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Sunday Worship

 March 13, 2016 LENT V

            Prelude                                                          

Welcome: AR

Announcements

 The Approach to God

            Responsive Call to Worship:  (Mark 12:28-34; 1 John  4:10)

            Leader: What are the two most important commandments                             according to Jesus?

            People: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul,           mind, and strength and love your neighbour as yourself.

            Leader: What, then, is love? Is it something that we create or                        possess?

            People: This is love: not that we loved God, but that he   loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our                     sins.

Prayer of Approach: VS

Hymn:  63 Give To Our God Immortal Praise*

            Prayer of Confession

            Ministry in Music: SD

The Word of God

            Scripture Lessons:

                        First Testament: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (p.556)

                        Epistle: 1^st John 4:7-12 (p.1061-2)

                        Gospel: Luke 14:25-33 (p.888)

            Children’s Hymn:  344 I Have Decided to Follow Jesus (v.1)

            Children’s Story: JM

            Children’s Hymn:  344 I Have Decided to Follow Jesus (v.2)

Hymn: 439 Jesus, Lover of My Soul

Sermon: VS

     Hatred, Human and Divine – in the Economy of Love

The Response of the People of God   

Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession

            God’s Tithes and Our Offerings (Doxology: #34, verse 1)

            Hymn:  99 You, Lord, Are Both Lamb and Shepherd* 

            Blessing

 * Please stand if you are able.

Everyone is invited for refreshments following the service

  (A pre-service hymn sing is usually held on the first Sunday of each month.)

(The Lord's Supper is held on the first Sunday of each month.)



PRAYER CORNER – March 13, 2016

“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.” - John Bunyan

Praying through the church directory:

• S, T, A, & K T; DL; LL; D, N, L, & S L, JL  

Important Life Events in Our Church Family

Ø  Happy Birthday to PH

Ø  Happy Birthday to LS

Prayer Concerns

• For the fellowship and study groups at MGBC.
• For our Pastoral Search Committee and those whom God calls to consider a vocation as senior pastor at MGBC.
• For SH who has begun a new medical regime to deal with a resurgence of her illness.  Pray for continued strength that only God can provide.
• For ER, who is undergoing treatment for throat cancer, and for A as she cares for him.
• For B and H E's grandson, J, who has been diagnosed with serious cancer of stomach and liver. Let us keep J and his wife (expectant with twins) and the E family, and medical persons in our daily prayers.
• KR, for her complete recovery from her physical ailment. 
• Prayers for more volunteers for home visitation to newcomers in the GTA to assist with homework, vocational upgrading, and conversation in English.
• A, R, & L A.