We’re excited to be starting 2019 by continuing our study in Luke. Our text for this week is Luke 3:1-20, where we see the ministry of John the Baptist as he prepares the people for their Messiah. The visual theme will be snowy trails, and the worship theme is “Arise, My Soul, Arise,” as we come in repentance and faith to the same Messiah.
Here is the link to the YouTube playlist: 180106 Heart Prep
Worship:
Isaiah 40:1-5 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. 3A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. 5And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
Luke 24:45-47 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, 47and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Communion Song:
Arise My Soul Arise
Closing Worship:
Be Thou My Vision
Be Thou My Vision – Audrey Assad
Bonus: New Lyric Video
Abide With Me – Jill Phillips
Scripture for Meditation
Luke 3:10-14 And the crowds asked him, “What then shall we do?” 11And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.” 12Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?” 13And he said to them, “Collect no more than you are authorized to do.” 14Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”
Isaiah 58:6-7 “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? 7Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
