{"id":9852,"date":"2022-12-19T08:25:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tumc.ca\/?p=9852"},"modified":"2022-12-19T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:12:05","slug":"sunday-december-18-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?p=9852","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, December 18, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Order of Service for Sun Dec 18, 2022 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Fourth Advent: Do Not Be Afraid<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Worship Leader:<\/strong> Peter Haresnape
Speaker:<\/strong> Alison Li
Music:<\/strong> Tim Neufeldt\/ Carmen Wiebe
Technical Team:<\/strong> Ted Steenburgh\/ Jonah Thiessen
Ushers:<\/strong>  Rachel Schmidt\/ Nadine and Ellie Cressman
Coffee Hour Hosts:<\/strong> Jana and Brad Lepp<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Gathering Songs <\/b><\/p>\n

      VT 606 <\/b>– Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah <\/span><\/p>\n

      VT 242<\/b> – Noche Anunciado <\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome, Land Acknowledgement<\/b><\/p>\n

Call to Worship<\/b><\/p>\n

Hymn VT 421 –<\/b> A Mighty Fortress is our God <\/span><\/p>\n

Giving with Gratitude<\/b><\/p>\n

Offertory – <\/b>Peter Voth & Mark Andrews<\/span> <\/b><\/p>\n

Time with the Children<\/b><\/p>\n

Congregational Prayer<\/b><\/p>\n

Hymn VT – 596 <\/b>Don\u2019t be Afraid <\/span><\/p>\n

Reading –<\/b> Isaiah 7:10-18, Matthew 1:18-25 <\/span><\/p>\n

Hymn VT 210 – <\/b>O Come O Come Immanuel <\/span><\/p>\n

Sermon – <\/b>\u2018Don\u2019t be Afraid\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

Hymn VT 212 – <\/b>Comfort, Comfort O My People <\/span><\/p>\n

Announcements <\/b><\/p>\n

Benediction <\/b><\/p>\n

Postlude –<\/b> Peter Voth & Mark Andrews <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n

Scriptures this week<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Isaiah 7:10-18 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz: 11 \u201cAsk a sign from the Lord your God. Make it as deep as the grave or as high as heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 But Ahaz said, \u201cI won\u2019t ask; I won\u2019t test the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13 Then Isaiah said, \u201cListen, house of David! Isn\u2019t it enough for you to be tiresome for people that you are also tiresome before my God? 14 Therefore, the Lord will give you a sign. The young woman is pregnant and is about to give birth to a son, and she will name him Immanuel. 15 He will eat butter and honey, and learn to reject evil and choose good. 16 Before the boy learns to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 1:18-25 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

18 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ took place. When Mary his mother was engaged to Joseph, before they were married, she became pregnant by the Holy Spirit. 19 Joseph her husband was a righteous man. Because he didn\u2019t want to humiliate her, he decided to call off their engagement quietly. 20 As he was thinking about this, an angel from the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, \u201cJoseph son of David, don\u2019t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child she carries was conceived by the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you will call him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.\u201d 22 Now all of this took place so that what the Lord had spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23 Look! A virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son,
And they will call him, Emmanuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Emmanuel means \u201cGod with us.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24 When Joseph woke up, he did just as an angel from God commanded and took Mary as his wife. 25 But he didn\u2019t have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son. Joseph called him Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the service here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the sermon here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the sermon here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Order of Service for Sun Dec 18, 2022 Fourth Advent: Do Not Be Afraid Worship Leader: Peter HaresnapeSpeaker: Alison LiMusic: Tim Neufeldt\/ Carmen WiebeTechnical Team: Ted Steenburgh\/ Jonah ThiessenUshers:  Rachel Schmidt\/ Nadine and Ellie CressmanCoffee Hour Hosts: Jana and Brad Lepp Gathering Songs        VT 606 – Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah        VT 242 – Noche Anunciado  Welcome, Land Acknowledgement Call to Worship Hymn VT 421 – A Mighty Fortress is our God  Giving with Gratitude Offertory – Peter Voth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons-a-worship-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9861,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions\/9861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}