The Worship of Almighty God

DEC 06, 2020

11 AM

Music for Gathering - Jennifer Brown

 

Meet Me at the Baptismal Font - Pastor Tucker

Affirmation of Faith - The Nicene Creed - UMH 880

 

We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, 

Maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

 

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, 

the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, 

God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, 

begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; 

through Him, all things were made.  

For us and for our salvation, He came down from heaven, 

was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary

and became truly human.  For our sake, He was crucified

under Pontius Pilate; He suffered death and was buried.  

On the third day, He rose again in accordance with the scriptures; 

He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.  

He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead

and His Kingdom will have no end.

 

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of life, 

who proceeds from the Father and the Son, 

who with the Father and the  is worshiped and glorified, 

who has spoken through the prophets.  We believe

in the one holy catholic and apostolic church.  

We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.  

We look for the resurrection of the dead, 

and the life of the world to come.  Amen!

 

Welcome and Announcements - Pastor Tucker

 

Advent Hymn - Come, Thou Long–Expected Jesus - UMH 196

 

Lighting the Candle of Peace

In a world of war, violence, and abuse, 

where families live in shelters, 

children grow up in fear, 

and senior adults suffer needlessly, 

we call upon You, O God, to come!

In a world where peace seems to be so far away, 

we call upon You, Prince of Peace, to come

In this season of Advent, we wait

for the coming of PEACE into our world.  

We await the birth of Emmanuel, God with us, 

who comes into our lives in a new way.

      Come, Messiah; come and save us!

 

Light the Candle of Peace

 

Let us pray …

Dear God, we pray for the peace

that only You can bring through Your Son, 

Jesus the Messiah.  May we walk

in the path of peace and be instruments

of His peace to others. Amen!

 

Congregational Response  (Tune: Away in a Manger)

A candle is burning, a candle of PEACE

A candle to tell us that conflict must cease.

For Jesus is coming to show us the way, 

A message of peace, humbly laid in the hay!

 

Pastoral Prayer - Pastor Tucker

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father in heaven: holy is Your Name; Your Kingdom come; Your will be done on earth as in heaven.  Give us today our daily bread and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.  Lead us away from the time of trial and deliver us from evil, for the Kingdom, the power, and the glory are Yours, now and forever.  Amen!

 

A Reading from the Psalter - PS 85

God, You smiled on Your good earth!  You brought good times back to Jacob!

You lifted the cloud of guilt from Your people, You put their sins far out of sight!

I can’t wait to hear what He’ll say.  God’s about to pronounce His people well, the holy people He loves so much, so they’ll never against live like fools

See how close His salvation is to those who fear Him?  Our country is home base for Glory!

Love and Truth meet in the street; Right living and Whole living embrace and kiss!

Truth spouts green from the ground, Right Living pours down from the skies!

Oh yes!  God gives goodness and beauty; our land responds with bounty and blessing.

Right Living strides out before Him, and clears a path for His passage.

 

Congregational Response

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, 

and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the

beginning, is now and ever shall be, 

world without end.  Amen.  Amen!

 

Hymn - Take My Life, and Let It Be - UMH 399

 

Scripture - Mark 1:1 – 8 - Pastor Tucker

 

1-3 The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God begins with the fulfilment of this prophecy of Isaiah — ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you’. ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight’.

4-5 For John came and began to baptize men in the desert, proclaiming baptism as the mark of a complete change of heart and of the forgiveness of sins. All the people of the Judean countryside and everyone in Jerusalem went out to him in the desert and received his baptism in the river Jordan, publicly confessing their sins.

6-8 John himself was dressed in camel hair, with a leather belt round his waist, and he lived on locusts and wild honey. The burden of his preaching was, “There is Someone coming after me who is stronger than I — indeed I am not good enough to kneel down and undo His shoes.  I have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

 

Sermon - Coming Soon: People Get Ready - Pastor Tucker

 

Hymn -What Child Is This - UMH 219

 

Benediction

Music for Departing

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