Posted on Dec 3, 2022 in Bulletin |
Looking to the Promised Savior
- Welcome | Announcements
- Sat Dec 10 | 8:30am Cookie Walk
- 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 (Mark 1:4)
- Call To Worship – BW 249
- Eternal God, in your providence you made all ages a preparation for the kingdom of your Son.
- Make ready our hearts for the brightness of your glory and the fullness of your blessing in Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Amen.
- Reading – [Psalm 2 ESV]
- 1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,
- 3 “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”
- 4 He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.
- 5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,
- 6 “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”
- 7 I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
- 8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
- 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
- 10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
- 11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
- 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 220 – Angels from the Realms of Glory
- How Many Kings – © 2006 Centricity Music Publishing, Germain And Martel Publishing
- UMH 211 – O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 420 – Breathe on Me, Breath of God
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Looking to the Promised Savior” – [Jeremiah 23:1-6 ESV]
- 1 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the LORD.
- 2 Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD.
- 3 Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
- 4 I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the LORD.
- 5 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
- 6 In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 202 – People, Look East
- Benediction
- Postlude