Mill Plain UMC, DO WE? January 9,2022
Live stream with Pastor Sue
Accompanied by a worship assistant
Accompanist Andrea Llafet
Mill Plain UMC 10 a.m.,
Sunday, January 9, 2022
Songs
Lord Reign In Me
Mighty To Save
Thy Holy Wings, O Savior
To Make an Offering: https://millplainumc.org/giving/
Mill Plain UMC
Sunday January 9, 2022
Prelude
Welcome Announcements
Greeting
Call to worship
Worship Assistant: The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
People: The God of glory thunders!
Worship Assistant: Rain down your love on your people, God.
People: The God of glory thunders!
Worship Assistant: Remember your baptism, and be thankful.
People: The God of glory thunders!
Opening Prayer Our God in heaven, at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan you proclaimed him as your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit. Grant that all who are baptized into his name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, One God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
(reprinted from The United Methodist Hymnal, copyright 1989) Used by permission of The United Methodist Publishing House
Young Disciples Moment
Song Lord Reign In Me
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Lord’s prayer
Offering
Doxology
Scripture
Isaiah 43:1-7
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you. Because you are precious in my sight, and honored, and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life. Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you; I will say to the north, “Give them up,” and to the south, “Do not withhold; bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the end of the earth— everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
Luke 3:15-22
As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” So, with many other exhortations, he proclaimed the good news to the people. But Herod the ruler, who had been rebuked by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil things that Herod had done, added to them all by shutting up John in prison.
Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.”
Song: Mighty to Save
Message: Do We?
Prayer Holy One, lined up with the other sinners we await your cleansing waters.
Gracious One, with joy we hear your affirmation that we are your beloved children.
Sustaining One, we plead for your Spirit to sustain us for we are weak and lose heart. Fill us with the gifts we need to carry out the ministry to which you call us. Breathe into us that we may breathe into the world your love and grace. Amen.
Song Thy Holy Wings
Benediction
The grace of Christ attend you.
The love of God surround you.
The Holy Spirit keep you.
Abound in hope and grow in love both now and forever.
Amen