1st Sunday After Christmas December 28, 2025
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 111 (pg. 603)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN -------------------------------------------- # 18
“Joy to the World! The Lord Is Come!”
*Confession of Sins ……………….……….……………....... pg. 2
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
Special Music: Luke Hartmann, “Ten Thousands Reasons”
Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Isaiah 63:7-14 (pg. 739)
2nd Reading: Galatians 4:4-7 (pg. 1156)
*The Gospel: Matthew 2:13-23 (pg. 960)
*Response to the Gospel …………………………………..… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed .……………...... pg. 4
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMNN ------------------------------------------------------------- # 35
“While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks”
Sermon: John 5 – “Who’s the Boss?”
THE CLOSING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 44
“Go Tell It On The Mountain”
*The Lord’s Prayer ………………………………………….. pg. 5
*The Benediction ………………………………..…………... pg. 5
*Three-fold Amen ………………………………...…………. pg. 5
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning, especially our guests and visitors. May our Father’s mercy in Jesus assure you of the forgiveness of all your sins. If you have not established your church home in our area, we are anxious to share with you all the blessings which God gives us through His Word. We ask that you please sign our guest book, and we hope that you return to worship with us again soon.
Announcements
Monthly hymn #44: "Go Tell It On The
Mountain"
Memory verse: Psalm 9:1-2 "I
will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all
of Your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in You; I will
sing praise to Your name, O Most High."
Thank you to the Council for the monetary gift that we received for Christmas, it is greatly appreciated. Renee Engelland, Hannah Lau, Becky Fechner & Ben Lau
Just a friendly reminder to be thinking about and working on Annual reports for those who may be responsible for one.
This week’s activities:
1st – Thurs. – New Year’s Day Worship Service, 9:00 a.m.
4th – Sun. – Worship with Holy Communion – John 6, 9:00
am,
Sunday School 10:00 am
CHURCH CLEANING: Dec. 29 – Jan. 4 Amy Cleveland & Andrea Wright
Usher’s for Sunday, Jan 4th: Justin Wright & Keith Sprecher
*Call to Worship: Psalm 111
111 Praise the Lord!
I will give thanks to
the Lord with my whole heart,
in the company of the upright, in
the congregation.
2 Great are
the works of the Lord,
studied by all who delight in them.
3 Full of splendor and majesty
is his work,
and his righteousness endures forever.
4 He has caused his wondrous works to
be remembered;
the Lord is gracious and merciful.
5 He provides food for those who fear
him;
he remembers his covenant forever.
6 He
has shown his people the power of his works,
in giving them the
inheritance of the nations.
7 The
works of his hands are faithful and just;
all his precepts
are trustworthy;
8 they
are established forever and ever,
to be performed
with faithfulness and uprightness.
9 He
sent redemption to his people;
he has commanded his covenant
forever.
Holy and awesome is his name!
10 The
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all those who
practice it have a good understanding.
His praise endures
forever!
1st Reading: Isaiah 63:7-14
7 I will recount the steadfast love
of the Lord,
the praises of the Lord,
according to all that
the Lord has granted us,
and the great goodness to the house of
Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
8 For
he said, “Surely they are my people,
children who will not deal
falsely.”
And he became their Savior.
9 In
all their affliction he was afflicted,
and the angel of his
presence saved them;
in his love and in his pity he redeemed
them;
he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled
and grieved
his Holy Spirit;
therefore he turned to be their enemy,
and
himself fought against them.
11 Then
he remembered the days of old,
of Moses and his people.
Where
is he who brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherds of
his flock?
Where is he who put in the midst of them
his Holy
Spirit,
12 who caused his glorious
arm
to go at the right hand of Moses,
who divided the waters
before them
to make for himself an everlasting name,
13 who led them through the depths?
Like
a horse in the desert,
they did not stumble.
14 Like
livestock that go down into the valley,
the Spirit of
the Lord gave them rest.
So you led your people,
to make for
yourself a glorious name.
2nd Reading: Galatians 4:4-7
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
*The Gospel: Matthew 2:13-23
13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” 14 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt 15 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men. 17 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:
18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
weeping and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”
19 But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead.” 21 And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee. 23 And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.