AT-HOME WORSHIP GUIDE FOR SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2026

AT HOME WORSHIP GUIDE

February 1, 2026

The Fourth Sunday
of Epiphany

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Since we are unable to gather in person for worship on this Lord’s Day, we encourage you to use this guide as a way to worship whether by yourself, as a couple, or as a family. You might choose to split up the responsive readings or simply pray through them on your own. As you work through the liturgy, we will provide prompts and explanations to guide you through each movement of the service. The songs are embedded YouTube videos which you can watch on your device or “cast” to a TV if there are others with you. The hymns and praise songs are lyric videos so you can sing along, or use it as an opportunity for prayerful meditation. It is our desire that this guide provide a way for us to engage in worshipping our Lord and Savior, even if we are not able to do so together and in person.

News & Aannouncements for this Sunday can be found here.

PRELUDE

Even when we worship from home, we begin by preparing our hearts. In today’s scripture, we will see how Jesus has lifted the veils that shield our heart and soul from the gracious gaze of God.. As you listen, let this song shape your heart for what God will teach us through His Word.

CALL TO WORSHIP — Isaiah 60:1-3

Even as we worship from home, God gathers His people through His Word. In the Call to Worship, we listen as God speaks, and then respond together in song, offering praise to the God who calls us as His own.

Leader: Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.

People: See, darkness covers the earth
and thick darkness is over the peoples,

Leader: but the LORD rises upon you
and his glory appears over you.

People: Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

*OPENING HYMN Arise, My Soul, Arise

*OPENING PRAYER

O God who quickens the faith that brought Magi from the east, who kindles the hope that brought captives from exile, and who inspires the love that brings strangers together, let the light that shone in the darkness shine upon us. Let it shine within us, that it might refine our divided hearts. Let it shine around us, that it might illumine the way that leads to our neighbors. And let it shine above us, that it might reveal the Christ who manifests your presence. Amen.

*PRAISE SONG Christ is Mine Forevermore

PRAYER OF CONFESSION — Unison, based on Matt. 2:1-16; 6:33

Confession is our honest response to God’s grace. Because God is merciful, we do not hide our sin or pretend we have it all together. We come truthfully before Him, trusting that forgiveness is found in Jesus Christ.

God of grace, you have given us Jesus, the light of the world, but we choose darkness and cling to things that hide the brightness of your love. Immersed in ourselves, we have not risen to new life. Baptize us with your Spirit, that, forgiven and renewed, we may preach your Word to the nations and tell of your glory shining in the face of Jesus Christ, our Lord and our light forever. Amen.

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON — 1 John 1:5-7

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Song of Response Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

After hearing God’s promise of forgiveness, we respond with praise. Whether singing along or listening prayerfully, this song invites us to rejoice in the goodness of Jesus and the grace we have received.

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH — Westminster Confession of Faith 7.6

Each week we affirm our faith together, often with a passage from the Westminster Confession or Catechisms, sometimes with the Apostles or Nicene Creed. In doing so, we both profess to others and remind ourselves of the truths of our faith, truths that are not new but ones that believers have professed for hundreds of years (or more).

We believe that under the gospel Christ himself, the substance of God’s grace, was revealed. The ordinances of this New Testament are the preaching of the word and the administration of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s supper. Although these are fewer in number and are administered with more simplicity and less outward glory, yet they are available to all nations, Jews and Gentiles, and in them the spiritual power of the covenant of grace is more fully developed. There are not then two essentially different covenants of grace, but one and the same covenant under different dispensations. Amen.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND LORD’S PRAYER

Even as we worship from home, we join the prayers of God’s people everywhere. In this time, we bring before the Lord the needs of others, the concerns of our community, and the burdens of our hearts. Take some time for free prayer, and when you are finished, conclude by saying the Lord’s prayer together in unison.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

We encourage you to open to the Word of God in a Bible that you have at home with you. If you do not have a bible, if you are on a laptop or tablet, you can find the scripture reading to the right of the order of worship; if you are on a phone it will be found below the order of worship.

NEW TESTAMENT READING: 2 Corinthians 4:1-12

¹ Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. ² But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. ³ And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. ⁴ In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. ⁵ For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. ⁶ For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁷ But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. ⁸We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. ¹¹ For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So death is at work in us, but life in you.

Pastor: The Word of the Lord

People: Thanks be to God

SERMON: Rev. David Garrison

UNVEILED

Series: Blessed to be a Blessing

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. – 2 Corinthians 4:6

*CLOSING HYMN Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed

*BENEDICTION

And now may the Lord bless you and keep you,

The Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you,

The Lord look upon you with favor and give you peace,

Now, and forevermore. Amen.