Songs:
“All Hail The Power of Jesus’ Name” by Oliver Holden, Edward Perronet & John Rippon
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Pass the Promise” by Kristyn Getty & Sandra McCracken
© 2021 Getty Music Publishing, Integrity Worship, Music Paper News Publishing
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“The Lord Almighty Reigns” by Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, Matt Boswell & Matt Papa
© 2022 Getty Music Hymns and Songs, Getty Music Publishing, Love Your Enemies Publishing, and Messenger Hymns
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Joy to the World” by George Frideric Handel & Isaac Watts
Public Domain
Used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
“Doxology” by Thomas Ken, Louis Bourgeois
Public Domain CCLI# 2003690
Call To Worship: Stir Up Sunday
Father, all-powerful and ever-living God, we do well always and everywhere to give You thanks through Jesus Christ, our Lord. When He humbled himself to come among us as a man, He fulfilled the plan You formed long ago and opened for us the way to salvation. Stir up, O Lord, the wills of Your faithful people, that we may bring forth the fruit of good works and so manifest Your glory among all peoples. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen!
Classic Prayer: Kim Thomas
This day, we pray oh Father, stir us, disturb us, storm on us if necessary, but move us from spiritual apathy to the humbled gratitude, that fuels a life of godliness. By the power of the Holy Spirit – help us to live where love and joy, peace and patience, kindness, goodness become the defining characteristics of our identity, the identity of being IN CHRIST.
Stir us, God, from our places of numbness, sameness, spiritual forgetting – forgetting your faithfulness – startle our unmoved souls that sit in the very presence of your throne room at a loss for the vocabulary of praise. Challenge our complacency. Stir us, shake us from our ambivalence. We are anxious to be revived and reawakened. Do not allow us to sit unmoved in your presence.
Because you bid us come. You, the great and unchanging one, the glory and the lifter of our heads. Stir us, that we may glorify you in every moment and use of our time, that we might live as those redeemed by the precious and costly blood of the Son you sent, born into an unremarkable manger, under a heaven aflame with the news – joy to the world, the Lord has come!
We pray all of this from the windless hollow of our hearts, needing to receive the gusts and torrents of your love. Amen