Friedens Reformed Church 

P.O. Box J, Tripp, South Dakota 57376

Church: 605-935-6758 Pastor Andy: 605-505-1010

Affiliated with: The Evangelical Association of Reformed & Congregational Churches

December 29, 2020 Second Sunday of Advent     

   

Opening Prayer: 

 

**Opening Hymn: What Child Is This? 137

**Call to Worship: Isaiah 55:6-8

 

M: Seek the Lord while He may be found,

C: Call upon Him while He is near.

M: Let the wicked forsake his way,

C: And the unrighteous man his thoughts;

M: Let him return to the Lord,

C: And He will have mercy on him; and to our God,

M: For He will abundantly pardon.

C: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

M: Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

C: “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

M: So are My ways higher than your ways,

C: And My thoughts than your thoughts.

 

Lighting of the Second Advent Candle (Amy & Colby Brown)

 

Summary of the Law: Matthew 22:37-40

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

 

**Prayer of Confession: Almighty and most merciful Father; we have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults. Restore thou them that are penitent; according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake; that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous and sober life. To the Glory of thy holy Name. Amen.

 

Assurance of Absolution: 

 

Hymn: Come Thou Fount 2

 

**New Testament Reading: Hebrews 6:13-18

 

**The Nicene Creed (See back of the bulletin)

**The Gloria Patri 

Reading of Sermon Text: Malachi 3:6

Children’s Sermon

Sermon: The Immutability of God

Pastoral Prayer

Lord’s Prayer

The Offertory Hymn: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty 8

**Doxology

**Prayer of Dedication

The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper

**Closing Hymn: Angels From the Realms of Glory 131

**Benediction

Postlude
 

** Congregation stands

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The Nicene Creed

 

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made.

Who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.

And I believe one holy catholic and apostolic church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.
 

Sermon Outline:

God is:

1. Immutable in His Essence

2. Immutable in His Knowledge

3. Immutable in His Will