Call To Worship
Decades passed between the promise of anointing a shepherd boy's forehead and the fulfillment of a shepherd king's ascension to the throne. Centuries passed between the promise that a Son of David would rule forever and the time when death on a cross would lead to life everlasting. Come, all you who feel you have waited forever for the fulfillment of God's promise in your lives — wait a little longer with God's people — and see!

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God of promise, we promise our pa…