12/15/2024 "Christmas Present" by the Rev. Jeff Hunt - St. John's UMC, Dover, NH Live Stream Church

Sunday, December 15, 2024 - Live Streamed at 9:30 AM
Christmas Present
Ebenezer Scrooge has a prescription for humanity at the beginning of the story - the poor have only themselves to blame and would be better off dead. So when he is visited by the spirit of the present, he is admonished to "look!" He must really see the truth of the suffering world and his own hand in it. Love is the center of the message this week. What if we modeled our Advent and Christmas comings and goings as if we actually believe that God has already blessed everyone and we are called to make visible and tangible those blessings?
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Worship Leader: The Rev. Jeff Hunt
Liturgist: Jana Marie Whitten
Preacher: The Rev. Jeff Hunt
Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 15: 7-11 and Matthew 2: 1-18 (NRSV)
Message: "Christmas Present" by the Rev. Jeff Hunt
© 2024 Jeff Hunt & St. John's United Methodist Church, Dover NH
Music Information:
Carillon:
Selections by Andy Galt and/or Guy Eaton
Music as We Gather:
"Come, Behold The Newborn King"
By Linda Scholes
Copyrights: © 2019 The Lorenz Corporation. All rights reserved.
Used by Permission. CCLI Song # 7144562
As played by our Handbell Choir, directed by Dawne Warfield.
Opening Hymn:
"O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"
The United Methodist Hymnal # 211
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Text: LM with refrain; 'O' Antiphons, Latin, 9th cent.; Verses 1, 3-6, para. in Psalteriolum Cantionum Catholicarum, Cologne, 1710; tr. by John Mason Neale, 1818-1866; Verses 2, 7 tr. fr. The Hymnal 1940, alt.
Music: Chant, Mode I; Processionale, French, 15th cent.; adapt. by Thomas Helmore, 1811-1890. All rights reserved.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license # A-731343. All rights reserved.
ONE LICENSE Song Number 84028
Anthem:
"Advent Hymn"
By Christy Nockels; Arranged by Marty Parks
Copyrights: © 2016 Sweater Weather Music and thls arrangement © 2024 Endurance Alpha. All rights reserved.
Used by Permission. CCLI Song # 7071465
Hymn of Response:
"Love Came Down at Christmas"
The United Methodist Hymnal # 242
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Words: Christina G. Rossetti (1885), Public Domain
Harmonizer: David Evans
Copyrights: Music: © Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Used by Permission. CCLI Song # 276338
The Doxology:
"Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow"
The United Methodist Hymnal # 94
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Words: Thomas Ken (1674), adapted: Gilbert H. Vieira (1978). © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House. All rights reserved.
Music: LASST UNS ERFREUEN, Harmonizer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906). Public Domain.
Used by Permission. CCLI Song # 3063266
Closing Hymn:
"Once in Royal David's City"
The United Methodist Hymnal # 250
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Words: Cecil Frances Alexander (1848)
Music: Henry J. Gauntlett (1849)
Copyright: Public Domain
CCLI Church Copyright License Number 493544
CCLI Streaming License Number 21148179
One License Copyright License Number A-731343
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Participating in our online services:
The Rev. Jeff Hunt - Pastor at St. John's UMC, Dover NH
Steve MacKenzie: Director of Music, including Organist, Pianist, Choir Director, and Soloist
Brianne Tarleton: Assistant Director of Music
Andy Galt and Guy Eaton: Carilloneurs
Patty Hoogeveen: Keyboard & Piano
George Reagan: Drums
Members of the Chancel Choir
Streaming Production Manager: Jane Pomeroy
AV Team Leader: Bob Johnson
For today's service:
ProPresenter Operator: Bryan Rickman
Camera Operator: Jane Pomeroy
Sound Tech: Keith Launchbury
AV Assistant: Todd Warfield