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Online Worship Service for Sunday, April 5, 2020. To access the Bulletin, click on SAVE PDF to download or open in a new window
Our online worship is now available. Scroll down to see the basic order of service, but we recommend you open the Bulletin to follow along. If you have an internet-enabled TV in your home, you may wish to watch the service on our YouTube Channel. Access YouTube, then search on Lewinsville Presbyterian Church. (Just “Lewinsville P” should bring up our channel). If you don’t see the current video, shut down your TV and try again in a few minutes. Your TV screen will not refresh automatically.
Two things to do prior to the Service:
On Sunday April 5 in the morning, since it is Palm Sunday, you are invited to put a branch on the door of your apartment or house. This can be one public way of celebrating this special day.For communion, you are invited to prepare for the service by gathering bread and wine (or some approximate substitute like crackers and grape juice, or similar elements). We will walk through the communion celebration in a way similar to in-person worship.
Click on the button above to open our online giving page in a new tab. Don’t close this current tab. You will still hear our service when you click on the new tab, fill out and then submit the online giving form. When you are done, come back to this tab to finish viewing the service today. Or you can text your contribution to 703-270-0451 via credit card. Enter amount ($xx.xx) and then follow instructions you receive back.
Information on ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING … how you can participate.
ORDER OF WORSHIP
Welcome Opening Hymn – All Glory, Laud, and Honor, St. TheodulphPrayer of Adoration & ConfessionTime with ChildrenPrayer of Illumination & Scripture ReadingMatthew 21:1-11; Isaiah 50:4-9aSermon: From Acclaim to Abuse – Rev. Dr. Scott Ramsey (full sermon text below)Affirmation of Faith: The Apostles CreedCall for Offering Offertory – There is a Balm in Gilead, Arr. H.T. BurleighPrayers of the People & The Lord’s Prayer Holy Communion Communion Hymn – An Upper Room Did Our Lord Prepare, O Waly WalyPrayer of Dedication Closing Hymn – Go to Dark Gethsemane, Redhead 76Benediction Postlude – Symphonie No. 3, Op. 28 Mvt. IV Adagio, Louis Vierne
Want to receive Lewinsville Updates via text message? Click Here to add your phone to our list. Or simply text the word updates to 703-552-9952
Please help us let people with no computer/internet know that this service will be available for their participation by phone (audio only) by 1:00 pm Sunday, March 29th or later. The dial-in number is 571- 261-7385. Thank you.
Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-708462
SERMON TEXT
Every year as we enter Holy Week, and this is true in a particular way this year, there are certain parallels between the earliest disciples and crowds and us today. They were living under the regular threat of the omnipresent, brutal, occupying forces of the Roman Empire, and as such, they were often on edge. We are living with what can feel like the omnipresence of the coronavirus pandemic, and many of us may feel like we’re always on edge. People are looking at each other with wariness and suspicion, neighbors and friends have differences about how severely to limit interactions, we wonder how long we will need to live like this, and it can seem like there is nothing else in the news.
It was into a similar kind of tinderbox of emotion and unrest and edginess and expectation that Jesus came, when he rode into Jerusalem on a humble donkey that first Palm Sunday. We can sense some of this expectation by the way the crowds were shouting “Hosanna to the Son of David! Hosanna!” Hosanna is a term from the Hebrew language, used in texts like the great Psalm 118, that means “Save us!” The crowds wanted Jesus – they were looking to Jesus – to save them from their troub
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Online Worship Service for Sunday, April 5, 2020. To access the Bulletin, click on SAVE PDF to download or open in a new window
Our online worship is now available. Scroll down to see the basic order of service, but we recommend you open the Bulletin to follow along. If you have an internet-enabled TV in your home, you may wish to watch the service on our YouTube Channel. Access YouTube, then search on Lewinsville Presbyterian Church. (Just “Lewinsville P” should bring up our channel). If you don’t see the current video, shut down your TV and try again in a few minutes. Your TV screen will not refresh automatically.
Two things to do prior to the Service:
On Sunday April 5 in the morning, since it is Palm Sunday, you are invited to put a branch on the door of your apartment or house. This can be one public way of celebrating this special day.For communion, you are invited to prepare for the service by gathering bread and wine (or some approximate substitute like crackers and grape juice, or similar elements). We will walk through the communion celebration in a way similar to in-person worship.
Click on the button above to open our online giving page in a new tab. Don’t close this current tab. You will still hear our service when you click on the new tab, fill out and then submit the online giving form. When you are done, come back to this tab to finish viewing the service today. Or you can text your contribution to 703-270-0451 via credit card. Enter amount ($xx.xx) and then follow instructions you receive back.
Information on ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING … how you can participate.
ORDER OF WORSHIP
Welcome Opening Hymn – All Glory, Laud, and Honor, St. TheodulphPrayer of Adoration & ConfessionTime with ChildrenPrayer of Illumination & Scripture ReadingMatthew 21:1-11; Isaiah 50:4-9aSermon: From Acclaim to Abuse – Rev. Dr. Scott Ramsey (full sermon text below)Affirmation of Faith: The Apostles CreedCall for Offering Offertory – There is a Balm in Gilead, Arr. H.T. BurleighPrayers of the People & The Lord’s Prayer Holy Communion Communion Hymn – An Upper Room Did Our Lord Prepare, O Waly WalyPrayer of Dedication Closing Hymn – Go to Dark Gethsemane, Redhead 76Benediction Postlude – Symphonie No. 3, Op. 28 Mvt. IV Adagio, Louis Vierne
Want to receive Lewinsville Updates via text message? Click Here to add your phone to our list. Or simply text the word updates to 703-552-9952
Please help us let people with no computer/internet know that this service will be available for their participation by phone (audio only) by 1:00 pm Sunday, March 29th or later. The dial-in number is 571- 261-7385. Thank you.
Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-708462
SERMON TEXT
Every year as we enter Holy Week, and this is true in a particular way this year, there are certain parallels between the earliest disciples and crowds and us today. They were living under the regular threat of the omnipresent, brutal, occupying forces of the Roman Empire, and as such, they were often on edge. We are living with what can feel like the omnipresence of the coronavirus pandemic, and many of us may feel like we’re always on edge. People are looking at each other with wariness and suspicion, neighbors and friends have differences about how severely to limit interactions, we wonder how long we will need to live like this, and it can seem like there is nothing else in the news.
It was into a similar kind of tinderbox of emotion and unrest and edginess and expectation that Jesus came, when he rode into Jerusalem on a humble donkey that first Palm Sunday. We can sense some of this expectation by the way the crowds were shouting “Hosanna to the Son of David! Hosanna!” Hosanna is a term from the Hebrew language, used in texts like the great Psalm 118, that means “Save us!” The crowds wanted Jesus – they were looking to Jesus – to save them from their troub