Full Service - Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year C
Taken from Times and Seasons
Description
Fifth Sunday of Lent - Year C
Service contents:
Hymn: Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us or When our lives are tossed and windswept
Reading: Isaiah 43:16-21
Poem: New things
Reading: Psalm 126
Monologue: ‘Those that sow in tears shall reap in joy.’
Prayer: Sowing in tears
Hymn: The kingdom of God is justice and joy or When fear of what might lie ahead
Reading: John 12:1–8
Sermon idea 1
Drama/dialogue: What a waste!
Hymn: God is love, his the care or Right here in the presence of loving and grace
Reading: Philippians 3:4b-14
Sermon idea 2
Poem: Nothing else matters
Hymn: Forgive our sins as we forgive or Whatever gains I once held dear
Prayer: God of love and mercy
Hymn: And can it be that I should gain? or Excited by extravagance
Blessing: Companion God,
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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