Order of Service:
December 14, 2025
The Savior who was born in a dark and filthy stable assures us that he came to save us in our weakness and need. Rather than reject those who are despised in the world’s eyes, he invites them to experience his grace and forgiveness through the cross he would one day bear. We gather this Sunday to exult in the Savior who became low so that we might be lifted up to heaven itself.
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound” (Isaiah 61:1, ESV).
Heaven Has Come to Us
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What Child Is This
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:5–11).
How Low Was Our Redeemer Brought (Choir)
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Is He Worthy
Pastoral Prayer & Announcements
Sermon: Matthew 1:18–25 | Jeff Purswell
Colossians 1:13–14
“He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”
