Advent 1:
Date: November 30, 2014
Theme: The Lord Comes To Shake Things Up
– Isaiah 64:1-8
– ( Pastor John Hein )
The Order of Worship: Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p. 5 ff.
Hymns:
TLH 56 : Jesus Came, the Heavens Adoring
LSB 336 : Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending
TLH 73 : Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates
TLH 95 st. 5-7: Savior of the Nations Come
Scripture Readings:
1 Corinthians 1:3-9
Mark 13:32-37
Theme: The Lord Comes To Shake Things Up
Isaiah 64:1-8
64:1 Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence—
2 as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 From of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
no eye has seen a God besides you,
who acts for those who wait for him.
5 You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
6 We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 There is no one who calls upon your name,
who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.
8 But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand. (ESV)