Westminster Presbyterian is Located in Uptown Phoenix, Just Minutes From Downtown.
4735 N. 19th Ave. Phoenix, AZ, 602-274-2122
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Order of Service for Sunday, December 8, 2024, 10:30 AM
Prelude (Kathleen Jones)
Call to Worship — The First and Second Advent Candles
“They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 6:14)
Hymn: “Comfort, Comfort You My People” (Presbyterian Hymnal #3)
Prayer of Adoration and Confession
Assurance of Pardon
Song of Praise: “Emmanuel, Emmanuel” (Lift Up Your Hearts #143)
We Greet One Another
Choir Anthem: “Room in My Heart for You,” by Douglas Wagner (directed by Carol Fassbender)
Scripture Reading:
Mark 8:31-38 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)
Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes and be killed and after three days rise again. 32 He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”
34 He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. 36 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? 37 Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? 38 Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Sermon (Gale Watkins, Pastor)
Hymn: “Lord, Make Us Servants of Your Peace” (Presbyterian Hymnal #374) [sung to the tune: Hamburg (“When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”)]
A Time of Prayer
Answers to Prayer and Prayer Requests
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession
The 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
Offertory
Doxology
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Hymn: “Canto de Esperanza/Song of Hope” (Presbyterian Hymnal #432)
Benediction
Postlude (Kathleen Jones)
Prayer Requests
Do you have a prayer request?
If you have a prayer request, please fill out the prayer request form below or halfway down the Contact page.
We will forward prayer requests to our prayer chain when we receive them from the church answering machine, from one of our deacons, from email, or from the Contact page form.