Mill Plain UMC, The 3 C’s Of Ash Wednesday
March 2, 2022
Live stream with Pastor Sue Ostrom
Accompanied by worship assistant
Accompanist Andrea Llafet
Mill Plain UMC 6:30 PM
Wednesday March 2,,2022
Songs
It’s Me, It’s Me, O Lord #352
Trading My Sorrows
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Wednesday March 2, 2022
Prelude
Welcome Announcements
Greeting
Call to Worship
Pastor: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
People: And also, with you
Pastor: Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins.
People: God’s mercy endures forever.
Opening Prayer
O God, maker of everything and judge of all that you have made, from the dust of the earth you have formed us and from the dust of death you would raise us up.
By the redemptive power of the cross, create in us clean hearts and put within us a new spirit, that we may repent of our sins and leave lives worthy of your calling; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Young Disciples Moment
Song It’s Me, It’s Me, O Lord #352
Old Testament
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.
Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.
You desire truth in the inward being; therefore, teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
New Testament
2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
So, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, “At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you.” See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation! We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see—we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
Message: The 3 C’s of Ash Wednesday
Invitation to the observance of Lenten Discipline
Thanksgiving Over the Ashes
Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth.
Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, so that we may remember that only by your gracious gift are we given everlasting life;
through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.
Imposition of Ashes
Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return.
Confession and Pardon
Silent prayer
Prayer
May the almighty and merciful God,
who desires not the death of a sinner but that we turn from wickedness and live, accept your repentance, forgive your sins, and restore you by the Holy Spirit to newness of life. Amen.
Song: Trading My Sorrows
Benediction
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and the love of God,
and the power of the Holy Spirit be with you. Amen.