Mark 1:4-11 | As we move away from the Christmas holiday, the church year turns to focus on the baptism of Jesus. For many, baptism has become synonymous with a gentle, tender, and calm practice (even if there are a few cries from babies!) But at Jesus’ baptism, God’s activity was far, far from calm. God dramatically broke into the world, and into the life of Jesus, as the heavens were torn open, a dove descended into Jesus, and Jesus was publicly named God’s Son. So then what about now? Does God still dramatically break into our world, doing whatever is necessary to come to us and to our weary world? Join us for our last worship in our series, “How Does a Weary World Rejoice?” as we witness God’s determination to tear through anything in the way of a relationship with God’s good creation, and as we are sent forth as agents of God’s grace.
Sunday, January 7, 2024, Baptism of Our Lord Sunday Bulletin
Copyright acknowledgments: Music covered under Augsburg Fortress License #SB135131, CCLI License #1141706, One License #738128-A. Scripture from New Revised Standard Version Bible, © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. Prelude: Sing We Now of Christmas. Text and Music: Mark Hayes. Text and Music: © 2019 The Lorenz Publishing Corporation. Covered under One License subscription. Gathering Song: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise. Text: Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-1885, alt. Music: Jakob Hintze, 1622-1702; arr. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750. Text and Music: Public Domain. Hymn of the Day: Christ, When for Us You Were Baptized. Text: F. Bland Tucker, 1895-1984, alt. Music: Nikolaus Herman, 1480-1561. Text and Music: © 1985 The Church Pension Fund. Covered under One License subscription. Offering Song: He Is Born. Text and Music: Mark Hayes. Text and Music: © 2018 The Lorenz Publishing Corporation. Covered under One License subscription. Communion Song: You Are Mine. Text and Music: David Haas, b. 1957. Text and Music: © 1991 GIA Publications, Inc. Covered under One License subscription. Sending Song: This Little Light of Mine. Text and. Music: African American spiritual; arr. Horace Clarence Boyer, b. 1935. Text and Music:©1992 Augsburg Fortress Publishers. Covered under One License subscription.
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