Palm/Passion Sunday
March 28, 2021
PRELUDE
“Fanfare Prelude: “All Glory, Laud, and Honor”
[Tune: St. Theodulph] arr. by James Southbridge
Rebecca Nelson, Organ
WELCOME AND CENTERING MOMENTS
OPENING PRAYER (unison)
Joe Krider, Liturgist
Precious Jesus, help us to walk alongside you and bear witness to your journey this week: from table, to trial, to cross, to grave, and to empty tomb. Inspire us to work with one another for a world over which heaven and earth rejoice. Give us strength never to forget your divine image in everyone we meet this week, even when we are swept up by the crowd. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING
Joe Krider, Liturgist
Mark 11:1-11 – When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘What are you doing?’ just say this: ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.’” They went away and found a colt tied near a door, outside in the street. As they were untying it, someone said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” They told him what Jesus had said, and they allowed them to take it. Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; and he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!” Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
HYMN
“Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” UMH #278
[Jeanette Threlfall; music adapted by W.H. Monk]
Hosanna, loud hosanna, the little children sang;
through pillared court and temple the lovely anthem rang.
To Jesus, who had blessed them close folded to his breast,
the children sang their praises, the simplest and the best.
From Olivet they followed mid an exultant crowd,
the victor palm branch waving, and chanting clear and loud.
The Lord of earth and heaven rode on in lowly state,
nor scorned that little children should on his bidding wait.
“Hosanna in the highest!” that ancient song we sing,
for Christ is our Redeemer, the Lord of heaven our King.
O may we ever praise him, with heart and life and voice,
and in his blissful presence eternally rejoice!
CHILDREN’S TIME
Alan Cook
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE…PASTORAL PRAYER…THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our God in heaven, your name is holy. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today the food we need, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
PRAYER RESPONSE
“Holy, Holy, Holy Lord” The Faith We Sing #2256
[Iona Community, Scotland]
SCRIPTURE READING
Joe Krider, Liturgist
Mark 14:1-9 It was two days before the Passover and the festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him; for they said, “Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.” While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on his head. But some were there who said to one another in anger, “Why was the ointment wasted in this way? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her. But Jesus said, “Let her alone; do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me. For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not always have me. She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for its burial. Truly I tell you, wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.”
SERMON
“In Remembrance of Her”
Jan Everhart Hartliff, Pastor
WORSHIP WITH TITHES AND OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY
“The King of Glory”
[by Joseph M. Martin]
David Campero, Jennifer Alcover, & Rachelle Mimms, Vocals
Rebecca Nelson, Piano
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
SCRIPTURE READING
Joe Krider, Liturgist
Mark 14:10-11 Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. When they heard it, they were greatly pleased, and promised to give him money. So he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.
CLOSING HYMN
“Go To Dark Gethsemane” Verse 1 UMH #290
[James Montgomery; Richard Redhead]
Go to dark Gethsemane, ye that feel the tempter’s power;
your Redeemer’s conflict see;
watch with him one bitter hour.
Turn not from his griefs away;
learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE
“Beneath the Cross of Jesus”
[#297, Tune: St. Christopher, arr. by Mark Hayes]
Rebecca Nelson, Organ