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    Worship Order |   12.28.2025

WE APPROACH GOD

Prelude

Advent Reading

Call to Worship/Peace

               One: Children of God, Christ is born!

All: God has come to make a home among us

One: Yet the story is not over. After birth comes the ordinary, mundane growing, maturing and discovering even for the Christ child.

All: In the ordinary and mundane, God has come to make a home in us. And sometimes, in the midst of our everyday lives, something amazing happens and we see what God is up to.

One: In the surprising and spectacular, God has come to make a home in us.

All: Let us worship the God who is with us in all seasons.

One: We come to make our home with the God who makes a home in us. The Peace of Christ be with you

           All: And also with you

*O Come, All Ye Faithful (#76)

*Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (#80)

Announcements

Prayers of the People

Leader: We lift this praise to the Lord

All: Thanks be to God

Leader: We lift this prayer to the Lord

All: Lord, hear our prayer

with 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.

Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power

and the glory forever.

Amen.

Offering

Call to Confession

Prayer of Confession

Lord Jesus Christ, at your birth the angels gave glory to God in the highest heaven and offered peace on earth to all humankind. We struggle to follow the heavenly host. All too often, we focus on giving glory to ourselves, trying to impress our friends, coworkers, and family. We make no move to further peace in our polarized world; we forget that you have called us to be ambassadors of reconciliation. Forgive us for these and all our sins and strengthen us to join the angels’ song. Hear us as we continue to pray in silence…

Assurance of Pardon

*Go, Tell It on the Mountain (#93)

*Passing the Peace of Christ

               GOD’S WORD

                              Pastor Brett Busch

                              Prayer for Illumination

                              Scripture: John 1:19-34

                              Sermon

WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD

*Joy to the World (#92)

Benediction

*Go, Tell it on the Mountain (#93) [vs. 3]

Postlude