Third Sunday in Lent 2018
03/04/2018
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FOOTPRINTS
Every Sunday – 6:30 to 8:00 pm
6:30 Fellowship Dinner/7:00 – 8:00 Step Study
Our Church
BIBLE STUDY – TUESDAY
Dinner 6 p.m. – Bible Study 7 p.m.
IN OUR CHURCH FELLOWSHIP AREA
SUNDAY SCHOOL
The Sunday School program is held during our regular Sunday service. Our Safe Sanctuary Certified teachers are Reilee Turner and Grace Dakoglou. For ages 2-14 – All Are Welcome.
MINISTRIES
Nurture Ministry – Barbara Smith (732) 495-1672
1st UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF SEA BRIGHT
1104 OCEAN AVENUE
SEA BRIGHT, NEW JERSEY 07760
CHURCH OFFICE (732) 530-7003
E-mail: seabrightumc1@verizon.net
Web: www.seabrightumc.org
SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 10AM
MERIDIAN MINISTRY IN SHREWSBURY
1ST SUNDAY– 2PM
WELCOME TO SEA BRIGHT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
WHERE JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!
A Service of Word & Music
RINGING OF THE BELL
PREPARATION FOR THE WORD
PRELUDE (A time to relax and enter the mindset of worship)
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Leader: One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek:
People: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the
days of my life,
Leader: To gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him
in his temple.
INTRODUCTION FWS 2160
“Into My Heart” (Verse 1)
HYMN OF INVOCATION UMH 160
“Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart”
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
People: And also with you.
Leader: God calls us to faith in the Christ nailed to the cross,
as wisdom wiser than ours and power stronger than
ours.
People: We hear God’s call to the teaching and example of
Jesus.
PRAYER OF INVOCATION
God of majesty, Christ of humility, spirit of unanimity, no one can boast in your presence. We may not be wise by human standards, powerful in society, or noble in birth right, but we come to you in Christ, who is our wisdom, our virtue, our Redeemer, who alone is our boast.
Amen
HEARING OF THE WORD
FIRST READING PAGE 116
“Exodus 20:1-17”
HYMN OF PREPARATION UMH 395
“Take Time to Be Holy”
PSALM “Psalm 19” UMH 750
NEW TESTAMENT READING PAGE 1770 “1 Corinthians 1:18-25”
GOSPEL PAGE 1649
“John 2:13-22”
MESSAGE
“MORNING MESSAGE” Pastor Michael Turner
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
MOMENT OF SILENCE
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
GLORIA PATRI UMH 70
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
PASSING OF THE PEACE
OFFERING OF SELF AND RESOURCES
HYMN OF DEDICATION UMH 295
“In The Cross of Christ I Glory”
BENEDICTION AND SENDING FORTH FWS 2160
“Into My Heart” (Verse 2)
AS YOU ARE ABLE – PLEASE STAND TO PRAISE GOD