Oconee Street UMC Online Service
January 3, 2021
Full Service Stream
Welcome
Prelude: “Love Came Down at Christmas”
Invocation
Opening Hymn: “We Three Kings”
Gospel Reading: Matthew 2:1-18
Sermon: “American Herod”
Anthem: “Gesû Bambino”
Christmas
Dec. 20 Online Service
Oconee Street United Methodist Church
December 20, 2020 • Fourth Sunday of Advent
Full Service Stream
Call to Worship
Welcome
Prayers of the People / The Lord’s Prayer
Old Testament Reading: 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16
Gospel Reading: Luke 1:26-38
Sermon: “You Are Home”… Read the rest
Advent Devotional: Dec. 9, 2020
by Tom Drewry
Luke 2:13-15 (The Message):
“At once the angel was joined by a huge angelic choir singing God’s praises: Glory to God in the heavenly heights, Peace to all men and women on earth who please him. As the angel choir withdrew into heaven, the sheepherders talked it over.”
For the last month or two, in our SALT … Read the rest
Advent Devotional: Dec. 2, 2020
by Laurie Norris
“I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in His word I do hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning. Yes, more than those who watch for the morning.” —Psalm 130:5-6
Waiting sucks.
I’m the absolute worst at waiting on anything.
The idea of just sitting around, doing … Read the rest
Advent Devotional: Dec. 25, 2019
The Word Became Flesh
by Richard Puckett
December 25, 2019
Read John 1:1-18
John 1:14 — “And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory as a parent’s only child, full of grace and truth.”
Have you ever gazed at a newborn baby and thought about the life … Read the rest
Advent Devotional: Dec. 24, 2019
The Work of Christmas
by Dee Cole Vodicka
December 24, 2019
Luke 2:15 — “When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
Christmas Eve … the busyness of the season is about to … Read the rest
Advent Devotional: Dec. 20, 2019
A Mother Waits
by Martina Bober
December 20, 2019
Read Luke 24: 44-49
Luke 24:49 (NRSV) — “And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
Jesus is commanding his disciples to wait, and they do just that, waiting in the room … Read the rest
Sermon: “Mary’s Song”
Mary had everything going against her. She was carrying a child, walking hundreds of miles while pregnant, forced to give birth in a manger … but despite all these difficulties, Mary believed. And Her song echoes down the corridors of time to challenge us to pay attention to what God is really up to in the world.
Who is Mary’s … Read the rest
Advent Devotional: Dec. 14, 2019
Relish the Waiting
by Joshua King
December 14, 2019
Isaiah 40:8 (NRSV): The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever.
It feels appropriate to think about divine, apocalyptic transformations during Advent. We’re preparing for one of the Church’s two universe-shaking transformations: the birth of Christ, celebrated in the dead of winter, when the … Read the rest
Advent Devotional: Dec. 13, 2019
Waiting
by Carla Dennis
Psalm 40:1 (The Message)
I waited and waited and waited for God. At last he looked; finally he listened.
Are we there yet? When will dinner be ready? As a child, my dad would frequently remind me that “patience is a virtue,” and I would usually snap back, “a virtue I don’t have!”
Having patience when … Read the rest