April 23, 2023
Third Sunday of Easter
Enhance your online worship experience
Whether you’re a first-time online visitor or a life-long member, we welcome and celebrate the ways you enrich our collective worship of a scattered yet gathered Children of God. As we begin our service, we invite you to light a candle, just as we do in the prelude during our in-person worship. Our two altar candles symbolize that Christ was both a human being and God. A light being carried into the world shows that Jesus Christ is for all people - everywhere. Just as a the acolyte carries the lighted candlelight into the congregation, the light symbolizes the light of Jesus Christ preceding us into the world where we as the church are to serve.
Gathering:
The chiming of the Trinity
Prelude
Sonata Op. 25 Movement II Lawson Lunde
Rylan Dunn and Julia Pearson, saxophones
Welcome and Announcements
An Announcement from Staff-Parish Relations
Heath Nettles Rylan
Call to Worship
One: Who have you come here to find?
Many: We came to find Jesus the Messiah.
One: What have you come here looking for?
Many: We seek comfort and meaning in our lives.
One: What do you want to leave here with?
Many: We want new life, new belief that Christ is with us.
One: Let us trust in what God can do!
Many: Let us worship with love and trust.
Hymn
The Church’s One Foundation UMH# 545
Children’s Message
Concerns and Prayers with the Lord’s Prayer
UMH# 895
A Reading from the New Testament
The Reading from the Gospels
Sermon
What Things? | Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon
The God of resurrection is powerful. Our amazing God is here wanting you to know the fullness of life that is available right here and right now. Trust is what God can do! In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven and made new.
In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven and made new.
Thanks be to God.
Affirmation of Faith
Affirmation from 1 Timothy 2:5-6; 1:15; 3:16
UMH #889
Blessing of the Tithes and Offerings
Make a Gift of a Tithe or Offering
Doxology | UMH# 94
Hymn
Amazing Grace UMH# 378
Postlude
I Know Whom I Have Believed arr. James Koerts
Today’s worship participants
Our Pastor: Rev. Lisa Hartzog
Music Director: Dr. Joel Reed
Pianist: Patty Higgins
Music Intern: Nick Skaggs
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Mars Hill United Methodist Church
PO Box 427
Mars Hill, NC 28754
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