Posted on Feb 18, 2023 in Bulletin |
In the Beginning Was the Word
- Welcome | Announcements
- Feb 22 @ 5:30pm – Soup and Bread Supper
- Feb 22 @ 7pm – Ash Wednesday Service
- Mar 1 – Heifer Project Deadline
- Mar 1 @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- Mar 4 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
- Mar 12 – Easter Lilies Deadline
- Prelude
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Isaiah 9 & 11 [selection]
- There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins. In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples–of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
- 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 64 – Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty
- Shout to the Lord – © 1993 Wondrous Worship
- UMH 454 – Open My Eyes That I May See
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 128 – He Leadeth Me: O Blessed Thought
- Intercessory Prayer
- Reading – John 1:2-18
- 2 He was in the beginning with God.
- 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
- 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
- 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
- 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
- 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
- 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
- 9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
- 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
- 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
- 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
- 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
- 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”)
- 16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
- 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- 18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
- Sermon – “In the Beginning Was the Word”
- Closing Hymn
- TFWS 2281 – May You Run and Not Be Weary
- Benediction
- Postlude