tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14525671080758661322023-11-15T10:38:21.779-08:00Confession RCLa confession written for each Sunday
in the Revised Common LectionaryBill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-43050245204066366712015-12-06T21:23:00.001-08:002015-12-06T21:23:28.739-08:00Cycle ABC Nativity of Our Lord Christmas Eve Set 1<h2>
12/24/2015 Confession</h2>
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Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Nativity
of Our Lord<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ready?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Nativity
of Our Lord<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Binding
Love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Isaiah 9:2-7 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For
a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his
shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace. His authority shall grow continually…. He will establish and
uphold [His kingdom] with justice and with righteousness from this time onward
and forevermore.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 96 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sing to the Lord, all the whole earth. Sing to the
Lord and bless his name, proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to
day. Declare his glory among the nations and his wonders among all peoples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Titus 2:11-14 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For
the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all….</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Luke 2:1-20 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“Do
not be afraid; for see I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is
born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Confession:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The birth of our
Lord is upon us,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">and we are not ready.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (decorations,
dinner, wraping, traveling, is not the ready God needs.)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Mighty God, Everlasting
Father...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: We think we are enlightened,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> yet we walk in great
darkness, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and live in a land
of deep darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">All together we think joy is getting what we want.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> And we exault in
having the spoils of our petty wins.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We ignore your zeal for the redemption of all peoples,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> while we zelously
defend for ourselves our traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">You come as the Prince of Peace with good will to all,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and we fight over the
reason for the season, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> instead of
seasoning our faithfulnes <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> with your
Wonderful Counsel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">With the good news of great joy in our hearing, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we do not seek your
salvation, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we do not speak
what has been told us. Instead;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">we muffel, shade and hold down justice and righteousness.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Together our sins are many: we blame others.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> And in the quiet of
our heart we think our sins few. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We are not ready.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us, forgove us, prepare us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for
reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Fear not! The grace
of God appears: bringing salvation to all! Our sins are forgiven! It is the
will of our great God and Savior: Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, to
redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own, zelous
for good deeds; all to the Glory of the Father and to the Son, + and to the
Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Glory to
God in the highest heaven,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and on earth peace and goodwill to all. Amen.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> -wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-21171485476814984332015-12-05T23:00:00.003-08:002015-12-05T23:00:21.223-08:00Cycle C Advent 4 <h2>
12/20/2015 Confession</h2>
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Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Trust
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">No;
really, trust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Love
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"A
Nice Place to Be From"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Micah 5:2-5a </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But
you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from
you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from
of old, from ancient days.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Luke 1:46-55 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My
soul magnifies the Lord</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 80:1-7 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Stir
up your might, and come to save us! Restore us, O God; let your face shine,
that we may be saved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hebrews 10:5-10 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">[Christ] abolishes the first in order to establish the second. And it
is by God's will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Luke 1:39-45 [46-55] </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leaped
in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled</span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">with
the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, "Blessed are you among
women…."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Confession:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The Lord's
righteousness is a witness against us, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> let us open our
hearts and trust in his mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (repentance is
trusting God's mercy in the face of judgment)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: our faithfulness is weak,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">we do not seek your strength <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> in our relationship
with you or each other.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We rely on our power and our pride in success.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We overlook the
lonely and the lowly,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Our hearts are too full of confidence in our faithfulness,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> to receive with joy
your faithfulness.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us the sins we may see<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us from the sins we refuse to see.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for
reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The ever faithful
God, with promises of old, comes again and anew. We have been sanctified- made
holy- through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ- once for all. Our sins
are forgiven! Christ was born for this! Through the filling of the Holy Spirit
we leap with joy as our souls proclaim the greatness of the Lord. Glory to the
Father and to the Son, + and to the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> -wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-78273786821000292542015-11-24T23:23:00.001-08:002015-11-24T23:23:07.703-08:00Cycle C Advent 3<h2>
12/13/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Joy
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What if
God really does want us to repent?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Really
Repentance Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Now,
Fear Repentance or would you rather Love Repentance?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Joy
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Fear
or Peace or Fear or Peace" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Zephaniah 3:14-20 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The Lord has taken away the judgments against you, he has turned away
your enemies. The king of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall fear
disaster no more.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Isaiah 12:2-6 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
will trust, and will not be afraid, for the Lord God is my strength and my
might; he has become my salvation.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Philippians 4:4-7 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not
worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Luke 3:7-18 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
the crowds asked him, "What then should we do?"</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Confession:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Surely God is our
salvation; let us trust and be not afraid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (repentance is
trusting God's mercy in the face of judgment)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we do
not begin to live in right relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We do not
offer you prayer and supplication.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We worry about things of this world,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and make ourselves the focus.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Sometimes
we are at "peace" <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> if we have what we want,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> yet our sisters and brothers are in need.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Still we
are neither ready nor concerned with judgment<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and so do not ask "what then should we
do?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> rather foolishly we rely on our "Christian"
