Sunday, January 19, 2025
Order of Service
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Prelude Chorale Prelude on “Blessed Jesu, we are here” arr. J.S.Bach
174 Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness
Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Declaration of Forgiveness
645 Follow me, the Master said
Prayer for Illumination
Gracious God, your Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. Give us grace to receive your wisdom and truth in faith and love. Give us strength to follow where you lead, through Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.
Story: It All Depends on the Stretch!
Psalm 36:5-10
36:5Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
36:6Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O LORD.
36:7How precious is your steadfast love, O God! All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
36:8They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
36:9For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
36:10O continue your steadfast love to those who know you and your salvation to the upright of heart!
1 Corinthians 12:1-11
A variety of gifts but one Spirit
12:1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be ignorant.
12:2You know that when you were gentiles, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak.
12:3Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says "Let Jesus be cursed!" and
no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit.
12:4Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit,
12:5and there are varieties of services but the same Lord,
12:6and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.
12:7To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
12:8To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom and to another the utterance of knowledge according to
the same Spirit,
12:9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
12:10to another the working of power deeds, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
12:11All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
John 2:1-11
1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." 4 And Jesus said to her, "Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come." 5 His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." 6 Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to them, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the brim. 8 He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward." So they took it. 9 When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now." 11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him
Sermon: A Way to Go
“Jesus and His disciples had been invited” John 2:2
652 Forth in thy name, O Lord I go
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Offertory: Musette G.F. Handel
Doxology (to the tune of “The First Noël”)
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: The silent stars shine down on us T. Keesecker
Reading of Banns
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.
592 I, the Lord of sea and sky
Benediction
Postlude: Gigue 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.
