Latham Community Baptist Church

March 23, 2025

Prelude - Finders Keepers

Call to Worship

Loving God, whose touch can heal the broken places of life, touch us today.  God of peace, whose spirit of peace can quiet our spirits of confusion and despair, reassure us today.  Open our hearts to new faithfulness, redirect our waywardness, and hold us gently in your goodness. May your name be glorified in us and through us.  We ask it through Christ Jesus, who is our Lord and our Savior, our brother and our friend.  Amen.

Hymn - Be Thou My Vision

Invocation and Lord's Prayer

Gracious God, You are the healer. You are the One who makes defines wholeness and who gives it as a gift.  Make us the people You created us to be.  We ask this in Jesus' name who taught us to honor You with prayer saying: 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors.  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

Scripture Reading - John 9:1-7; 35-41

1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

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35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

36 “Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”

37 Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”

38 Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.

39 Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”

40 Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”

41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.

Joys and Concerns

Lord of our hearts, God of our lives, hear our prayers: the sighs, the cries, the joys of our deepest thoughts.  We share all our thoughts with you, O God, knowing that you hear and answer us, providing us with what is best.  Come, O God, and hear us now. Create in us clean hearts, O God, and put a new and right spirit within us.  In Jesus' Name we prayer.  Amen.

Hymn - Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

Sermon - Journey to the Resurrection - Now I See

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Hymn - Are You Washed in the Blood?

Benediction

Let us go now and seeing and knowing Christ our Savior.  Amen.

Hymn - I Am Resolved