Sunday, 21st December, Advent 4
Informal All-Age Communion 11:15 am
Informal All-Age Communion 11:15 am
Worship Leader & Service Leader: Nabil Shehadi
Preacher: Dave Roche
2 Sam 7:1-11, 16 Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26 Luke 2:1-20
Welcome to our third Sunday of the month Informal Communion Service. Young Church and Youth Group will come up for communion first with their teachers and then head downstairs to the Church Hall.
Chiaroscuro! There’s something about Mary... last week Rembrandt's ‘The Visitation’ (1640) assisted us in learning lessons from the life of Mary. This week, part 2, will explore more of how we can be inspired by Mary’s journey. She was highly ‘favoured’ by God but then taken to an obscure backwater in the middle of nowhere called Bethlehem to register with her husband-to-be for the census. Traveling across country while pregnant, she didn’t even have a bed to deliver her baby in. What was favourable about that? But the Bible says she stored up, pondered and treasured these things! We can learn a lot from Mary about understanding small beginnings, that favour does not mean we are privileged, and how God-Pondering invigorates our souls. We even learn some Latin along the way and maybe some more art history!
Advent Prayers
Voice 1: God of the past who has fathered us and mothered us
All We are here to thank you.
Voice 2: God of the future who is always ahead of us
All: We are here to trust you.
Voice 1 (or 3): God of the present here in the midst of us
All: We are here to praise you.
Voice 2 (or 4): God of life beyond us within us
All: We rejoice in your glorious love.
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