Order of Service: - Prelude - To You, O Lord (Psalm 1): Soloist: To You, O Lord, I lift my soul, to you, I lift my soul. Congr.: To You, O Lord, I lift my soul, to you, I lift my soul. S: Lord, make me know Your ways, teach me Your paths, and keep me in the way of Your truth, for Your are God, my Savior. C: To You, O Lord… S: For the Lord is good and righteous, revealing His way to those who seek Him, gently leading the poor and the humble. C: To You, O Lord… S: To the ones who seek the Lord, who look to His Word, who live His love, He will always be near, He will show them His mercy. C: To You, O Lord… - Matthew 3: 1-6: In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness; ‘Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight.’ ” Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins. - Devotion - Prayer - Hymn 106 - On Jordan's Bank the Herald's Cry - Blessing - Postlude Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Andy Schmidt (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Organist), Vianna Kovaciny (Soloist)