January 15, 2023

Jan 14

Baptism of the Lord

Enhance your online worship experience

Whether you’re a first-time online visitor or a life-long member, we welcome and celebrate the ways you enrich our collective worship of a scattered yet gathered Children of God. As we begin our service, we invite you to light a candle, just as we do in the prelude during our in-person worship. Our two altar candles symbolize that Christ was both a human being and God. A light being carried into the world shows that Jesus Christ is for all people - everywhere. Just as a the acolyte carries the lighted candlelight into the congregation, the light symbolizes the light of Jesus Christ preceding us into the world where we as the church are to serve.

Prelude

Shall We Gather at the River arr. Jason Tonioli

Welcome & Announcements

Call to Worship

One: The Voice of God prods our hearing
Many: The activity of God stretches our seeing.
One: Together they invite us down into the waters of life where the Spirit flows.
Many: From there we may rise to go, to dare, to walk, and to serve beyond where we have been before.

Hymn

Baptized in Water TFWS# 2248

Concerns & Prayers with The Lord’s Prayer

UMH# 895

A Reading from the Old Testament

Psalm 29

Anthem

Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me K. Lee Scott

A Reading from the Gospels

Matthew 3:5-17

Sermon

Water and Fire | Rev. Lisa Hartzog

Prayer of Confession & Assurance of Pardon

Quench your thirst in the living waters of Christ which springs forth in our world, renewing, healing, and recreating us. In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven and made new.

In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven and made new. Thanks be to God.

Blessing of the Tithes & Offerings

Doxology UMH# 94

Remembering our Baptism

Hymn

The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve TFWS# 2241

Dismissal with Blessing

Postlude

Psalm 29 Richard Douglas Avakian