Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. Louise Samuelson (9 am) & The Rev. Libby Garfield (11:15 am)
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Libby Garfield
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. Louise Samuelson (8 am) & The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill (5 pm)

Worship Online

• Traditional Service in the Church (9 am - with Order of Service & Announcements)
• Modern Worship in the HLC (11:15 am - with Announcements) 
  

All-Ages Education Hour — 
10:15 am Administration Building

Tabernacle, Temple Today – Hall Life Center
Scripture Meditation Group – Nau Family Room
Family Matters – Scout Room

Children's Sunday School 

• 2 months - age 2 | Rm 104 (8:30 am — 12:30 pm)
• 2-year-olds | Rm 110 & 112
• Age 3 - Kinder | Rm L07, L08
• Traditional Sunday school: Poptarts and Parables | Rm L16
• 1st-3rd grade | Catechesis of the Good Shepherd | Rm L17
• 4th - 5th grade | Rm L21 (girls), L20 (boys)

Youth Sunday School – Rm 236
Youth Confirmation – Youth Room

Happening Today

Vestry Voting
Electronic and absentee voting for our annual vestry election begins on Sunday, January 18. All church members will be emailed an electronic ballot. If you prefer to vote via scantron, please view the schedule.

Tabernacle, Temple, Today
Come to the Hall Life Center at 10:15 am for the final session of this three-week parish-wide adult Sunday school course that will explore the theological and historical significance of the most important physical spaces in Scripture: the Tabernacle and the Temple.

A Skeptic's Guide to Jewish Rabbi Sermon Series
Join us for this Modern Worship series at 11:05 am in the Hall Life Center. A Skeptic’s Guide to a Jewish Rabbi is a sermon series for believers, questioners, and the simply curious. Rather than assuming easy answers, this series approaches Jesus first as a rabbi: a teacher who asked hard questions, told challenging stories, and invited people into deeper ways of seeing God, themselves, and the world.

The Collect of the Day

Almighty God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world: Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may shine with the radiance of Christ's glory, that he may be known, worshipped, and obeyed to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

John 1:29-42

1:29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’ 31 I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.” 32 And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. 33 I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”

35 The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” 37 The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 38 Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” 39 He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. 40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ). 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).

Musical Offering in the Church

On this the second Sunday after the Epiphany, John the Baptist, upon seeing Jesus, proclaims “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world!” Agnus Dei is the Latin name under which the “Lamb of God” is honored within the liturgy of the Church. It is the name given to a specific prayer that occurs within these liturgies, and is the name given to the music pieces that accompany the text of this prayer. At SJD, we sing this text as part of our communion liturgy during the penitential seasons of Advent and Lent.

Today at the Ministration, the Chorale sings the Agnus Dei, as set to music by English composer and organist Harold Darke. Likewise at the Offertory, the musical offering speaks of God’s all-encompassing, sacrificial, wondrous love. The music is a contemporary arrangement of the folk hymn “What Wondrous Love Is This” by American composer Michael Sitton. This hymn, which originally appeared in the 1835 shape-note hymnal “The Southern Harmony,” was an outgrowth of the Second Great Awakening, a time of revival in Protestant churches in the early 1800s. Its tune is derived from a popular English ballad. “What Wondrous Love Is This” is widely sung and included in the hymnals of many denominations.

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