affiliation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Our sin is
before you Lord<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">save us.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for
reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Sing and shout,
rejoice and exult with all your heart. The Lord takes away the judgment against us. God gives the
Son: Jesus Christ to take away the sin of the world. Our sins are forgiven, we shall
no longer fear evil or disaster. Our lives may now carry the worthy fruit of
our honest repentance for the glory of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy
Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> -wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-85492533178645551052015-11-22T22:47:00.000-08:002015-11-22T22:47:00.888-08:00Cycle C Advent 2<h2>
12/6/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Peace
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Prelude
to a New Creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Repentance
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fear
Repentance or Love Repentance?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Peace
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Straight
Paths"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ready
Sunday, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Who
Could be Ready?" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Malachi 3:1-4 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">See,
I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me....</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Luke 1:68-79 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And
you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before
the Lord to prepare his ways....</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Philippians 1:3-11 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">...that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full
insight to help you to determine what is best....</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Luke 3:1-6 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">[John]
went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance
for the forgiveness of sins....</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Confession:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us prepare for
the Lord’s coming by repenting of our sins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (contemplate
turning to God's ways)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we know
you want us to be pure,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and to commit our very best to you,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> but for now we want to keep you at arms
length.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Of course we
are prepared to hear the wonderful news.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We are ready for Christmas and Jesus' birth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We know the coming baby is Lord and Savior.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Still we don't act saved, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> nor serve under you our Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us
for the sins we recognize,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us
from the sins we conceal.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(Pause for reflection)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Our God is
producing a harvest of righteousness. In the gift of his Son, salvation comes to
God's people through the forgiveness of sins. Our sins are forgiven. We can
live in salvation today with lives of right relationship with God. To the Glory
of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> -wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!</span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-25968848351600776802015-11-16T15:53:00.000-08:002015-11-16T15:53:11.432-08:00Cycle C Advent 1 <h2>
11/29/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Alert Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ready
Faithfulness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Awaking
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Paying
Attention<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hope
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jeremiah 33:14-16 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The days are surely coming, says the Lord....</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 25:1-10 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I
lift up my soul. O my God, in you I trust....</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that
you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus
with all his saints.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Luke 21:25-36 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Now when these things begin to take place, stand up
and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Confession:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us prepare for
the Lord’s coming by repenting of our sins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (pause to reflect
how to prepare for Jesus' actual coming?)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: how long
do we wait for you to save your people?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">You must
hurry O Lord before we are distracted,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> before our attention is dissipated,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> before we are consumed with the worries of
life.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We need you
to execute justice,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and bring righteousness to the land.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> because we are unwilling to act like saved
children.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We are slow
to strengthen our hearts,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> reluctant to let your love in us increase,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> until it abounds for one another and for
all.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We hide our
unready, unworthy sinfulness <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> behind your coming Glory.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us
Lord for the sins we name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us
Lord from the sins we hide.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(Pause for reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lift up your heads
faithful people for our redemption is drawing near. God fulfills the promises
made through the prophets. God sends the Son for our salvation and we are made
right. For Christ's sake our sins are forgiven. Christ strengthen our hearts in
holiness that we may be blameless before our God and Heavenly Father. We too
may declare: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: The Lord
is our righteousness. Amen.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> -wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-70290711252735890662015-11-15T19:58:00.005-08:002015-11-15T19:58:53.719-08:00Cycle B Christ the King (Lectionary 34)<h2>
11/22/2015 Confession</h2>
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Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Subject
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">If
Christ is King who is Subject?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Royal
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">You’re
the One!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Christ
the King- Loyal Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Who's
in Charge Here?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To [one like a human being] was given dominion and
glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his
kingship is one that shall never be destroyed.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 93 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
L<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">ord</span> is king, he is robed in
majesty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Revelation 1:4b-8 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Grace to you and peace... from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the
firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">John 18:33-37 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My
kingdom is not from this world… For this I was born, and for this I came into
the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens
to my voice.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Together we appear
before our King.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">
(pause to examine our loyalty)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God King of
the Universe...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we
appreciate your creation<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">we are
impressed with the gift of life<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and moved by redemption.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We do plan a "thank you" in the
Kingdom Come.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">But for now
we would rather go our own way.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We make our rules rather than study your
instructions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We'll take convenience over discipleship.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We'll talk of the game, or argue our point, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> without ever making your witness.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Our hearts
are on local things,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> our plans: short term, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> our vision: nearsighted.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">You have
the glory forever and ever,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> just give us the other stuff here and now.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for
reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Forgive us <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Forgive
us the sins we can name,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Open to us the truth we do not see. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The King of the
Universe is making a state visit. He brings us the truth: Jesus Christ the
firstborn of the dead, frees us from our sin by his blood! We are forgiven!
