GREETING AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE................................... “LO,
HOW A ROSE E’ER BLOOMING”1........... ARR.
BY MARK HAYES
INTROIT.................................................. “UNTIL
JESUS COMES”1................................ CHANCEL
CHOIR
OPENING
TIME OF CENTERING PRAYER
Wait for the Lord, whose day is near. Wait for the Lord: keep watch, take heart.
Leader: Children of God, prepare the way! The
Word of God is coming!
People: We come to listen and receive God’s Word
among us.
Leader: Friends of Jesus, the prophets call to us
now and from generations past,
urging us to prepare and
refine our hearts for the coming of the Word of
God. Are you listening?
All: May God ignite our passion for
God’s Word that has come among us as
we listen, prepare, and
receive all that God has for us today. AMEN.
**HYMN #3047
(W&S)....................................................................... “GOD
ALMIGHTY, WE ARE WAITING”
LIGHTING
OF THE ADVENT WREATH
We bring our flawed lives to God, not so much to be made perfect, but to be whole. Let us
confess our sins to God, trusting
the One who builds joy from our despair…
God of Grace, you breathed life into each of us, you have formed us in your image.
And yet we acknowledge that sometimes we are not who you would have us be. You
challenge us to embrace the refining fire of your love, to meet you on the threshing
floor of life, to be washed as with fuller's soap. But in our heart of hearts we would
rather keep those things that would be removed in such an encounter. Through your
Grace, life-giving God, accept us as we are, unrefined, unwashed, the chaff mixed in
with the grain, and help us to move toward your way of being. AMEN.
SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION
Leader: Listen! For this is Good News! God's Grace is wider than our wildest
imaginings. God's Grace embraces us as we are and where we
are and
draws us out to be the people
we were created to be.
People: Thanks be to God! By God’s grace we are forgiven! AMEN.
Emmanuel, Emmanuel, his name is called Emmanuel. God with us, revealed in us,
his name is called Emmanuel.
SERMON...................................................... “PHASE
SHIFT”...................................... REV.
ERIC WARNER
**RESPONSE #209 (UMH)..................................................................... “BLESSED
BE THE GOD OF ISRAEL”
PRAYER CONCERNS/PASTORAL 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, and the power, and
the glory, forever. AMEN.
I cast all my cares upon you, I lay all of my burdens down at your feet, and anytime
that I don't
know what to do, I will cast all my cares upon you.
CALL
TO OFFERING
OFFERTORY
**DOXOLOGY #95 (UMH)..................................... “PRAISE
GOD, FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW”
Praise God, from whom
all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all
creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye
heav'nly host;
Praise Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost.
Amen.
**OFFERTORY PRAYER
**HYMN #220 (UMH)................................................................. “ANGELS
FROM THE REALMS OF GLORY”
**CHORAL BENEDICTION...... “LORD, DISMISS US WITH THY BLESSING”1............. CHANCEL CHOIR
Bind us together, Lord, bind us together with cords
that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, Lord, bind us together, bind us
together in love.
POSTLUDE................................... “GO
TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN”1............. ARR.
BY MARK HAYES
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**Indicates the
congregation should stand if able
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