Come down to the riverCome and let yourself inMake good on a promiseTo never hurt againIf you're lost and lonelyYou're Broken downBring all of your troublesCome lay 'em down

Lay ‘em DownNEEDTOBREATHE

All you sinnersAnd the weak at heartAll you helplessOn the boulevardsWherever you are nowWhatever evil you've foundBring all of your troublesAnd come lay 'em down

We're all tied to the same old failingFinding shelter in things we knowWe're all dirty like corrupted small townsWe'll bring our troublesWe'll bring our troublesLay 'em down

All you rich menAnd the high aboveAll of those with and without loveAll you burdened broken downBring all of your troublesCome lay 'em down

Come lay 'em down [x4]

Come all you broken Come all you helpless Bring all your burden And just lay 'em down

Come all you broken Come all you helpless Bring all your troubles Just lay 'em down

Come lay 'em down. [x3]opening

prayer

Let us greet one another in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Jesus Teaches Nicodemus3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man

named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”

John 3:1-12

4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

9 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked. 10 “You are Israel’s teacher,” said

Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? 11 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?

Well, today I found myselfAfter searching all these yearsAnd the man that I sawHe wasn’t at all who I thought he’d be

I was lost when You found me hereAnd I was broken beyond repairThen You came alongAnd You sang Your song over me

Born AgainThird Day

It feels like I'm born againIt feels like I'm livingFor the very first timeFor the very first time in my life

Make a promise to me nowReassure my heart somehowThat the love that I feelIs so much more real than anything

I’ve a feeling in my soulAnd I pray that I’m not wrongThat the life I have nowIs only the beginning

It feels like I'm born againIt feel like I'm livingFor the very first timeFor the very first time

It feels like I’m breathingIt feels like I'm movingFor the very first timeFor the very first time

I wasn’t looking for something that was moreThan what I had yesterdayThen You came to me and You gave to meLife and a love that I never known, that I never felt before

It feels like I'm born againIt feel like I'm livingFor the very first timeI’m living for the first time

It feels like I’m breathingIt feels like I'm movingFor the very first timeI’m living for the first timeIn my life.

5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 2:5

This might hurt, it's not safeBut I know that I've gotta make a changeI don't care if I breakAt least I'll be feeling something

‘Cause just okay is not enoughHelp me fight through the nothingness of life

The MotionsMatthew West

I don't wanna go through the motionsI don't wanna go one more dayWithout Your all consuming passion inside of me

I don't wanna spend my whole life askingWhat if I had given everything Instead of going through the motions?

No regrets, not this timeI'm gonna let my heart defeat my mind Let Your love make me wholeI think I'm finally feeling something

‘Cause just okay is not enoughHelp me fight through the nothingness of this life

‘Cause I don't wanna go through the motions I don't wanna go one more dayWithout your all consuming passion inside of me

I don't wanna spend my whole life asking What if I had given everything Instead of going through the motions?

Take me all the wayTake me all the way

Take me all the wayTake me all the way

I don't wanna go through the motionsI don't wanna go one more dayWithout Your all consuming passion inside of me

I don't wanna spend my whole life asking What if I had given everything Instead of going through the motions?

I don't wanna go through the motionsI don't wanna go one more dayWithout Your all consuming passion inside of me

I don't wanna spend my whole life asking What if I had given everything Instead of going through the motions?

I don't wanna go through the motions.

Offerings for February will go toward the World Vision 30 hour Famine, for which we will be gathering and fasting Friday night & Saturday, Feb 22-23.

Offertory

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;Praise Him, all creatures here below;Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Amen.

Doxology

It's crowded in worship todayAs she slips in trying to fade into the facesThe girl's teasing laughter is carrying farther than they knowFarther than they know

If We Are The BodyCasting Crowns

But if we are the bodyWhy aren't His arms reaching?Why aren't His hands healing?Why aren't His words teaching?And if we are the bodyWhy aren't His feet going?Why is His love not showing them there is a way?There is a way

A traveler is far away from homeHe sheds his coat and quietly sinks into the back rowThe weight of their judgmental glancesTells him that his chances are better out on the road

Jesus paid much too high a priceFor us to pick and choose who should comeAnd we are the body of Christ

Jesus is the way.

Spring Break consideration30 Hour Famine: Fri & Sat, Feb 22 & 23Starts 6:00pm Friday 2/22. Mark

your calendar!

Tomorrow: Officers Plus “O+” planning meeting, 6:00pm. Officers should attend, plus anyone else who wants to. Food will be served.

Next Sunday morning—travel to Pontiac, IL to participate in worship.Full Details at dinner

Announcements

Lent is a church tradition—the season of preparation before Easter.

The 40 days (not counting the Sundays) leading up to Easter

Many Christians observe a period of spiritual discipline by “giving up” something.

Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.

If you’d like, you might consider giving up something for lent as a way to reflect on the sacrifice Jesus made for us.

Lent starts this week