Worship Guide

Worship Guide (General explanation of how we order our services.)

Worship Guide (General explanation of how we order our services.) This third Sunday of the Advent season, we continue our expectant anticipation of the Coming of our Savior. In this service, we contemplate the great mystery of true God becoming true man, and we take a look at the response Jesus’s own mother had to such a wondrous revelation. Our Prelude is a setting of a wonderful hymn whose text is one of the oldest in our tradition: “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence.” This setting for trumpet and piano by our very own R. Christopher Teichler beautifully sets these rich Christological […]

Worship Guide (General explanation of how we order our services.)

Worship Guide (General explanation of how we order our services.) Today begins the season of Advent, a time in which we prepare ourselves to celebrate the First Coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and focus our anticipation upon his Second Coming as well. Revelation We begin with a Word of God from Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19: Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth. 2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might and come to save us! 3 Restore us, O God; let […]

14.11.16 CTK Service (General explanation of how we order our services.) In two weeks we will enter the season of Advent, in which we will focus our attention upon the coming of our Savior and prepare our hearts to celebrate his birth. In this service we begin to see distant shadows of this theme as we reflect upon the necessity to prepare and be watchful for the coming of the Lord. Revelation We begin with a Word of God from 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11: Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. […]

14.10.19 CTK Service (General explanation of how we order our services.) The overarching theme of this service is that God forgives sins and declares righteous those who humbly cry to him for mercy. Revelation The service opens with the words of Psalm 99: The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake! The LORD is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples. Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he! The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and […]

14.10.12 CTK Service (General explanation of how we order our services.) The overarching theme of this service is that God answers the cries of his people and meets their every need. Revelation The service opens with the words of Isaiah 25:1, 6-9: O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure. On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged […]

14.10.05 CTK Service (General explanation of how we order our services.) The primary theme running through this service is God’s revelation of himself through Creation, his Word, and ultimately the coming of Jesus Christ. Revelation We begin with Psalm 19:1-6, which focuses our attention on God’s glory revealed in Creation. This revelation of God is as widespread as the heat of the sun–no one is left without a knowledge of God (see Romans 1:19-21). This is reason for praise! Adoration We do just that with our hymn of adoration, “This is My Father’s World.” This hymn continues to emphasize the […]