\Prelude “When the Morning Stars Together” Moore Welcome and Greeting Rev. Dan Schumacher If you are visiting FBC this morning, or would like more information about thechurch and our programs, please pick up a Welcome Packet at one of the entrances.
Lighting the Christ Candle Tim and Malia Gross
Gathering Praise “I Will Sing Praise” Martin
Call to Worship from Psalm 42 Rick Smith One: As a deer longs for flowing streams, All: so my soul longs for you, O God. One: My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. All: When shall I come and behold the face of God? One: By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, All: and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. One: Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? All: Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. Amen.
Congregational Hymn #49 “As the Deer” AS THE DEER
Invocation and Lord’s Prayer Rev. Dan Schumacher Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Musical Offering “Up to the Mountain” Patty Griffin
Scripture Reading 1 Kings 19:1-13 (NRSV) Rev. Dan Schumacher Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.” Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, “Get up and eat.” He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.” He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
At that place he came to a cave, and spent the night there. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.” He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake;and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Sermon “Olly, Olly, Oxen Free!” Rev. Dan Schumacher
Moment of Reflection
Hymn of Response #404 “I Need Thee Every Hour” NEED
Postlude “I Love Thee” Anonymous
WORSHIP NOTES: LENT Beginning with Ash Wednesday, this 40-day event is a time of fasting in imitation of Jesus’ temptation experience in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11). Lent literally means “spring” and is our reminder that even out of the winter parts of our lives, God can bring new life. We believe that it is impossible to experience the full joy of Easter without walking through the trial of Lent.