Christ is our King! Now Jesus is recruiting you and me to be faithful priests
in his service. Everyone who belongs to the truth will listen to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Glory to
the Father and to the Son <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and to the Holy Spirit! Amen</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-40675509735396191272015-11-01T19:41:00.000-08:002015-11-01T19:41:33.412-08:00Cycle B Lectionary 33 Proper 28 <h2>
11/15/2015 Confession</h2>
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Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A “little” Apocalypse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Alarm Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sound the Alarm!: Don’t be
Alarmed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Women's Thank Offering
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"What are we struggling
towards?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Last" Call
Sunday,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Imminent and
Immediate"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Daniel 12:1-3 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Those
who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who lead
many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 16 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Your
boundary lines mark out pleasant places for me.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hebrews 10:11-25 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are
sanctified.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 13:1-8 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tell
us, when will this be, and what will be the sign that all these things are
about to be accomplished?</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Confession:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the Name of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us confidently
enter the sanctuary of God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(pause- did we check our worthiness
at the door?)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: when will be the end of things?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">You know, so tell us, tell us, we want to know!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much longer will
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much longer do
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">How much longer must we serve others without our reward?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When will you show us
your Glory?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When do we get to
retire?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How long till we
get there?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us the sins we can name,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us from the sins we don't see.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus Christ has
offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins. Our sins are forgiven!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of this we can enter the sanctuary of
our Lord, we may approach God with a true heart in full assurance of faith, and
spur ourselves and one another to love and to good deeds, encouraging one
another for the Day approaching. In the name of the Father, and the Son, + and
the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> -wjw</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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11/8/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Women’s
Thankoffering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Don’t be
Alarmed! Sound the Alarm!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Less
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Less
is More"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Copper
Sunday, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Faithfulness
and Abundance"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1 Kings 17:8-16, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as well as he and her
household ate for many days.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 146 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hallelujah,
Praise the Lord, O my soul!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hebrews 9:24-28 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">...he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by
the sacrifice of himself.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 12:38-44 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">...all
of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty....</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Confession:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us turn our
hearts back over to God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (pause to question who owns our
hearts instead of God)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we are
afraid we will run out,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">we won't
have enough,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we won't be happy,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we won't be respected,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we won't be good enough,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we won't be loved,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we won't be remembered.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We want to
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we want to buy all these things.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us
the sins we name today,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us
from the sins we hoard for tomorrow. </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(Pause
for reflection)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The Lord provides
for all things. To the glory of our Heavenly Father, Jesus the Christ appeared
once, for all, to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself. Our sins are
forgiven. By the Holy Spirit, in our baptism, we are made children of God. We
are invited to live in the love God pours upon us. In the name of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> -wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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11/1/2015 Confession </h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Twenty-Third
Sunday after Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Instruction
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When all
is more than all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Deuteronomy 6:1-9 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt;">Hear, O Israel: The <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is our God, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>
alone. You shall love the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>
your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your
might. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 119:1-8 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Happy
are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>…. How can young people keep their
way pure? By guarding it according to your word.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hebrews 9:11-14 …</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works
to worship the living God! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 12:28-34 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other
commandment greater than these." </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us prepare to
worship the living God!</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (pause for reflection)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (heart, soul, mind
and strength are required now)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: O Lord, our God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we are
not close to your words, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> nor do we listen to your statutes, decrees,
laws or ordinaces.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We don’t
even like to read the instructions <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> for our own longevity or prosperity<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> if it means giving up the pleasures of the
moment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We do not
take satisfaction in faithfulness, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> but only see it as an obedient burden.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">How could
we ever consider to love to you <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> with all our heart, mind, soul and strength? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> And then what could be left for our
neighbor?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> For oursleves?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We have
many allegances.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We wear them on foreheads, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and argue them in our conversations, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and fly their banners on our homes,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we give them our resources, time, and
passion. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">But you
have gone missing among them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">How could
we teach our children well? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Our works
are dead!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">For the
sins we name, forgiove us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">From the
sins we hide, save us.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (pause for reflection)</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: When Christ came as
a high priest of the good things that have come, he obtained eternal redemption
through his blood. For Christs’ sake our sins are forgiven. Now through the
eternal Spirit our conscience may be purfied and we may turn our heart, soul,
mind and strength to the Lord our God. And learning from God’s words we may
love our neighbor as ourself. All this to the Glory of the Father, and the Son,
+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-52673166605580637662015-10-24T23:26:00.000-07:002015-10-24T23:26:10.258-07:00Cycle B All Saints<h2>
11/1/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All
Saints Sunday Tears Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What
makes me cry?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All
Saints Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Waiting
for God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All the
Saints Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hope <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> ALL Saints <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> "The
Days are Getting Shorter"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> All Saints Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> "The
Final Trust"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Isaiah 25:6-9 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">...This
is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his
salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 24 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
earth is the Lord's and all that is in it....</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Revelation 21:1-6a </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">...he will wipe every tear from their eyes.... ...for the first things
have passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">John 11:32-44 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Did
I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us be honest
with God.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (pause for reflection)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (actually, how could we be dishonest with God,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> really only
dishonest with ourselves)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we really
don't trust you,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">not with
our whole selves,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> not with the things most important to us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We second
guess your stake in our welfare,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we complain about our weakness and mortality,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we even doubt the power of your
resurrection,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> at least when it applies so dearly to us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We cling to
those who have gone to Glory.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We trust
not your mercy and grace.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us
our weak faith,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us
from our evasion.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (pause for reflection)</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lo, this is our
God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us. Let us be glad and
rejoice in his salvation. If we believe, we will see the Glory of God in Jesus
Christ. It is through Christ that our sins are forgiven, and through Christ
that we may believe in the resurrection. Christ himself calls us to come out of
our tombs of sin and faithlessness. Now, we are unbound and set free to live!
