November 29, 2020 (1st Sunday in Advent)
Order of Service
Opening Hymn Page 672
Divine Service 1 (page 167) Psalm 24
Sermon hymn Page 332
Sermon Matt
21:1-09
“Preparing to
celebrate the Birth of Christ also means looking ahead to His death and
resurrection!”
Communion
hymns Page
361, 384, 360
Closing hymn Page
335
Intimate
Sacrament: We
continue to celebrate the Lord’s Supper every week for those who have not been
able to commune in some time, in the glad confidence and confession, that our
Lord, as He says, gives not only bread and wine, but His very body and
blood to eat and drink for the forgiveness of sin. In these
pandemic times, we have instituted as much as possible the physical distancing
and sanitation practices to assure your physical safety, while still providing
Christ for your physical/spiritual/emotional/psychological safety against sin,
death, and the devil. If you do not share in this confession of our
congregation and LC-Missouri Synod, or are not yet instructed, or have doubts –
please speak to the pastor first. Or, you are invited to come to the rail for a
blessing and meditate on God’s Word during the distribution, praying for the
day when divisions will have ceased.
MAIN STREET LIVING: This is the Life at 10:00 a.m. and Worship Service at 10:30 a.m. See BlogSpot for monthly schedule
IN YOUR PRAYERS: Please pray for those members in area facilities: Salem-Mennonite Home, Melton, Wyona, Norbert, Marlene, Sharon, Darlene, Bob, & Eldora. Oakview Terrace, Lavonne, Orville, Millie, Bernice, Alice, Ruth, Lorna. and those Low Mobility at home: Susan, Harvey, Dianne, Connie, Berneita, and those Additional Requested Prayers: Kahlen, John (JJ)*.
ADVENT MIDWEEK SERIES, WEDNESDAYS, DEC. 2, 9,
16 @ 7:00PM. Ever wonder why Jesus is called the
blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, (1 Timothy
15:b)? It is because Jesus Christ reigns supreme over the
heavens and the earth. From the beginning of time, people have
awaited the coming Messiah, the Word of God incarnate. Christians, being
justified into Him by grace through faith, enjoy the fulfillment of Christ’s
reign in the same heavenly calling, but in three separate
orders in our earthly callings. God still reigns in them, but
perhaps differently in each of our many and various vocations of life. God has
not left these vocations to chaos however but has also redeemed these earthly
vocations in the life of a Christian into a heavenly order until He returns on
the Last Day. Come hear how God orders our lives in this world of chaos.
LADIES AID and LWML will meet on Thursday Dec. 3rd at 2:00 p.m. for Bible Study and meetings.
STARTING TODAY. The Sunday School will be meeting in the Sanctuary after services
instead of the classrooms to have an Advent "Opening Service",
covering the Christmas narrative of the Lord who became flesh as a babe in the
manger. Everyone is welcome to attend and this can be modeled in your home for
your family devotions. After this 1/2 hour, they will return to the classrooms
to do their regular material. This is prompted by the rising numbers and
precautions which makes the Children's Christmas program (originally scheduled
for Dec. 22nd at 7pm) highly improbable
