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    Worship Order |   12.22.2024

WE APPROACH GOD

Prelude

Advent Reading and Candle Lighting (RJ & Katelynn Gibson)

Call to Worship/Peace

One: Today we look to the God who surely comes.

All: We cry, “Come, Emmanuel, be with us.”

One: Today we celebrate the God who deeply loves.

All: We praise you for your compassion, made known in Christ.

One: Today we honor the God who enters our world in the flesh of Jesus.

All: We rejoice at your presence in our lives.

One: Let us come before the Lord and worship.

One: The Peace of Christ be with you

       All: And also with you

*O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (#61) [vs. 1,4,6,7]

*Even So, Come

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

Prayer of Confession

Assurance of Pardon

*Away In a Manger/Manger Throne

*Passing the Peace of Christ

GOD’S WORD

Pastor Brett Busch

Prayer for Illumination

Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon: Names of Jesus: Emmanuel

WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD

*Jesus Is Our King

*Benediction

 *Jesus Name Above All Names (Sing Joyfully #57)

Postlude