CHRISTMAS DAY
The Nativity of Our Lord
December 25, 2009 - 9:00 a.m.
Christmas Day Service
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church
11555 N. US Highway 27
Decatur, IN 46733
CHRISTMAS DAY
25 December 2009
9:00 am Worship
Opening Hymn - #387 "Joy to the World"
The Order of Confession - page 184-185
service of the Word - page 186
Introit, Kyrie Gloria in Excelsis
Salutation and collect - page 189
The Holy
Scriptures
Response to readings – page 190-191
Choir: "A Virgin Most Pure"
the Nicene creed - page 191
Hymn of the Day - #375 "Come, Your Hearts and Voices Raising"
The Sermon
THE OFFERTORY
The Offering
Choir: "Christmas Classic Celebration"
the prayer of the church - page 193
With each petition Pastor will end......” Light of the world, ”
Congregational response: “hear our prayer, and shine into our darkness.”
Regarding participation in the Blessed Sacrament of Christ’s True Body and Blood: Because oneness at the altar presupposes oneness in faith and doctrine, we expect that all who commune at the Lord’s altar are members in good standing of an LCMS congregation. We ask that all who commune register on a communion card. All visitors should state their home LCMS congregation. First time visitors please speak to Pastor Dreyer. Individual cups are available as you approach the altar for those desiring them.
service of the
Sacrament - page 194-198
Distribution Hymns #379, #370 #380
Nunc Dimittis - page 199
Closing Liturgy - page 200-202
Closing hymn - #390 "Let Us All with Gladsome Voice"
Instrumentalists:
Bethany Emenhiser (flute)
Reverend John M. Dreyer, Pastor
Organist and Choir Director: Leanne Busick
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns." The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the LORD to Zion. Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem. The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you"? Or again, "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son"? And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God’s angels worship him."
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.