18B - Ash Wednesday — 20B - Lent 2B
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PSALM 25:1-10
To you, O LORD, I lift up my inmost being.
In you, O LORD, have I trusted,
let me not be ashamed;
do not let my enemies rejoice over me.
Indeed, those who wait for you
will not be put to shame;
the unprincipled who act faithlessly
will be put to shame.
Make your ways known to me, O LORD,
teach me your ways (of behaviour)
Make me walk in your way, and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation.
I have waited for you all the day.
[on account of your goodness]
Remember your acts of mercy, O LORD,
and your lovingkindness,
for they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellions,
remember me according to your lovingkindness.
The LORD is good and upright,
therefore he is showing sinners (in) the way.
He will make the humble walk in justice
and teach the humble his way.
All the paths of the LORD are lovingkindness and faithfulness
for those keeping his covenant and his decrees.
OFFERING
Covenant-keeping God,
whose promise is rock solid;
we offer our lives
and these signs of our daily living
not simply that bread might fill empty stomachs,
but that, through the working of your Holy Spirit,
empty lives may be filled,
friendless, lonely lives find intimacy,
depressed lives given hope.
In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
A CREATIVE MOMENT
Click here for some ideas for worship in Lent and Easter gleaned from the pages of “On the Move” (now out of print) which was published by the Joint Board of Christian Education, Melbourne, Australia.
THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
(A prayer to gather the spoken and silent concerns/joys/thanks expressed by the congregation and lead into a more structured Intercession with connection to the lections for the day. Sometimes this prayer will borrow lightly from other sources e.g. Uniting in Worship 2 or publications of the Iona Community.)
Covenant-keeping God
whose mercy and lovingkindness
are from a time beyond our dreaming,
walk with those who lift up their voice
and give thanks today;
smooth the uneven ground for the weak and the lonely.
By your Word
sustain those for whom life is fading.
By your Spirit
gather up those who are weighed down with grief,
those whom we name on our lips
and in the silence of our hearts;
and those whose troubles are known only to you.
In Jesus’ name we pray …
(The Prayers of the People continue)
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| HYMN SUGGESTIONS FOR LENT 1 – YEAR B |
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| Christ is the world’s light | TIS 246 |
| Forty days and forty nights | TIS 591 |
| God is love, let heaven adore him | TIS 153 |
| Guide me, O my great Redeemer | TIS 569 |
| Just as a lost and thirsty deer | TIS 26 |
| Let all be one in mind and heart | TIS 247 |
| Lord, your word abiding | TIS 427 |
| Love will be our Lenten calling | TIS 684 |
| May this Lenten discipline | TIS 463 |
| O God of Bethel, by whose hand | TIS 564 |
| O changless Christ, for ever new | TIS 254 |
| O for a closer walk with God | TIS 576 |
| O love how deep, how broad, how high! | TIS 194 |
| Rejoice, the Lord is King | TIS 216 |
| With the Lord there is mercy | TIS 81 |
| Genesis 9:8-17 |
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| Father, we adore you | TIS 716 |
| God, who stretched the spangled heavens | TIS 163 |
| O love that wilt not let me go | TIS 602 |
| We are your people | TIS 468 |
| Psalm 25:1-10 |
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| God, who stretched the spangled heavens | TIS 163 |
| O Lord Jesus, Marrkapmirr | TIS 253 |
| O Lord, make me know your ways | TIS 14 |
| The great love of God is revealed | TIS 164 |
| 1 Peter 3:18-22 |
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| By your kingly power,O risen Lord | TIS 386 |
| Father welcomes all his children | TIS 491 |
| God is gone up on high | TIS 371 |
| Hail, thou once despised Jesus | TIS 373 |
| Now in the name of him who sent | TIS 488 |
| O dearest Jesus, why aren’t you acquitted | TIS 337 |
| We know that Christ is raised | TIS 489 |
| Mark 1:9-15 |
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| Christ, when for us you were baptised | TIS 250 |
| Forty days and forty nights | TIS 591 |
| Lord, your almighty word | TIS 447 |
| Lord, your word abiding | TIS 427 |
| O let the Son of God enfold you | TIS 655 |
| O love, how deep how broad, how high | TIS 194 |
| What a friend we have in Jesus | TIS 590 |
| When he was baptised in the Jordan | TIS 252 |