Palm Sunday April 13, 2025
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 4 (pg. 529)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 83
“Where You There?”
*Confession of Sins …………………….……………............ pg. 2
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
FLY Group Singing
Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Deuteronomy 32:36-39 (pg. 206)
2nd Reading: Philippians 2:5-11 (pg. 1165)
*The Gospel: John 12:12-19 (pg. 1068)
*Response to the Gospel …………………………………..… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith - The Apostles’ Creed ………………... pg. 4
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN --------------------------------------------------------------- # 184
“Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”
Sermon: Matthew 20 – “The Master’s Justice”
THE CLOSING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 416
“There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy”
*The Lord’s Prayer ………………………………………….. pg. 5
*The Benediction ………………………………..…………... pg. 5
*Three-fold Amen ………………………………...…………. pg. 5
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning, especially our guests and visitors. May our Father’s mercy in Jesus assure you of the forgiveness of all your sins. If you have not established your church home in our area, we are anxious to share with you all the blessings which God gives us through His Word. We ask that you please sign our guest book, and we hope that you return to worship with us again soon.
Announcements
Monthly hymn #83: "Were You There?"
Memory verse: Matthew 28:19-20 “Go
therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching
them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with
you always, to the end of the age.”
FLY Practice following the Sunday School opening today.
A sign-up sheet is in the basement for the 2025 WMF Bible Study books.
A Good Friday Worship Service will be held on Friday, April 18, at 7:00 p.m.
Resurrection Sunday Activities: Come and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ! The FLY invites everyone to our Sunrise service next Sunday, April 20th, beginning at 6:30 a.m. Following the service the FLY will serve breakfast. Our regular morning worship service with Holy Communion will be held at 9:00 a.m. We welcome any Easter Lilies that are shared with us on Sunday to beautify the chancel and to enrich our worship.
This week’s activities:
14th – Mon. – Quilting workday, 1:00 p.m.
16th – Wed. – FLY Meeting, 7:00 p.m.
18th – Fri. – Good Friday Worship service, 7:00 p.m.
20th – Sun. – Sunrise Service, 6:30 a.m., Breakfast to
follow
Sunday Worship with Communion (Matt. Chapter 21), 9:00 a.m.,
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
CHURCH CLEANING: Apr. 14 – 20 Renee Olson & Sandy Lau
*Call to Worship: Psalm 4
4 Answer me when I call, O God of
my righteousness!
You have given me relief when I was in
distress.
Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
2 O men, how long shall my
honor be turned into shame?
How long will you love vain words and
seek after lies?
3 But know
that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself;
the Lord hears
when I call to him.
4 Be angry, and do not sin;
ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent.
5 Offer right sacrifices,
and put
your trust in the Lord.
6 There are many who say,
“Who will show us some good?
Lift up the light of your face upon
us, O Lord!”
7 You have
put more joy in my heart
than they have when their grain and wine
abound.
8 In peace I will both lie
down and sleep;
for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
1st Reading: Deuteronomy 32:36-39
36 For the Lord will vindicate his
people
and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that
their power is gone
and there is none remaining, bond or free.
37 Then he will say, ‘Where are their
gods,
the rock in which they took refuge,
38 who
ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink
offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
let them be your
protection!
39 “‘See now that I, even I, am he,
and there is no god beside me;
I kill and I make alive;
I
wound and I heal;
and there is none that can deliver out of my
hand.
2nd Reading: Philippians 2:5-11
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
*The Gospel: John 12: 12-19
12 The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” 14 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,
15 “Fear not, daughter of Zion;
behold, your king is coming,
sitting on a donkey's colt!”
16 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. 17 The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 18 The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. 19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”