Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025

​Announcements                                                                      Pastor Jonathan Cole
Adoration

• Prelude
• Psalm – Psalm 72:1-7
• “Jesus Shall Reign”                                                                                    #120

Confession

• Welcome and Invocation                                             Pastor Matt Jackson
• New Testament – Romans 15:4-13

Assurance

• “Angels, from the Realms of Glory”                                                        #222
• “I Wonder As I Wander”                                                                            #252
• “Sing We Now of Christmas”                                               Sanctuary Choir

Thanksgiving

• Gospel – Matthew 3:1-12

Petition and Intercession

• Pastoral Prayer                                                          Pastor Hunter Hawkins
• “More Love to Thee, O Christ”                                                                #385

Instruction from God’s Word

• Sermon – “Holding Fast the Word of Life” – Philippians 2:16-18       Pastor Steve Garrick
• “His Mercy Is More”                                                                 Worship Hymn

Charge and Benediction

• Benediction – John 10:27-30
• “There Is Power in the Blood”                                               Worship Hymn

​Jesus shall Reign
1 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does its successive journeys run;
His kingdom spread from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
2 To Him shall endless pray'r be made,
And endless praises crown His head;
His name like sweet perfume shall rise
With ev'ry morning sacrifice.
3 People and realms of ev'ry tongue
Dwell on His love with sweetest song,
And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on His name.
4 Let ev'ry creature rise and bring
Honor and glory to our King;
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud “Amen”!

Angels, from the Realms of Glory
1 Angels, from the realms of glory,
Wing your flight o'er all the earth;
Ye who sang creation's story,
Now proclaim Messiah's birth:
Come and worship, come and worship,
Worship Christ, the new-born King!
2 Shepherds, in the field abiding,
Watching o'er your flocks by night,
God with man is now residing,
Yonder shines the infant Light:
Come and worship, come and worship,
Worship Christ, the new-born King!
3 Sages, leave your contemplations,
Brighter visions beam afar;
Seek the great Desire of nations,
Ye have seen the Infant's star:
Come and worship, come and worship,
Worship Christ, the new-born King!
4 Though an Infant now we view Him,
He shall fill His Father’s throne,
Gather all the nations to Him;
Every knee shall then bow down:
Come and worship, come and worship,
Worship Christ, the new-born King!

I Wonder As I Wander
1 I wonder as I wander, out under the sky,
How Jesus the Savior did come for to die
For poor ordinary people like you and like I;
I wonder as I wander, out under the sky.
2 When Mary birthed Jesus, 'twas in a cow's stall
With wise men and farmers and shepherd and all.
But high from God's heaven a star's light did fall,
And the promise of ages it did then recall.
3 If Jesus had wanted for any wee thing,
A star in the sky, or a bird on the wing,
Or all of God's angels in heaven for to sing,
He surely could have it, 'cause he was the King.
4 I wonder as I wander, out under the sky,
How Jesus the Savior did come for to die
For poor ordinary people like you and like I;
I wonder as I wander, out under the sky.

More Love to Thee, O Christ
More love to Thee, O Christ,
More love to Thee!
Hear Thou the prayer I make
On bended knee;
This is my earnest plea:
More love, O Christ, to Thee,
More love to Thee,
More love to Thee!



His Mercy Is More
1 What love could remember, no wrongs we have done
Omniscient, all-knowing, He counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.
Chorus:
Praise the Lord! His mercy is more.
Stronger than darkness, new every morn’;
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.
2 What patience would wait as we constantly roam
What Father so tender is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.
3 What riches of kindness He lavished on us
His blood was the payment His life was the cost
We stood ‘neath a debt we could never afford
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more.

There Is Power in the Blood
3 Would you be whiter, much whiter than snow?
There's pow'r in the blood, pow'r in the blood;
Sin stains are lost in its life-giving flow;
There's wonderful pow'r in the blood. 
Refrain:
There is pow'r, pow'r,
Wonder-working pow'r
In the blood of the Lamb;
There is pow'r, pow'r,
Wonder-working pow'r
In the precious blood of the Lamb.