DEFCEMBER 13, 2025
WORSHIP SERVICE
CALL TO WORSHIP ---------------------ENTER IN
INVOCATION ---------------------------DR. EVAN WILLIS
COMMITMENT -------------------------DEVEN DORVAL
WELCOME------------------------------ GREETER
PULPIT REMARKS----------------------DR. EVAN WILLIS
CHILDREN'S STORY-------------------STORYTELLER
OPENING HYMN ---------------------- 125 JOY TO THE WORLD
INTERCESSORY PRAYER ------------ ELDER ARNOLDO BOWREY
TITHES AND OFFERINGS ----------- ELDER JENNEPHER MILLER
SPECIAL MUSIC -----------------------PRAISE TEAM
SERMON -------------------------------- DR. EVAN WILLIS | REVEAL PARTY | LUKE 1:8-20
CLOSING HYMN ---------------------- 132 O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL
BENEDICTION-------------------------
PLEASE REMAIN SEATED UNTIL USHERED OUT
Enter in, enter inAll God's people enter in
Enter in, enter inAll God's people enter in
Let us worship in this holy placeEnter in, enter in
Let us bow before his throne of grace, ohEnter in, enter in
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven and nature sing.
Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
No more let sin and sorrow grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as the curse is found.
He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders of His love.
8 Once when Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, 9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. 10 And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.
11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. 12 When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. 13 But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. 14 He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth, 15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born. 16 He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
18 Zechariah asked the angel, “How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.”
19 The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. 20 And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.”
O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem!
Come and behold Him, born the King of angels!
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord!
Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation,
O sing, all ye citizens of heaven above!
Glory to God, all glory in the highest!
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord!
Yea, Lord, we greet Thee, born this happy morning,
Jesus, to Thee be all glory given;
Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing!
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord!
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