Introduction to the Day Jeremiah’s promise of the execution of “justice and righteousness in the land” finds ironic fulfillment in the execution of Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. It appears so utterly contradictory that the king should be crucified with the criminal. This victory appears for all the world as ignominious Welcome to Emmanuel ! defeat. Yet through the gate of death our Lord opens November 24, 2019 the door to paradise. It is wonderful to worship with you today! ____________________________________ All are welcome regardless of your faith affiliation. If you are a visitor worshiping with us today, we are Enter his gates with thanksgiving, blessed by your presence. Please sign the guest book and his courts with praise. in the Gathering Space, so we can keep in touch. Give thanks to him, bless his name. All parts of today’s worship service are printed in (Psalm 100:4) this bulletin, including words for the songs. If you ____________________________________ would like to sing with music, books are provided in the racks on the back of the seat in front of you. The song or page number is provided for easy look up. This is a service of Holy Communion. All God's people are invited to the table by our Lord Jesus THE SERVICE Christ. You will find instructions for Holy Communion later in the bulletin. Assistive hearing devices are available in the PRELUDE Gathering Space. Restrooms are located in the hall off the Gathering Space immediately to the left. Please see one of our “Our God is a Great Big God” ushers for assistance. - Emmanuel Sunday’s Kids Children age 3 and above are invited to participate in Sunday’s Kids, a program providing age-appropriate worship, education and activities. Follow the signs in the gathering space to find the classroom. Parents with children are welcome to use the WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS children’s activity bags, located by the entrance to the Sanctuary. If needed, our nursery room is at the end of the hall off the Gathering Space. Please silence your phones, but feel free to post Please stand as you are able. pictures, videos, tweets or texts to social media. We love using technology to share the Word of God! 1 THANKSGIVING FOR BAPTISM GATHERING SONG Crown Him With Many Crowns (855) Blessed be the holy Trinity, ☩ one God, 1 Crown him with many crowns, the fountain of living water, the Lamb upon his throne; the rock who gave us birth, hark, how the heav'nly anthem drowns all music but its own. our light and our salvation. Awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee, Amen. and hail him as thy matchless king through all eternity. Joined to Christ in the waters of baptism, we are clothed with God's mercy and forgiveness. 2 Crown him the virgin's Son, Let us give thanks for the gift of baptism. the God incarnate born, whose arm those crimson trophies won We give you thanks, O God, for in the beginning which now his brow adorn; your Spirit moved over the waters and by your Word fruit of the mystic rose, you created the world, calling forth life in which you yet of that rose the stem, took delight. Through the waters of the flood you the root whence mercy ever flows, delivered Noah and his family. the babe of Bethlehem. Through the sea you led your people Israel 3 Crown him the Lord of love-- from slavery into freedom. At the river behold his hands and side, your Son was baptized by John rich wounds, yet visible above, and anointed with the Holy Spirit. in beauty glorified. No angels in the sky can fully bear that sight, By water and your Word, you claim us as daughters but downward bend their burning eyes and sons, making us heirs of your promise and at mysteries so bright. servants of all. 4 Crown him the Lord of life, We praise you for the gift of water that who triumphed o'er the grave sustains life, and above all we praise you and rose victorious in the strife for the gift of new life in Jesus Christ. for those he came to save. Shower us with your Spirit, His glories now we sing, and renew our lives who died and rose on high, with your forgiveness, grace, and love. who died, eternal life to bring, and lives that death may die. To you be given honor and praise through Jesus Christ our Lord in the unity of the Holy Spirit, now 5 Crown him the Lord of years, and forever. the potentate of time, creator of the rolling spheres, Amen. ineffably sublime. All hail, Redeemer, hail! For thou hast died for me; thy praise and glory shall not fail throughout eternity. 2 GREETING PRAYER OF THE DAY The Lord be with you. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, And also, with you. and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Let us pray. And also with you. O God, our true life, to serve you is freedom, and to know you is unending joy. We worship you, we glorify you, we give thanks to you for your great glory. Abide with us, reign in us, and make this SONG OF PRAISE world into a fit habitation for your divine majesty, Come All You People (819) through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. 1 Come, all you people, come and praise the Most High; Amen. come, all you people, come and praise the Most High; Please be seated. come, all you people, come and praise the Most High; FIRST READING: Jeremiah 23: 1-6 come now and worship the Lord. A reading from Jeremiah. 2 Come, all you people, Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the come and praise the Savior; sheep of my pasture! says the LORD. Therefore, thus come, all you people, says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the come and praise the Savior; shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who come, all you people, have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, come and praise the Savior; and you have not attended to them. So I will attend come now and worship the Lord. to you for your evil doings, says the LORD. Then I myself will gather the remnant of my flock 3 Come, all you people, out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I come and praise the Spirit; will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be come, all you people, fruitful and multiply. I will raise up shepherds over come and praise the Spirit; them who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear come, all you people, any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, come and praise the Spirit; says the LORD. come now and worship the Lord. The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. And this is the name by which he will be called: “The LORD is our righteousness.” Word of God, word of life. Thanks be to God. 3 PSALM: Psalm 46 SECOND READING: Colossians 1: 11-20 (Read responsively) A reading from Colossians. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be Therefore, we will not fear, prepared to endure everything with patience, while though the earth be moved, and though the joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled mountains shake in the depths of the sea; you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has rescued us from the power of darkness though its waters rage and foam, and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved and though the mountains tremble Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness with its tumult. of sins. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of of the Most High. all creation; 16for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers— shaken; God shall help it at the break of day. all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all 18 The nations rage, and the kingdoms shake; things hold together. He is the head of the body, the God speaks, and the earth melts away. church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in The LORD of hosts is with us; everything. the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Come now, regard the works of the LORD, For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to what desolations God has brought dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile upon the earth; to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.