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Ash Wednesday
Serving Tonight: Pastor Bob Liebmann

Pastoral Welcome
 
Invocation
Pastor: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
All:    Amen.
 
Hymn    “Jesus I Will Ponder Now”
 
Confession of Sin: The Nicene Creed
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried. And the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. And He will come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead, whose kingdom will have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets.
And I believe in one holy, Christian and apostolic Church, I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, and I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.
 
Absolution
 
Prayer
A Plea From The Dust: Psalm 51:1-6
Leader: Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your unfailing love; according to Your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
All: Wash away all my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
 
Leader: For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
All: Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight; so that You are proved right when You speak and justified when You judge.
 
Leader: Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
All: Surely You desire truth in the inner parts; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
 
A Plea For Forgiveness: Psalm 51:7-13
Leader: Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
All: Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

Leader: Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquity.
All: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Leader: Do not cast me from Your presence or take Your Holy Spirit from me.
All: Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me.

Leader: Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
All: And sinners will turn back to You.
 
Imposition Of Ashes
 
Scripture Romans 1:16-32 (Pew Bible pg. 1600)
[16] For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. [17] For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” [18] The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, [19] since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. [20] For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. [21] For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. [22] Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools [23] and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. [24] Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. [25] They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. [26] Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. [27] In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. [28] Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. [29] They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, [30] slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; [31] they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. [32] Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Message The Sin Of Ignoring God

The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty. From thence he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
Response and Offering
Hymn “Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted”
 
Prayers Of The Night

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 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 and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.

The Lord’s Supper
Hymn  “Lord Have Mercy”
Hymn  “Go To Dark Gethsemane”
 
Blessing

Hymn “Glory Be To Jesus”