December 21, 2025 - Psalm 103
4th Sunday of Advent
Call to Worship
Song: 10,000 Reasons
The sun comes up, it’s a new day dawning
It’s time to sing Your song again
Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me
Let me be singing when the evening comes
CHORUS
Bless the Lord
Oh my soul, oh my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
Oh my soul
I’ll worship Your holy name
You’re rich in love
And You’re slow to anger
Your name is great
And Your heart is kind
For all Your goodness
I will keep on singing
10,000 Reasons for my heart to find
CHORUS
And on that day when my strength is failing
The end draws near and my time has come
Still my soul will sing Your praise unending
10,000 Years and then forever more
Song: Emmanuel
Come, Come let us adore him
Kneel down before him
Worship and adore him
(repeat)
Emmanuel (repeat 5x)
Confession of Sin
Song: What Child is This
What Child is this who, laid to rest
On Mary's lap is sleeping?
Whom Angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and Angels sing;
Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.
Why lies He in such mean estate,
Where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christians, fear, for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading.
Nails, spear shall pierce Him through,
The cross be borne for me, for you.
Hail, hail the Word made flesh,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.
So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh,
Come peasant, king to own Him;
The King of kings salvation brings,
Let loving hearts enthrone Him.
Raise, raise a song on high,
The virgin sings her lullaby.
Joy, joy for Christ is born,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.
Scripture Reading
Song: Angels We Have Heard on High
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?
CHORUS
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord the newborn King
Proclamation of God’s Grace
Song: O Come All Ye Faithful
O Come all ye faithful
Joyful and triumphant
O come ye o come ye to Bethlehem
Come and behold Him
Born the King of angels
CHORUS
O come let us adore Him
O come let us adore Him
O come let us adore Him
Christ the Lord
Sing choirs of angels sing in exultation
Sing all ye citizens of heav’n above
Glory to God glory in the highest
CHORUS
Yea Lord we greet Thee
Born this happy morning
Jesus to Thee be all glory giv’n
Word of the Father
Now in flesh appearing
CHORUS
Song: Joy to the World
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King
Let every heart prepare Him room
And Heaven and nature sing
And Heaven and nature sing
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.
Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy
No more let sins and sorrows grow
Nor thorns infest the ground
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found
Far as the curse is found
Far as, far as, the curse is found.
He rules the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of His love
And wonders of His love
And wonders, wonders, of His love.
Welcome & Moment for Missions
Offering
Song: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Oh little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie
Above the dark and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight
How silently, how silently
The wondrous gift is given;
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His Heaven.
No ear may hear His coming,
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive Him still,
The dear Christ enters in.
Oh holy child of Bethlehem,
Descend on us we pray
Cast out our sin and enter in
Be born in us today.
We hear the Christmas angels,
Their great glad tidings tell,
Oh come to us, abide in us
Our lord, Emmanuel.
Prayer
Sermon
The Lord’s Supper
Song: Go Tell It On the Mountain
Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born
Down in a lonely manger
The humble Christ was born
And God sent our salvation
That blessed Christmas morn
The shepherds kept their watching
Over silent flocks by night
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light
CHORUS
The shepherds feared and trembled
When lo, above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed our Savior's birth
CHORUS
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