Sunday Worship – 17 December 2023

Welcome to our Sunday Worship, this 3rd Sunday of Advent, our Service will be led by Rev Edson Duque, and will be livestreamed on our Facebook Page at 1130 and the uploaded to YouTube.

Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
(Please join in the words written in brackets).
With joy this day we anticipate the One who is coming.
(The one we call the Word! The one we call the Light.)
Like John the Baptist, we are not the light. In our worship, we testify to the light.
(Our testimony is prayer and praise, song and scripture.)
Our testimony is preaching and teaching, learning, and serving.
(May our testimony be a sweet sound in your ear, O God.)

MP 445 – Lord, the light of Your love is shining
Dedication of Offering
All Ages Talk
Lighting of Advent Third Candle

Prayer:
Holy God of Joy,
We rejoice in the reality of who you are. We live within the joy of your love for us.
Our contentment comes and goes.
Our happiness ebbs and flows.
Our feelings depend upon our circumstances, our physical health, our brain chemistry.
But our joy is deeply rooted in our identity as your beloved children.
And we give you thanks.
Amen.

CH4 475 – Christ is coming! let creation (Verses 1, 2 & 3)
Prayer of Approach and Confession ending with the Lord’s Prayer
Bible Readings:
Isaiah 61:1-4
John 1:6-8; 19-28
CH4 348 – Praise the One who breaks the darkness
Reflection
Song for meditation: Enya – O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession
MP 393 – Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Benediction