Posted on Dec 23, 2024 in Bulletin |
The Gentle King
- Welcome | Announcements
- Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
- Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Adults and Kids)
- 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 66 The Goodness and Mercy of God
- Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name!
- Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,
- Who forgives all you iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
- Who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
- Who satisfies you with good, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
- The LORD works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.
- He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel.
- The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
- He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.
- He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
- For as high as the heavens are above earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him.
- As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
- Advent Reading
- Worship Hymns
- OGRP 175 – Once In Royal David’s City
- OGRP 180 – Hark The Herald Angels Sing
- Make Room – © © 2017 Be Essential Songs; I Am A Pilgrim Songs; My Refuge Music
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- OGRP 181 – Love Came Down At Christmas
- Sermon – “The Gentle King” [Isaiah 42:1-9 ESV]
- 1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
- 2 He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;
- 3 a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.
- 4 He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.
- 5 Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:
- 6 “I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
- 7 to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
- 8 I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
- 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- OGRP 198 – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Benediction
- Postlude