Church Year: Advent 4:
Date: December 22, 2013
Theme: Tuning Our Hearts For The Christmas Joy With The Song Of Zacharias
– Luke 1:67-79
– Pastor: John Hein
The Order of Worship: Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p. 5 ff.
Hymns:
WS 702 : As Angels Joyed with One Accord 
TLH 359 : Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Sky
WS 797 : Sing Praise to the God of Israel
TLH 91 st. 1-5: Let the Earth Now Praise the Lord
Scripture Readings:
Isaiah 7:10-14
Luke 1:57-66
Theme: Tuning Our Hearts For The Christmas Joy With The Song Of Zacharias
Luke 1:67–79 (Listen)
Zechariah’s Prophecy
67 And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,
68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited and redeemed his people
69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David,
70 as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
71 that we should be saved from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us;
72 to show the mercy promised to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant,
73 the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
74 that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
75 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
78 because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us1 from on high
79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Footnotes
[1] 1:78 Or when the sunrise shall dawn upon us; some manuscripts since the sunrise has visited us
(ESV)