Cycle C Pentecost

5/19/2013 Confession

Sunday Title: Pentecost

Sermon Title: Restless Spirit

Previously:

Sunday Title: Pentecost & Memorial Day

Sermon Title: What for the Lord?

Sunday Title: Transformation Sunday

Sermon Title: "Seeing Red”

Sunday Title: Pentecost 

Sermon Title: "The Spirit that Makes us Holy"

Scripture Cuttings:

Acts 2:1-21 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit.

Genesis 11:1-9 Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Psalm 104:24-34, 35b When you send forth your spirit, they are created; and you renew the face of the ground.

Romans 8:14-17 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption.

John 14:8-17 [25-27] And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.

Confession:

All may make the sign of the cross in remembrance of baptism

as the presiding minister begins:

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

C: Amen

P:  Are we prepared to live in the Spirit?

Let us call upon the name of the Lord, and know our salvation.

     (pause for self-examination)

P:  Almighty God...

C: we become distant from your presence,

we are perplexed at the telling of your deeds,

  and do not know what they mean for us.

Our trust abides in others

  as though we can not hear you,

    and we enslave our spirit

      with desires of the flesh.

We gather power and authority to ourselves

  but we have no holy ability.

Few sins we name before you; forgive us Lord

Many sins we conceal; save us Lord.

   (Pause for reflection)

P:  Through the revealing power of the Holy Spirit we may know Jesus Christ and the Heavenly Father who sends him. For Christ's sake, our sins are forgiven. We are saved. We are made whole. And the Advocate that Christ promises makes our work in Christ holy before God. We are children 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!

-or-

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

C: Amen

P:  Let us take this time to be honest with God. (pause)  

  Great God,

C: we come before you unsure of what to do with your gifts.

  You give us your Holy Spirit for guidance,

    yet we remain uncertain.

You breath your breath of life into us,

  yet we repeat our foolish choices.

You inspire your Church,

  yet we make it another tool of division.

Forgive us Lord for the sins we know in our heart.

Save us Lord from the sins we hide.

  (pause for reflection and self-examination)

P:  For all of this Lord we are deeply sorry.

C: Amen

P:  God who knows our hearts has indeed sent us a Savior: Jesus Christ our Lord. It is for his sake that God decides our sin stands against us no more, that we are children of God, and that the Holy Spirit poured out on us at our baptism will prevail in all our deeds!  In the name 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!