While our pocket calendars remind us that tomorrow is the second Sunday of January, the liturgical calendar highlights for us that we will be celebrating Baptism of the Lord Sunday, where we not only remember Christ’s baptism, but our own as well, for our baptism is rooted in Christ, and it marks us as God’s people.

Because God inspires us to sing a new song to the Lord, we will share in the gift of music, and participate in the responsive readings through the liturgy.

CALL TO WORSHIP AND THE LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLE Leader: Against the darkness of despair, the...