Posted on Dec 16, 2022 in Bulletin |
Promise Fulfilled
- Welcome | Announcements
- 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 9:6-7)
- Call To Worship – BW 245
- Praise be to God!
- Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has visited and redeemed the people.
- Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
- Blessed be the name of the Lord.
- Reading – [Micah 5:1-4 ESV]
- 1 Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek.
- 2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
- 3 Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of his brothers shall return to the people of Israel.
- 4 And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 215 – To a Maid Engaged to Joseph
- UMH 245 – The First Noel
- WS 3047 – God Almighty, We Are Waiting
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 206 – I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light
- Intercessory Prayer
- Reading – [Luke 2:8-14 ESV]
- 8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
- 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.
- 10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.
- 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
- 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
- 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
- 14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
- Sermon – “Promise Fulfilled” – [Luke 2:8-21 ESV]
- 8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
- 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.
- 10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.
- 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
- 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
- 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
- 14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
- 15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
- 16 And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger.
- 17 And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child.
- 18 And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.
- 19 But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.
- 20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
- 21 And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 251 – Go, Tell It on the Mountain
- Benediction
- Postlude