Second Sunday in Advent -December 6, 2020
Today’s Theme for
Worship: John the Baptist prepared
the way for Christ by preaching repentance. We also prepare our hearts as we
wait for Christ to return.
Order of Service: Service of Word and
Sacrament
Gathering Rite: We
Wait in Hope
Special Music sings:
All Creation lies in waiting,
in the stillness of the night,
with hope anticipating
the Advent of Eternal Light.
M: Advent is a time to watch.
C: We watch in hope for the Lord; O come,
Emmanuel.
M: During Advent we watch for hope in the midst of despair.
C: We watch in hope for the Lord; O come,
Emmanuel.
M: During Advent we watch for forgiveness in the midst of rebellion.
C: We watch in hope for the Lord; O come,
Emmanuel.
M: During Advent we watch for peace in the midst of conflict.
C: We watch in hope for the Lord; O come,
Emmanuel.
M: During Advent we watch for the presence of
God in the midst of a fallen world.
C: We watch in hope for the Lord; O come,
Emmanuel.
M: This
morning we light two candles. The first candle reminds us that Advent is
a time of waiting. We wait in anticipation for God to fulfill every promise set
forth in the Bible. The second candle reminds us that Advent is also a
time of watching. We watch with expectant eyes, trusting that God is active,
present and constantly at work, leading all of creation toward the plan of
redemption. As we light the second candle we ask for
faith to watch for God’s presence and open eyes to see all that God is doing.
Refrain
(congregation)
We watch in hope for the morning
Light,
For the love of Christ to
illuminate the night.
We watch with joy for the Savior's
birth;
We watch in hope for peace on
earth.
Order of Service: Service of Word and
Sacrament
P: The grace of
our Lord + Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy
Spirit be with you.
C: And also with you.
Confession of Sins
P: God invites us to come into his
presence and worship him with humble and penitent hearts. Therefore, let us
acknowledge our sinfulness and ask him to forgive us.
C: Holy and merciful Father, I confess
that I am by nature sinful, and that I have disobeyed you in my thoughts,
words, and actions. I have done what is
evil and failed to do what is good. For
this I deserve your punishment both now and in eternity. But I am truly sorry for my sins, and
trusting in my Savior Jesus Christ, I pray:
Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.
P: God, our heavenly Father, has been
merciful to us and has given his only Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our
sins. Therefore, as a called servant of Christ and by his authority, I forgive
you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy
Spirit.
C: Amen.
Lord, Have Mercy
P: For all that we need in life and for
the wisdom to use all your gifts with gratitude and joy, hear our prayer, O
Lord.
C: ♬ Lord, have mer-cy.
P: For the steadfast assurance that
nothing can separate us from your love and for the courage to stand firm
against the assaults of Satan and every evil, hear our prayer, O Christ.
C: ♬ Christ, have mer-cy.
P: For the well-being of your holy Church
in all the world and for those who offer here their worship and praise, hear
our prayer, O Lord.
C: ♬ Lord, have mer-cy.
P: Merciful God, maker and preserver of
life, uphold us by your power and keep us in your tender care:
C: ♬ A-men.
P: The works of the Lord are great and
glorious; his name is worthy of praise.
♬ O Lord, Our Lord
O Lord, our Lord, how glo-rious
is your name in all the earth.
Al-might-y God, mer-ci-ful Father,
you crown our life with your love.
You take a-way our sin; you com-fort our spir-it;
you make us pure and ho-ly in your sight.
You did not spare your on-ly Son, but gave him up for us
all.
O Lord, our Lord, how glo-rious
is your name in all the earth.
O Son of God, e-ter-nal Word of the Fa-ther,
you came to live with us;
you made your Fa-ther
known;
you washed us from our sins in your own
blood.
You are the King of glo-ry;
you are the Lord!
O Lord, our Lord, how glo-rious
is your name in all the earth.
Prayer of the Day
P: Let us Pray.
Stir up our hearts, O Lord, to prepare the way for your only
Son. By his coming give us strength in our conflicts and shed light on our path
through the darkness of this world; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
C: ♬ A-men.
Comfort, comfort
my people, says your God.
2Speak to the heart
of Jerusalem and call out to her.
Her warfare really
is over.
Her guilt is fully
paid for.
Yes, she has
received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.
3A voice is calling
out:
In the wilderness
prepare the way for the Lord.
