Preparation for Worship: Prelude and Silent Prayer
†Call to Worship Psalm 65:1-4
†Opening Prayer
†Responsive Reading and Salutation
Our help is in the name of the LORD, Psalm 124:8
Who made heaven and earth.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen!
†Psalm 65 Psalter Hymnal #114
†Confession of Faith The Apostles’ Creed in Song
Pastoral Prayer Adapted from Psalter Hymnal pp. 184-185
Confession
O Lord, Almighty God, we pray that your holy name may not be blasphemed on account of our sins. For we have sinned against you in many ways. We do not obey your holy Word as it is necessary for us. Through ignorance, unthankfulness, and discontent, we daily provoke you to wrath. We confess, Lord, that you are just in inflicting punishment upon us. But we beseech you, O Lord, remember your great mercy and have compassion upon us. Teach us truly to know our sins and sincerely to mourn for them and to amend our life.
Amen!
For the Ministry
Strengthen the ministers of your Church here and everywhere in order that they may faithfully and steadfastly preach your holy Word.
Amen!
For the Government
Likewise, Lord, give strength to our rulers that they may wield the sword of civil authority in justice and equity.
Amen!
For Our Needs
We pray particularly for…in Jesus’ name we ask this.
Amen!
For Our Sanctification
Keep us, we beseech you, from all hypocrisy and unfaithfulness, and frustrate all evil and subtle designs against your Word and your Church. O Lord, do not withhold from us your Word and your Spirit, but grant us increase in faith, and patience and steadfastness in all suffering and adversity. Comfort your Church, and deliver your people from opposition, ridicule, and tyranny, which it suffers at the hands of wicked men. Impart from on high strength to those that are sorely burdened with sorrow. And visit upon us your peace through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who gave us this sure promise: “Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you,” and taught us to pray, saying:
Our Father, who art in heaven: hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen!
The Advent Canticle
†“Comfort, Comfort, Ye My People” Psalter Hymnal #406
Scripture Reading
Prayer for Illumination
Sermon
OUR MEDIATOR:
TRULY GOD, TRULY MAN
LORD’S DAY 6
THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM
Q. 16 Why must he be truly human and truly righteous?
A. God’s justice demands it: man has sinned, man must pay for his sin; but a sinner can not pay for others.
Q. 17 Why must he also be true God?
A. So that, by the power of his divinity, he might bear the weight of God’s anger in his humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.
Q. 18 And who is this mediator – true God and at the same time truly human and truly righteous?
A. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was given us to set us completely free and to make us right with God.
Q. 19 How do you come to know this?
A. The holy gospel tells me. God himself began to reveal the gospel already in Paradise; later, he proclaimed it by the holy patriarchs and prophets, and portrayed it by the sacrifices and other ceremonies of the law; finally, he fulfilled it through his own dear Son.
†Psalm 148 Psalter Hymnal #304
Offering: General Fund
†Benediction 2 Corinthians 13:14
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Amen!
†Psalm 150 Psalter Hymnal #490
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