1. Welcome and Call to Worship

  2. Prayer and 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 trespasses,
    as we forgive those who trespass against us.
    And lead us not into temptation;
    but deliver us from evil.
    For thine is the kingdom,
    the power, and the glory
    for ever and ever.
    Amen.

  3. On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry

    1. On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
      announces that the Lord is nigh.
      Awake and harken, for he brings
      glad tidings of the King of kings!

    2. Then cleansed be every life from sin:
      make straight the way for God within,
      and let us all our hearts prepare
      for Christ to come and enter there.

    3. We hail you as our Savior, Lord,
      our refuge and our great reward.
      Without your grace we waste away
      like flowers that wither and decay.

    4. Stretch forth your hand, our health restore,
      and make us rise to fall no more.
      O let your face upon us shine
      and fill the world with love divine.

    5. All praise to you, eternal Son,
      whose advent has our freedom won,
      whom with the Father we adore,
      and Holy Spirit, evermore.

    1. Mark 1:9-15

  5. Meditation

  6. Special Music

  7. Offering

  8. Prayer of Intercession

  9. Intimations

  10. Though Hope Desert My Heart

    † [tune: Lord Jesus, Think on Me]

    1. Though hope desert my heart,
      though strangeness fill my soul,
      though truth torment my troubled mind,
      you have been here before.

    2. Though confidence run dry,
      though weary flesh be sore,
      though conversation bear no fruit,
      you have been here before.

    3. There is no threatening place,
      no trial I could know
      which has not known your presence first:
      you have been here before.

    4. In Christ who, on the cross,
      felt all our hurt and more,
      and cried in deep abandonment,
      you have been here before.

    5. I will not dread the dark,
      the fate beyond control,
      nor fear what reigns in frightening things;
      you will be there before.

  11. Blessing

† Though Hope Desert My Heart by John L. Bell and Graham Maule, Known Unknowns, Wild Goose Resource Group, 2018