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Sunday, May 16th, 2010
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Sunday, November 30th, 2025
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1st Sunday in Advent
  
 
=We Gather in God's Name=
 
=We Gather in God's Name=
  
====Call to Worship====
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====Opening Prayer====
Leader: Christ the Lord is risen
 
  
'''People: He is risen indeed.'''
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====Lighting of the Advent Candles====
  
Leader: Let trumpets sound and angels sing:
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Reader 1: Today we light one candle - the Candle called HOPE, as a reminder that God's promises are true.
  
'''People: Rejoice, for Christ is risen indeed!'''
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Reader 2: We place our hope in God.
  
====Opening Prayer====
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Reader 3: We place our lives in God's care.
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Reader 4: Come, all is ready. Let the light of this one candle, called HOPE, bring brightness to your spirits.
  
 
=We Hear God's Word=
 
=We Hear God's Word=
  
====Old Testament Scripture====
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====Opening Song====
Psalm 33:1-4
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*David Crowder, "Come Awake"
*[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2033&version=NIV Click here to read the entire psalm at biblegateway.net]
 
 
 
====New Testament Scripture====
 
Ephesians 2:1-10 (NRSV)
 
  
You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else.
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====Scripture Reading====
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''Jeremiah 33:14-16''
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*[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2033:14-16 Read the passage at biblegateway.com]
  
But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us 5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.  
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====Advent Meditation====
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=We Respond in Prayer=
 
=We Respond in Prayer=
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===Closing Prayer===
 
===Closing Prayer===
(Offered by a member of the community)
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Christmas Doxology
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=We Go in Peace=
 
=We Go in Peace=

Latest revision as of 17:23, 30 November 2025

Sunday, November 30th, 2025

1st Sunday in Advent

We Gather in God's Name

Opening Prayer

Lighting of the Advent Candles

Reader 1: Today we light one candle - the Candle called HOPE, as a reminder that God's promises are true.

Reader 2: We place our hope in God.

Reader 3: We place our lives in God's care.

Reader 4: Come, all is ready. Let the light of this one candle, called HOPE, bring brightness to your spirits.

We Hear God's Word

Opening Song

Scripture Reading

Jeremiah 33:14-16

Advent Meditation

We Respond in Prayer

Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession

Please stand when offering a prayer, so others will know you have the floor.

The Lord's Prayer

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. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

Closing Prayer

Christmas Doxology

We Go in Peace

Passing of the Peace

Fellowship & Conversation