SERVICE OF WORSHIP THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT March 15, 2020 GATHERING OF GOD'S PEOPLE Welcome * Songs of Worship PSALM 86 (ANTIPHON) Refrain: Hear, O Lord, and answer me For I am poor and needy For I am poor and needy (spoken) Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I call to you all day long. Bring joy to your servant, for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you. Hear my prayer, O LORD; listen to my cry for mercy. Refrain For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God. Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever. Refrain
By Thy Mercy Jesus, Lord of life and glory, Bend from Heav’n Thy gracious ear; While our waiting souls adore Thee, Friend of helpless sinners, hear: By Thy mercy, O deliver us, good Lord, good Lord.
From the depth of nature’s blindness, From the hardening power of sin, From all malice and unkindness, From the pride that lurks within: By Thy mercy, O deliver us, good Lord, good Lord.
When the world around is smiling, In the time of wealth and ease, Earthly joys our hearts beguiling, In the day of health and peace, By Thy mercy, O deliver us, good Lord, good Lord.
(note new verse) When the world around is frightening, In our fear and our disease, When life beggars understanding Grant us, Lord, once more your peace By Thy mercy, O deliver us, good Lord, good Lord.
In the solemn hour of dying, In the awful judgment day, May our souls, on Thee relying, Find Thee still our Rock and Stay: By Thy mercy, O deliver us, good Lord, good Lord.
Your Love O Lord Your love oh Lord Reaches to the heavens Your faithfulness Stretches to the sky Your righteousness Is like the mighty mountains Your justice flows Like the ocean's tide
I will lift my voice To worship You my King I will find my strength In the shadow of Your wings * Prayer of Adoration HEARING THE WORD Scripture Reading: Matthew 6: 5-15 (See end of bulletin for Scripture) Leader: This is the Word of the Lord People: Thanks be to God. Sermon: “In the Center” * Response Song: ”This Is Our God” A refuge for the poor A shelter from the storm This is our God He will wipe away your tears And return your wasted years This is our God So call upon his name, He is mighty to save. This is our God
A Father to the orphan A healer to the broken This is our God He brings peace to our madness And comfort in our sadness This is our God So call upon his name, He is mighty to save. This is our God
This is the One we have waited for This is the One we have waited for This is the One we have waited for Jesus, Lord and Savior This is our God
A fountain for the thirsty A lover for the lonely This is our God He brings glory to the humble And crowns for the faithful This is our God So call upon his name, He is mighty to save. This is our God
You are the One we have waited for You are the One we have waited for You are the One we have waited for Jesus, Lord and Savior This is our God
PRAYING FOR RENEWAL Prayer As our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to pray: 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, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
*The Peace Leader: The peace of Christ be with you. People: And also with you. *Thanksgiving Song: “Jesus Victor at the Cross” May the broken ones among us meet the Healer, And the thirsty drink the water of new Life. Grant those who grieve to meet the risen Savior. Let all who chance upon us meet the Christ. Jesus, victor at the cross, Holy Redeemer, we count all else as loss. We have tasted living bread, At your banquet all are fed– May your kingdom come.
Let the way of weakness be for us a treasure, Since the life laid down is raised again anew. Pour out your Holy Spirit without measure, As we live out the life that comes from you.
Jesus, victor at the cross, Holy Redeemer, we count all else as loss. So that we may know you, Christ– Bear your cross and share your life. May your will be done.
Let the stranger find his welcome as a brother; And the outcast, in the church, a sister be. Let the powers that see the Church's witness tremble As we display God's new humanity.
Jesus, Victor at the cross, Holy Redeemer, your life for us has brought All divisions to an end, Proclaimed the peace that you intend. May your kingdom come, May your will be done, May your kingdom come.
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SENDING FORTH INTO GOD'S WORLD Announcements * Benediction *Congregation Standing—Please stand if you are able. Psalm 85 (Antiphon), Alex Mejias, Music 2010 5PM Records By Thy Mercy, Alex Mejias Your Love Oh Lord, by Brad Avery and others. ©1999 New Spring, Vandura 2500 Songs and Gray Dot Songs This is Our God, CCLI Song No. 3330810 © 2001 worshiptogether.com songs | sixsteps Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) | (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) Chris Tomlin | Jesse Reeves. For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. All rights Reserved. www.ccli.com CCLI License No. 2260440 Jesus Victor at the Cross, by Chi-Ming Chien on the occasion of Redeemer Community Church's 5th Anniversary/Pentecost 2007
Today’s bulletin cover art by Kathy Tsay NEW TO REDEEMER? WELCOME! C O N TA C T U S If you are new or visiting, we are so 415.671.2194 glad you are here. If you would like www.redeemersf.org more information about Redeemer, 1224 Fairfax Ave, SF 94124 fill out the white insert in your bulletin and put it in the offering plate, or talk Cindi Fong (Pastor) with any of the ushers. [email protected] Danny Fong (Pastor) CHILDREN & WORSHIP [email protected] Nursery: An usher can help you find Gaylene Wong (Pastoral Staff) the nursery. Please sign-in your child [email protected] and pick them up after service. Session (Church Governing Body) Pre-K Children start in the sanctuary [email protected] and participate in worship. They are Ann Kim (Newcomers) dismissed to childcare after the [email protected] Prayer of Adoration. Karen Lu (Childcare) Children 5 years and older are [email protected] welcome to participate in the entire worship service. Sylvia Hom (Childcare) [email protected] SUNDAYS Dan Yamamoto (Children’s Ministry) 9:15 am, Children’s Church School [email protected] Pre-School through K Andrew Lee (Youth Ministry) 1st through 5th [email protected] 9:15 am Youth Group Danny Kim (Sunday Groups) Middle School High School [email protected] 9:15 am, Sunday Groups Cindi Fong (Life Groups) Visio Divina [email protected] Devotion and Intercessory Prayer C.S. Lewis and Popular Thought RISE UNIVERSITY Expressing the Spirit’s Work in Creative PREPARATORY Form The vision for Rise Prep, an 10:25 am, Worship Service independent nonprofit school Refreshments after service. primarily serving low-income, first generation to college, and Bayview/ G R O U P L I F E Hunters Point residents, was born out Redeemer has a variety of small of Redeemer’s heart for its groups that meet on Sundays and community. Rise continues to be throughout the week. For more Redeemer’s primary partner for information, see the JOIN A GROUP engaging with our neighborhood. side of the bulletin insert. For more info contact YOUTH GROUP Danny Kim [email protected] STORM is a regular gathering of youth, 6-12 grade, which meets 6:30-9 pm every other Friday night. Hear the Word of the Lord from the gospel according to Matthew: (Matthew 6: 5-15) NIV “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.