First Sunday after Christmas
December 29, 2024
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Epiphany
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Guidance from UMC Discipleship Ministries
Weekly Worship Planning Series
Note: This material from UDM is not the basis for today's message
but is provided here for your personal study and reflection. Click here for suggestions about how to use this material.
Worship Series: "Come Let Us Adore Him" but is provided here for your personal study and reflection. Click here for suggestions about how to use this material.
from umcdiscipleship.org
The Season of Advent is one of the highlights of the Christian Year. With this season, we launch another cycle of living into the story of Jesus and the church that emerges—of which we are a part. We sometimes think we need to find a new way of telling this story and do something fresh and unique. There is certainly space for that, but tradition and remembering the songs and stories from our beginnings can be a powerful invitation to grow as disciples as we grow closer to Christ. So, we invite your church community to consider the Preparations and the Passion of Advent so that we might embrace the Presence and Promise of the Christ who comes. And through it all, we will gather to worship. So, come, let us adore him.
This is the Last service of a 6 service Worship Series from the Discipleship Ministries.The graphics at the top of this page list the topics for the services of the Series.
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This Service's Theme: "Home"
Liturgical Resources
“I’ll be home for Christmas…” Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. Here we are on the Fifth Day of Christmas and the First Sunday of Christmastide, and you’re probably either tired of being home or loving it. Or both.
Worship Planning
NotesPreaching Notes
Lectionary Scriptures:
1 Samuel 2:18-20; Psalm 148; Colossians 3:12-17; Luke 2:41-52;
Suggested Hymns . Music Notes. DM Accompaniments Sources of Music for the following hymns are:
- UMH CD.....UDM - DM Accompaniment.....
MM/DD/YY - Recorded Service
Hymns Considered For this week: .
Verses - "Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus"
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"People, Look East"
206 -
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Verses - "I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light"
2085 -
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"He Came Down"
2090 -
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"Advent Song"