Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025

Announcements                                                          Pastor Hunter Hawkins
Adoration

• Prelude
• Psalm – Psalm 80:1-7
• “Great Shepherd Who Leads”                                    Worship Hymn

Confession

• Welcome and Invocation                                Pastor Jonathan Cole
• New Testament – Romans 1:1-7

Assurance

• “Go, Tell It on the Mountain”                                                           #225
• “O Little Town of Bethlehem”                                                        #242
• “We Three Kings of Orient Are”                                Sanctuary Choir

Thanksgiving

• Gospel – Matthew 1:18-25

Petition and Intercession

• Pastoral Prayer                                                     Pastor Matt Jackson
• “The First Noel”                                                                                  #223

Instruction from God’s Word

• Sermon – “God Saves the Lowly” – Luke 1:46-55 –                               Pastor Steve Garrick
• “Who Is He in Yonder Stall?”                                                          #256

Charge and Benediction

• Benediction – Matthew 11:28-29
• “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing”                                                    #238

Great Shepherd Who Leads
Great Shepherd who leads all Your people in love,
where angels are dwelling, You reign from above.
In might come redeem us, Your people restore,
and we shall be saved when Your face shines once more.

Make haste, Lord, to hear us and pity our woes,
affliction our portion, despised by our foes.
O Lord God Almighty, in mercy restore,
and we shall be saved when Your face shines once more.

A place for Your people Your hand has prepared;
Your vine, deeply rooted, bore fruit in Your care.
Its branches like cedars, majestic and free,
spread over the mountains from river to sea.

Your vineyard lies barren, no shelter it knows;
defenseless, the victim and spoil of her foes.
Return, Lord, we pray; in Your mercy, restore
the vine that is trampled to blossom once more.

When You have revived us, Your name we will praise,
and follow, unfailing, to walk in Your ways.
O Lord God Almighty, in mercy restore,
and we shall be saved when Your face shines once more.
 
Go, Tell It On the Mountain
Refrain:
Go, tell it on the mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere;
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born
 
1 While shepherds kept their watching
O'er silent flocks by night,
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light.
 
2 The shepherds feared and trembled
When lo! above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed our Savior's birth.
 
3 Down in a lowly manger
The humble Christ was born,
And God sent us salvation
That blessed Christmas morn.
  
O Little Town of Bethlehem
1 O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
 
2 For Christ is born of Mary,
And gathered all above,
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wond'ring love.
O morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy birth,
And praises sing to God the King,
And peace to men on earth!
 
3 How silently, how silently
The wondrous gift is giv'n!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heav'n.
No ear may hear His coming,
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive Him, still
The dear Christ enters in.
 
4 O holy Child of Bethlehem!
Descend to us, we pray;
Cast out our sin, and enter in,
Be born in us today!
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell;
O come to us, abide with us, Our Lord, Immanuel!
 
 
The first Noel
3 And by the light of that same star
The wise men came from country far;
To seek for a king was their intent,
And to follow the star wherever it went.
 
Chorus:
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.
 
4 Then let us all with one accord
Sing praises to our heavenly Lord
Who hath made heaven and earth of naught,
And with His blood mankind hath bought.
 
 
Who Is He in Yonder Stall?
1 Who is He in yonder stall,
At whose feet the shepherds fall?
Who is He in deep distress,
Fasting in the wilderness?
 
'Tis the Lord! O wondrous story!
'Tis the Lord! the King of glory!
At His feet we humbly fall,
Crown Him! crown Him Lord of all!
 
2 Who is he the people bless
For His words of gentleness?
Who is he to whom they bring
all the sick and sorrowing?
 
3 Who is He that stands and weeps
At the grave where Laz'rus sleeps?
Who is He the gath'ring throng
Greet with loud triumphant song?
 
4 Lo! at midnight, who is He
Prays in dark Gethsemane?
Who is he on yonder tree,
Dies in grief and agony?
 
5 Who is he that from the grave
Comes to heal and help and save?
Who is he that from His throne
Rules thro' all the world alone?
 
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
1 Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King.
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!”
Joyful, all ye nations, rise;
join the triumph of the skies;
with the angelic hosts proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem!”
 
Refrain:
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
 
2 Christ by highest heav'n adored,
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
late in time behold Him come,
offspring of the virgin's womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
hail the incarnate Deity,
pleased as man with men to dwell,
Jesus our Emmanuel.
 
3 Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings,
ris'n with healing in His wings.
Mild He lays His glory by,
born that man no more may die,
born to raise the sons of earth,
born to give them second birth.
 
4 Come, Desire of nations, come,
fix in us Thy humble home;
rise, the woman's conqu'ring Seed,
bruise in us the serpent's head.
Adam's likeness now efface,
stamp Thine image in its place;
Second Adam from above,
reinstate us in Thy love.