Mill Plain UMC
Sunday November 26, 2023
The Joy of Christ’s Coming
Scripture
Isaiah 64:1-9
I Corinthians 1:1-9
Music
I Have Decided To Follow Jesus
The Joy of the Lord
Hosanna
O Lord You’re Beautiful
Love Divine, All Love’s Excelling
Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
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Mill Plain UMC
November 26, 2023
10 a.m.
Praise Song I have decided to follow Jesus
Greeting
Call to Worship
Lighting of First Advent Candle
Leader: O that you would tear open the heavens and come down!
People: When the mountains quake at your presence, the joy of the Lord is our strength.
Leader: Then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
People: When the mountains quake, the joy of the Lord is our strength.
Leader: Today we light the first Advent candle in joy at Jesus’ coming.
People: The joy of the Lord is our strength.
(One blue candle is lit as congregation sings)
Praise Songs The Joy of the Lord is our Strength
Hosanna
Oh Lord you’re Beautiful
Opening Prayer
Thank you, ever-giving God, for strengthening us as we wait for the full revelation of your glory. Grant that we may respond to your faithfulness with our own faithfulness, rejoicing in your presence among us. We ask this in the name of Jesus who comes among us as a child and will come again. Amen.
Young Disciples Moment
Silent Prayer
Pastoral Prayer
Lord’s Prayer
Offertory
Presentation of Offerings
Doxology
Scripture
Isaiah 64:1-9
O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence— as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence! When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. From ages past no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who wait for him. You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed.
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. There is no one who calls on your name, or attempts to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity. Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, and do not remember iniquity forever. Now consider, we are all your people.
I Corinthians 1:1-9
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind— just as the testimony of Christ has been strengthened among you— so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful; by him you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Hymn Love Divine, All Love’s Excelling #384
Sermon The Joy of Christ’s Coming
Prayer
Our God, we have been to the mountain and we have looked over into your promise. Fill us with your Spirit that we may have the faith to walk into your newness of life. Amen.
Hymn Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus #196
Benediction
May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen