Pentecost 26 Date: November 21, 2010
Theme: God’s Christ-centered Kingdom – Colossians 1:13-20
(Pastor John Hein)
The Order of Worship: Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p 5 ff (Also available on laminated sheet in pew)
Hymns:
WS 757: Christ Triumphant, Ever Reigning
WS 749: Come to Living Word and Water
TLH 341: Crown Him with Many Crowns
TLH 339, st. 1-3, 7: All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
Scripture Readings:
Jeremiah 23:2-6
Luke 23:35-43
Sermon Theme: God’s Christ-centered Kingdom
1. It’s centered in Christ’s creation
2. It’s centered in Christ’s redemption
Colossians 1:13-20
(13) [The Father] has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, (14) in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. (15) He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. (16) For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. (17) And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. (18) And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. (19) For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, (20) and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.