Worship Bulletin 1.9.22

9:30 am The Gathering Lyrics

Chainbreaker

If you’ve been walking the same old road for miles and miles
If you’ve been hearing the same old voice tell the same old lies
If you’re trying to fill the same old holes inside
There’s a better life
There’s a better life

If you’ve got pain
He’s a pain taker
If you feel lost
He’s a way maker
If you need freedom or saving
He’s a prison-shaking Savior
If you’ve got chains
He’s a chain breaker

We’ve all search for the light of day in the dead of night
We’ve all found ourselves worn out from the same old fight
We’ve all run to things we know just ain’t right
And there’s a better life
There’s a better life

If you’ve got pain
He’s a pain taker
If you feel lost
He’s a way maker
If you need freedom or saving
He’s a prison-shaking Savior
If you’ve got chains
He’s a chain breaker

If you believe it
If you receive it
If you can feel it
Somebody testify

If you believe it
If you receive it
If you can feel it
Somebody testify, testify

If you believe it
If you receive it
If you can feel it
Somebody testify

If you’ve got pain
He’s a pain taker
If you feel lost
He’s a way maker
If you need freedom or saving
He’s a prison-shaking Savior
If you’ve got chains
He’s a chain breaker

Oh, if you need freedom or saving
He’s a prison-shaking Savior
If you’ve got chains
He’s a chain breaker

Dancing on the waves

I’m standing at your door
My heart is calling yours
Come fall into my arms

You’re weary from it all
Been running for too long
I’m here to bring you home, yes I am

I’m reaching out, I’ll chase you down
I dare you to believe how much I love you now
Don’t be afraid, I am your strength
We’ll be walking on the water
Dancing on the waves

Look up and lift your eyes
The future’s open wide
I have great plans for you, oh, yes, I do

Your past is dead and gone
Your healing has begun
I’m making all things new

I’m reaching out
I’ll chase you down
I dare you to believe how much
I love you now
Don’t be afraid, I am your strength
We’ll be walking on the water, dancing on the waves

I set every star into place
So you would remember my name
I made it all for you
You are my masterpiece
You are the reason I sing
This is my song for you

I’m reaching out
I’ll chase you down
I dare you to believe how much
I love you now
Don’t be afraid, I am your strength
We’ll be walking on the water, dancing on the waves

Leave this House Singing

Tell all my friends
My enemies too
The wrong and the right ones
The many, the few

Break down the walls
Between me and you
Love is a feeling
I’m falling into
And you could join in
If you felt it too
But that all depends on the love that you choose

I wanna leave this house singing
I wanna leave this house singing
I wanna go from here
Believing in your love

Break down the walls
Between me and you
They say love’s a choice
but that’s their point of view

11:00 am Traditional Worship Bulletin

Traditional Worship Service
January 9, 2022 | 11:00 am

“Well Pleased”
Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
Dr. Tim Bruster and Rev. Lance Marshall
Co-Senior Pastors

Welcome
Rev. Lance Marshall, Co-Senior Pastor

Prelude: “I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light”
Rebecca Groom Te Velde, arranger
Peggy Graff, organist

*Call to Worship
Phyllis Barren, Associate Pastor
One: We are marked as God’s beloved ones.
All: What have we done to deserve God’s love?
One: God’s love is God’s free gift to us, always and forever
Even when we are difficult and turn away from God,
All: God’s love never vanishes from us.
Thanks be to God who is ever faithful to us. Amen

*Hymn 89: “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee”

*Affirmation of Faith 883
We are not alone, we live in God’s world.
We believe in God:
who has created and is creating,
who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh,
to reconcile and make new,
who works in us and others by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the church:
to celebrate God’s presence,
to love and serve others,
to seek justice and resist evil,
to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,
our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death,
God is with us.
We are not alone.
Thanks be to God. Amen.

*Gloria Patri 70
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.

**Please be seated

Congregational Response
With God’s help we will so order our lives after the example of Christ that Austin, surrounded by steadfast love, may be established in the faith, and confirmed and strengthened in the way that leads to life eternal.

Faith Like a Child
“Mister Mark” Burrows, Director of Children’s Ministries

*Hymn 252: “When Jesus Came to Jordan”

Scripture: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
God speaks to us through the reading of scripture.
Thanks be to God.

Sermon: “Well Pleased”
Dr. Tim Bruster, Co-Senior Pastor

Pastoral Prayer

The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)

Announcements

Offertory: “Lord, Here Am I”
John Ness Beck
Choral Union
Thomas Williams, director

*Doxology 95
Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow.
Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God above, ye heavenly host.
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

*Benediction
One: Our gathering will soon be ended. Where will we go, and what will we do?
All: We will go out to be God’s people in the world.
One: May grace, peace, hope, love, and joy forever accompany you. Amen.

*Congregational Benediction: “We are Called”
We are called to act with justice, we are called to love tenderly.
We are called to service one another, to walk humbly with God

*Postlude: “On Jordan’s Banks the Baptist Cry”
David Cherwien, arranger

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Notes from First Church:

Welcome to First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth – we are glad you’re here to worship with us today!

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Asterisks (*) indicate times when you are invited to stand as you are able.

“Faith Like a Child” is our children’s sermon developed for young worshipers of all ages.

In addition to your regular contribution, every one dollar ($1) bill placed in the offering plate during the month of January will support the Car Seats/Mission Clients program.

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Room 350
6:00 – 7:00 pm
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9:30 am The Gathering Lyrics

Chainbreaker

Dancing on the waves

Leave this House Singing

11:00 am Traditional Worship Bulletin

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