TRISAGION
Call to worship: Psalm 150
Welcome to this fourth Sunday during Lent, and this family worship weekend. Throughout the Psalms, the Psalmist speaks to his own heart reminding it of what is true, because our hearts do not always tell us the truth we need to tell them what to believe. This next song is a new one that speaks to our hearts about who God is, what He has done, and who he has called us to be…
GOOD GOD
HOLY FOREVER
Every week during the season of Lent we have taken time to confess our sins to God and to one another. Many times people believe they only need to confess their sin to God when they first accept they need a rescuer in Jesus. But the act of confession is not a one-time act, but the continual act of followers of Jesus. The Bible tells us that we are to confess our sins to God so that we might be forgiven and to our brothers and sisters so that we might be healed. Let’s confess our sins to God and one another:
LEADER:
Merciful God, for the wrong things that we have done,
ALL:
Forgive us
LEADER:
For the right things that we have failed to do,
ALL:
Forgive us
LEADER:
For the times we have acted without love
ALL:
Forgive us
LEADER:
For the times we have reacted without thought
ALL:
Forgive us
LEADER:
For the ways we have not loved You with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength
ALL:
Forgive us
A prayer of confession, especially mindful of Children, The Worship Sourcebook
Brothers and sisters, hear the Good News: if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Praise the Lord, amen.
Sermon: John 17:24
In the 1700s, Jonathan Edwards said:
God is the fountain of love, as the sun is the fountain of light. And therefore the glorious presence of God in heaven fills heaven with love, as the sun, placed in the midst of the visible heavens in a clear day, fills the world with light.
The apostle tells us that "God is love"; and therefore, seeing he is an infinite being, it follows that he is an infinite fountain of love.
Seeing he is an all-sufficient being, it follows that he is a full and overflowing, an inexhaustible fountain of love. And in that he is an unchangeable and eternal being, he is an unchangeable and eternal fountain of love.
There, even in heaven, dwells the God from whom every stream of holy love, yea, every drop that is, or ever was, proceeds. There dwells God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, united as one, in infinitely dear, and incomprehensible, and mutual and eternal love...
And there this glorious fountain forever flows forth in streams, yea, in rivers of love and delight, and these rivers swell, as it were, to an ocean of love, in which the souls of
the ransomed may bathe with the sweetest enjoyment, and their hearts, as it were, be deluged with love.
Would you stand if you’re able as we sing to the fountain of all love…
DOXOLOGY (English/Spanish)
HYMN OF HEAVEN
Benediction