December 20, 2020

Home Worship Guide

 

Good Morning!

Use this form to let us know you’re there

To make things easier, all the videos are also on this YouTube playlist. This is for those of you who put the video on one screen and look at the words on another, or who want to have the video and words in separate windows.

Announcements

Weather permitting, we plan to gather outside our building at 5:15 on Christmas Eve to sing carols together. We’ll notify our mailing list the day-of.

It’s time to commit to reading the Bible with us next year and make a plan. If you’re looking for a good habit to make daily Bible reading meaningful, here’s a video of what Pastor Dave does.

Don’t forget you can come by the church office during business hours to drop off and pick up Christmas cards.

Members, check your email inboxes later today for a link to Pastor Dave’s 2020 State of the Church Address, a look a the big hurdle we cleared this year and the next few that probably await us.

Family Prayer

Use the Church Prayer List to pray for your church family.

You can also pray for:

  • No one in our church to get seriously ill from COVID-19

  • Protection for our community and your neighbors

  • Wisdom for those who lead us through the crisis

  • An outpouring of God’s Spirit in Indinapolis

Advent Hymn | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Paul Webb, Karen Towles, Sandy Phelps, and Dave Cook on Vocals
Sue Mann on Piano

Sing a Carol Together

  1. Hark! the herald angels sing,
    “Glory to the new born King,
    peace on earth, and mercy mild,
    God and sinners reconciled!”
    Joyful, all ye nations rise,
    join the triumph of the skies;
    with th’ angelic host proclaim,
    “Christ is born in Bethlehem!”
    Hark! the herald angels sing,
    “Glory to the new born King!”

  2. Christ, by highest heaven adored;
    Christ, the everlasting Lord;
    late in time behold him come,
    offspring of a virgin’s womb.
    Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
    hail th’ incarnate Deity,
    pleased as man with man to dwell,
    Jesus, our Emmanuel.
    Hark! the herald angels sing,
    “Glory to the new born King!”

  3. Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
    Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
    Light and life to all he brings,
    risen with healing in his wings.
    Mild he lays his glory by,
    born that man no more may die,
    born to raise the sons of earth,
    born to give us second birth.
    Hark! the herald angels sing,
    “Glory to the new born King!”

God’s Work Around the World | The Amazon Rainforest

Take A look into how God uses our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

Take a moment to pray for God’s work in the Amazon

Giving of Offering

To give online with a credit card, click here and follow the instructions. Before clicking “Submit,” pray the prayer below.

To give by mail, place your gift (no cash please) in an envelope, and address it to the following address. Before you seal the envelope, pray the prayer below. (If you want to give in cash, please visit the church office on Monday or Wednesday.)

Calvary Baptist Church
PO Box 7728
Greenwood, IN 46142

If you aren’t part of Calvary, this is a good time to find your home church’s online giving portal.

Finally, if you don’t have a home church, let this liturgy be our gift to you. Rather than giving financially, spend this time in prayer for our church.

LEADER OR INDIVIDUAL PRAYS:

“Father, would you continue to provide for us through this strange season. Amen.” 

Seal your envelope or click “Submit.”

Teaching

Isaiah 40 – Preparing for a Dark Christmas, Part 2

Advent Reading

Habakkuk 2:18-20

Read by Walter Howard

18 “What profit is an idol 

when its maker has shaped it, 

a metal image, a teacher of lies? 

For its maker trusts in his own creation 

when he makes speechless idols! 

19 Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; 

to a silent stone, Arise! 

Can this teach? 

Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, 

and there is no breath at all in it. 

20 But the Lord is in his holy temple; 

let all the earth keep silence before him.”


Advent Hymn

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Paul Webb on Vocals
Sandy Phelps on Piano

  1. Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
    And with fear and trembling stand;
    Ponder nothing earthly-minded,
    For with blessing in His hand,
    Christ our God to earth descendeth,
    Our full homage to demand.

  2. King of kings, yet born of Mary,
    As of old on earth He stood,
    Lord of lords, in human vesture,
    In the body and the blood;
    He will give to all the faithful
    His own self for heav'nly food.

  3. Rank on rank the host of heaven
    Spreads its vanguard on the way,
    As the Light of light descendeth
    From the realms of endless day,
    That the pow'rs of hell may vanish
    As the darkness clears away.

Benediction

Leader or individual reads

May you find joy in the awe and wonder of the coming King.
Go and make disciples.

Have a great week! Don’t forget to sign up to read the Bible through next year with us right here.