December 23, 2021 - Advent Devotion
This Week:
Christmas Eve - Drive Through Communion - Friday, December 24, 2021, 3:00pm-3:30pm
With the busy schedule (and busy parking lot) following worship on Friday, we have moved our Drive Through Communion to BEFORE worship for this service. Pull up in front of the building or in the pull-around loop and someone will be masked and out to serve you!
Festive Christmas Eve Worship - Friday, December 24, 2021, 4:00pm
Worship includes carols, a children’s message, communion, candlelight, reading of “One Solitary Life”
Worship is available in person or on Facebook for Lord of Life LIVE
A friendly reminder that our ministry is requiring masks inside our building through at least early January.
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A most blessed Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Past Service
The Fourth Sunday in Advent, Sunday, December 19, 2021
Join us on the rewatch for this past week’s service where we lit the last candle on the Advent Wreath in preparation for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Oh come all ye faithful
Joyful and triumphant
Oh come ye Oh come ye
To Bethlehem
Come and behold him
Born the King of angels
Oh come let us adore him
Oh come let us adore him
Oh come let us adore him
Christ the Lord!
“And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. ”
How does your schedule look today, for the next week? Do you have a few extra places to be, people to see, stops to make, things to get done? The season can include parties, get-togethers, family gatherings.
Will you get everywhere you need to be? Will you be able to attend every function? Will you be able to honor and answer every invitation?
Mary and Joseph left what they knew best, where they lived, where they were comfortable, who they knew best. Mary and Joseph came. They were so faithful. They came to Bethlehem, not just to answer the call of the government, but to answer the call of God.
I am told that if you and I were to visit Bethlehem today, and if we were to tour the site most scholars and most believers believe to be the place of Jesus' birth, we would need to get down on all fours and crawl through a small doorway to enter the stable that held the manger. Most who visit say it is very humbling to come, crawling, bowed down, to adore him.
In the midst of all the places we are trying to get this season, in the midst of the invitations we are trying our best to honor and to answer, let us be like Mary and Joseph and leave what we know best, may we come and join the faithful.
As we share these most blessed and holy days, as our time and focus move quickly to tomorrow, let us answer God's invitation first, to come and see and receive The One who rules the world with truth and grace, The One who ushers in joy to the world, The One who makes us one, and is one with us, as heaven and nature sing!
So come with all the faithful, come to Bethlehem in your own humble way this year, come and behold him, o come, let us adore the One who so faithfully comes to us first!
Let us pray: Today, Lord, faithfully come to me once again. In you alone I hear heaven and nature sing out. Invite me again. By your Holy Spirit humble me, renew my spirit to join the faithful and to leave what I know best so I come to you. In the midst of all the places I must go this time of year, I will faithfully come to you and adore you first. In your name I humbly come, bowing down as I pray. Amen.
