Church Year: Advent 2:
Date: December 10, 2023
Theme: Prepare The Royal Highway Through The Cut Of The Law Through The Fill Of The Gospel
– Isaiah 40:1-8
– Pastor: John Hein
Bulletin: Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p. 5 ff.
Hymns:
TLH 75 : Ye Sons of Men, Oh, Hearken
TLH 61 : Comfort, Comfort, Ye My People
WS 701 : Prepare the Royal Highway
WS 713 : Your Little Ones, Dear Lord, Are We
Scripture Readings:
2 Peter 3:8-14 Mark 1:1-8Theme: Prepare The Royal Highway Through The Cut Of The Law Through The Fill Of The Gospel
Isaiah 40:1–8 (Listen)
Comfort for God’s People
40:1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that her warfare is ended,
that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the LORD’s hand
double for all her sins.
3 A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
The Word of God Stands Forever
6 A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the LORD blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
(ESV)