Advent 2 Date: December 9, 2012
Theme:Get Ready! The LORD Is Coming!
– Luke 3:1-6
(Pastor John Hein)
The Order of Worship: Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p 5 ff (Laminated Sheet in Pew Also Available)
Hymns:
TLH 64: Jesus, Thy Church with Longing Eyes
TLH 61: Comfort, Comfort, Ye My People
TLH 63: On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry
TLH 85, st 13-15: From Heaven Above to Earth I Come
Scripture Readings:
Malachi 3:1-4
Philippians 1:3-11
Sermon Theme:
“Get Ready! The LORD Is Coming!”
Luke 3:1-6
1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 while Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3And he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, 4as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; MakeHispathsstraight. 5EveryvalleyshallbefilledAnd every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough ways smooth; 6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’” (NKJVTM)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.