To live to God's glory. In the name of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy
Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-34992717018193345022015-10-24T23:23:00.004-07:002015-10-24T23:23:47.240-07:00Cycle ABC Reformation<h2>
10/25/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Reformation
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Independence
Day?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">New
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“From
faithfulness to religion and back”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Heritage
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What is
Your Favorite Passage in Scripture? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Reformation
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">God and
God Alone <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Reformation
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">dismembering
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Reformation Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Affirmation Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What is
next? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Reformation Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Grace
is that hard to believe"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Free
to Choose Freedom" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Inner
Bondage" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Slave
or Free" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Why
Reform” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Know
the Lord!- Compliance or Confidence”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jeremiah 31:31-34 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and
I will be their God, and they shall be my people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 46 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
L<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">ord</span> of hosts is with us: the God
of Jacob is our fortress.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Romans 3:19-28 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For
there is no distinction, since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of
God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that
is in Christ Jesus....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">John 8:31-36 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Very
truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us put aside
our good works <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and remember that we
do sin and fall short of the glory of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (silence is a good way
to end a public boast<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> confession is a
good way to end a private boast)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Lord of all,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: the
demands of your righteousness <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">are too
hard for us to fulfill alone, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> so we rush off with this excuse <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and ignore your law. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">You forgive
our iniquity and remember our sin no more, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and we abuse this freedom <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> as if it were a license to selfishness, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> self-indulgence and self-righteousness. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">You give us
the gift of grace: atonement in the blood your Son, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> yet we make it cheap without serious
repentance. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We fail to
see the power of your faithfulness. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We are your
people, but do we know you as our God? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us
Lord, the sins we know in our heart. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us
Lord from the sins we hide. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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and self-examination)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: God of our refuge
and strength...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: have
mercy on us, write on our hearts. Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: God does show us
God’s own righteousness, and divine forbearance. Through the work of the Holy
Spirit given to us, we may come to know the truth and be made free. Jesus
Christ the Son of God sets us free from our slavery to sin. Our sins are
forgiven. Through his death and resurrection a place is made for us in the
household, and we may be know as children of God. To the glory of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: We have all sinned
and fall short of the glory of God,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> before we worship we
should prepare our hearts... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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self-examination)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Faithful Lord...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we are
slaves to our sin,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we choose this bondage each day.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Sometimes
we plot a wicked deed,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> or use our status for personal gain.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We follow through with an unfair advantage,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and always remain oblivious in small
offenses.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Whatever
our sin is we justify it to ourselves,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> ignore our conscience,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> rationalize it to the authorities<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and boast of it to our friends.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">This
remains our habit, our way<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> because we do not tend to our relationship
with you. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Rather we
consider ourselves all right with you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We treat your forgiveness like permission.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Lord,
forgive the sin we confront.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Lord, save
us from the sin we evade in heart and mind. </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(Pause for reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: God's righteousness
is shown to us. We are now justified- that is brought into right relationship-
with God by God's grace, as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus. For Christ's sake our sins are forgiven. In this state of grace we may recognize
God is writing on our hearts, and live as faithful people of God. To the glory
of the Father, Son, + and Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-89717687577821858362015-10-15T23:16:00.000-07:002015-10-15T23:16:11.533-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 30 Proper 25 <h2>
10/25/2015 Confession </h2>
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Sunday after Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sight
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A cross
the distance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jeremiah 31:7-9 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">"Save, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, your
people, the remnant of Israel."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 126 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Those
who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">shall come home with shouts
of joy, carrying their sheaves.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hebrews 7:23-28 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Unlike the other high priests, he has no need to offer sacrifices day
after day, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; this he
did once for all when he offered himself.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 10:46-52 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When
he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say,
"Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he
cried out even more loudly, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">"Son of David, have
mercy on me!" </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us mortals approach
God who is holy, blameless, undefiled, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">for the forgiveness of our sins. </span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(pause to remember God
calls us to be holy, blameless, and undefiled)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we do
not respect you as a loving parent.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we do not rejoice with our distant kindred <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> especially when you gather us together.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We do not
cry out for your mercy,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> nor insist on your righteousness.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Perhaps because
we are not ready to retrun to you,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and follow you on the way. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">For us the
sins we name: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> have mercy upon us,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">From the
sins we hide: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> save us, save, O Lord, your people. </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(Pause for reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: It is Christ Jesus
who is able make intercession on behalf of us mortals. It is in Christ Jesus’
faithfulness, once and for all, that our sins are forgiven. Now shall our witness
be that the Lord has done great things for us? And will we walk in straight
path and not stumble? All too the glory of the Father, and the Son, + and the
Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the Lord
be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-18600303514421579792015-10-06T23:46:00.000-07:002015-10-06T23:46:03.695-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 29 Proper 24<h2>
10/18/2015 Confession </h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Twenty-First
Sunday after Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ransom
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The
Lesson of the Cross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Cost Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Discipleship
on the way to the cross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Position
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What can
I do for you? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Service
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Lip
Service"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Career
Advancement Sunday, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Movin'
on Up"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Isaiah 53:4-12 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">...upon
him was the punishment that made us whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 91:9-16 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">With
long life I will satisfy them, and show them my salvation.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hebrews 5:1-10 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">...he
became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 10:35-45 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">...but
whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant....</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us offer our
confession before God,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> in reverent
submission. </span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(pause to remember submission can be ok)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: it is
hard for us to be modest, even in your presence.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We are
concerned with rank and position,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and putting forward a most confident image,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> but we remain truant from the school of
service.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We resent
loftiness in our leaders,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> but then think too much of ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We like your salvation, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> but this humility; it just isn’t for us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us
the sins we name,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us from
the sins we deny. </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(Pause for reflection)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The Lord is our
refuge, and we shall not be plagued with evil, even of our own making. God has
appointed Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son, our high priest. In his obedient
suffering and death, Christ has become the source of eternal salvation. For his
sake our sins are forgiven. With clean hearts we my follow and serve him. In
the name of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!</span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-9355965453072827122015-10-02T22:44:00.000-07:002015-10-02T22:44:02.088-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 28 Proper 23<h2>
10/11/2015 Confession </h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Muscle
Memory Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Practice,
Practice, Practice”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rich
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Welcome
Pastor Edward Ulseth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Relinquish
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What to
give up to follow Jesus <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rich Man
Sunday, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Thank
God I'm not a rich man!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Seek good and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of
hosts, will be with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 90:12-17 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">So
teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hebrews 4:12-16</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">
Indeed the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged
sword....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 10:17-31 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For
mortals it is impossible, but not for God; for God all things are possible.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: We are lost, for
God knows the number of our transgressions, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">and how great are our sins.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (pause for self-examination)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: what do
we lack in being righteous?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We kept the
commandments... ...mostly.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We are good Christians... ...we tell
everybody that!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">And we
follow you, see we are here today... ...this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Look at us, we are not even like those rich
people.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> When is it, tell us again, when will we be
rewarded?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us,
save us, save us Lord from our sins.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: God who demands
righteousness, who divides soul from spirit, who judges all, sends for our sake
a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God.
