Call to Worship:*
Communal Votum:* “Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Amen.” Salutation:*
Congregational Singing: Psalm 24:1-3*
Ten Words & Assurance of Pardon
Congregational Singing: Psalm 130:1,2
Prayer of Confession, Renewal, and Illumination
Reading of Scripture: Jeremiah 31:15-34 Matthew 2
Congregational Singing: Psalm 77:1,2,5
Reading of Text: Matthew 2:16-18
Ministry of the Word: Lamentation in Bethlehem With Christ you have consolation even in lamentation.
1. Cause of the lamentation
2. Consolation in the lamentation
Congregational Singing: Psalm 42:1,2,7*
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Offertory
Congregational Singing: Hymn 3:1-3*
Benediction:* (with communal “Amen”)