PROVIDENCE CHURCH

     April 2, 2023

 

Welcome

Passing of the Peace: Though we are separated by distance our hearts are one in Christ. The peace of Christ be with you!  And also with you!

 

Choral Introit

Hosanna (Michael W. Smith)

Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna

Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord,

Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna!

 

King of Israel, welcome to our hearts,

Here to reign in righteousness,

O Ruler of the world, Ruler of our hearts,

Now ascend your throne;

You are the King of kings, Hosanna!

 

Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna

Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord,

Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna!

 

To Jerusalem, to the sons of men,

riding on in gentle strength,

O Come to save your own, come to give your life,

the kingdom is at hand;

You are the King of kings, Hosanna!  

 

…Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna

…Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna!

 

King of Israel, welcome to our hearts,

Here to reign in righteousness,

O Ruler of the world, Ruler of our hearts,

Now ascend your throne;

You are the King of kings, Hosanna!

 

Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord

Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna

Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord,

Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna

Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna

Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna!

 

 

Doxology

Praise God from whom all blessings flow,

Praise him all creatures here below,

Praise him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

Amen

 

 

Call to Worship:    Psalm 118:19-26

Leader: Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them

and give thanks to the Lord.

 

Congregation:  This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it.

 

Leader:  I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.

 

Congregation:  The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.

 

Leader:  This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

 

Congregation:  Save us, we pray, O Lord!  O Lord, we pray, give us success!

 

ALL:  Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!  We bless you from the house of the Lord.

 

 

Songs of Praise:

All Glory, Laud and Honor (Teodulph of Orleans, ca. 820; tune M. Teschner, ca.1615)

All glory, laud and honor to thee, Redeemer King,

To whom the lips of children made sweet hosannas ring!

Thou art the King of Israel, thou David’s royal Son,

Who in the Lord’s name comest, the King and blessed one.

 

The people of the Hebrews with palms before thee went;

Our praise and prayer and anthems before thee we present:

To thee, before thy passion, they sang their hymns of praise;

To thee, now high exalted, our melody we raise.

 

Thou didst accept their praises; accept the prayers we bring,

Who in all good delightest, thou good and gracious King!

All glory, laud, and honor to thee, Redeemer King,

To whom the lips of children made sweet hosannas ring!

 

Pastoral Prayer

 

Respond in Praise:

Hosanna (Brooke Ligertwood  CCLI #4785835)

I see the King of Glory coming on the clouds with fire

The whole earth shakes, the whole earth shakes

I see His love and mercy washing over all our sin

The people sing, the people sing

 

Chorus:

Hosanna, Hosanna

Hosanna in the highest!

Hosanna, Hosanna

Hosanna in the highest!

 

I see a generation rising up to take their place

With selfless faith, selfless faith

I see a near revival stirring as we pray and seek

We’re on our knees, we’re on our knees (Chorus)

 

Heal my heart and make it clean

Open up my eyes to the things unseen

Show me how to love like You

Have loved me

 

Break my heart for what breaks yours

Everything I am for Your kingdom’s cause

As I go from earth into

Eternity (Chorus 2X)

 

Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna in the highest!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lamb of God (Twila Paris)

Your only Son, no sin to hide,

but you have sent him from your side

to walk upon this guilty sod,

and to become the Lamb of God.

 

Chorus:

O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God;

I love the holy Lamb of God.

O wash me in his precious blood,

my Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.

 

Your gift of love they crucified;

They laughed and scorned him as he died.

The humble King they named a fraud,

and sacrificed the Lamb of God.

 

I was so lost, I should have died,

but you have brought me to your side

to be led by your staff and rod,

and to be called a lamb of God.

 

O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God;

I love the holy Lamb of God.

O wash me in his precious blood,

Till I am just a lamb of God.

 

O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God;

I love the holy Lamb of God.

O wash me in his precious blood,

my Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.

 

Above All (Lenny LeBlanc, Paul Baloche  CCLI #2672885)

Above all powers, above all kings,

above all nature and all created things;

Above all wisdom and all the ways of man,

You were here before the world began.

 

Above all kingdoms, above all thrones,

above all wonders the world has ever known;

above all wealth and treasures of the earth,

there’s no way to measure what you’re worth.

Chorus: Crucified, laid behind a stone,

You lived to die, rejected and alone.

Like a rose, trampled on the ground,

You took the fall, and thought of me, above all.

(Repeat all, then repeat chorus)

 

Apostles Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth;

and in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,

born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,

was crucified, dead and buried;

He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead;

He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand

of God the Father Almighty.

From there he will come to judge the living and dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints,

the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.   Amen

 

 

Scripture Reading:   Matthew 21:1-22

 

The Triumphal Entry

Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.   If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”   This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,

 

“Say to the daughter of Zion,

‘Behold, your king is coming to you,

    humble, and mounted on a donkey,

    on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”

 

The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.   They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them.   Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.   And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”   And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”   And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

 

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

And Jesus entered the temple[b] and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.   He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

 

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.   But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,

 

“‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies

    you have prepared praise’?”

 

And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.

 

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry.   And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.

 

When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?”   And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.   And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.

 

”This is the Word of the Lord.   Thanks be to God!

