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Advent Candle Reading
Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me!
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning,
More than watchmen for the morning.
As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
I will show them marvelous things.
—Psalm 38:21-22, Psalm 130:5-6, Micah 7:15
O Come All Ye Faithful
O come, all ye faithful
Joyful and triumphant
O come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem
Come and behold him
Born the King of angels
O come, let us adore him
O come, let us adore him
O come, let us adore him
Christ the Lord
Sing, choirs of angels
Sing in exultation
O sing, all ye citizens of heav’n above
Glory to God
All glory in the highest
O come, let us adore him
O come, let us adore him
O come, let us adore him
Christ the Lord
Yea, Lord, we greet thee
Born this happy morning
Jesus, to thee be all glory giv’n
Word of the Father
Now in flesh appearing
O come, let us adore him
O come, let us adore him
O come, let us adore him
Christ the Lord
Latin hymn; attr. John Francis Wade, 1751; tr. Frederick Oakeley, 1841.
Tune, ADESTE FIDELES, John Francis Wade’s Cantus Diversi, 1751
Angels We Have Heard on High
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echo back their joyous strains
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Shepherds, why this jubilee
Why your joyous strains prolong
Say what may the tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord, the newborn King
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
See him in a manger laid
Whom the choirs of angels praise
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid
While our hearts in love we raise
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Traditional French carol, Tune GLORIA. Traditional French melody
Prayer for the People, the City, and the Nations
Gifts — Noel
Love incarnate, love divine
Star and angels gave the sign
Bow to babe on bended knee
The savior of humanity
Unto us a child is born
He shall reign forever more
Noel, noel
Come and see what God has done
Noel, noel
The story of amazing love
The light of the world, given for us
Noel
Son of God and Son of Man
There before the world began
Born to suffer, born to save
Born to raise us from the grave
Christ, the everlasting Lord
He shall reign forever more
Noel, noel
Come and see what God has done
Noel, noel
The story of amazing love
The light of the world, given for us
Noel
Noel, noel
Come and see what God has done
Noel, noel
The story of amazing love
The light of the world, given for us
Noel
Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, Ed Cash © 2015 S. D. G. Publishing, Said And Done Music, sixsteps Music, Sixsteps Songs, Thankyou Music, Worship Together Music, worshiptogether.com songs, Alletrop Music CCLi 241710
Baptism {10:30 a.m. service}
The child being presented for infant baptism this morning is Rebecca Grace Bankert, covenant daughter of Matt and Bethany Bankert, sister of Laura and Anna Bankert, niece of Melody Bankert and Aaron & Melissa Talbot, and granddaughter of Neuman & Jo Ann Bankert and Roger & Carol Young.
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
It came upon the midnight clear
That glorious song of old
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold
Peace on the earth, goodwill to men
From heaven’s all gracious King
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing
Still through the cloven skies they come
With peaceful wings unfurled
And still their heavenly music floats
O’er all the weary world
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hovering wing
And ever o’er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing
O ye, beneath life’s crushing load
Whose forms are bending low
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow
Look now, for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing
O, rest beside the weary road
And hear the angels sing
For lo, the days are hastening on
By prophets seen of old
When with the ever-circling years
Shall come the time foretold
When the new heaven and earth shall own
The Prince of Peace, their King
And the whole world send back the song
Which now the angels sing
Edmund H. Sears, Tune CAROL, Richard S. Willis, CCLI 241710
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
O come, O come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel
O come, thou Key of David, come
And open wide our heav’nly home
Make safe the way that leads on high
And close the path to misery
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel
O come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer
Our spirits by thine advent here
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night
And death’s dark shadows put to flight
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel
O, come, Desire of nations, bind
In one the hearts of all mankind
O, bid our sad divisions cease
And be thyself our King of peace
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel
Latin Hymn, 1710; Tune VENI EMMANUEL trans. J.M. Neale, 1851; alt. 1961 CCLI 241710
Children Dismissed for Children’s Church
Sermon
“The Fullness of Time”
Galatians 3:23-4:7
Prayer of Confession
Gracious God and Father,
we come to you aware of our brokenness and failures.
We confess our sins, which are too heavy to carry,
too real to hide, and too deep to undo.
Forgive what our lips tremble to speak,
and what our hearts can no longer bear.
Set us free from a past we cannot change;
open to us a future in which we can be changed;
and grant us grace to grow more and more
in your likeness and image.
Through Jesus, Amen.
Assurance of Pardon
The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.
— Exodus 34:6-7
The Lord’s Supper
There is a Fountain Filled With Blood
There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Emmanuel’s veins
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains
The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day
And there may I, though vile as he
Wash all my sins away
And there may I, though vile as he
Wash all my sins away
Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power
Till all the ransomed church of God
Be saved, to sin no more
Till all the ransomed church of God
Be saved, to sin no more
E’er since, by faith, I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply
Redeeming love has been my theme
And shall be till I die
Redeeming love has been my theme
And shall be till I die
Then in a nobler, sweeter song
I’ll sing thy power to save
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave
William Cowper, Karl Digerness © 1997 Karl Digerness Music CCLI 241710
O Come Let Us Adore Him
O come, let us adore him
O come, let us adore him
O come, let us adore him
Christ, the Lord
C. Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade © Public Domain CCLI 241710
Benediction
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