2nd Sunday after Epiphany January 18, 2026
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 40:1-11 (pg. 553)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 559
“Great is Thy Faithfulness”
*Confession of Sins ……………….……….……………....... pg. 2
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Isaiah 49:1-7 (pg. 724)
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 (pg. 1131)
*The Gospel: John 1:29-42a (pg. 1053)
*Response to the Gospel …………………………………..… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed .……………...... pg. 4
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
Installation and Blessing of Church Officers
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN ---------------------------------------------------------------- #521
“Thank You, Lord”
Sermon: John 8 – “True Freedom”
THE CLOSING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 401
“How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds”
*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 #521: "Thank You, Lord"
Memory verse: Colossians 3:17 “And
whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the Name of the
Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”
The FLY will be serving a brunch today after our worship service. Our Annual meeting will be held following the brunch.
Men’s Retreat at New Hope on January 23-25. Check in is from 6-7pm on Friday. Join us for a time to refocus, revive, and re-invest in your spiritual life. There will be great food, fellowship, and fun activities. You can register on our website or call 605-682-1992
Thank you to the congregation for the cash gift we received, it is appreciated. Janett Uttecht and Steve Bamberg
This week’s activities:
25th – Sun. – Worship – John 9, 9:00 am,
Sunday School 10:00 am
Muffin Sunday, Ladies A - J
CHURCH CLEANING: Jan. 19 – 25 Beverly Jahn & Chris Lau
Usher’s for Sunday, Jan 25th : Richard Luebke & Robert Thies
*Call to Worship: Psalm 40:1-11
40 I waited patiently for the Lord;
he
inclined to me and heard my cry.
2 He
drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set
my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of
praise to our God.
Many will see and fear, and put their trust in
the Lord.
4 Blessed is the man
who makes the Lord his trust,
who does not turn to the proud,
to those who go astray after a lie!
5 You
have multiplied, O Lord my God,
your wondrous deeds and
your thoughts toward us;
none can compare with you! I will
proclaim and tell of them,
yet they are more than can be told.
6 In sacrifice and offering
you have not delighted,
but you have given me an open ear.
Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
in the scroll of the book it is written of me:
8 I
delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
9 I have told the glad news
of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have
not restrained my lips,
as you know, O Lord.
10 I have not hidden your deliverance within
my heart;
I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;
I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness
from the great congregation.
11 As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!
1st Reading:Isaiah 49:1-7
49 Listen to me, O coastlands,
and give
attention, you peoples from afar.
The Lord called me from the
womb,
from the body of my mother he named my name.
2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword;
in
the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me a polished arrow;
in his quiver he hid me away.
3 And
he said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will be
glorified.”
4 But I said, “I have
labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my right is with the Lord,
and my recompense with my
God.”
5 And now the Lord says,
he who
formed me from the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to
him;
and that Israel might be gathered to him—
for I am
honored in the eyes of the Lord,
and my God has become my
strength—
6 he says:
“It is too
light a thing that you should be my servant
to raise up the
tribes of Jacob
and to bring back the preserved of Israel;
I
will make you as a light for the nations,
that my salvation may
reach to the end of the earth.”
7 Thus says the Lord,
the Redeemer
of Israel and his Holy One,
to one deeply despised, abhorred by
the nation,
the servant of rulers:
“Kings shall see and arise;
princes, and they shall prostrate themselves;
because of
the Lord, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen
you.”
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9
1 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
2 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— 6 even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— 7 so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
*The Gospel: John 1:29-42a
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’ 31 I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.” 32 And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. 33 I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”
35 The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” 37 The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 38 Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” 39 He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. 40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ). 42 He brought him to Jesus.