Worship at Batavia First UMC

Our worship service takes place every Sunday morning at 9:25am. 

We invite you to join us in person or to follow the service live on Facebook.

Children’s Sunday school takes place during our worship service. 

Nursery care is available.

Our building is ADA accessible.

There is a time of fellowship with light refreshments following the service.

We invite you to join us for both worship and fellowship.

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This Week’s Worship at Batavia First

 

Sunday, January 18

Second Sunday after the Epiphany

 

Our Scripture Readings for the morning:  Isaiah 49:1-7 and John 1:29-42. 

 

Pastor Marilyn’s morning message is titled “Give You as a Light”.  The theme of the message is that God, who gives us as light, is the source of our light.

 

Pastor Marilyn’s message to the children is titled “This Little Light”.

 

Our homework for this week:  It is our job to tell one another the truth of what is happening around us and how God is at work and calls us to be at work in response to the troubles throughout the world.  

Jeremiah 23: 1-6 (NRSV)

Restoration after Exile

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the Lord.  Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people:  It is you who have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them.  So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord.  Then I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.  I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the Lord.

The Righteous Branch of David

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.  In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety.  And this is the name by which he will be called:  “The Lord is our righteousness.”

 

Colossians 1:11-20 (NRSV)

Paul thanks God for the Colossians

May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.  He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

The Supremacy of Christ

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers–all things have been created through him and for him.  He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together.  He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.  For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.                                                                                                                                                 

 This is the word of God, for us, the people of God. 

Thanks be to God.

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