Cycle B Lent 2

3/1/2015 Confession(s)

Sunday Title:  Name Sunday

Sermon Title: What is in a Name?

Previously: 

Sunday Title:  Cross Sunday

Sermon Title: Did I sign up for this?

Sunday Title:  Still Promise Sunday 

Sermon Title: Still Trusting the Promise

Sunday Title:  Covenant Sunday

Sermon Title: "Following in Faithfulness"

Sunday Title:  Promise Sunday

Sermon Title: “Acts of Faith and Righteousness”

Scripture Cuttings:

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."

Psalm 22:23-31 future generations will be told about the Lord, and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, saying that he has done it.

Romans 4:13-25 For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Mark 8:31-38 And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things."

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:  Shall we trust the Lord with our confession?

(perhaps trusting God will be easier than trusting ourselves to end our sinful ways)

  God Almighty...

C: we say your name,

  without understanding who you are.

We set our minds on human things

  not on divine things.

We are pleased to serve you

  but only in an advisory capacity.

We are unwilling to trust your faithfulness,

  perhaps because we are so unimpressed with our faithfulness.

Save us from the sins we know in our heart.

Save us from the sins we hide. (pause for reflection and self-examination)

P:  To our great fortune, faithfulness does not rely on us. Indeed God keep the promises made throughout the generations. Even to this sinful generation, the promise and fulfillment of salvation is made through Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, the Holy one of God. (For Christ's sake our sins are forgiven). We are invited into this faithfulness in order that the promise may rest solely on God's grace. 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!

during Lent the Absolution may be withheld

-or-

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:  God Almighty calls us to walk blameless before God. (pause)

  O Lord...

C: you make great promises in your plan of divine love,

  but we lack faith and turn our minds toward human things.

You give us an everlasting covenant of right relationship

  and we choose instead to pursue the whole world.

You reconcile our trespasses

  through the death and resurrection of Jesus our Lord,

    yet in our lives outside these church walls,

      we may be silent and passive,

        as though we are ashamed of Jesus and his words.

Save us from the sins we know in our heart.

Save us from the sins we hide. (pause for reflection and self-examination)

P:  In faithfulness our God is tireless. Through the righteousness of the faith of Jesus Christ we are heirs of the everlasting covenant. (For Christ's sake our sins are forgiven). The Holy Spirit provides for us opportunity to live; not as adherents of the law, but as people of faith, faith in our risen Lord Jesus Christ. 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!

during Lent the Absolution may be withheld