DPS Site Guide

Fifth Sunday in Lent 2005 (year B)

Call to Worship (based on Psalm 130)

L: Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD.
P: Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!
L: If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
P: My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning.
All: O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem. It is he who will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.

Prayer of Confession

Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have
made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and
make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily
lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wickedness,
may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission
and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives
and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever
and ever. Amen.

Subscribers click here for Lent 5 litanies and prayers.

Hymn Suggestions:

God´s Spirit:
Spirit of God, Descend Upon my Heart
Breathe on Me, Breath of God
Come Holy Ghost, Our Hearts Inspire
Spirit of the Living God
Holy Spirit, Truth Divine
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
Filled with the Spirit's Power
O Breath of Life
Wind That Makes All Winds That Blow

Hope Against Hope
My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Trust and Obey

Resurrection & Eternal Life:
Revive Us Again
Rock of Ages Cleft For Me
Victory in Jesus
Hymn of Promise
Bringing in the Sheaves
I Have a Mansion
________________________________________________________________

The following resources can be accessed with subscription:

Click here to subscribe now and gain instant access to these resources plus an ENTIRE YEAR of such resources (including Easter, Advent, Christmas and Epiphany resources) for only 39.95!!

Or click here to subscribe now and gain instant access to these and all Easter resources for only 4.95!! (Subscription good for 30 days)

Children's Sermons:

1) In His Time, John 11:1-44, by Rev. Frank Schaefer
2) Dem Bones, Ezekiel 37:1-14, by Rev. Frank Schaefer

Lent 5 Sermons:

Calling the Blessing Into Being, Ezekiel 37:1-14, by Cindy Weber
(see excerpt below)

Previously Published on DPS:
Bleached Bones? Look Again, Ezekiel 37:1-14 and John 11:1-45, by Rev. Thomas N. Hall
Revive us again, John 11:1-45 Ezek. 37:1-14, by Rev. Frank Schaefer
Sermons and more from the DPS Archive:
1) A Reality Greater than Death, John 11:1-45, by MK in NC
2) Accepting Death, John 11:32-44 by Jim from B.C.
3) Lord, Can These Bones Live? Ezekiel 37:1-14, John 11:1-45
by Rev. Christine Ruth
4) Unwrap him and let him go, John 11:1-45, Nail-Bender in NC

________________________________________________________________________

Sermon Sampler:

Calling the Blessing Into Being
a sermon based on Ezekiel 37:1-14
by Cindy Weber

When my friend Ken Casey preached at my ordination service back in 1984, he told a story about when he was a little boy. His father was a doctor, a very busy man, and he would come in at the end of a long day, and he would sit down and read the newspaper. It was his way of unwinding. And little Ken would come up and tap him on the arm, and say, “Daddy, do you want to feel my muscle?” And his Daddy had a choice, you see, to either say, “No, son, I’m too tired,” or to put down his paper, which is what he usually did, and reach out and feel Ken’s little arm muscle. And when he did, he would say, “My goodness! Look at that big muscle! You’re going to be a strong man someday, son.”

Ken’s daddy had a choice, to either ignore Ken or to bless him . . .

Click here to subscribe now and gain instant access to these resources plus an ENTIRE YEAR of such resources (including Easter, Advent, Christmas and Epiphany resources) for only 39.95!!

_____________________

DPS Lent Devotion (by Nail-Bender): Six Weeks of Daily Lenten Reflections, plus Easter week