This Week's Service
March 7, 2010
Third Sunday of Lent
Prayer of the Day
Beautiful God of glory, maker of this and every day, thank you for having made us alive. Thank you for a wide world of wind and rain, snow and sunshine. Thank you for your Son, whose love has brought us to this place.
Lord, we know that we often disappoint you: You ask us to lift our hands to take part in your work, and we stick our hands in our pockets; you ask us to walk with the lost and lonely, and we shuffle off to our own homes; you ask us to show our faces when there is pain and need, and we turn and mumble excuses. The weight of our sin is heavy. Yet we are too proud and small to reach out and take your helping hand.
God of mercy, our prayer this day is that we might find the strength and courage to look to you. The hardest words in our language are God, forgive us. In the name of Jesus the Nazarene, we now say, God, forgive us. Amen.Scripture Lesson
Isaiah 55:1-9 (New International Version)
"Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
Give ear and come to me;
hear me, that your soul may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander of the peoples.
Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations that do not know you will hasten to you,
because of the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor."
Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way
and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Sermon: “You Who Are Thirsty” Rev. Ken Hawes
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