For Christ's sake our sins are forgiven. We receive mercy and grace finds us. Now
through the Holy Spirit, let us make our confession honest and live that grace
and mercy throughout our whole lives. In the name of the Father, and the Son, +
and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-61608766830998452752015-09-29T23:34:00.002-07:002015-09-29T23:34:36.693-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 27 Proper 22<h2>
10/4/2015 Confession<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Indignant
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Is God;
who made us for relationship, pleased with us?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“How do
you interpret scripture?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Relationship
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Relationship-
it get’s around. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Little
Child Sunday, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"A
Second Childhood?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Genesis 2:18-24 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This at last is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; this one shall
be called Woman for out of Man this one was taken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 8 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">O
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various
ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 10:2-16 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Let
the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these
that the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">kingdom</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">God</st1:placename></st1:place> belongs.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us soften our
hearts, so that we may approach our Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(pause for
self-examination)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: how
complicated we want to make your world.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We hunt for
ways to satisfy our desires,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and bypass your intention in creation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We
convolute the reasons for our actions,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> trying to justify ourselves and persuade you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Still we
ignore the call to your kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">For the
sins we can name, forgive us Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">For the
sins we hide, save us Lord.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for reflection)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Long ago God spoke
to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these days
God speaks to us by a Son. Jesus Christ is the pioneer of our salvation, made
perfect through suffering. It is for Christ's sake our sins are forgiven. It is
Christ who calls us brothers and sisters and children of the one Heavenly
Father. In the Holy Spirit we may become honest in our repentance and children
in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Kingdom</st1:placetype> of
<st1:placename w:st="on">God</st1:placename></st1:place>. To the Glory of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-60472196037116838232015-09-22T23:09:00.003-07:002015-09-22T23:09:37.729-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 26 Proper 21<h2>
9/27/2015 Confession</h2>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Little
Child Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Which
weighs more a millstone or a cup of water?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Inside
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Take
them in, let them out.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Serious
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"How
short is the Lord's Hand"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Little
Child Sunday, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"A
Second Childhood?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But Moses said... "Are you jealous for my sake?
Would that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his
spirit on them!"</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 19:7-14 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Moreover
by [your instructions] is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great
reward.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">James 5:13-20 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 9:38-50 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Salt
is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you restore its saltiness?
Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us set aside
our grumbling,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> confessing our sins
to one another, and praying for one another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (pause to reflect:
what would we be afraid to confess to one another?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">pause to reflect: why would we be afraid to confess to one
another?)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: you see all that we do. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">You know all that we fail to do.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We do not pray when
we suffer <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> because we do not
trust your timetable.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We do not sing praises when we are cheerful<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> because we want even
more.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We do not confess our sin to one another<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> because we do not
trust each other-<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and for good
reason:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">we wander from the truth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and do not hold each
other accountable,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> except to make
ourselves look good.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Hard is our confession: forgive us Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Deep are the consequences of our sin: save us Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for
reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Though we kindle
the Lord's anger, strong is our God's faithfulness. Our sins are forgiven for
the sake of our Lord and Savior: Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is poured out
upon us, and we are invited to live all our days, well seasoned in the grace of
God, and in peace with one another. Then more will see the glory of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">-or-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Psalm 19:7-14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Leader: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">The law of
the Lord is perfect,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">reviving
the soul;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">the decrees
of the Lord are sure,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">making wise
the simple;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">the
precepts of the Lord are right,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">rejoicing
the heart;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">the
commandment of the Lord is clear,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">enlightening
the eyes;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">the fear of
the Lord is pure,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">enduring
forever;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">the
ordinances of the Lord are true<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">and righteous
altogether.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">More to be
desired are they than gold,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">even much
fine gold;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">sweeter
also than honey,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">and
drippings of the honeycomb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Moreover by
them is your servant warned;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">in keeping
them there is great reward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">But who can
detect their errors?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Clear me
from hidden faults.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Keep back
your servant also from proud thoughts;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">do not let
them have dominion over me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Then I
shall be blameless,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">and innocent
of great transgression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Let the
words of my mouth <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Women: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">and the
meditation of my heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Men: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">be
acceptable to you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">All: </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> -New Revised Standard Version<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">P: The peace of the Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">C: And also with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-86400972295939779202015-09-12T10:21:00.000-07:002015-09-12T10:21:06.615-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 25 Proper 20<h2>
9/20/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Greatest
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> How to
succeed in Christianity without really caring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Success
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> How does
Christianity thrive in a success driven culture?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Greatest
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In the
Centers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Last
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Vindication
from Our Prosecution"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jeremiah 11:18-20 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. And I did not know
it was against me that they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the
tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that
his name will no longer be remembered!"</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 54 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But
surely, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">James 3:13-4:3,7-8a </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be
disorder and wickedness of every kind. But the wisdom from above is first pure,
then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits,
without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 9:30-37 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">"Whoever
wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all." Then he took a
little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them,
"Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever
welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us draw near to
God <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> so that God may draw
near to us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (pause to reflect: how near to God would
be comfortable)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we are
reluctant to look to you for right and wrong<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> except of course when we are right<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and can prove it by quoting scripture- or
tradition,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> or we conspire to do wrong, but it is for
your glory.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We consider
ourselves leaders in the faith,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> yet we never lead by being last.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">While we
may not call ourselves great,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we do identify and shun the least among us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We become
false witnesses: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> welcoming our children's children<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> but only some of your children.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Lord if
these are the sins we name for your forgiveness...<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">what are
the sins we hide?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us
Lord. Save us Lord.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Our God knows good
from evil, and will judge righteously. God calls to trial our hearts and minds.
