Cycle C Epiphany 4 (Lectionary 4)

2/3/2013 Confession

Sunday Title:  Prophet Sundays

Sermon Title: Home Bound

Previously:

Sunday Title:  Redemption Sunday -

Sermon Title: "The Ministry Begins"

Sunday Title:  Name Sunday 

Sermon Title: "From your Mother's Womb"

Scripture Cuttings:

Jeremiah 1:4-10 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

Psalm 71:1-6 For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ...and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

Luke 4:21-30 Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet's home town.

Confession:

P:  In the Name of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen

P:  Repent, come to God,

this is the call of the prophet, let us listen.

    (pause for self-examination)

P:  Creating God...

C: from our mother's womb you know us,

  but we want to keep you distant.

You place us into the world to build and to plant,

  yet we join the destruction of relationships and life.

We doubt your power presented to us,

  thinking ourselves more worthy than others,

    and unwilling to call you Lord.

Forgive our sins of pride,

Save us from our ignorance. (Pause for reflection)

P:  Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ comes to us. He is the Son of God. He heals and forgives our sins. We are invited to believe. By the power of the Holy Spirit we may know the salvation given in the words of absolution: for the sake of Jesus Christ our sins are forgiven. Freed from our burdens, now we may live in the love that endures. To the Glory of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.

P:  The peace of the Lord be with you always!

C: And also with you!

Cycle C Epiphany 3 (Lectionary 3)

1/27/2013 Confession

Sunday Title: Homecoming Sundays

Sermon Title: Reprieve

Previously:

Sunday Title: Word Sunday

Sermon Title: "The Living Word"

Sunday Title: Teaching Sunday

Sermon Title: "Being Taken to School"

Scripture Cuttings:

Nehemiah 8:1-3,5-6,8-10 So they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation. They gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

Psalm 19 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord

1 Corinthians 12:12-31a Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

Luke 4:14-21 Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.

Confession:

P:  In the Name of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen

P: Our God is a God of his word.

Let us confess our need for reconciliation: (will we let God bring us together?)

P: Lord God...

C: we bless you for the guidance you give

  we thank you for your creation

    we praise you for your promises....

but we do not follow your instructions

  we hoard your gifts

    we doubt the power of your Living Word to heal us.

Forgive us the sins we name

Save us from the sins we deny. (Pause for reflection)

P:  God chooses to recover God's own people. In our hearing God's promise of redemption is fulfilled. For the sake of Jesus Christ our sins are forgiven. Now the Spirit of the Lord rest upon us to proclaim God's mercy. Glory to the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen. -wjw

P:  The peace of the Lord be with you always!

C: And also with you!

Cycle C Epiphany 2 (Lectionary 2)

1/20/2013 Confession

 Sunday Title: Eight Day Sunday

Sermon Title: When is it time?

Previously:

Sunday Title: Sign Sunday

Sermon Title: Handwriting on the wall.

Sunday Title: New Life 25^th Anniversary

Sermon Title: Burry Our troubles

Scripture Cuttings:

Isaiah 62:1-5 …and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give.

Psalm 36:5-10 O continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your salvation to the upright of heart!

1 Corinthians 12:1-11 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

John 2:1-11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee,

and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Confession:

P:  In the Name of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen

P:  Our God desires a strong relationship with us.

Let us reverse our resistance to the Lord. (pause for self-examination)

P:  Mighty Lord...

C: you give us great variety:

in ability, style, age, race, even gender,

  but we still don’t see difference as a gift.

Instead we act selfishly insisting on our own way.

  We know the best way, the right way.

    and so we become drunk with self - right - ness,

      and can not taste the holy righteousness you provide.

Your abundance is spilling forth

  while we squander your gifts

    by protecting our own.

Forgive us the sins we choose.

Save us from the sins we let choose us.

(Pause for reflection)

P:  God is dying to reveal love and glory. God’s son Jesus Christ has died for our sake so that we might know our sins are forgiven. We are invited into an intimate relationship with God. Through the power of the Holy Spirit we may live in the forgivenes so generously poured upon us. To the Glory of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen. -wjw

P:  The peace of the Lord be with you always!

C: And also with you!

Cycle C Baptism of our Lord

1/13/2013 Confession

Sunday Title: Baptism Sunday

Sermon Title: My Baptism.

Previously:

Sunday Title: Focus Sunday -

Sermon Title: "A face in the crowd"

Sunday Title: Baptism of Our Lord 

Sermon Title: "Chaff and Wheat"

Scripture Cuttings:

Isaiah 43:1-7 Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine

Psalm 29 The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

Acts 8:14-17 ...for as yet the Spirit had not come upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus....

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.

Confession:

P:  In the Name of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen

P:  Together, we remember our Lord's claim upon us.

  Let us repent of our sins. (pause for self-examination)

P:  Lord...

C: we forget you make us.

We forget the lengths you go for us.

  We forget you call us by name.

We forget we belong to you.

  We forget you redeem us.

    We forget you make us holy.

Because we forget,

  your world does not see you in us.

    and we do not see you in us.

      still you claim us.

Forgive us our forgetting,

Save us from our evasion. (Pause for reflection)

P:  We are called by name to be children of God. We are born anew by the power of the Holy Spirit. For Christ's sake our sins are forgiven. By the Holy Spirit we may have power over the sin that causes our forgetfulness and our work may be sanctified by the enduring love of God. To the Glory of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen. -wjw

P:  The peace of the Lord be with you always!

C: And also with you!