Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025

Announcements                                              Pastor Shannon Whisenhunt
Adoration

• Prelude
• Psalm – Psalm 148
• “All Creatures of Our God and King”                                             #11

Confession

• Welcome and Invocation                                   Pastor Matt Jackson
• New Testament – Hebrews 2:10-18

Assurance

• “How Great Our Joy”                                                                           #254
• “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”                                                  #161

Thanksgiving

• Gospel – Matthew 2:13-23

Petition and Intercession

• Pastoral Prayer                                                   Pastor Jonathan Cole
• “Grace Greater Than Our Sin”                                                          #78

Instruction from God’s Word

• Sermon – “Reaction to the King” – Matthew 2:1-11 –                         Pastor Steve Garrick
• “Come, Behold the Wondrous Mystery”                                    #184
• The Lord’s Supper

Charge and Benediction

• Benediction – 1 Timothy 1:17
• “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”                                                               #86

All Creatures of Our God and King
1 All creatures of our God and King,
Lift up your voice and with us sing
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thou burning sun with golden beam
Thou silver moon with softer gleam!
O praise Him, O praise Him!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
 
2 Thou rushing wind that art so strong;
Ye clouds that sail in heav'n along,
O praise Him! Alleluia!
Thou rising morn, in praise rejoice,
Ye lights of evening, find a voice!
O praise Him, O praise Him!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
 
3 And all ye men of tender heart,
Forgiving others, take your part,
O sing ye! Alleluia!
Ye who long pain and sorrow bear,
Praise God and on Him cast your care!
O praise Him, O praise Him!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
 
4 Let all things their Creator bless,
And worship Him in humble-ness,
O praise Him! Alleluia!
Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son,
And praise the Spirit, Three in One!
O praise Him, O praise Him!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
  
How Great Our Joy!
1 While by the sheep we watched at night,
Glad tidings brought an angel bright.
 
Refrain:
How great our joy!
Great our joy!
Joy, joy, joy!
Joy, joy, joy!
Praise we the Lord in heaven on high!
Praise we the Lord in heaven on high!
 
2 There shall be born, so he did say,
In Bethlehem a Child today.
 
3 There shall the Child lie in a stall,
This Child who shall redeem us all.
 
4 This gift of God we'll cherish well,
That ever joy our hearts shall fill.
 
 
Love divine, all Loves Excelling
1 Love divine, all loves excelling,
Joy of heaven, to earth come down;
Fix in us Thy humble dwelling;
All Thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, Thou art all compassion,
Pure, unbounded love Thou art;
Visit us with Thy salvation;
Enter ev'ry trembling heart.
 
2 Breathe, O breathe Thy loving Spirit
Into ev'ry troubled breast!
Let us all in Thee inherit,
Let us find the promised rest.
Take away our love to sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
End of faith, as its beginning,
Set our hearts at liberty.
 
3 Come, Almighty to deliver,
Let us all Thy grace receive;
Suddenly return, and never,
Nevermore Thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
Serve Thee as Thy hosts above,
Pray, and praise Thee without ceasing,
Glory in Thy perfect love.
 
4 Finish, then, Thy new creation;
Pure and spotless let us be;
Let us see Thy great salvation
Perfectly restored in Thee:
Changed from glory into glory,
Till in heaven we take our place,
Till we cast our crowns before Thee,
Lost in wonder, love and praise.
 
 
Grace Greater Than Our Sin
1 Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace,
Freely bestowed on all who believe!
You that are longing to see His face,
Will you this moment His grace receive?
 
Refrain:
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that will pardon and cleanse within;
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that is greater than all our sin.

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Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery
1 Come behold the wondrous mystery
in the dawning of the King.
He the theme of heaven’s praises
robed in frail humanity.
In our longing, in our darkness
now the light of life has come.
Look to Christ, who condescended
took on flesh to ransom us
 
2 Come behold the wondrous mystery
He the perfect Son of Man.
In His living, in His suffering
never trace nor stain of sin.
See the true and better Adam
come to save the hell-bound man.
Christ the great and sure fulfillment
of the law; in Him we stand.
 
3 Come behold the wondrous mystery
Christ the Lord upon the tree.
In the stead of ruined sinners
hangs the Lamb in victory.
See the price of our redemption;
see the Father’s plan unfold.
Bringing many sons to glory
grace unmeasured, love untold.
 
4 Come behold the wondrous mystery;
slain by death the God of life.
But no grave could e’er restrain Him;
praise the Lord; He is alive!
What a foretaste of deliverance;
how unwavering our hope.
Christ in power resurrected
as we will be when he comes.
 
 
Great Is thy Faithfulness
1 Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father;
there is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not;
as Thou hast been, Thou forever wilt be.
 
Refrain:
Great is Thy faithfulness!
Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
all I have needed Thy hand hath provided:
great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
 
2 Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest;
sun, moon, and stars in their courses above
join with all nature in manifold witness
to Thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love.
 
3 Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow:
blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!