Ash Sunday Oos

Order of service:

Call to worship: Romans 10: 9-13

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

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   Prayers to God

Today we are marking a time of self-reflection and seeking Gods forgiveness but duering this time let us never forget the wonder and glory of God

Hymn: StF 82: How great though art (oh lord my God)

MBW P141: Para 3

MWB P142: Para 4

MWB P142 para 5 (read collectively)4

We hear are marking the decent of God from his holy mount to Calvary’s hill, never forgetting he is the rock upon which all creation relies – let us rejoice that God  love is steadfast and will hold us forever 

Hymn: Stf 645 Will your anchor hold

Prayer of adoration Companion to the lectionary 3: p64

Reading: Matthew 17: 1-9

Reading: Matthew 6 5-15 -19-21

Sermon: Down from the mountain to Calvary

This is the start of a time of penitence- a time when in the word of the 3^rd verse we realise how small the debt owed to us and how great the debt we owe to God

Hymn: Stf 423: Forgive our sins as we forgive

MWB: P146 para16

Word to be on the screen in yellow

(before the cross) I have sinned, I have come to repent and give my life back to the lord

(after the cross) I have been forgiven; God has given me life anew

MWB: P147 para17 (a)

Let us leave filled with the grace of the lord, repentant and reformed, knowing not the work of our hands has saved us but the endless grace of God

Hymn: StF 434 rock of ages

Dismal: