Full Service - First Sunday after Christmas - Year C
Taken from Times and Seasons
Description
First Sunday after Christmas Year C
Service contains:
Call to worship: For the ‘in between’ Sunday
Hymn: Sing praise to God who reigns above or All life's praising fills creation
Reading: Psalm 148
Prayer: Great God, your love
Hymn: Great is thy faithfulness or Great god your love has called us here or Love is the axis of
Reading: 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26
Sermon idea 1: Monologue: Hannah’s neighbour
Hymn: Sing to the great Jehovah’s praise or Hannah coming to the temple
Reading: Luke 2:41-52
Sermon idea 2: Reflection: One lost boy
Poem: Oh why are we searching from cradle to manger? (Luke 2: 41-52)
Hymn: One more step along the world I go or Oh why are we searching from cradle to manger?
Reading: Colossians 3:12-17
Prayer: Year ending
Hymn: Lord, for the years or Through the canyons of creation
Blessing: Joy be with us to take to those in sorrow.
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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