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Second Sunday of Advent

Second Sunday of Advent. Cambridge Chimes Welcome and Announcements Greeting Each Other Ringing of the Bell. Prelude “Excerpts from ‘The Nutcracker Suite’” ~Tchaikovsky Lighting of the candles. *CALL TO WORSHIP

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Second Sunday of Advent

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  1. Second Sunday of Advent

  2. Cambridge Chimes Welcome and Announcements Greeting Each Other Ringing of the Bell

  3. Prelude “Excerpts from ‘The Nutcracker Suite’” ~Tchaikovsky Lighting of the candles

  4. *CALL TO WORSHIP L: Friends, we live in a busy world, leading hectic lives, with frantic people around us. P: Sometimes it is too much for our hearts, minds, and souls to bear.

  5. L: The Christmas season sometimes feels no different. P: As a matter of fact, sometimes it feels worse! L: What would make theseason better, calmer, richer?

  6. P: We need peace; we need someone to help us, to calm us, to center us. L: Let us remember today that Jesus said: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you.”

  7. P: We desire the peace of Jesus, which passes all understanding. L: May Christ’s Peace cover, compose, and calm us this hour.

  8. P: Come, Peace of Christ; fill us deeply as we stand here, awaiting your presence.

  9. LIGHTING OF THE PEACE CANDLE L: Last week we lit the candle of Hope. P: That Hope strengthens our hearts and carries us ahead.

  10. L: As we walk toward Christmas and meeting our Savior, P: We long for what God has promised God’s people: L: By God’s tender mercy, P: The dawn from on high will break upon us!

  11. L: That dawn is Jesus, God Incarnate, God in our midst. P: With deep love for us, God guides us into the way of Peace. L: We light the candle of Peace to remind us of our world’s great need.

  12. P: We are indeed a people of Peace. Let us receive and carry God’s Peace.

  13. HYMN #13“Prepare the Way” v.1 Prepare the way, O Zion, Your Christ is drawing near! Let every hill and valley a level way appear.

  14. HYMN #13“Prepare the Way” v.1 Great One who comes in glory, foretold in sacred story, O blest is Christ that comes in God’s most holy name.

  15. HYMN #13“Prepare the Way” v.2 Christ brings God’s rule, O Zion,He comes from heaven above. His rule is peace and freedom, and justice, truth, and love.

  16. HYMN #13“Prepare the Way” v.2 Lift high your praise resounding, for grace and joy abounding. O blest is Christ that comes in God’s most holy name.

  17. HYMN #13“Prepare the Way” v.3 Fling wide your gates, O Zion,Your Savior’s rule embrace. And tidings of salvation proclaim in every place.

  18. HYMN #13“Prepare the Way” v.3 All lands will bow rejoicing, their adoration voicing. O blest is Christ that comes in God’s most holy name.

  19. *PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison) Lord, hear us thisday as we open ourhearts and our spiritsto you. The times in which we live can feel confusing and fearful. We are in a season that should bring hope and peace,

  20. yet we crowd it withobligations andstresses. As we getoverwhelmed withbusyness, we shut the door to your healing love and compassion. We find ourselves being on edge, fretful,

  21. wondering if we havedone enough, givenenough. You answerour fears with yourvoice: “Peace, be still”. Slow us down. Help us to hear you.

  22. Encourage us to taketime to listen ratherthan shout; to stopand rest rather thanrun. Forgive us when we walk in the darkness. Help us see your light.

  23. (Silence is observedfor individual reflection and prayer)

  24. * ASSURANCE OF PARDON • L: Jesus said, “I bring you peace, not the kind of peace the world offers you. Be at peace. Know God’s love is given to you.” • P: Thanks be to God. Amen.

  25. PROCLAIMING THE WORD SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 1:68-79

  26. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has looked favorably on his people and redeemed them. He has raised up a mighty savior for us in the house of his servant David, and he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we would be saved from our enemies

  27. and from the hand of all who hate us. Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors, and has remembered his holy covenant, the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham, to grant us that we, being rescued from the hands of our enemies, might serve him without

  28. fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins.

  29. By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

  30. SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 3:1-6

  31. In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high-priesthood of Annas and

  32. Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah.

  33. ‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; and all flesh shall see the

  34. salvation of God”.’ L: This is the word of the Lord. P: Thanks be to God!

  35. “PUZZLE PRESENTS” Sunday School Pageant

  36. Narrator: Those who have walked in great darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in a land of darkness – on them light has shined. Congregation: Hallelujah!

  37. Narrator: Look, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son. And they shall call Him Emmanuel, God with us. Congregation: Hallelujah!

  38. Narrator: See, I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people. To you is born this day in the city of David a Savior who is the Messiah, the Lord.Congregation: Hallelujah!

  39. Giving your PRESENCEto Jesus is the best PRESENT you can give!

  40. Welcome Christmas (Solo): Fah who foraze, dah who doraze! Welcome Christmas, come this way! Fah who foraze, dah whodoraze! Welcome Christmas, Christmas Day.

  41. (Narrators): Welcome, welcome, fah who ramus! Welcome, welcome, dah who damus! Welcome Christmas while we stand, Heart to heart and Hand in Hand!

  42. (Congregation & Youth): Fah who foraze, dah who doraze! Welcome Christmas, bring your cheer! Fah who foraze, dah whodoraze! Welcome all from far and near.

  43. You’re the oneI want to be with,You’re the reasonthat I came. You will find menear you always,I’ll be whisperingyour name. Love, Jesus

  44. HYMN #3“Comfort, Comfort You My People” v.1 Comfort, comfort you my people,Tell of peace, thus says our God;Comfort those who sit in darknessBowed beneath oppression’s load.

  45. HYMN #3“Comfort, Comfort You My People” v.1 Speak you to JerusalemOf the pace that waits for them;Tell them that their sins I cover,And their warfare now is over.

  46. HYMN #3“Comfort, Comfort You My People” v.2 For the herald’s voice is callingIn the desert far and near,Bidding us to make repentanceSince the kingdom now is here.

  47. HYMN #3“Comfort, Comfort You My People” v.2 O that warning cry obey!Now prepare for God a way;Let the valleys rise in meetingAnd the hills bow down in greeting.

  48. HYMN #3“Comfort, Comfort You My People” v.3 Make you straight what long was crooked,Make the rougher places plain;Let your hearts be true and humble,As befits God’s holy reign.

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