Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;

    let the sea roar, and all that fills it;

    let the field exult, and everything in it!

Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy

    before the Lord, for he comes,

    for he comes to judge the earth.

He will judge the world in righteousness,

    and the peoples in his faithfulness.

Psalm 96:11-13

God is Good

All the Time

All the TIme

God is good

• Cookies and coco Dec. 13th
• Christmas Choir Rehearsal today! 
• Women’s Tea: Dec. 6th
• Tree in back

-Invitation

-Unison Confession:

Let us confess our sin before God and one another. 

Lord, we have not kept watch for you.

We have not acknowledged the love that has been shown to us.

Forgive us for our lack of watchfulness.

Help us to wait to know your will.

Help us to look out for the needs of others.

Help us to work and watch for your coming. Amen.

-Silent prayer

-Assurance of Pardon:

“You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.”

Colossians 2:13–14, NLT

You are forgiven and free because of Christ Jesus

   #194 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

     #196 Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus

• Introduction
• Candle lighting:

Advent 1 Based on Mark 13:24-37

Leader: 

But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. Then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. 

Congregation: 

When you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates. But about that day or that hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 

Leader: 

Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come. 

All (while the 1st candle is lit): 

Therefore keep awake, or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake. 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread, 

and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, 

For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.  

-Matthew 6:9-13

   #199 See amid the Winter's Snow

Message: The Hope of Advent

Scripture: 11:1-3, 13-16

Rev. Joe Kim

-Prayer

-Invitation

-Offertory

-Doxology 

-Prayer for Gifts

-Invitation to the Table

-Prayer of Consecration

-Jesus’ Words at the Table

-Receiving the Elements

-Prayer

Westminster Shorter Catechism Question 22

Q. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

A. Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to Himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.

 Joy Has Dawned