12-06-2020 Order of Service and Announcements

                                                 Order of Service

Opening Hymn                                                                                 Page 743

Divine Service 1 (page 167)   Psalm 50:1-15

Sermon hymn                                                                                   Page 336

Sermon                                                                                     Luke 21:25-36

“When Jesus comes in the flesh He inaugurates the End of Time, when He will come again in glory!”

Communion hymns                                                           Page 363, 376, 362

Closing hymn                                                                                    Page 334

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)* Cheryl

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

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.

Advent is sometimes called a mini-lent. Before it changed to blue, the color of the season was purple, the same as Lent. Some still do. Yet Advent is not Christmas. Advent is the time that we - like the Israelites who waited for the Messiah and who was finally born -wait on the other side of history where we wait for His return on the Last Day. This is why the Christmas trees are dark. We could wait like the early church used to before we put them up, but we don't do that, we simply wait to light them. This is why we light one candle a week on the Advent wreath leading up to His Nativity.in growing anticipation of the light who is coming into the world. And yet like Lent (where we still sing Alleluias during the Sacrament and Sundays are not counted in the forty days of Lent) in the season of Advent, the trees are lit during the Sacrament of the Altar and we do sing Christmas songs. Because He "advents" to us in the Sacrament. Please see the included insert. - Pastor

 Also add as a reminder;

Please call the pastor to set up an appointment for Him to bring the Altar of the Lord to you in your home if you cannot come - or Covid prevents you from coming - to the regular congregation of the church.