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Order of Service: December 20, 2020
Call to Worship: Psalm 117—Allen Sanderson
Song: Come Thou Fount
Prayer of Confession/Lament—Bruno Kömel
Statement of Assurance—Allen Sanderson
Song: Here is Love
Scripture Reading
Sermon: Luke 2:8-20—Jim Kallam
Song: Behold Him
Benediction: Psalm 33:22
Call to Worship
Psalm 117
117
Praise the Lord, all nations!
Extol him, all peoples!
2 For great is his steadfast love toward us,
and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord!
Come Thou Fount
Come Thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount I’m fixed upon it mount of Thy redeeming love
Here I raise mine Ebenezer hither by Thy help I’m come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger wandering from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger interposed His precious blood
O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be
Let Thy grace, Lord, like a fetter bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love
Here’s my heart O take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above
Here’s my heart O take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above
He to rescue me from danger interposed His precious blood
Here is Love
1 Here is love, vast as the ocean,
loving-kindness as the flood,
when the Prince of Life, our Ransom,
shed for us His precious blood.
Who His love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
He can never be forgotten
throughout heav’n’s eternal days.
2 On the mount of crucifixion
fountains opened deep and wide;
through the floodgates of God’s mercy
flowed a vast and gracious tide.
Grace and love, like mighty rivers,
poured incessant from above,
and heav’n’s peace and perfect justice
kissed a guilty world in love.
3 In Thy truth Thou dost direct me
by Thy Spirit through Thy Word;
and Thy grace my need is meeting
as I trust in Thee, my Lord.
Of Thy fullness Thou art pouring
Thy great love and pow’r on me
without measure, full and boundless,
drawing out my heart to Thee.
Scripture Reading—Luke 2:8-20
The Shepherds and the Angels
8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” 16 And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. 17 And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child. 18 And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. 19 But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. 20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
Behold Him
He who was before there was light
Walked across the pages of time
He who made every living thing
Behold Him
He who heard humanity’s cry
Left His throne to wake as a child
He became like the least of us
Behold Him
Jesus
Son of God, Messiah
The Lamb, the roaring Lion
Oh, be still and behold Him
He who dined with sinners and saints
Healed the blind, the lost and the lame
Even now He is in our midst
Behold Him
He who chose a criminal’s end
Paid with blood to settle our debt
Buried death as He rose to life
Behold Him
Jesus
Son of God, Messiah
The Lamb, the roaring Lion
Oh, be still and behold Him
Jesus
Alpha and Omega
Our God, the Risen Savior
Oh, be still and behold Him
Holy, holy, holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Worthy, worthy, worthy
To receive all praise
…
Jesus
Son of God, Messiah
The Lamb, the roaring Lion
Oh, be still and behold Him
Jesus
Alpha and Omega
Our God, the Risen Savior
Oh, be still and behold Him
Behold Him
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