December 3, 2017 Morning Worship 9:30 AM

December 3, 2017 Morning Worship 9:30 AM *Please stand if you are able / **Latecomers may be seated December 3, 2017 Evening Worship 6:00 PM Prelude Entering God’s Presence Welcome Pre-service – “We Have a Savior” *God Greeting Welcome *We Greet Each Other *Call to Worship *Call to Worship *“He Shall Reign Forevermore” *God's Greeting Hymnsing **Mutual Greeting Congregational Prayer Confessing that Peace is Broken The Voice of the Prophet: Isaiah 24:1-3 Offering: Alliance Defending Freedom The Voice of the Proclaimer: Isaiah 24:4-13 Offertory “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” #328 vs. 1, 4-7 The Voice of the Healer: Isaiah 55:12-13 Scripture: Exodus 16:1-21 (pg. 70); Lighting of the Advent Candle Deuteronomy 8:1-16 (pg. 180); John 6:32-51(pg. 1034) *“Joy has Dawned” with “Angels We have Heard on High” Message: The Bread of Life Hearing God’s Promise of the Peaceable Kingdom *Song of Dedication: “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” #578 Baptism of Noah John Van Tilburg Special Music *Parting Blessing Scripture: Romans 8:18-25 (pg. 1096) Message: Christ’s Peaceable Kingdom: Creation’s Hope for *“My Friends May You Grow in Grace” Release My friends may you grow in grace Congregational Prayer and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior. *"Immanuel" (From the Squalor) My friends may you grow in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. We Offer Our All to God and His Peaceable Kingdom To God be the glory, now and forever, Offering: CES now and forever, amen. Offertory To God be the glory, now and forever, Community Connections now and forever, amen. Going Out to Proclaim God’s Peaceable Kingdom The Voice of the Proclaimer: Isaiah 6:8, 65:24-25 *Parting Blessing *“Joy to the World!” #337 vs. 1 & 3 Postlude *Please stand if you are able C of Christ’s Peaceable Kingdom. . Christ’s Peaceable Kingdom: Creation’s Hope for Release

Romans 8:18-25 The creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. -Romans 8:21

A Tale of W and W : “Cursed is the ground because of you. … It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. -Genesis 3:17-18

The creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it. -Romans 8:20

The P creation is N the way God I it to be.

A Tale of H and P : You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. -Isaiah 55:12-13

The angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse. -Revelation 22:1-3a

The physical creation W be at P .

A Tale of C R : We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. -Romans 8:22-23

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