22B - Lent 4B — 24B - Passion Sunday OR 24B Palm Sunday
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PSALM 51:1-12
Be gracious to me, O God, according to your lovingkindness;
according to your abundant compassion blot out my rebellious acts.
Like a cloudburst, wash my wrongdoing from me and scour my sins from me;
for I am only too aware of my rebellion, and my sin is always in front of me.
I have sinned against you – you alone, and done what is displeasing in your eyes
and so you have a just case when you speak; blameless when you judge.
The truth is, I was born among waywardness,
and my mother conceived me in a sinful society,
though you desired faithfulness in the womb,
and in being kept hidden you caused me to know wisdom
Unsin me with hyssop and I shall be clean;
wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you crushed rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my wrongdoing.
Create for me a clean heart, O God,
and re-create a generous spirit within me.
PRAYER OF ADORATION (from Ps. 119:9-16)
Gracious and everliving God,
You have given your promise for us to treasure in our hearts,
and your justice for us to declare with our lips.
You have given your commandments as a sure path for us,
and your decrees for our richest delight.
You have given your Covenant so that we may have life in its fullness,
and the urgings of your Spirit for our attentive listening to your word.
Eternal God,
whose creative word
brought life out of darkness,
we praise you.
Suffering God,
whose incarnate word
lived and died among us to show us your love,
we adore you.
Gracious and everliving God,
whose living word
breathed your Holy Spirit on the church,
we worship you.
OFFERING
Creating and generous God
we bring our lives and symbols of our daily living.
By your Spirit
enable us to be responsible stewards
and faithful followers of Jesus. Amen
A CREATIVE MOMENT – Isaiah 43:16-21
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.)
God of boundless love,
You have heard the cry of your people in every generation;
Hear our prayer
for those in our congregation; our community; our families,
whom we name on our lips
and in the silence of our hearts:
those whose troubles are known only to you;
and those who have no-one.
In Jesus’ name we pray…
(The Prayers of the People continue)
Looking for contemporary music and song resources?
Try David MacGregor’s Together to Celebrate
| HYMN SUGGESTIONS FOR LENT 5 -YEAR B |
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| All go to God when they are sorely placed | TIS 240 |
| Come let us join our cheerful songs | TIS 204 |
| Do not be afraid, I am with you | TIS 16 |
| Father we give you thanks, who planted | TIS 495 |
| Fold to your heart your sister and your brother | TIS 587 |
| Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go | TIS 571 |
| God is my strong salvation | TIS 15 |
| Holy Father, God of might | TIS 622 |
| I’ll praise my maker while I’ve breath | TIS 90 |
| Jesus shall reign where’er the sun | TIS 207 |
| Jesus, lover of my soul | TIS 211 |
| Lord, your almighty word | TIS 447 |
| My heart and voice I raise | TIS 225 |
| My song is love unknown | TIS 341 |
| The Lord is my light and salvation | TIS 747 |
| With joy, we meditate the grace | TIS 206 |
| Jeremiah 31:31-34 |
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| All my hope on God is founded | TIS 560 |
| Help us, O Lord, to learn | TIS 428 |
| How deep the riches of our God | TIS 167 |
| I, the Lord of sea and sky | TIS 658 |
| Jesus, lover of my soul | TIS 211 |
| O Love that wilt not let me go | TIS 602 |
| Psalm 51:1-12 |
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| Create in us a clean heart, O God | TIS 712 |
| Dear Shepherd of your people | TIS 444 |
| Lord Jesus, think on me | TIS 546 |
| O Holy Spirit, enter in | TIS 400 |
| O for a heart to praise my God | TIS 568 |
| Hebrews 5:5-10 |
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| At the name of Jesus | TIS 231 |
| Hail, our once despised Jesus | TIS 373 |
| Jesus calls us here to meet him | TIS 477 |
| Master speak, thy servant heareth | TIS 597 |
| O love of God, how strong and true | TIS 139 |
| We sing the praise of him who died | TIS 347 |
| With joy we meditate the grace | TIS 206 |
| John 12:20-33 |
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| A charge to keep I have | TIS 573 |
| Crown him with many crowns | TIS 228 |
| Father, whose everlasting love | TIS 213 |
| Lift high the cross | TIS 351 |
| Lord Jesus, think on me | TIS 546 |
| Now the green blade rises | TIS 382 |
| O Jesus I have promised | TIS 595 |
| O my Saviour, lifted from the earth for me | TIS 600 |
| The glory of our king was seen | TIS 353 |
| When Christ was lifted from the earth | TIS 248 |
| ‘Take up your cross’, the Saviour said | TIS 583 |