In the wasteland
make a level highway for our God.
4Every valley will
be raised up,
and every mountain
and hill will be made low.
The rugged ground
will become level,
and the rough
places will become a plain.
5Then the glory of
the Lord will be revealed,
and all flesh
together will see it.
Yes, the mouth of
the Lord has spoken.
6A voice was
saying, “Cry out!”
And I said, “What
shall I cry out?”
All flesh is
grass,
and all its beauty
is like a wildflower in the countryside.
7Grass withers,
flowers fade,
when the breath of
the Lord blows on them.
Yes, the people
are grass.
8Grass withers,
flowers fade,
but the Word of our
God endures forever.
9Get up on a high
mountain,
O Zion, you herald
of good news.
Lift
up
your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, you
herald of good news.
Lift it up! Do not
be afraid!
Say to the cities
of Judah,
“Here is your
God!”
10Look, God the Lord will come with strength,
and his arm is
ruling for him.
Look, his reward
is with him.
The result of his
work is in front of him.
11Like a shepherd he
will care for his flock.
With his arm he
will gather the lambs.
He will lift them
up on his lap.
He
will gently lead the nursing mothers.
Psalm
of the Day – Psalm 85
Refrain
I will hear what the Lord
proclaims: peace to his people.
You showed favor to your land,
O LORD;*
you restored the
fortunes of Jacob.
You forgave the iniquity of your people*
and covered all
their sins.
Show us your unfailing love,
O LORD,*
and grant us your
salvation.
Refrain
I will hear what the Lord
proclaims: peace to his people.
I will listen to what God the LORD
will say;*
he promises peace
to his people, his saints.
Surely his salvation is near those
who fear him,*
that his glory may
dwell in our land.
Love and faithfulness meet together;*
righteousness and
peace kiss each other.
Glory be to the Father and to
the Son*
and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,*
is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Refrain
I will hear what the Lord
proclaims: peace to his people.
Refrain Tune: From The
Psalmody for the Day, Series C. © 1976 Fortress Press. All rights reserved.
Used by permission of Augsburg Fortress.
Second
Lesson: 2
Peter 3:8-14
8But do not forget
this one thing, dear friends: For the Lord, one day is like a thousand years,
and a thousand years are like one day. 9The Lord is not slow to do
what he promised, as some consider slowness. Instead, he is patient for your
sakes, not wanting anyone to perish, but all to come to repentance.
10But the day of the
Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will pass away with a
roar, the elements will be dissolved as they burn with great heat, and the
earth and what was done on it will be burned up. 11Therefore, since
all these things will be destroyed, what kind of people ought you to be, living
in holiness and godliness, 12as you look forward to and hasten the
coming of the day of God? That day will cause the heavens to be set on fire and
destroyed, and the elements to melt as they burn with great heat. 13But
according to his promise we look forward to new heavens and a new earth, in
which righteousness dwells.
14Therefore,
dear friends, as you look forward to these things, make every effort to be
found in peace, spotless and blameless in his sight.
Verse:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia!
These words are written that we may
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Gospel: Mark
1:1-8
1The beginning of
the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 2This is how it is
written in the prophet Isaiah:
Look, I am sending
my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare
the way for you.
3A voice of one
calling out in the wilderness,
“Prepare the way
of the Lord.
Make his paths
straight.”
4John appeared,
baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the
forgiveness of sins.
5The
whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him.
They were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins. 6John
was clothed in camel’s hair, and he wore a leather belt around his waist. He
ate locusts and wild honey. 7He preached, “One more powerful than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop down and untie
the strap of his sandals! 8I baptized you with water, but he will
baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
Hymn of the Day: 16 On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry
1 On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry
Announces that the Lord is nigh;
Come, then, and listen, for he
brings
Good news about the King of kings.
2 Then cleansed be ev’ry
life from sin
And furnished for a guest within,
And let us all our hearts prepare
For Christ to come and enter there.
3 We hail you as our Savior, Lord,
Our refuge and our great reward.
Without your grace we waste away
Like flow’rs
that wither and decay.
4 Stretch forth your hand, our health
restore,
And lift us up to fall no more.
Oh, make your face on us to shine,
And fill the world with love
divine.
