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Service starts with a time of silence and reflection
This evening service is the start of the Season of Lent.
Lent coincides with Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness being tempted, as well as the 40 years the Israelites spent in the desert.
You may remember the Israelites did not go into the promised land until the generation of doubters had died out.
But Lent also coincides with the time between Jesus’ disciples recognizing He is the Messiah, and Jesus being crucified.
So for this time, Jesus was preparing Himself to die for our sins.
So Lent is a time to prepare for death, not only physical death, but the death of sin and ungodliness in us.
And so this evening’s service reminds us that we are from dust, and to dust we will return.
*Greeting*
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you
*And also with you*
Bless the Lord, o my soul, and all that is within me bless His holy Name
*Bless the Lord, o my soul, and forget not all God’s benefits*
Who forgives all your sins and heals all your infirmities
*Who redeems your life from the grave, and crowns you with mercy and loving kindness*
*Opening prayer*
Let us pray (A brief silence)
/Almighty and everlasting God/
/You hate nothing You have made/
/And forgive the sins of all who are penitent/
/Create and make in us new and contrite hearts/
/That we, worthily lamenting our sins/
/And acknowledging our wretchedness/
/May obtain from You, the God of all mercy/
/Perfect remission and forgiveness/
/Through Jesus Christ out Lord/
/Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit/
/One God, forever and ever/
/Amen/
/ /
*First Hymn Lord I come to You*
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*First Lesson : Joel 2 v 1 – 2 and 12 – 17a*
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy hill.
Let all who live in the land tremble,
for the day of the Lord is coming.
It is close at hand—
2 a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and blackness.
Like dawn spreading across the mountains
a large and mighty army comes,
such as never was of old
nor ever will be in ages to come.
12 “Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
13 Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity.
14 Who knows?
He may turn and have pity
and leave behind a blessing—
grain offerings and drink offerings
for the Lord your God.
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
declare a holy fast,
call a sacred assembly.
16 Gather the people,
consecrate the assembly;
bring together the elders,
gather the children,
those nursing at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room
and the bride her chamber.
17 Let the priests, who minister before the Lord,
weep between the temple porch and the altar.
Let them say, “Spare your people, O Lord.
*Second Hymn When I survey*
*Second Lesson 2 Corinthians 5 v 20b – 6 v 2*
We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
*6* As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. 2 For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.
*Response to reading from 2 Corinthians 5*
Cry and God will answer
*Call and the Lord will say, “I am here”*
If you do away with the yoke
The clenched fist, the wicked word
If you give your bread to the hungry
And relief to the oppressed
*Call and the Lord will say, “I am here”*
Your light will rise in the darkness
And your shadows become like noon
The Lord will always guide you
Give you relief in desert places
*Cry, and God will answer*
*Call, and the Lord will say, “I am here”*
\\ *Gospel Lesson: Matthew 6 v 1 – 6; 16 - 21*
“Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them.
If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men.
I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret.
Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
5 “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 men.
I tell you the truth, 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.
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