ADVENT 1 – HOPE

The Season of Advent is the period of four Sundays and weeks preceding December 25th.

Today is the first Sunday of Advent. Advent simply means “coming.” It is a season preparing us for . . .

CHRISTMAS EVE

Christmas Eve is December 24th

Welcome. Today is the last day of Advent. All that we have waited for arrives on this night. Christ will be born. Messiah will come . . .

THIS IS JESUS, GOD’S SON

A Service for the Feast of Epiphany (January 6) and the Season After Epiphany

As we gather this morning, let us consider Jesus, God’s Son, remembering his life here on earth.

Let’s read this portion of Psalm 72, responsively:

We Turn Back: An Ash Wednesday Service

Ash Wednesday begins the Season of Lent and occurs 46 days before Easter Sunday

Words of Welcome

Listen to these words of Jesus:
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the . . .

THE KING OF GLORY
Palm Sunday is the Sunday immediately preceding Easter Sunday

Call to Worship – Psalm 24:7–10

LEADER:
Lift up your heads, you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors,

CONGREGATION:
that the King of glory may come in . . .

MAUNDY THURSDAY
Maundy Thursday occurs the Thursday preceding Easter Sunday

There is beauty in the simplicity of this evening. All songs are sung a cappella and the tables are sparsely decorated. A cross is placed at the center . . .

FROM GETHSEMANE TO GOLGOTHA
A GOOD FRIDAY WORSHIP SERVICE

Good Friday is the Friday before Easter Sunday

Hosanna (Praise Is Rising)
Words and Music by Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown
© 2005, 2006 ThankYou Music, Integrity’s Hosanna! Music

Praise is rising, eyes are turning to you, we turn to you
Hope is stirring, hearts are yearning for you, we long for you . . .

O PRAISE THE NAME, HE’S RISEN!
Easter Sunday

Call to Worship

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen . . .

ASCENDED LORD

Ascension Day occurs on the Thursday forty days after Easter Sunday

Thursday was Ascension Day, the fortieth day after Easter Sunday. An article in Christianity Today online said this:

A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND
Pentecost Sunday – The Seventh Sunday following Easter Sunday

Praise to the Lord the Almighty
Words and Music by Joachim Neander (1680)
This Arr. © 1999 First Hand Revelation Music and van Ness Press (Travis Cottrell)

Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of creation
O my soul praise Him for He is thy health and salvation . . .

GOD IN THREE PERSONS
Trinity Sunday is the Sunday following Pentecost Sunday

Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty
Words by Reginald Heber (1826); Music by John B. Dykes

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee . . .

HERE I STAND - THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION

The Protestant Reformation is not officially part of the Christian Year calendar. However, the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century changed Christianity forever . . .

Cloud of Witnesses

November 1, celebrated in the church on the following Sunday

All Saints’ Day has been set aside to remember and honor those who have gone before us and set the example of how we should follow Christ. It reminds us to be thankful . . .

JESUS CHRIST, THE KING
Christ the King Sunday – Sunday preceding the first Sunday of Advent

Today in the Christian Year calendar is a special day called Christ the King Sunday. It is a day to honor and glorify Jesus as King of our lives . . . and King of this world. This is an important day because we too often relegate Jesus . . .