Full Service - Second Sunday after Christmas - Year C

Second Sunday after Christmas Year C

Service Contains:

Poem: January

Hymn: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky or Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky(adapted)

Responsive Prayer: We cannot comprehend based on Psalm 147

Reading: Psalm 147:12-20

Hymn: God is love; let heaven adore him or People will gather in praise for creation

Reading: Jeremiah 31:7-14

Hymn: This is the day or This day is a day of both prayer and of praising

Readings: Ephesians 1:3-14 John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Sermon ideas:

Poem: Finding God

All-age, children’s section: In Christ we have an inheritance – based on Ephesians 1:3-14

Hymn: We have a gospel to proclaim or The logic, the life-blood, the source of creation

Prayer/Meditation: on John 1:10-18

Hymn: God is love: his the care or Oh where is there love in a world that is tired

Blessing: As we go out to take God to others

Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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