Estes Park United Methodist Church

February 7, 2021

Order of Worship

 

 

Prelude – Come, Share the Lord

                                                                                                                                   

Greeting/Welcome

 

Call to Worship – Isaiah 40

Leader:   Have you not known? Our God is the everlasting God, Creator of the  ends of the earth.

People:  Have you not heard? God does not faint or grow weary.

Leader:   Have you not known? God’s understanding is unsearchable.

People: Have you not heard? God gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless.

Leader:   Have you not known? Those who wait for God will renew their strength they shall mount up with wings like eagles.

People:  We come to hear.  We come to know.

All:  Thanks be to God.

                              

Opening Prayer (Unison)                                                                                                          

Everlasting God, you give strength to the powerless and power to the faint; you raise up the sick and cast out demons.  Make us agents of healing and wholeness, that your good news may be made known to the ends of your creation. Amen.

 

Opening Hymn – Take Time to be Holy

 

Prayer of Confession

Leader: Let us confess our sins before God and one another.

People: Our memories are short, Eternal God, and we need your nudges to remember your blessings. We get caught up in the worries and wrinkles of living and lose sight of your abiding presence. The urgent and the necessary crowd out playful thanksgiving and heartfelt gratitude. We are polite, but distant. We have manners but lack feeling behind the words.  Forgive us, faithful God, for outward   obedience and inner resistance. Let your light brighten our way, your peace ease our anxious moments, your love heal our troubled minds, your joy kindle our memory and hope. Hear our prayer in Jesus’ name. Amen.

 

Silent Prayer

 

Assurance of Pardon

Leader:  “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”  In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven!

People: Thanks be to God!  Amen!

 

Offering

            Prayer of Blessing

                                                                                                                                                          

Pastoral Prayer

           

Scripture Lesson – Mark 1:29-39

 

Sermon – Because That’s What Jesus Does!

      

Holy Communion

            Prayer after Receiving                    

 

Closing Hymn – He Touched Me

 

Benediction

 

Postlude – The Longer I Serve Him

 

Service Participants:

Pastor: Rev. Ann Steiner Lantz

Liturgist: Cay Lacey

Director of Music: Jim Flanigan

Pianist: Nancy Gunter

Videographer:  Jim Ecklund