Call To Worship
We confess the supremacy of God in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Call to Worship
O come, let us worship the Lord
and consider what wondrous things God has done:
The wise men who study the heavens
follow a guiding star!
O come, let us worship the Lord
and consider what wondrous things God has done:
The peoples who live in the shadows
see a glorious light!
O come, let us worship the Lord
and consider what wondrous things God has done:
The Christ who embodies the Word
unveils the hidden plan,
making us joint-heirs of the promise of salvation
through the gospel!
O come, let us worship the Lord,
for God has done wondrous things!
Our Sung Call to Worship
Speak O Lord
Confession
We confess our need for mercy through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Confession
From the New City Catechism (Q/A 7, 13, 14)
What does the law of God require?
Personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience;
that we love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength;
and love our neighbor as ourselves.
Can anyone keep the law of God perfectly?
Since the fall, no mere human has been able
to keep the law of God perfectly,
but consistently breaks it
in thought, word, and deed.
Does this include all of us?
Yes, we are all born in sin and guilt,
corrupt in our nature
And unable to keep God’s law.
TIME OF SILENT CONFESSION
Our Sung Confession
Not In Me
Assurance and Peace
We profess our assurance of salvation and peace in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Remember the Gospel
Based on John 1:9, 12, 29 (CSB17)
The true light that gives light to everyone,
was coming into the world.
And to all who did receive him,
to those who believe in his name,
he gave them the right to be children of God.
Who is this light of the world?
He is Jesus, the Lamb of God,
who takes away the sin of the world!
Our Sung Profession of Assurance
Joy Has Dawned
Thanksgiving and Petition
We Give Thanks in Prayer and Offer Petitions to God
We express our gratitude to God our Father for Christ’s work on the cross for us and bring our requests before him. In bringing our requests, we confess that we believe God truly is a good father, who cares about our needs and gives us what he knows is best.
We Give Thanks by Giving
We give financial offerings to support the work of the church because of our gratitude to God. By giving we confess we are trusting in God’s provision for us as well.
On the first Sunday of each month we have two offerings—one for the general fund and a second one for the benevolence ministry of our church.
We Give Thanks in Song
Be Thou My Vision
Scripture Reading
Isaiah 66:18-24 (ESV)
18 “For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory, 19 and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
20 And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
21 And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the LORD.
22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth
that I make shall remain before me, says
the LORD, so shall your offspring and your name remain.
23 From new moon to new moon,
and from Sabbath to Sabbath,
all flesh shall come to worship before me,
declares the LORD.
24 “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God!
Sermon
Isaiah 66:18-24 – “Epiphany and the End of All Things – Pastor Eric Schumacher
Sending
Having heard and confessed the Gospel, we are sent into the world on mission in Christ, which we express in both song and spoken word.
Sending Song
All Glory Be to Christ
Blessing
May Christ, the Son of God,
be manifest in you,
that your lives may be a light to the world;
and the blessing of God Almighty,
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
be among you and remain with you always.
Amen.