Trinity Lutheran Church Marked with the Cross of Christ we are called to Love, Serve, and Celebrate Christ, the Community and One Another 16138 Molino Dr. Victorville, CA 92395 • www.trinityvictorville.org • 1-760-245-3225 • email: [email protected] Welcome! We are delighted to worship with you. Visitors can expect a warm welcome from your worshiping neighbor and others! Baptism of Our Lord January 12, 2020 10:30 a.m. Light to the World In the waters of the Jordan, Jesus is revealed as the be- loved Son of God. Through this great epiphany, Jesus fulfills all righteousness and becomes the servant of God who will bring forth justice and be a light to the na- tions. In the waters of baptism we too are washed by the Word, anointed by the Spirit, and named God’s be- loved children. Joined with Christ, we are then light to the world along with him, proclaiming good news to all who are oppressed or in need of God’s healing. Style: Worship in response to God’s grace with a variety of music, a gospel message in an informal style, Holy Communion, and special opportunities for children as nurtured in awakening faith. Children of all ages are always welcome in Worship! Activity Bags are available on the hooks below the nametags in the entryway. Also grab children’s bulletins from the ushers! Nursery care is also available for children 5 and under, through the Fellowship Hall door and to the right. Parents may also use the room di- rectly behind the Sanctuary, which has quiet toys and sound. Ushers will gladly assist you. All: Please indicate your presence using the tear-off form on the announcement insert and placing it in the offering plate when the offering is collected. Legend: Bold words are for all to speak. Please join in singing all the songs as printed in the bulletin. Music for songs noted ELW may be found in the red hymnal in the pew racks. After worship: Greet those around you, and join us for refreshments in the room directly behind the Sanctuary. ELCA: Trinity is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, with whom we partner to witness to God’s love, grace, and power throughout the globe. 1 G ATHERING + WORD + MEAL + SENDING At Trinity we use the simple four-fold order of worship that has been used by Chris- WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS tians around the world for many centuries. First, we GATHERING SONG CCLI #4822523 are gathered by the Holy “Rejoice” Spirit to worship! We especially welcome those See the morning, see it rising over the mountains high. visiting with us today. We’re See the mercy in the mighty hand of God. glad you’re here! Living water come and fill us, only You can satisfy. Turn our sorrow into singing the song of life. These songs allow us to join all creation in worship, and Rejoice, rejoice, and sing with the angel voices. also help to introduce the Rejoice, rejoice all Heaven and earth rejoice. day’s theme. See the morning, see it rising over the mountains high. See the mercy in the mighty hand of God. And we hold on to the promise, that Your hold on us is true. There’s no other like You Jesus, no one like You. (chorus x2) © 2006 Alletrop Music | worshiptogether.com songs | sixsteps Music | Vamos Publishing (Admin. by Music Services, Inc.) | (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) Chris Tomlin | Ed Cash | Jesse Reeves All rights Reserved. CCLI License #2764795 “Great Are You, Lord” CCLI #6460220 You give life, You are love; You bring light to the darkness. You give hope, You restore We praise God for respond- ev'ry heart that is broken; ing to our needs by sending And great are You Lord. Jesus. In him God calls, gath- ers, enlightens, and sanctifies It's Your breath in our lungs, us, making us God’s own! So we pour out our praise; We pour out our praise. It's Your breath in our lungs, So we pour out our praise to You only. (repeat from the top) David Leonard | Jason Ingram | Leslie Jordan © 2012 Integrity's Alleluia! Music. Integrity’s Praise! Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing [IMI]) Open Hands Music (Admin. by Essential Music Publishing LLC) Sony/ATV Timber Publishing (Admin. by Sony/ATV Music Publishing) All rights reserved. www.ccli.com.CCLI License # 2764795. GREETING + PRAYER OF THE DAY The pastor and assembly The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the com- greet one another using a munion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. biblical Trinitarian greeting. And also with you. Let us pray. O God our Father, at the baptism of Jesus you proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit. Make As we prepare to hear God’s Word, we pray for the effect all who are baptized into Christ faithful to their calling to be it will have in our lives. your daughters and sons, and empower us all with your Spirit, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. 2 W ELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS We enter the second section of our four-fold order. God speaks to us through the GATHERING + WORD + MEAL + SENDING living Word. IME WITH HILDREN All children are invited for- T C ward at this time for a spe- cial children’s message! FIRST READING Isaiah 42:1-9 1Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to The first reading usually 2 comes from the Hebrew Bible the nations. He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the or Old Testament. 3 street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. 4He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice in the earth; and 5 the coastlands wait for his teaching. Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it 6 and spirit to those who walk in it: I am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have 7 given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, 8 from the prison those who sit in darkness. I am the LORD, that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to idols. 9See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare be- fore they spring forth, I tell you of them. Holy Wisdom. Holy Word. Thanks be to God. PSALM Psalm 29 1 Ascribe to the | LORD, you gods, The congregation is invited to respond with the bold ascribe to the LORD glo- | ry and strength. 2 verses. Ascribe to the LORD the glory | due God’s name; worship the LORD in the beau- | ty of holiness. 3 ORD Each week we read or sing a The voice of the L is upon the waters; the God of | glory thun- Psalm, a song from ancient ders; the LORD is upon the | mighty waters. Israel’s hymnbook. Some- 4 The voice of the LORD is a pow- | erful voice; times these words comfort us, sometimes they challenge the voice of the LORD is a | voice of splendor. 5 our perspectives; but reading The voice of the LORD breaks the | cedar trees; them always leads us toward the LORD breaks the ce- | dars of Lebanon; God’s wisdom. 6 the LORD makes Lebanon skip | like a calf, and Mount Hermon like a | young wild ox. 7 The voice | of the LORD bursts forth in | lightning flashes. 8 The voice of the LORD| shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilder- | ness of Kadesh. 9 The voice of the LORD makes the oak trees writhe and strips the | forests bare. And in the temple of the LORD all are | crying, “Glory!” 10 The LORD sits enthroned a- | bove the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king for- | evermore. 11 O LORD, give strength | to your people; give them, O LORD, the bless- | ings of peace. 3 S ECOND READING Acts 10:34-43 The second reading usually 34Peter began to speak to [Cornelius and his household]: “I truly un- comes from one of the let- 35 ters, or epistles, of the New derstand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone Testament. 36 who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all. 37That message spread through- out Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John an- nounced: 38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing 39 all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. 40 They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, 41not to all the peo- ple but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.