FLC Bulletins

  WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS HYMN: Lost in the Night………………………………..RED 243   KIDS COME FORWARD LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLES   1. Hope   2. Peace    CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS PRAYER OF THE DAY Stir up our hearts, Lord God, to prepare the way of your only Son. By his coming give to all the people of the world knowledge of your salvation; through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. Malachi 3:1-4 The Lord announces a covenant with Israel. A messenger like Malachi (his name means "my messenger") shall prepare a way for the sudden coming of the Lord, who will purify and refine God's people for the offering of pleasing sacrifices.     See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the LORD whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight--indeed, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. But wh...

  WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS SONG: Come Let Us Worship and Bow Down PSALM: 95:1-7a  Come, let us sing to the LORD; let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation.  Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.  For the LORD is a great God, and a great king above all gods.  In his hand are the caverns of the earth, and the heights of the hills are his also.    The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands have molded the dry land.  Come, let us bow down and bend the knee, and kneel before the LORD our maker.  For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS, GREETING PRAYER: Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things to your beloved Son, whom you anointed priest forever and king of all creation: Grant that all the people of the earth, now divided by the power of sin, may be united under the glorious and gentle...

First Lutheran Church Our mission is to know Jesus and to make Jesus known. -John 17   WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS   SONGS: You are a Holy God, How Great is our God  CONFESSION & FORGIVENESS,   PSALM 16 Protect me, O God, for I take refuge in you; I have said to the Lord, "You are my Lord, my good above all other." O Lord, you are my portion and my cup; it is you who uphold my lot. My boundaries enclose a pleasant land; indeed, I have a goodly heritage. I will bless the LORD who gives me counsel; my heart teaches me, night after night. I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand I shall not fall. My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit rejoices; my body also shall rest in hope. For you will not abandon me to the grave, nor let your holy one see the pit. You will show me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy, and in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.  CHURCH COUNCIL INSTALLATION   GREETING, ...

First Lutheran Church Our mission is to know Jesus and to make Jesus known. -John 17 PRELUDE  by Beth Ray   WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS PSALM: 95:1-7a  Come, let us sing to the LORD; let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation.  Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.  For the LORD is a great God, and a great king above all gods.  In his hand are the caverns of the earth, and the heights of the hills are his also.   The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands have molded the dry land.  Come, let us bow down and bend the knee, and kneel before the LORD our maker.  For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS  Trusting in God’s Word of Life, we are gathered in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen  Before God, our rock and our refuge, let us keep silence, and then confe...

  First Lutheran Church Our mission is to know Jesus and to make Jesus known. -John 17 PRELUDE  by Beth Ray WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS   Trusting in God’s Word of Life, we are gathered in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen   Before God, our rock and our refuge, let us keep silence, and then confess our sin. Most merciful God, you know our failings better than we do; our sins are revealed in the light of your face. Our days and years pass by; the things we trust fade like grass. B e gracious to us, O God. Guide us again to the water of life, and renew in us the grace of     holy baptism; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen You are all children of the light and of the day; you are God's children now. In the mercy of God, Jesus Christ was given to die for you, and for his sake, God forgives you all your sin. With all the faithful in heaven and on earth, rejoice and be glad! Amen   Hymn: This is my Father...

First Lutheran Church Our mission is to know Jesus and to make Jesus known. -John 17 PRELUDE  by Beth Ray WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS   Trusting in God’s Word of Life, we are gathered in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen   Before God, our rock and our refuge, let us keep silence, and then confess our sin. Most merciful God, you know our failings better than we do; our sins are revealed in the light of your face. Our days and years pass by; the things we trust fade like grass. B e gracious to us, O God. Guide us again to the water of life, and renew in us the grace of     holy baptism; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen You are all children of the light and of the day; you are God's children now. In the mercy of God, Jesus Christ was given to die for you, and for his sake, God forgives you all your sin. With all the faithful in heaven and on earth, rejoice and be glad! Amen   Hymn: This is my Father's worl...