Sunday, January 12, 2025
Order of Service
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Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me
Psalm 51:10
Call to Worship
19 High in the heavens, eternal God
Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Declaration of Forgiveness
"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." Psalm 51:10
773 Jesus bids us shine
Prayer for Illumination
Guide us, O Lord, by your Word and Holy Spirit, that in your light we may see light, in your truth find freedom, and in your will discover peace through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Story: Screening the Screen!
Isaiah 43;1-7
Passing through the waters
43:1But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine.
43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
43:3For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
43:4Because you are precious in my sight and honored and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life.
43:5Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you;
43:6I will say to the north, "Give them up," and to the south, "Do not withhold; bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the end of the earth--
43:7everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made."
Luke 3:15-22
The baptism of Jesus
3:15As the people were filled with expectation and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah,
3:16John answered all of them by saying, "I baptize you with water, but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
3:17His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
3:21Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened,
3:22and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased."
Sermon: Turn for the Better
“As the people were filled with expectation” Luke 3:15
642 O Master, let me walk with Thee
Call for the Offering
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Offertory: O Morning Star, how fair and bright arr. J. Leavitt
Doxology (to the tune of The First Noel)
Praise God for gifts of hope and peace
Praise God for gifts of joy and love
Praise God for sending Christ to dwell
on earth for us Emmanuel.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.
God is with us, Emmanuel.
Prayer of Dedication
Anthem: Christ whose glory fills the skies arr. J.S. Bach
Prayers of The People
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
712 Arise, your light has come
Benediction
Postlude: If thou but suffer God to guide thee arr. J.S.Bach
We gather on the traditional territory of the Wendat, the Anishnaabeg and the Haudenosaunee Peoples. We are also on lands that are part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum. We live and work, worship, learn and meet on lands that are the traditional territory of many different Indigenous Peoples who were here before the establishment of European colonies.
