Cycle A Christ the King

11/23/2014 Confession 

Sunday Title: Christ the King Sunday 

Sermon Title: Relevant Lordship

Previously:

Sunday Title: Christ the King Sunday 

Sermon Title: Shepherd King

Sunday Title: Christ the King 

Sermon Title: “Hearing your Blessings”

Sunday Title: Christ the King Sunday -

Sermon Title: “What Crown? What King?”

Scripture Cuttings:

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak....

Psalm 95:1-7a Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.

Ephesians 1:15-23 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you....

Matthew 25:31-46 Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.

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:  The Lord seeks the lost.

C: O God, we have strayed, and we call out to you. (pause)

P:  Heavenly Father hear us….

C: In the blessings you have given us

  we forget you are the champion of the weak, the injured, the lost.

We call ourselves your church

  but in our fellowship we look past the stranger,

    the hungry, the naked, the sick, those in prison.

We call Christ our King

  but we do not let your Son reign over our lives.

Save us Lord from the sins we know in our heart.

Save us Lord from the sins we hide.

  (pause for reflection and self-examination)

P:  Our Lord rescues us from all the places we scatter ourselves. In the working of God’s great power, Jesus Christ, God’s own Son is given for our sake. And our sins, which separates us from God, are forgiven. We may gather together in Christ name. Through the Holy Spirit we may receive the immeasurable greatness of his power. 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!