Church Year: Epiphany 1:
Date: January 9, 2022
Theme: Aging With Style: Remember Your Creator
– Ecclesiastes 12:1-7
– Pastor: John Hein
The Order of Worship: Bulletin
Liturgy: Liturgy: WS p. 1
Hymns:
TLH 123 : Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
TLH 628 : Shepherd of Tender Youth
TLH 427 : How Firm a Foundation
WS 785 : Children of the Heavenly Father
Scripture Readings:
Psalm 71:1-9,16-19 Psalm 90:1-3, 8-17 1 Timothy 5:1-5Theme: Aging With Style: Remember Your Creator
Ecclesiastes 12:1–7 (Listen)
Remember Your Creator in Your Youth
12:1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; 2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, 3 in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, 4 and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low—5 they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,1 and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—6 before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Footnotes
[1] 12:5
(ESV)