MARCH 5, 2025
THE ORDER OF WORSHIP
Please silence all electronic devices and do not take flash photos during the service. As the prelude begins, we invite you into a period of quiet reflection as we prepare for worship. Please stand at these times if you are able to do so.
PRELUDE | I Need Thee Every Hour
PREPARATION
Jae Ha, Arr
CHIMING OF THE HOUR WELCOME AND GREETINGS CALL TO WORSHIP | from Joel 2:12-13
Leader: “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;” People: “Rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
PRAYER OF ADORATION
CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP | Hymn #372 I Then Shall Live CALL TO WORSHIP | from Psalm 51:1-17
Leader: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. People: Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! Leader: For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
People: Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Leader: Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
People: Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Leader: Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. People: Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. Leader: Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
People: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Leader: Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. © 2025 First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio. All Rights Reserved Page 1