MAUNDY THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2025 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 | Stay With Me
Jae Ha, arr.
WELCOME AND GREETINGS
Rev. Dr. Paul Kacsur
CALL TO WORSHIP | from Psalm 116:1-2; 13-14
Leader: I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy.
People: Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. Leader: I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. All: I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people. PRAYER OF ADORATION CONGREGATIONAL HYMN | #261 When I Survey the Wondrous Cross FIRST READING: THE PASSOVER | Exodus 12: 1-3, 7-8, 11-14, 21-27
12 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.
Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 7
This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover. 12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. 14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD—a lasting ordinance. 11
Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. 22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. 23 When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down. 24 “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your 21
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