But for our sakes, the Son of Man is betrayed, killed, and rises again. For
Christ's sake our sins are forgiven. By the power of the Holy Spirit we may
know and live in the wisdom that comes from above: pure, peaceable, gentle,
willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality
or hypocrisy. All this to the glory of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy
Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-71764864041830685872015-09-01T22:33:00.001-07:002015-09-01T22:33:10.634-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 24 Proper 19<h2>
9/13/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rally
Day Servant Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> What
does Service require?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Identity
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Who do <i>you</i> say that I am?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Suffering
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Suffering-
you gotta be kiddin me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Cross
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Who
will teach of the cross....... by example?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tongue
Sunday, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"What
will you say?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Isaiah 50:4-9a</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">
The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn
backward.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 116:1-9 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">O
Lord, I pray you, save my life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">James 3:1-12 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">So
also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a
forest is set ablaze by a small fire!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 8:27-38 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But
who do you say that I am?.... If any want to become my followers, let them deny
themselves and take up their cross and follow me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: We know we can not
pretend to be deaf to God's call. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(pause to examine what noise keeps us from being a
"listener")<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we set
our minds on human things, not on divine things.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Usually it
is our own things we set our minds upon.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We confess to be your disciples, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">but if it
involves carrying a burden,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> or rejection, or suffering, or discomfort,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we are not so quick to deny ourselves, take
our cross and follow.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">You put the
word in our ears and in our hands,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> but we do not strive to become listeners and
learners,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> how can we think to become followers and
disciples?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">For the
sins we can name, forgive us Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">For the
sins we hide, save us Lord.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for reflection)</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Our God desires to
teach us, to open our ears, to call us to true repentance. To this end God sends
the Messiah, the Christ, to undergo great suffering, be rejected and killed,
and after three days rise again. It is for Christ's sake that our sins are
forgiven. Through the power of the Holy Spirit we may become followers, giving
our very lives into the hands of God all for the good news in Jesus Christ. In
the name of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-14122205749083791582015-08-23T23:26:00.001-07:002015-08-23T23:26:48.200-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 23 Proper 18 <h2>
9/6/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mercy Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Please
Welcome Pastor Richard Bowen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Healing
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> What ails
us?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rally
Day <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Reaching
beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rally
Day <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Opening
Day"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rally
Day, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Are
you ready?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Isaiah 35:4-7a </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Be
strong, do not fear! Here is your God.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 146 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Praise
the Lord, O my soul!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">James 2:1-17 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">have
you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil
thoughts? ...mercy triumphs over judgment.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 7:24-37 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">He
has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Our trail of
unfaithfulness lays behind us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> If we are ready God
will strengthen our repentance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (silently reflect
on an inward choice to follow Christ)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: how
firmly rooted are we in our faith?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We ignore
your judgment to count on your mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We abandon works since they can't buy
salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We are
afraid of the changes you may make in our lives,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and so we do not seek you with our whole
heart.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We judge
others, as unworthy of your mercy,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> or as too far gone to be changed,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and we fail to see your power, for them and
for us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We name
sins, forgive us Lord.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We hide sins,
save us Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Our God does come
and save us. In the person of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, abundant mercy is
poured upon us. It is for Christ's sake our sins are forgiven. Through the Holy
Spirit our healing may take the effect of a testimony to the saving power of
God. We also may testify in our own works of mercy, all to the glory of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-80061989024859905262015-08-19T22:28:00.001-07:002015-08-19T22:28:10.131-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 22 Proper 17<h2>
8/30/2015 Confession<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Grace Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> “Holy”
traps that lead us away from grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tradition
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Please
Welcome <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pasto</st1:place></st1:city>r
Jim Brandis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pure
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">What is
Pure?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Witness
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Faithful
as Witness"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hypocrite
Sunday, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Hypocrites
only, others need not apply"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Deuteronomy
4:1-2, 6-9; Song of Solomon 2:8-13 (semicontinuous); Psalm 15; Psalm 45:1-2,
6-9 (semicontinuous); James 1:17-27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 (Green)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You must neither add anything to what I command you
nor take away anything from it.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 15 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">O
Lord, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy hill?</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">James 1:17-27 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But
be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 7:1-23 </span><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">(Mark </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">7:1-8, 14-15,
21-23) <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Isaiah prophesied rightly
