Posts by St. Andrew Lutheran Church

LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLE“Drive Out the Darkness” WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP SONG“Go Tell it on the Mountain” READINGSIsaiah 11:1-10 A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He…

PRELUDE“We Three Kings” (arr. Cynthia Dobrinksi)Grace Notes CALL TO WORSHIP“Prepare the Way of the Lord” (Karle Erickson)Canticle Choir WELCOME LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLE“Drive Out the Darkness” CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESSPastor: Blessed be the Holy Trinity, + one God, who stills us in slumber, cradles us in darkness, and awakens us to follow the way of life.All: Amen.Pastor: Christ is coming. Let us be still and acknowledge the fear that divides, the sin that isolates, and the brokenness that yearns to…

WELCOME      LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLE“Drive Out the Darkness” WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP SERVICE OF HOLY BAPTISM READINGSPsalm 91:1-6 You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the hunter and from the deadly pestilence; he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings…

PRELUDE“Fairest Lord Jesus” (arr. Venita MacGorman) Ring of Fire, Linnae Stole (Director) WELCOME RESPONSIVE READING FOR THANKSGIVINGPsalm 65:1-4, 8-13 Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion; and to you shall vows be performed,O you who answer prayer! To you all flesh shall come. When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us, you forgive our transgressions.Happy are those whom you choose and bring near to live in your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.…

WELCOME OPENING MUSIC“Rise”“It Is Well With My Soul” PRAYER READINGDeuteronomy 8:2-4 Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments. He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that…

PRELUDE“Praise!” (Brenda E. Austin)Peace Ringers, Linnae Stole (Director) CALL TO WORSHIP“If Ye Love Me” (Thomas Tallis)Chamber Choir, Larry Bach (Director) WELCOME CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESSBlessed be the holy Trinity, ☩ one God,our maker, our helper, and our keeper.Amen. Trusting in God’s mercy, let us confess our sinin the presence of God and of one another. Silence is kept for reflection. Merciful and loving God,we are your stiff-necked people.We trample on the needy.We grumble about your grace to others.We turn away from…

PRELUDE“When in Our Music God is Glorified” (arr. Mark Albrecht)Jodi Edstrom, Barb Carroll WELCOME   GATHERING HYMN“Christ, Be Our Light”ELW # 715                                                     PRAYER OF THE DAYLoving God, you have given us a new identity through our baptisms, and you call us to love and serve others in your name.  Help us to live by the example that Tabitha set, as she faithfully pointed to you through her acts of love and kindness, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord,…

GATHERING MUSIC OPENING MUSIC“Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly” PRAYER CHILDREN’S MESSAGEShawna Berg READINGActs 12:6-17 The very night before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off…

PRELUDE“Aprés Un Rêve” (Gabriel Faure)Anna Vazquez, Tim Graf  WELCOME GATHERING HYMN“Signs and Wonders”ELW # 672                                                     PRAYER OF THE DAYLoving God, the good news of the Gospel comes to us from unexpected places.  Help us to hear your voice as it comes to us through the lowly and the outcasts so that we remember that your love is for all people, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now…

GATHERING MUSIC OPENING MUSIC“Story to Tell” PRAYER CHILDREN’S MESSAGEShawna Berg READINGPsalm 121Grace Parker   I lift up my eyes to the hills—    from where will my help come?My help comes from the Lord,    who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved;    he who keeps you will not slumber.He who keeps Israel    will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper;    the Lord is your shade at your right hand.The sun shall not strike you by day    nor the moon by night.  The Lord will keep you from all…

PRELUDE“Idyll on Shall We Gather at the River”  (Sondra K. Tucker)Jodi Edstrom, Tim Graf                                     WELCOME  GATHERING HYMN “Children of the Heavenly Father”ELW # 781 PRAYER OF THE DAYLoving God, you have been our refuge and strength, and you will keep us when times are hard.  Help us to look to you in all circumstances of life and give us a renewed vision of your purposes for us and for our world.  We pray this is Jesus’ name, who lives and reigns…

GATHERING MUSIC“Greater Things” WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP SONG“You Are My All in All” PRAYER WELCOME/CAMP MINUTE CAMP BLESSING & SENDING READINGActs 8:26-38 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire…