12/21/2014 Confession
Sunday
Title: Ready
Sunday
Sermon
Title: Ready
for the Word?
Previously:
Sunday
Title: Full
Sunday
Sermon
Title: Mary was
the first one to carry the Gospel?
Sunday
Title: Love Sunday
Sermon
Title: “Kingship”
Scripture
Cuttings:
2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 Thus says the Lord: Are you the one to build me a house
to live in? I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people
of Israel from Egypt
to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent and a tabernacle.
Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26 “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to my servant
David: ‘I will establish your descendants forever, and build your throne for
all generations.’”
-or-
Luke 1:47-55 “My
soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
Romans 16:25-27 but is now disclosed, and through the prophetic writings is made known
to all the Gentiles, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring
about the obedience of faith—
Luke 1:26-38 “Do
not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now, you will
conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be
great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give
to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob
forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
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: Let us approach the Lord with respect,
pondering anew what the
Almighty will do. (pause)
Most High God,
C: our plans
are not yours,
our ways are
not yours.
Yet you would choose to use us
and we would
take your choice as our license
and choose
to use you.
You reveal your glory,
and we hide it
away.
You plant your word within us,
we pick and
choose our words,
building our
fiefdom
instead of
proclaiming your Gospel.
Forgive us Lord the sins we name,
Save us Lord from the sins we evade.
(pause
for reflection and self-examination)
P: The Most high God is sending a son: Jesus,
his reign is without end. It is for the sake of Jesus the Christ that our sins are forgiven.
God’s faithfulness is revealed to bring our obedience in faith, that we to
might say:
C : “Here am I, the servant of the Lord;
let it be with me according to your word.”
P: 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!
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