Service for Christmas Day

 December 25, 2005  10:30 a.m.

 

GATHER IN GOD’S NAME                        

PRELUDE - Carol Sing

CARILLON, WELCOME, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

LIGHTING THE CHRIST CANDLE & CANDLES ON THE WREATH

            Shout with joy to the Lord, all you nations!

      Lift up your voice, rejoice, and sing!

*CALL TO WORSHIP                                                                 on vs. 1, O Come, All Ye Faithful

                Come, you faithful and unfaithful.

Come, you joyful, and you strangers to joy.

Come, you triumphant, and you ruined and wrecked.

Come and adore the Savior who comes to all of us.                                                              

 

*PROCESSIONAL HYMN # 56                                                                   The First Nowell

 

*OLD TESTAMENT LESSON                                                         Isaiah 52: 8-10 (NRSV)

Listen!  Your sentinels lift up their voices,

     together they sing for joy;

for in plain sight they see

     the return of the Lord to Zion.

Break forth together into singing,

     you ruins of Jerusalem;

for the Lord has comforted his people;

     he has redeemed Jerusalem.

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.

 

*THE PEACE

The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

           Peace be with you.

(Worshipers greet one another with words and gestures of God’s peace)

 

PROCLAIM GOD’S WORD  

ANTHEM                                  Go, Tell It on the Mountain                      spiritual/M. Hayes                                  

 

WORD WITH CHILDREN

 

LESSON FROM THE GOSPEL                                                           John 1: 1-14 (NRSV)

 

SERMON                                                                                                      “’Poorer Silence’”                                                                                                              

RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD

 

AN OFFERING OF OURSELVES TO THE GOD WHO OFFERS A CHILD TO US

            Call to Respond

            Offertory                       Celebrate the Dawn, Alleluia!                                    J. Martin                      

            *Prayer of Dedication

 

PRAYERS OF THANKS AND INTERCESSION, THE LORD’S PRAYER

        

DEPART IN GOD’S NAME

*HYMN # 28                                                                         Good Christian Friends, Rejoice

 

*CHARGE                                                                                                  Psalm 98: 4 & John 1: 5

                Shout with joy to the Lord, all you nations! Lift up your voice, rejoice, and sing.

                The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it.

*BLESSING

 

POSTLUDE                                  O Hail This Brightest Day of Days                     J. S. Bach             

 

*Congregation stands as able

Next Week’s Scriptures:  Isa. 61: 1-10; Ps. 148; Gal. 4: 4-7; Luke 2: 22-40

 

WE ARE A STEPHEN MINISTRY CONGREGATION

 

WORSHIP LEADERS

 

Liturgists 

 Rev. Jonathan C. Siehl

Sermon

Rev. William R. Leety

Word with Children

Rev. Jonathan C. Siehl

Musical Leadership

Chancel Choir

Sarah Shaffer, Director

Nancy Deeth, Organist