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Service for Wednesday, December 2, 2009

First Week of Advent

Welcome and Announcements:  - Rev. Charles Neugebauer 

Opening Hymn: "Prepare the Royal Highway" - Congregation & Michella Novy - Organist

Validation & Opening Vesicles - Rev. Mark Goble

Opening Prayer - Rev. Mark Goble

First Reading: Isaiah 9:1-7 (NIV) - Rev. Mark Goble

To Us a Child Is Born

 1 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan-

 2 The people walking in darkness
       have seen a great light;
       on those living in the land of the shadow of death [a]
       a light has dawned.

 3 You have enlarged the nation
       and increased their joy;
       they rejoice before you
       as people rejoice at the harvest,
       as men rejoice
       when dividing the plunder.

 4 For as in the day of Midian's defeat,
       you have shattered
       the yoke that burdens them,
       the bar across their shoulders,
       the rod of their oppressor.

 5 Every warrior's boot used in battle
       and every garment rolled in blood
       will be destined for burning,
       will be fuel for the fire.

 6 For to us a child is born,
       to us a son is given,
       and the government will be on his shoulders.
       And he will be called
       Wonderful Counselor, [b] Mighty God,
       Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

 7 Of the increase of his government and peace
       there will be no end.
       He will reign on David's throne
       and over his kingdom,
       establishing and upholding it
       with justice and righteousness
       from that time on and forever.
       The zeal of the LORD Almighty
       will accomplish this.

Footnotes:
  1. Isaiah 9:2 Or land of darkness
  2. Isaiah 9:6 Or Wonderful, Counselor
Holy Gospel:  John 1:1-12 (NIV) - Rev. Mark Goble
The Word Became Flesh

 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.

 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood[a] it.

 6There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.[b]

 10He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—

Footnotes:
  1. John 1:5 Or darkness, and the darkness has not overcome
  2. John 1:9 Or This was the true light that gives light to every man who comes into the world

Hymn of the Day: "Jesus, Name, Above All Names" - Congregation & Michella Novy - Organist

Advent/Message/Study: "Isaiah 9:1-7"

Rev. Charles Neugebauer

Offering Hymns: - Congregation & Michella Novy - Organist 

Closing Prayers:   - Rev. Mark Goble

Closing Hymn: "Jesus Came, the Heavens Adoring" - Congregation & Michella Novy - Organist 

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