about you hypocrites...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> 'this people honors me with their lips, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> but their hearts are far from me....' <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: We, who speak with
our lips for each others ears, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> let us talk with God
from our hearts. </span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(pause for self-examination)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we are not careful with words and deeds, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">we do not watch closely our intentions,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> we forget: disobedience destroys our witness
of you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We abandon your commandments,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> to hold fast to our
self-serving traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Mostly, we are
hearers of your word, seldom doers.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We excuse ourselves from studying your instructions,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> not learning what is
wrong and right, and why.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Devoted are we to
following our hearts,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> discerning
ourselves what <i>feels</i> wrong and right.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Here Lord we have named sins, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> forgive us in our
honest repentance.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Here Lord we have hidden sins, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> save us from the evil
we will not acknowledge.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(Pause for reflection)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">P: God </span>chooses<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> us as
God's own people to show the light of salvation to the world. Jesus Christ is
revealed to us, and for his sake our sins are forgiven. Hearers of God's mercy,
forget not this liberty from sin, be inspired by the Holy Spirit to know the
truth in the law and the love of God. Let us not remain hypocrites, rather let
us become hearers and doers of God’s word. Let us make God's mercy alive in
thought, word and deed, by the power of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy
Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-31216537042298034862015-08-10T21:01:00.004-07:002015-08-10T21:02:32.352-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 21 Proper 16<h2>
8/23/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Chosen Sunday</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Chosen
and Choice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fed
Sunday</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Please
Welcome <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pasto</st1:place></st1:city>r George
Gaiser<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Body Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Be the
Body.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Choice Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> "The
Choice vs. Inertia"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> John 6 Sunday - Part 5, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> "Bread
and Body - Part 5 – "Lord and Disciple. The Time to Choose"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Therefore we also will serve the Lord, for he is our
God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 34:15-22 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Many
are the trouble of the righteous, but the Lord will deliver them out of them
all.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ephesians 6:10-20 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Therefore take up the whole armor of God....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">John 6:56-69 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">...Do
you also wish to go away? ...Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of
eternal life.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Where can we go
with our unworthiness?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> How can we present
ourselves before God?</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (we can run but we can not hide)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we call
ourselves your children,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">but we turn
away as soon as your teachings become difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> We stake our claim, on your claim of us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Your chosen people we are.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> But are you the Lord of our living?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We say the
words and confess you as Lord,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> yet we do not follow as disciples.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Instead we choose to serve ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">This hour
we do not wish to go away,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Lord to whom can we go?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us
Lord for the sins we think to name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us
from the sins we hide.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: It is the Lord God
who brings us out of the bondage of unworthiness and the slavery of sin. Our Heavenly
Father has chosen us, for Christ Jesus is revealed to us. For Christ's sake our
sins are forgiven. On this day we choose to live the words of eternal life. By
the power of the Holy Spirit we may choose to serve our risen Lord; disciples
of truth and faithfulness. In the name of the Father, and the Son, + and the
Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-86828535550449088862015-08-08T22:45:00.002-07:002015-08-08T22:45:51.460-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 20 Proper 15 <h2>
8/16/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Truth
Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Blasphemy
and Truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Still
Fed Again Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Literally
walking on the Sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Grace
Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"The
Revelation of Full Grace"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">John 6
Sunday - Part 4, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Bread
and Body - Part 4 - "Are You Ready to Hear This?"</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Proverbs 9:1-6 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Lay
aside immaturity, and live, and walk in the way of insight.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 34:9-14 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">...seek
peace and pursue it.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ephesians 5:15-20 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">...giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything....</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">John 6:51-58 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“Very
truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his
blood, you have no life in you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Confession:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the Father,
and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Are we ready to
hear this? God calls us to right relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Let us admit our
error: living outside God's will for us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (pause to think
what might distract us from God's will)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: You
invite us to your feast of wisdom. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> but we choose our folly.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We ignore
and rationalize our mortality,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> pretending we don't need you for life.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">You call us
to step up the living of our lives,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> but we will not yield our religion or piety,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> to listen to your voice or find your
redemption in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us
from ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Forgive us our sins.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for
reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Our living Heavenly
Father sends to us his only Son, to give his very life for the life of the
world. For you and for me. It is for Christ's sake that our sins are forgiven.
