Christmas Day December 25, 2025
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Welcome and Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 2 (pg. 528)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
Youth Group Advent Reading: The Candle of the Christ Child”
OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------------- # 46
“Let All Together Praise Our God”
*Confession of Sins …………………………….................... pg. 2
*Kyrie & Declaration of Grace ..………………………….… pg. 3
*Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Isaiah 52”7-10 (pg. 728)
2nd Reading: Hebrews 1:1-12 (pg. 1187)
*The Gospel: John 1:1-14 (pg. 1053)
*Response to the Word ……………………………………… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Nicene Creed….…………......... pg. 18
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN --------------------------------------------------------------- # 2
“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”
Sermon: “Provided for Us”
HYMN -------------------------------------------------------------- # 26
“What Child Is This?”
* Communion Service: The Exhortation ……………………. pg. 6
* The Lord’s Prayer & Words of the Institution.……………. pg. 7
Lamb of God ………………………………………………. pg. 20
Hymns during the distribution of Communion: # 43, 33, 25, 34, 46
*Closing Prayer
*The Benediction & Three-fold Amen ...……………………. pg. 8
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning! We ask our visitors to please sign the guest book and let us know how we may assist you in any way. God’s peace and joy be upon you!
Announcements
Holy Communion: We invite all who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and who have received Confirmation or other Biblical instruction on this Sacrament to come to the altar to participate in the Lord’s Supper. All other, including children, are invited to come forward to receive a blessing from the Pastor. We also invite you to prepare yourself by reading “Personal Preparation for Holy Communion,” (hymnal pages 14-15). Please note: The 6 cups in the center ring of the communion trays are Grape Juice for those wanting juice instead of wine.
This Week’s Activities:
28th – Sun. – Worship - John 5, 9:00 a.m.,
Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.
CHURCH CLEANING: Dec. 22 – 28 Dee Fink & Renee Engelland
Usher for Sunday, December 28th: Jeris Cleveland & John Engelland
*Call to Worship: Psalm 2
2 Why do the nations rage
and the peoples
plot in vain?
2 The kings of
the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast
away their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the
heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
5 Then he will speak to them in
his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6 “As for me, I have set my King
on Zion,
my holy hill.”
7 I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the
nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of
iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”
10 Now therefore, O kings, be
wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice
with trembling.
12 Kiss the
Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for
his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in
him.
1st Reading: Isaiah 52:7-10
7 How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes
peace, who brings good news of happiness,
who publishes
salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
8 The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their
voice;
together they sing for joy;
for eye to eye they see
the return of the Lord to Zion.
9 Break
forth together into singing,
you waste places of Jerusalem,
for the Lord has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord has bared his holy arm
before the eyes of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth
shall see
the salvation of our God.
2nd Reading: Hebrews 1:1-12
1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
5 For to which of the angels did God ever say,
“You are my Son, today I have begotten you”?
Or again,
“I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?
6 And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,
“Let all God's angels worship him.”
7 Of the angels he says,
“He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.”
8 But of the Son he says,
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,
the scepter of
uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You
have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore God,
your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness beyond your
companions.”
10 And,
“You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning,
and the heavens are the work of your hands;
11 they
will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like a
garment,
12 like a robe you will roll
them up,
like a garment they will be changed.
But you are the
same,
and your years will have no end.”
*The Gospel: John 1:1-14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.