PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Welcome to
The Salvation Army
2nd Sunday
Advent 2018
Gathering
Sargent Major
Robert Quinn
Advent Candle Lighting
Fred & Sonja Bailey
Children's Moment
John Woods III
Responsive Scripture
Joe Stellhorn
Leader: When most people think of angels at Christmas, they remember that these messengers came to the shepherds and to Mary. They often forget that an angelic herald also came to Joseph, who learned some things no one else was told. Our scripture from Matthew 1 gives us this invaluable account, from which we learn that Jesus is God, that he is human, and that he is with us.
All: 18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
Leader: 19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
All: 20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Leader: The angel tells Joseph the human life growing inside Mary has come not from any human being but from the heavenly Father. So Joseph learns that he will be Jesus’ father only in a secondary sense. Mary is pregnant by the Holy Spirit. God is the real father.
All: 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
Leader: Here Matthew quotes from Isaiah. For centuries Jewish religious leaders and scholars had known this prophecy, but they had not thought it should be taken literally. Matthew is saying this promise is greater than anyone imagined. Jesus Christ is “God with us” because the human life growing in the womb of Mary was a miracle performed by God himself. This child is literally God.
All: 24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25 But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing,
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Give thanks to the Lord our God and King
His love endures forever
For He is good, He is above all things
His love endures forever
Sing praise, sing praise
With a mighty hand and outstretched arm
His love endures forever
For the life that’s been reborn
His love endures forever
Sing praise, sing praise
Sing praise, sing praise
Forever God is faithful
Forever God is strong Forever God is with us Forever.....forever
From the rising to the setting sun His love endures forever By the grace of God we will carry on His love endures forever
Sing praise, sing praise
Sing praise, sing praise
Forever God is faithful
Forever God is strong Forever God is with us Forever.....forever
Family Prayer Time
@ the altar
Passing the Peace
of Christ
Message:
The Courage
of Christmas
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace
Lord, I will lift mine eyes to the hills
Knowing my help is coming from You
Your peace, You give me in time of the storm
You are the source of my strength
You are the strength of my life
I lift my hands in total praise to you
You are the source of my strength
You are the strength of my life
I lift my hands in total praise to you
Amen