Pastor John Veenstra
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP OUR GOD
Prelude: Adore
Call to Worship: Lighting the Candle of Hope
Advent Litany
Song: O Come, O Come, Immanuel
God’s Greeting and Greeting One Another
OUR NEW LIFE IN CHRIST
Call to Confession and Prayer
Assurance of Forgiveness
Song of Response: Jesus, Draw Me Ever Nearer
PRAYERS AND OFFERINGS
Announcements and Sunday School Dismissal
Prayer for the offerings
Offerings: I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light
Prayers of the People and Prayer for Illumination
WE HEAR GOD’S WORD
Scripture Reading: Psalm 46
Message God is Like a Fort
Song of Response: A Mighty Fortress
Celebration of Communion – Music: How Beautiful
WE GO OUT TO SERVE
Testimony of Faith: OWBTG #23
Remembering the promise to reconcile the world to himself, God joined our humanity in Jesus Christ—the eternal Word made flesh.
He is the long-awaited Messiah, one with us and one with God,
fully human and fully divine, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
Closing Song: There is A Redeemer
God’s Blessing to His People
Postlude
God’s Blessing to His People
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