2022-12-11

Posted on Dec 10, 2022 in Bulletin |

Promise of Restoration

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Sun Dec 11 Children’s Christmas Program
    • Sat Dec 24 | 5pm Child-friendly Christmas Eve
    • Sat Dec 24 | 11pm Christmas Eve
    • No Sunday school on 12/25 and 1/1
  • Prelude
  • Opening Prayer
  • Advent Reading & Candle Lighting – BW 262 (Isaiah 35:10)
  • Call To Worship – BW 250
    • Merciful God, you sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation.
    • Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
    • Amen.
  • Reading – [Isaiah 9:1-7 ESV]
    • 1 But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
    • 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
    • 3 You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
    • 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
    • 5 For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
    • 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
    • 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 213 – Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates
    • UMH 216 – Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
    • WS 3067 – Welcome To Our World
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 472 – Near to the Heart of God
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Special Music
  • Reading – [Luke 1:26-38 ESV]
    • 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
    • 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.
    • 28 And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”
    • 29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be.
    • 30 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
    • 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
    • 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,
    • 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
    • 34 And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”
    • 35 And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy–the Son of God.
    • 36 And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
    • 37 For nothing will be impossible with God.”
    • 38 And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
  • Sermon – “Promise of Restoration” – [Isaiah 11:1-5 ESV]
    • 1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
    • 2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
    • 3 And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear,
    • 4 but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
    • 5 Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 95 – Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow (Doxology)
  • Benediction
  • Postlude