2024-12-01

Posted on Dec 23, 2024 in Bulletin |

Hope for Jew and Gentile

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Adults and Kids)
    • 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
    • Dec 24 @ 4pm – Family Christmas Eve Service
    • Dec 24 @ 11pm – Christmas Eve Service
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – OGRP 161 The Humility of Christ
    • Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
    • But made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
    • And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
    • Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
    • So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
    • And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • Advent Reading
  • Worship Hymns
    • OGRP 163 – Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus
    • OGRP 167 – Who Is This Whose Silent Advent
    • How Many Kings – © 2006 Centricity Music Publishing, Germain And Martel Publishing
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • OGRP 129 – Jesu Joy Of Man’s Desiring
  • Special Music
  • Sermon – “Hope for Jew and Gentile” [Romans 15:1-13 ESV]
    • 1 We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
    • 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
    • 3 For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
    • 4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
    • 5 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
    • 6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
    • 7 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
    • 8 For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,
    • 9 and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”
    • 10 And again it is said, “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”
    • 11 And again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him.”
    • 12 And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope.”
    • 13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • OGRP 171 – Lift Up Your Heads Ye Mighty Gates
  • Benediction
  • Postlude