5 All praise to you, eternal Son,
Whose advent has our freedom won,
Whom with the Father we adore
And Holy Spirit evermore.
Text: Charles Coffin, 1676-1749; tr. John
Chandler, 1806-76, st. 1-3, alt.; composite, st. 4-5.
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the
wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the
kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet
Isaiah:
“A voice of
one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
make
straight paths for him.’”[a]
4 John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a
leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. 5 People
went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan.
6 Confessing their sins,
they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees
and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of
vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce
fruit in keeping with repentance.
Nicene Creed
We believe in one God, the Father, the
Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the
only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from
Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one being with the
Father.
Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation, he came down
from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary,
and became fully human. For our
sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate.
He suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven and is seated at
the right hand of the Father. He will
come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have
no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,
the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who in unity with
the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the
prophets. We believe in one holy
Christian and apostolic Church. We
acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead and
the life of the world to come. Amen.
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Prayer of the Church
Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done
on
earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who
trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom
and
the power and the glory
forever and ever. Amen.
The Sacrament
P: The Lord be with you.
C: ♬ And also with
you.
P: Lift up your
hearts.
C: ♬ We lift them up
to the Lord.
P: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
C: ♬ It is right to
give him thanks and praise.
P: Praise to the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ! In love he has blessed us with every spiritual blessing. Through
his holy prophets, he promised a king to bring light to those living in
darkness and in the shadow of death. Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ. To him who sits on
the throne and to the Lamb be praise and thanks and honor and glory for ever
and ever.
♬ Holy, Holy, Holy
Ho-ly, ho-ly, ho-ly is the Lord of hosts.
The whole earth is full of your glo-ry.
You are my God, and I will ex-alt you.
I will give you thanks, for you have
be-come my sal-va-tion.
Ho-ly, ho-ly, ho-ly is the Lord of hosts.
The whole earth is full of your glo-ry.
Words of Institution
P: Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night he
was betrayed, took bread; and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it
to his disciples, saying “Take and eat; this is my body, which is given for
you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
Then he took the cup, gave thanks, and
gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it all of you; this is my blood of the new
covenant, which is poured out for you for the forgiveness of sins. Do this,
whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
P: The peace of the Lord be with you
always.
C: ♬ A-men.
♬ O Christ, Lamb Of God
O Christ, Lamb of God,
you take a-way the sin of the world;
have mer-cy on
us.
O Christ, Lamb of God,
you take a-way the sin of the world;
have mer-cy on
us.
O Christ, Lamb of God,
you take a-way the sin of the world;
grant us your peace.
A-men.
Thank the Lord
Thank the Lord and sing his praise.
Tell ev-'ry-one what he has done.
Let all who seek the Lord re-joice
And proud-ly
bear his name.
He re-news his prom-is-es and leads his peo-ple forth
in joy with shouts of thanks-giv-ing.
Al-le-lu-ia! Al-le-lu-ia!
Prayer
P: Hear the prayer of your people, O Lord,
that the lips which have praised you here may glorify you in the world, that
the eyes which have seen the coming of your Son may long for his coming again,
and that all who have received in his true body and blood the pledge of your
forgiveness may be restored to live a new and holy life, through Jesus Christ,
our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and
forever.
C: A-men.
Blessing
M:
Brothers and sisters, go in peace. Live in harmony with one another. Serve the Lord with gladness.
The
Lord bless you and keep you.
The
Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you.
The
Lord look on you with favor and give you peace.
C: (sing) Amen. Amen. Amen.
Closing Hymn: 36 A Great and Mighty
Wonder
1 A great and mighty wonder, A glorious
mystery:
A virgin bears an infant Who veils
his deity.
Refrain:
Repeat the hymn again:
“To God on high be glory And peace on earth to men.”
2 The Word becomes incarnate And yet remains on
high,
And cherubim sing anthems To shepherds from the sky.
Refrain
3 While thus they sing your monarch, Those
bright angelic bands,
Rejoice, O vales and mountains, And oceans, clap your hands.
Refrain
4 Since all he comes to ransom, By all be
he adored,
The infant born in Bethl’em, The Savior and the Lord.
Refrain
5 All idols then shall perish And
Satan’s lying cease,
And
Christ shall raise his scepter, Decreeing endless peace.
Refrain
Text: Germanus, c.
634-734; tr. John M. Neale, 1818-66, alt.