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PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP
Break up your fallow ground,
and sow not among thorns.
Jeremiah 4:3
Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.
Proverbs 4:23
Those who sow in tears
shall reap with shouts of joy!
He who goes out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
bringing his sheaves with him.
Psalm 126:5-6
“The blame is not in the seed, but in the ground that receives it.”
– John Chrystotom, Homily 44
“The same seed is sown, but not the same harvest is reaped.”
– Augustine, Sermon 73
“The sower sows with a generosity that disregards all calculation.”
– Joachim Jeremias
“This parable assumes time – time for failure, time for rooting, time for fruit.”
– Rowan Williams
“Grace is already present before any human decision.”
– Karl Rahner
“Hope is born wherever the future of God is trusted more than present barrenness.”
– Jurgen Moltmann
WELCOME & CALL TO WORSHIP
Open my eyes, that I may behold
wondrous things out of your law.
Psalm 119:18
Our Great Savior (Jesus What a Friend for Sinners)
Jesus! what a Friend for sinners!
Jesus! Lover of my soul;
Friends may fail me, foes assail me,
He, my Savior, makes me whole.
Hallelujah! what a Savior!
Hallelujah! what a Friend!
Saving, helping, keeping, loving,
He is with me to the end.
[Verse 2]
Jesus! what a Strength in weakness!
Let me hide myself in him;
Tempted, tried, and sometimes failing,
He, my strength, my victory wins. [Refrain]
[Chorus][Verse 3]
Jesus! what a Help in sorrow!
While the billows o’er me roll,
Even when my heart is breaking,
He, my Comfort, helps my soul. [Refrain]
[Chorus]
Abide (I Depend on You)
[Verse 1]
For my waking breath
For my daily bread
I depend on You
I depend on You
For the sun to rise
For my sleep at night
I depend on You
I depend on You
[Chorus]
You’re the way the truth and the life
You’re the well that never runs dry
I’m the branch and You are the vine
Draw me close and teach me to abide
[Verse 2]
Where the Spirit leads
As I’m following
I depend on You
I depend on You
For the victories
Still in front of me
I dеpend on You
I depend on You
[Chorus 2]
You’rе the way the truth and the life
You’re the well that never runs dry
I’m the branch and You are the vine
Draw me close and teach me to abide
Be my strength my song in the night
Be my all my treasure my prize
I am Yours forever You’re mine
Draw me close and teach me to abide
[Verse 3]
When I pass through death
As I enter rest
I depend on You
I depend on You
For eternal life
To be raised with Christ
I depend on You
I depend on You
[Chorus 2]
SCRIPTURE READING
“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
“For you shall go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall make a name for the Lord,
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
Isaiah 55:6-13
SONG
All Glory Be To Christ
[Verse 1]
Should nothing of our efforts stand
No legacy survive
Unless the Lord does raise the house
In vain its builders strive
To you who boast tomorrow’s gain
Tell me, what is your life?
A mist that vanishes at dawn
All glory be to Christ
[Chorus]
All glory be to Christ our king
All glory be to Christ
His rule and reign we’ll ever sing
All glory be to Christ
[Verse 2]
His will be done, His kingdom come
On earth as is above
Who is Himself our daily bread
Praise Him, the Lord of love
Let living water satisfy
The thirsty without price
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet
All glory be to Christ
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
When on the day the great I am
The faithful and the true
The Lamb, who was for sinners, slain
Is making all things new
Behold our God shall live with us
And be our steadfast light
And we shall e’er his people be
All glory be to Christ
[Chorus]
UPCOMING 2026 EVENTS
URM Thursday Night Chapel (1/8) A monthly service opportunity
KCC Basketball (1/9) Friday 8-9:30pm
Joshua Bible Study (begins 1/23) 5 session study, alternating Fridays 7:30-9pm
Vessel Youth Group Winter Retreat (1/23-1/25) for middle school and high school students
OFFERTORY
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SERMON
“Deep-Seeded”
That same day Jesus went out of the house
and sat beside the sea.
2 And great crowds gathered about him,
so that he got into a boat and sat down.
And the whole crowd stood on the beach.
3 And he told them many things in parables, saying:
“A sower went out to sow.
4 And as he sowed,
some seeds fell along the path,
and the birds came and devoured them.
5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground,
where they did not have much soil,
and immediately they sprang up,
since they had no depth of soil,
6 but when the sun rose they were scorched.
And since they had no root, they withered away.
7 Other seeds fell among thorns,
and the thorns grew up and choked them.
8 Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain,
some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
9 He who has ears, let him hear…”
18 “Hear then the parable of the sower:
19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom
and does not understand it,
the evil one comes and snatches away
what has been sown in his heart.
This is what was sown along the path.
20 As for what was sown on rocky ground,
this is the one who hears the word
and immediately receives it with joy,
21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while,
and when tribulation or persecution arises
on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
22 As for what was sown among thorns,
this is the one who hears the word,
but the cares of the world
and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word,
and it proves unfruitful.
23 As for what was sown on good soil,
this is the one who hears the word and understands it.
He indeed bears fruit and yields,
in one case a hundredfold,
in another sixty,
and in another thirty.”
Matthew 13:1-9,18-23 ESV
COMMUNION
SONG
Great Are You Lord
[Verse]
You give life, You are love
You bring light to the darkness
You give hope, You restore
Every heart that is broken
Great are You, Lord
[Chorus]
It’s Your breath in our lungs
So we pour out our praise
We pour out our praise
It’s Your breath in our lungs
So we pour out our praise to You only
[Verse]
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
All the earth will shout Your praise
Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing
Great are You, Lord
[Coda]
You’rе the way the truth and the life
You’re the well that never runs dry
I’m the branch and You are the vine
Draw me close and teach me to abide
Be my strength my song in the night
Be my all my treasure my prize
I am Yours forever You’re mine
Draw me close and teach me to abide
BENEDICTION
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord,
so walk in him, rooted and built up in him
and established in the faith,
just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Colossians 2:6-7
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