Sermon:  “ Hosanna!”           

                                                                                  

Communion Hymn

 

What Wondrous Love is This?

What wondrous love is this,

O my soul, O my soul,

What wondrous love is this,

O my soul?

 

What wondrous love is this

That caused the Lord of bliss

To bear the dreadful curse

For my soul, for my soul,

To bear the dreadful curse for my soul!

 

When I was sinking down

Sinking down, sinking down,

When I was sinking down,

O my soul

 

When I was sinking down

Beneath God’s righteous frown,

Christ laid aside his crown

For my soul, for my soul,

Christ laid aside his crown for my soul!

 

To God and to the Lamb

I will sing, I will sing,

To God and to the Lamb

I will sing

To God and to the Lamb,

Who is the great I Am

While millions join the theme,

I will sing, I will sing,

While millions join the theme

I will sing!

 

And when from death I’m free

I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on

And when from death I’m free,

I’ll sing on

And when from death I’m free

I’ll sing and joyful be

And through eternity

I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on,

And through eternity I’ll sing on!

 

Confession/Assurance    Select verses from 1 Corinthians 15 

 

For this is what the Lord himself has said about his Table, and I Paul, have passed it on to you before: That on the night when Judas betrayed him, the Lord Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks to God for it, he broke it and gave it to his disciples and said, “Take this and eat it. This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”  In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant between God and you that has been established and set in motion by my blood. Do this in remembrance of me whenever you drink it.”   For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup you are retelling the message of the Lord’s death, that he has died for you. Do this until he comes again.

 

So if any eat this bread and drink from this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, they are guilty of sin against the body and the blood of the Lord.   That is why each one should examine their heart carefully before eating the bread and drinking from the cup.    For if they eat the bread and drink from the cup unworthily, not thinking about the body of Christ and what it means, they are eating and drinking God’s judgment upon themself; trifling, as it were, with the death of Christ.    That is why many of you are weak and sick, and some have even died.

 

But if you carefully examine yourselves before eating you will not need to be judged and punished.   Yet, when we are judged and punished by the Lord, it is so that we will not be condemned w

 

 

 

Communion

 

Lord’s Prayer:

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.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil:

for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory.  Amen

 

Hymn of Thanksgiving

The Power of the Cross (Keith Getty, Stuart Townend 2005  CCLI #4490766)

Oh, to see the dawn of the darkest day,

Christ on the road to Calvary.

Tried by sinful men, torn and beaten, then

nailed to a cross of wood.

 

Chorus: This the power of the cross:

Christ became sin for us,

Took the blame, bore the wrath—

We stand forgiven at the cross.

 

Oh, to see the pain written on Your face,

bearing the awesome weight of sin.

Every bitter thought , every evil deed

crowning Your blood-stained brow. (Chorus)

 

Now the daylight flees; now the ground beneath

quakes as its Maker bows His head.

Curtain torn in two, dead are raised to life—

“Finished!” the victory cry. (Chorus)

 

Oh, to see my name written in the wounds,

for through Your suffering I am free.

Death is crushed to death, life is mine to live,

won through Your selfless love!

 

Final Chorus: This the power of the cross,

Son of God, slain for us.

What a love, what a cost!

We stand forgiven at the cross.

 

 

Benediction 

 

Welcome to Providence Church! We are glad that you are here, joining us in person or via Zoom!.

Sunday School:   Adult and Youth Sunday School is at 11:15. Paula Rhodarmer will be teaching.   Will/Christina are leading a study in Exodus.  Children’s Sunday School – boys meet downstairs and girls upstairs at the end of the hall.

Children of all ages are invited to participate in the entire service of worship.  Childcare for children up to 6 years of age, in our downstairs Christian Ed wing (on the left) at the end of the hallway.

Holy Week Schedule –

4/7 – 6:30pm – Good Friday Service

4/9 – 8:30am – Church wide Pancake Breakfast

4/9 – 9:45am –  Easter service (NO Sunday School)

Financial Support Summary:   (current thru end of February)  Total Income:  $15, 426;              Total Expense:  $30,376:  Surplus/Deficit:  -$14,950  Through the end of the month (February), the total expenses of the church exceeded total income resulting in a net budgetary deficit/shortfall in the amount of $14,950.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! – Spring is just around the corner. With its arrival comes beautiful spring grass around the church. Unfortunately, that green grass needs cutting but this gives you an opportunity to serve in a unique, “cutting edge” way. If you are interested in helping us this summer we would love to have you come on board. We have the necessary equipment (riding mower, weed eaters and petro to feed them). We work in groups of two or more with a rotation of about once every 6 weeks. If you are interested, which I KNOW you are, please call Sam M.  at (828)734-1392.

 

 

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Women’s Prayer Group – 10:15am Tuesday mornings, contact Linda Roberts,  828) 506-3101

Men’s Prayer Group – 6:45am Thursday mornings, contact Sam Mitchell,        (828) 734-1392

 

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Prayer Requests

Deaths:  Bill Silverthorne (prayers for Silverthorne family)

For Healing:  Renee Mitchell

For Mercy and Grace:  Bill and Glenda White, Robbie Hargrove