Posted on Dec 3, 2022 in Bulletin |
Where It All Began
- Welcome | Announcements
- Thur Dec 1 Poinsettia Deadline
- Sat Dec 10 | 8:30am Cookie Walk
- Prelude
- Opening Prayer
- Advent Reading & Candle Lighting – BW 262 (Isaiah 60:2-3)
- Call To Worship – BW 271 & 272
- Do not be afraid; for see – I am bringing you good news of a great joy for all the people;
- To you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord.
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen His glory.
- Reading – [Genesis 3:1-7 ESV]
- 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
- 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,
- 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'”
- 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
- 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
- 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
- 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 61 – Come, Thou Almighty King
- UMH 184 – Of the Father’s Love Begotten
- UMH 196 – Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 204 – Emmanuel, Emmanuel (x2)
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Where It All Began” – [Genesis 3:14-19 ESV]
- 14 The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
- 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
- 16 To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
- 17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
- 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
- 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 206 – I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light
- Benediction
- Postlude