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Join us Sunday in-person or on facebook. Worship begins at 10 a.m. at 4525 NW Button Rd. We’d love to have you.
Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church
Sunday, March 30, 2025, 10:00 a.m.
We welcome you to our worship service. We hope you find a place where your spirit is filled and refreshed – and a place to call home. If you need to stretch your legs at any time, please feel free to do so.
Greeting, Wave, & Announcements
Prelude #2212 “My Life Flows On”
Please take time to prepare your heart and mind for worship.
The Light of the Candle Symbolizes Christ’s Presence Among Us
† Praise Song “Shout to the Lord” † Please stand as you are able.
My Jesus, my Savior, Lord, there is none like You. All of my days I want to praise the wonders of Your mighty love. My comfort, my shelter, tower of refuge and strength, let every breath, all that I am, never cease to worship You.
Shout to the Lord all the earth, let us sing power and majesty, praise to the King. Mountains bow down and the seas will roar
at the sound of Your name. I sing for joy at the work of Your hands. Forever I’ll love You, forever I’ll stand. Nothing compares to the promise I have in You.
† Call to Worship † Please stand as you are able.
Leader: Come, all ye faithful …
People: to worship, praise, and pray.
Leader: Come, all ye unfaithful …
People: for God’s love welcomes us home.
Leader: Come into the presence of Christ …
People: for Christ’s grace makes us new and whole.
† Hymn “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” #298
† Please stand as you are able.
1. When I survey the wondrous cross
on which the Prince of Glory died;
my richest gain I count but loss,
and pour contempt on all my pride.
2. Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
save in the death of Christ, my God;
all the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to his blood.
3. See, from his head, his hands, his feet,
sorrow and love flow mingled down.
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
or thorns compose so rich a crown.
4. Were the whole realm of nature mine,
that were an offering far too small;
love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
Unison Prayer You may be seated.
All: God of ages past and present faithfulness, welcome us into Your love, as we worship You this day. Draw closer to us, that we might trust Your promises and follow Your ways. In hope and faith, we pray. Amen.
Children’s Time “Jesus Loves Me”
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong. They are weak but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so.
Reading from the New Testament: 2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2 (NRSVUE)
11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we ourselves are well known to God, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences. 12 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you an opportunity to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast in outward appearance and not in the heart. 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died. 15 And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for the one who for their sake died and was raised.
16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we no longer know him in that way. 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. 20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
6 As we work together with him, we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. 2 For he says,
“At an acceptable time I have listened to you,
and on a day of salvation I have helped you.”
Look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation!
Leader: This is the Word of God, for the People of God.
All: Thanks be to God.
Joys and Concerns Silent Prayer Pastoral Prayer 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. Amen.
Reading from the Gospel: Luke 15:1-10 (NRSVUE)
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
3 So he told them this parable: 4 “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? 5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. 6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.’ 7 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
8 “Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? 9 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ 10 Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Sermon “Outrageous Parties” by Pastor Marge
Praise Song “You Are My King”
I’m forgiven because You were forsaken.
I’m accepted; You were condemned. I’m alive and well,
Your Spirit is within me, because You died and rose again.
I’m forgiven because You were forsaken.
I’m accepted; You were condemned. I’m alive and well,
Your Spirit is within me, because You died and rose again.
Amazing love, how can it be, that You, my King, would die for me?
Amazing love, I know it’s true; it’s my joy to honor You.
Amazing love, how can it be, that You, my King, would die for me?
Amazing love, I know it’s true; it’s my joy to honor You.
In all I do, I honor You.
You are my King, You are my King.
Jesus, You are my King, You are my King.
I’m forgiven because You were forsaken.
I’m accepted; You were condemned. I’m alive and well,
Your Spirit is within me, because You died and rose again.
Amazing love, how can it be, that You, my King, would die for me?
Amazing love, I know it’s true; and it’s my joy to honor You.
In all I do, I honor You.
Offering: Giving back to God in gratitude for all He has given to us.
If you wish to donate online, the QR code is at right for convenience.
Guests: Please know that your presence is a gift to us and that we ask no other gift from you.
Offertory Music #292 “What Wondrous Love Is This”
† Hymn #2036 “Give Thanks” † Please stand as you are able.
Give thanks with a grateful heart, Give thanks to the Holy one, Give thanks because He’s given Jesus Christ His son. And now let the weak say, “I am strong”; let the poor say, “I am rich because of what The Lord has done for us.” Give Thanks.
† Prayer Of Thanksgiving † Please stand as you are able.
All: With glad hearts, we offer these gifts to You, O God. Transform them with the power of Your Holy Spirit, that these gifts may bring forth new life. May our offering transform others’ lives into the new creation You promise to all. Amen.
† Closing Hymn “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” #384
† Please stand as you are able.
The Light of Christ Goes Before Us into the World
1. Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven, to earth come down;
fix in us thy humble dwelling; all thy faithful mercies crown!
Jesus thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation; enter every trembling heart.
2. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit
into every troubled breast!
Let us all in thee inherit; let us find that second rest.
Take away our bent to sinning; Alpha and Omega be;
end of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty.
3. Come, Almighty to deliver, let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return and never, nevermore thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray and praise thee without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love.
4. Finish, then, thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be.
Let us see thy great salvation perfectly restored in thee;
changed from glory into glory, till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love, and praise.
Benediction
Postlude #2032 “My Life Is in You, Lord”
Attendance pads are on the chairs at the end of the row. Please sign the pad and pass it to the opposite aisle to be given to the usher during offering.
Our Easter Egg Hunt will be on Saturday, April 12 at 10:00 a.m. If you took eggs to stuff with candy, please return them by next Sunday.
Palm Sunday is April 13.
Maundy Thursday service is April 17 at 6:30 p.m.
Easter is Sunday, April 20. Sunrise service is at 7:30 a.m.
Angel Award Scholarship application forms are available! Deadline to turn in the forms and letter of recommendation is Noon on May 4. See Deb in the sound booth or the office!
After Children’s Time, children are invited to attend J.A.M. (Jesus And Me) in the room west of the kitchen.
No Anniversaries this week
Birthdays this week: Jeanetta Boughn 3/30 Annie McDowell 4/5
Please Pray For
Our World Military & Families Highland Park UMC
Members of our church and congregation:
Jim & Jeanetta Boughn Berniece Chadwell Marilyn Colhouer Rick Colton Dee Deppe Santina Harrison Dorothy Holt Gregory Jenson Bruce Lanning Joyce Mannell Nick Nicolay Gene & Camille Schoettlin
Members of our extended church family:
Scott, Grant, Drew, Judd & Alice, Dr. Robert, Diana, Sara, Mark, James, John, Cortlyn, Ruth, Lucy, Dave, Stacey, Karen, Ray, Doug, Chris, Melissa, Larry, Momma Freddie, Judy & Merlin, TeRee, Chris, Betty, Don, Bob Ramey