It is through the power of the Holy Spirit that we may lay aside our immaturity
and feast at the banquet of wisdom. We may live and walk in the ways of
insight, insight of God's grace. To the glory of the Father, and the Son, + and
the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">P: The peace of the Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">C:
And also with you!</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></b>Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-32740434258459753332015-08-01T09:10:00.003-07:002015-08-01T09:10:59.089-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 19 Proper 14<h2>
8/9/2015
Confession<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Heaven Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> New
Bread New Life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Fed Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Harder
than you think - harder than you can think.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Still Fed Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Drawn by
the Heavenly Father<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Touch Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> "Touched
by an Angel?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> John 6 Sunday - Part 3, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> "Bread
and Body - Part 3 - "Rope's End"</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1 Kings 19:4-8 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">[Elijah]
asked that he might die: "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life .</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 34:1-8 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Taste and see that the L<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">ord</span> is good.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ephesians 4:25-5:2 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Put away from you all bitterness… and be kind
to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has
forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in
love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and
sacrifice to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">John 6:35, 41-51 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has
eternal life. I am the bread of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us restart our
journey with God <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> by taking time for
serious confession. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (pause to remember
what stalled this journey)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we call
ourselves people of faith,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">but we
think when we reach the end of our rope,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> it is the end of the rope.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We fill up
our hearts with wrangling, bitterness and malice,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and call it "standing up for what's
right",<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> yet your overwhelming message to us is your
grace.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We need
your redemption, we need it badly,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and you deliver to us: "the bread of
life."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> But
we resist allowing it to nourish us,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and so we wallow in despair, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> or self-righteousness.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us
for the sins we can name,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Save us
from the sins we hide.</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> (Pause for reflection)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Our Heavenly Father
draws us to him through the word and the word made flesh. Jesus Christ is the
word made flesh, the living bread come down from heaven. It is for Christ's
sake our sins are forgiven. Through this grace we may regain our strength and
put away anger and wrath and all sorts of evil dealing. Even our words may give
grace to those who hear. In the Holy Spirit, as beloved children of God, living
in love as Christ loved us, we give ourselves as an offering and sacrifice to
God. To the glory of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-1635077662343205822015-07-28T11:55:00.003-07:002015-07-28T11:55:43.974-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 18 Proper 13 <h2>
8/2/2015 Confession </h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Seek Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Seeking
the Bread of Life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Fed Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> The Work
of God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Fed Sunday
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Hunger
Again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Manna Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> "True
Bread"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> John 6 Sunday - Part 2, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> "Bread
and Body - Part 2 - "Motive - the test of Faith"</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Exodus 16:2-4,9-15, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">"...enough for that day. In that way I will test them...."</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 78:23-29 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">...He rained down manna upon them to eat and gave
them grain from heaven.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ephesians 4:1-16 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">...lead a life worthy of the calling to which
you have been called....</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">John 6:24-35 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the
food that endures for eternal life....</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: We do not follow
the Lord's instructions, let us confess our sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(pause for
self-examination)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord God...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: we are prosperous beyond anyone's imagination,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> except our
imagination.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We would rather be fed and comfortable,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> than committed in service
to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">we seek the junk food that perishes,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> not the spiritual
food that endures for eternal life.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We even think we can achieve purity through personal virtue.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us for the sins we can name,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Save us from the sins
we hide. </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(Pause for reflection)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Our God loves us so
much as to put before us the very spiritual food that endures for eternal life.
It is Jesus Christ, God's only Son our Lord. For Christ's sake our sins are
forgiven. In the power of the Holy Spirit we may lead a life worthy of the
calling to which we have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with
patience, bearing one another in love. To the Glory of God the Father, and the
Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Bill Wessnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06232030643715249945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452567108075866132.post-18514044940740670952015-07-13T11:50:00.004-07:002015-07-13T11:50:22.285-07:00Cycle B Lectionary 17 Proper 12 <h2>
7/26/2015 Confession</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Vector Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> How far
does God go to show God’s love?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Previously:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Fed Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> What are
the leftovers of our spiritual meal?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Passover Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> “Hunger”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Imagination Sunday <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sermon
Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> "Offerings
& First Fruits"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sunday
Title: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> John 6 Sunday- Part 1, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> "Bread
and Body - Part 1 - The Approach - Faith"</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Scripture
Cuttings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2 Kings 4:42-44 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing food from the first fruits to
the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 145:10-18 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due
season. You open your hand, satisfying the desire of every living thing.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ephesians 3:14-21 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I pray that you may have the power to comprehend... the love of Christ
that surpasses knowledge... who by the power at work within us... is able to
accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">John 6:1-21 </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among
so many people?... Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he
distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they
wanted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All may make the sign of the cross in
remembrance of baptism<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as the presiding minister begins:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: In the Name of the
Father, and the Son, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">+ and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Let us deal
honestly with God, our God, who comes to be with us. </span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(pause to invite God
to center our awareness)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: Lord...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: you
promise you will provide,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> again and again in the scriptures.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">You do
provide, again and again in our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Still we look to hoard <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> a super abundance <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> through our own means,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> and so do not trust you with our first
fruits.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We always
want enough to have left overs,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> but then our left overs are not good enough,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> so we give them as offerings to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We quantify
what we can and can not do,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> with our knowledge of what we do and do not
have.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">We use fear
instead of faith to make our decisions,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> fooling ourselves about what is possible in
your sight.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Forgive us
for the sins we can name, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> save us from the sins we hide. </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">(pause for reflection)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: It is for the glory
of God that we should know the love of Christ. That Jesus himself, the Son of
God, is given up for our sake for the forgiveness of our sins. Our sin are
forgiven. And according to the riches of our Heavenly Father's glory we may be
strengthened in our inner being with the power of the Holy Spirit. It is Christ
who may dwell in our hearts and we may be rooted and grounded in love and
faith. To the Glory of the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: Amen.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-wjw</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">P: The peace of the
Lord be with you always!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">C: And also
with you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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