Second Sunday of Lent
March 16, 2025 | 10:00am
Rev. Marisol Ferrer Malloy, Guest Minister | Larry J. Carey, Director of Music
Thought for Worship: As I consider the destruction we continue to visit upon each other and all of creation, I imagine God is still grieved. What emotions arise within you when you consider the human condition? -Rev. T. Denise Anderson
GATHERING
Welcome
Prelude My Faith Looks Up to Thee | Mason/Hegarty
Call to Worship
Votum
Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Amen
Opening Sentences
If God is a hen,
we are under God’s wing.
If God is a table,
we each have a seat.
If God is a house,
we are safe from the storm.
If God is a party,
we’re invited to dance.
If God is a melody,
our names are the lyrics.
If this is God’s house,
then all are welcomed. All are loved. All belong.
Let us worship Holy god.
Salutation
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
Amen.
*Hymn of Praise Jesus Lover of My Soul
Call to Confession
Family of faith, we come to confession not to wallow in our own guilt. Instead, we come to confession because we know that change starts with being honest. So in a desire to grow and change, let us pray to a God who loves us like a mother hen.
Let us confess our sins together. . .
Prayer of Confession
When the Pharisees tried to stop Jesus, Jesus said,
“I will keep on.”
I will keep on healing.
I will keep on teaching.
I will keep on preaching.
I will keep on flipping the tables of injustice.
I will keep on treating every person like a child of God.
I will keep on believing that this world can change.
I will keep on and keep on and keep on until God’s promised day.
Forgive us, God, for the times when we stop.
Amen.
Assurance of Pardon
Family of faith, because Jesus’ love just keeps going, we can trust that that love and
grace exists for us. So rest in this good news:
No matter what we do wrong or what we leave undone, we are under God’s wing. We are loved, held, and forgiven. Thanks be to God for a love like that! Amen.
The Law of God:
*Gloria Patri | #579
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.
*Commitment to Peace Keeping and Peace Seeking
One: May the peace of Christ be with you!
All: And also with you!
Share a sign of peace with one another. After sharing the peace, let us all sing together:
Together, by grace, we witness and work, remembering Jesus, in whom we grow strong. Together we serve in Spirit and truth, remembering love is the strength of our song.
THE WORD OF GOD
Anthem My Faith Looks Up to Thee | arr. Carter
Prayer for Illumination
Holy God, this life of ours is full to the brim. Our days are overflowing with emails and to-do lists, schedules and notifications, assignments and deadlines. We wake up feeling behind, we go to sleep worrying about tomorrow, and we know—there has to be more than this.
So we pray: bend down and show us the way. Leave breadcrumbs in the street. Point us toward awe and wonder. Guide us to intimacy and trust. Gift us with laughter that will make us cry and hope that will make us feel alive. We want a new kind of full to the brim. Show us the way. We are listening for your cues. Gratefully we pray, amen.
First Reading: Psalm 27
This is the Word of the Lord
Thanks be to God
*Hymn: Forty Days and Forty Nights
Second Reading: Luke 13:31-35
This is the Word of the Lord
Thanks be to God
Sermon: “Under God’s wing” | Rev. Ferrer Malloy
Silent Reflection
THE RESPONSE TO GOD
*Affirmation of Faith
A modern paraphrase of Psalm 27
The Lord is my light.
The Lord surrounds me
like a warm, familiar quilt,
in layers of grace.
Whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the sturdy foundation
and the roof over my head.
I am not afraid.
When the world is at its worst—
when grief clings to my bones,
when fear eats at my confidence,
when loneliness moves into my house—
God sets the table,
turns on the lights,
and invites me to dance.
So even though there are days
that feel like too much to bear,
I know—I am not alone.
So I ask the Lord,
I seek and I pray—
let me live in your house
all of my days. Amen.
Offering Man of Sorrow | Larson
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise him all creatures here below;
Praise him above ye heavenly hosts;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Amen!
Prayer of Dedication
Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession (ending with the Lord’s Prayer)
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory forever. Amen.
SENDING
*Hymn The Lord’s My Light
Benediction
Postlude Agincourt Hymn | Dunstable
DEAR FRIENDS
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FOOD PANTRY NEWS
Many thanks for all those who have shared their abundance with neighbors in need.
Our church refrigerators have plenty of space to hold even more!
Please consider making a weekly donation of eggs or milk to the P-G Food Pantry.
Peapack Reformed Church is a congregation called by God, empowered by the Holy Spirit and committed to being the very presence of Jesus Christ in the world.
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