Posted on Jan 6, 2024 in Bulletin |
Shepherds of Advent
- Welcome | Announcements
- Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
- Wed @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- Sun @ 9am – Sunday School
- Dec 19 @ 6:30pm – Charge Conference
- Dec 24 @ 4pm – Family Christmas Eve Service
- Dec 24 @ 11pm – Christmas Eve Service
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Choral Anthem
- Opening Prayer
- Advent Reading
- Call To Worship – UMH 754 – Psalm 23
- [1] The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- [2] The Lord makes me lie down in green pastures,
- leads me beside still waters,
- [3] restores my life,
- leads me in right paths for the sake of the Lord’s name.
- [4] Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil;
- for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
- [5] You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
- you anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows.
- [6] Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life;
- and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord as long as I live.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 211 – O Come O Come Emmanuel
- UMH 216 – Lo How A Rose E’er Blooming
- Make Room – © 2017 Be Essential Songs; I Am A Pilgrim Songs; My Refuge Music
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 229 – Infant Holy Infant Lowly
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Shepherds of Advent” – Luke 2:15-20 ESV
- 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.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 224 – Good Christian Friends Rejoice
- Benediction
- Postlude