Posted on Dec 23, 2024 in Bulletin |
Praying for Day to Come
- Welcome | Announcements
- Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
- Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Adults and Kids)
- Nov 23 @ 9am – Christmas Sale
- Nov 30 @ 9am – Hanging of the Greens
- Dec 7th – Christmas Party
@ 4pm – Children’s Christmas Program
@ 5pm Potluck
@ 6pm Hymn Sing
- Dec 14 @ 8:30am – Cookie Walk
- Dec 14 @ 11am – Church Conference
- Dec 15 – Hat and Mitten Tree deadline
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Romans 16:17-20
- [17] I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.
- [18] For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
- [19] For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.
- [20] The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- Worship Hymns
- OGRP 220 – Take Up Your Cross
- OGRP 8 – Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee
- At The Cross (Love Ran Red) – © Countless Wonder Publishing
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- Special Music
- Sermon – “Praying for Day to Come” [Acts 27:27-44 ESV]
- 27 When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.
- 28 So they took a sounding and found twenty fathoms. A little farther on they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms.
- 29 And fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.
- 30 And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, and had lowered the ship’s boat into the sea under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow,
- 31 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
- 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it go.
- 33 As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and without food, having taken nothing.
- 34 Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.”
- 35 And when he had said these things, he took bread, and giving thanks to God in the presence of all he broke it and began to eat.
- 36 Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves.
- 37 (We were in all 276 persons in the ship.)
- 38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
- 39 Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned if possible to run the ship ashore.
- 40 So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders. Then hoisting the foresail to the wind they made for the beach.
- 41 But striking a reef, they ran the vessel aground. The bow stuck and remained immovable, and the stern was being broken up by the surf.
- 42 The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any should swim away and escape.
- 43 But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land,
- 44 and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all were brought safely to land.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 668 – Let Us Now Depart In Thy Peace
- Benediction
- Postlude