THE FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH AT CALDWELL
Our Purpose:
To help all people build life-transforming relationships with God
and each other.
The members and friends of FPC welcome people from all backgrounds
- - people of faith from throughout
the world, people who profess no faith, Christians of all denominations and
those who are searching for religious and spiritual meaning.
Welcome!
April 14th, 2019
Ten o’clock
PASSION/PALM SUNDAY
SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY
GATHERING
PRELUDE
“Hosanna!”
Noel Benson
*PROCESSIONAL HYMN
NO. 197
“Hosanna, Loud Hosanna”
Ellacombe
Lighting the
candles today is Acolyte Kaci Pace
CALL TO WORSHIP (based
on Psalm 118)
Gracie Suda, Lay Reader
This is the day
that the Lord has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it!
Blessed is the one
who comes in the name of the Lord.
This house of worship blesses you, holy God!
God has sent the
Light of the world to us.
Let us celebrate God’s gift with a procession of palms
and shouts of “Hosanna!”
O give thanks to
the Lord. God is good to us!
God’s steadfast love endures forever!
OPENING PRAYER
CONFESSION LITANY
OF CONFESSION
God of the foolish
cross, tottering down the streets of Jerusalem on a donkey,
You are not the savior we expect.
Your power doesn’t
look like the power we want our God to demonstrate.
Your wisdom makes no sense to us.
We are happy to
join the crowd, waving branches,
but not so sure we want to follow you
into the temple
courts
into the upper room
into the Garden of
Gethsemane
to the foot of the cross.
Forgive our false
assumptions.
Clarify our clouded vision.
Let us relax into
the foolishness of your love, your grace.
Hosanna, hosanna!
ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS
...Friends, believe the good news.
In Jesus Christ we are forgiven.
*RESPONSE OF
PRAISE NO. 188 (stanza 1)
“Jesus Loves Me!”
Jesus Loves Me
Jesus loves me! This I know, for the Bible tells me
so. Little ones to him belong. They are weak, but he is strong. Yes, Jesus
loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes,
Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.
PROCLAIMING AND RESPONDING
ANTHEM
“Sing Hosanna!”
Charles McCartha
Children’s Choir
TIME WITH THE
CHILDREN
Please note: Children
through 7th grade may leave the sanctuary for Sunday School following the Time
with the Children. Please exit through the doors on either side of the Choir
loft.
PARISH LIFE
Members, friends
and visitors, please sign the Friendship Pad in each pew and pass it to the
person next to you. The last person will pass the pad back to the first person,
who will then please place the sheet in the offering plate. Worshipers are
invited to use the cards in the pew racks for prayer requests so we may share
one another’s joys and concerns. The ushers will collect the cards during the
hymn following the sermon and they will be offered during the Prayers of the
People.
MINUTE FOR
MINISTRY
“A Starry Night to
Make A Difference”
Susan Jones
SCRIPTURE
John 12:12-16
page 100 NT
Today we read the
account of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem from the gospel according to John. It is from this gospel alone that we get both
“Palm” and “Sunday.” That
is to say, only in John does the crowd greet Jesus with palms--they are
tree branches in Matthew, leafy branches cut from the fields in Mark, and
absent altogether in Luke. And only in
John is Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem able to be pinpointed to a day of the week,
viz. Sunday. The church has followed
John's tradition in celebrating Palm Sunday a week before Easter with a
procession of palms since the fourth century.
SERMON
“Managing
Expectations”
Dr. Sommers
*HYMN NO. 160
“A Stable Lamp Is Lighted”
Andujar
PRAYERS OF THE
PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this
day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
OFFERING OFFERTORY
“Love Unknown”
John Leavitt
Chancel Choir
Jill Colavita, Soloist
*RESPONSE OF
THANKSGIVING NO. 607
“Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”
Old Hundredth
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise
Christ, all people here below; Praise Holy Spirit evermore; praise
Triune God, whom we adore. Amen.
*PRAYER OF
DEDICATION
GOING FORTH
*HYMN NO. 543
“God, Be the Love to Search and Keep Me”
(stanzas 1-4)
Green Tyler
*BENEDICTION
*CONGREGATIONAL
RESPONSE NO. 543
“God, Be the Love to Search and Keep Me” (stanza 5)
Christ in the eyes of all who see me, Christ in the
ears that hear my voice, Christ in the hearts of all who know me: O Christ,
surround me; O Christ, surround me.
*THE PEACE
The peace of
Christ be with you.
And also with you.
Please exchange
greetings of welcome and peace with your neighbor.
*Please rise in
body or in spirit.
†We are glad you
have chosen to worship here today! Please come again! For more information
about our church, please visit our website: www.firstprescaldwell.org. An
information packet is available at the rear of the sanctuary and an Usher or
one of the Greeters that you met as you came in will be glad to provide you
with more information.
† Your prayers of
intercession are requested for those members and friends known to be currently
or recently hospitalized or who continue to need our prayers and support:
...Mary Aharrah,
Maggie Bischoff, Harry Coppens, Ray Corbin, Jay Courter, Catherine Fleming,
Alice Gibson, Gordon Gibson, Bill Hartman, Sandra Harvey, Bill Hayden, Don Hultz, Christopher Kerwin, Edna Lawshe, Dottie Leonard, Marge Lucas, Thelma Mitchell, Sue
Olsen, Barbara Piggery, Louise Ritscher, Richard
Rose, Erwin Rosin, Barbara Romaine, Bob Scarrillo,
Debbie Wefferling, Laura Winter and Helena Wispelwey.
† Notary Service
is available in the church office.
Sundays from 9am-12pm.