Melissa Pedigo, Aaron Blake, Chuck Dicks, June & Keith McGill, Tim Knabenshue, Frank Huffman, Frank & Nellie Baker, Tom Westfall, MaryAnn 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, the Warlow Family, Pat Haggerty, Nancy Youmans Ina Henderson, Jean Westfall, Don Cunningham, Carl, Vicky Byers and Betty Fisher

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.

You have until Sunday April 10th to order your Easter flowers.  Order forms are on the table in the back of the sanctuary.  See Cheryl Bell for any questions.

We will be participating in the “One Great Hour of Sharing” during this Lenten Season as we always have. Envelopes are in the pews for your convenience in giving to this much needed program.

Mark your calendar:
 * Next Sunday is Palm Sunday with Rev. Dave Mason.
 * Maundy Thursday Service with Communion At 7 PM April 14th with Rev. Dave Mason.
*Good Friday Service at Upper Buffalo at 7 PM
 *Easter Sunrise Service at 7 AM April 17th with breakfast to follow and Traditional Easter Service at 11 AM with Dr. Renny Domske.

 Session and Trustees will meet Monday April 11th at 7 PM.
  Women’s Missionary will meet Tuesday April 12th at 9:30 AM.