Litany for Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year C

Call to Worship for 2016-03-06

One: Be glad in God. Rejoice!

All: Shout for joy, for God’s love is extravagant!

One: God is filled with compassion for us.

All: Just as the father rejoices at finding his lost son,

One: God celebrates with great joy when we return home.

All: Let us turn to God and rejoice! Amen.

             From Luke 15

                   Call to Worship by K. K. Hudson-Bates

Litany for Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year B

Call to Worship for Fourth Sunday in Lent, 2015

One: O, give thanks to God, for God is good.

All: God’s steadfast love endures forever.

One: As some became sick through their sinful ways,

All: And because of their iniquities, endured affliction,

One: They cried out to God, and God saved them and healed them.

All: Let us offer thanksgiving and sing songs of joy! Amen.

         from Psalm 107

                  Call to Celebration by K. K. Hudson-Bates

Litany for 30 March 2014 - Fourth Sunday in Lent Year A

Call to Worship

One: Do not look on appearances.

All: Do not look at height or stature.

One: For God does not see as we see.

All: God looks instead on the heart.

One: God chose the boy, David, saying, 

All: "Rise and anoint him, for this is the one,"

One: And God's spirit came mightily upon David from that day forward.

All: We pray that we also may look beyond appearances and to the heart.

          Call to worship by K. K. Hudson-Bates

Litany for 10 March 2013

Fourth Sunday in Lent
Call to Worship for 10 March 2013
One: We confess we are at times resentful. Like the older brother in the story of the Prodigal Son, we sometimes begrudge generosity shown to others.
All: We are envious and want the attention for ourselves.
One: Yet God does not count our sins of resentment and envy against us.
All: God, through Christ, gives us a ministry of reconciliation.
One: In Christ there is a new creation! Everything old has passed away;
All: Everything has become new! Praise be to God!
           from Luke 15:1-3, 2 Corinthians 5:17-19
                                Call to Celebration by K.K. Hudson-Bates

Litany for 18 March 2012

Fourth Sunday in Lent - 18 March 2012

Call to Worship

L: O, give thanks to God, for God is good.
P: God’s steadfast love endures forever.
L: God loves us so much that God gave us a son,
P: So that everyone who believes, may not die,
All: But have everlasting life. Amen. 

from John 3:14-21

                                           Call to Celebration by K.K. Hudson-Bates  

Litany for 3 April 2011

4th Sunday in Lent   

Call to Celebration
L: God is our Shepherd;
P: We will not be in need.
L: God is with us;
P: In green pastures and by still waters we renew our spirits.
L: God is with us;
P: Even in despair we find courage, in darkness we find light.
L: God is at our side;
P: We are comforted and loved.
All: Let us open our hearts to worship God.
                            from Psalm 23

                                          Call to Celebration by K.K. Hudson-Bates