Mill Plain UMC
March 17, 2024
Acts of Mercy
Scripture
Isaiah 1:10-17
Acts 9:36-43
Music
Revive us Again
Sing, Sing, Sing
Act Justly
My Jesus I Love Thee
In the Cross of Christ I Glory
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Mill Plain UMC
March 17, 2024
10 a.m.
Mill Plain UMC
March 17th ,2024
10 a.m.
Praise Song Revive Us Again
Greeting Each Other 90 second timer
Greetings
Call to Worship
Worship Assistant: Hear the word of the Lord, people of Vancouver!
People: Tell us what God has to say to us this day.
Worship Assistant: Listen to the teaching of our God, people at Mill Plain.
People: We are ready to receive God’s word for us.
Opening Prayer
God, you come to us in the stranger and appear to us in the unknown. We try our best to offer mercy and confess that sometimes we fail to recognize your presence among us.
In our attempt to be faithful to you, we say our prayers and read our Bibles, we bring our offerings and do works of charity. Transform us that we will know you are present in the unexpected and near to us in the unknown. Move us beyond the motions of faith to the mystery of your incarnation. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
Praise Songs Sing Sing Sing
Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly
Young Disciples Moment
Choir Sweet are the prayers of a friend
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Lord’s Prayer
Offertory
Presentation of Offerings
Doxology
Isaiah 1:10-17
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more; bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation— I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity. Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them. When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
Acts 9:36-43
Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity. At that time she became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in a room upstairs. Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the request, “Please come to us without delay.” So Peter got up and went with them; and when he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs. All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was with them. Peter put all of them outside, and then he knelt down and prayed. He turned to the body and said, “Tabitha, get up.” Then she opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up. He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then calling the saints and widows, he showed her to be alive. This became known throughout Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. Meanwhile he stayed in Joppa for some time with a certain Simon, a tanner.
Hymn My Jesus, I Love Thee #172
Sermon Acts of Mercy
Prayer
You have clothed us with your grace, O God, and renewed us by your Spirit. We have offered you our prayers and our gifts. Receive now the work of our hands and the longings of our hearts, that we may faithfully serve you and joyfully greet you. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.
Hymn In the Cross of Christ I Glory #295
Benediction
Go forth to love God and your neighbor in all that you do. And the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the presence of the Holy Spirit be with you. Amen.