Church Year: Christmas 1:
Date: December 28, 2008
Theme: Christ Comes As The Just And Only Savior
– Isaiah 45:20-25
– Pastor: John Hein
The Order of Worship: Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p. 5 ff.
Hymns:
WS 711 : See in Yonder Manger Low
TLH 96 : Oh, Rejoice, Ye Christians Loudly
WS 715 : Where Shepherds Lately Knelt
TLH 99 : Now are the Days Fulfilled
Scripture Readings:
Colossians 3:12-17
Luke 2:25-40
Theme: Christ Comes As The Just And Only Savior
Isaiah 45:20-25
20 “Assemble yourselves and come;
draw near together,
you survivors of the nations!
They have no knowledge
who carry about their wooden idols,
and keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.
21 Declare and present your case;
let them take counsel together!
Who told this long ago?
Who declared it of old?
Was it not I, the Lord?
And there is no other god besides me,
a righteous God and a Savior;
there is none besides me.
22 “Turn to me and be saved,
all the ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 By myself I have sworn;
from my mouth has gone out in righteousness
a word that shall not return:
‘To me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear allegiance.’
24 “Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,
are righteousness and strength;
to him shall come and be ashamed
all who were incensed against him.
25 In the Lord all the offspring of Israel
shall be justified and shall glory.” (ESV)