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SUMMARY:3rd Sunday in Lent - Year B
DESCRIPTION:Below you will find the Bible readings set for this occasion in the Revised Common Lectionary\, with our Australian idiomatic paraphrases of them\, plus prayers and sermons based on them. \n\n\n\nBible Readings (paraphrased)\n\n\n\nLections from The Revised Common Lectionary. Copyright 1992 by the Consultation on Common Texts(CCT) P.O. Box 340003\, Room 381\, Nashville\, TN 37203-0003\, USA. Used with Permission. \n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Exodus 20: 1-17			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	God spoke the following words to the people: \nI am the LORD your God; the one who brought you out of the land where you were oppressed\, and freed you from a life of slavery. You are not to have any other gods ahead of me. \nYou are not to make anything else into an object of devotion ahead of me. I don’t care whether it is some heavenly presence\, or something in the world around you\, or something deep at the centre of everything; you are not to dedicate yourself to such things or to worship them. I am the LORD your God\, and I want your undivided love. If people reject me\, they will cop the consequences for their betrayal\, and their children will be copping it for several generations to come. But those who love me and live by my instructions will enjoy my rock-solid love and loyalty for a thousand generations. \nYou are not to exploit my name. I am the LORD your God\, and I will not let anyone get away with dragging my name through the mud. \nKeep up the practice of making Saturday a dedicated rest day. You are to work on your business\, projects\, and chores on the other six days\, and keep the seventh day as a rest day\, dedicated to me\, the LORD your God. You are not to do any work that day\, and you are not to ask anyone else to work either — not your family\, not your employees\, not the migrant workers who live down the street\, and not even your animals. I am the LORD\, and I spent six days making the earth\, sea and sky and everything in them\, and then took the seventh day off. That is why I made the dedicated rest day so special\, and set it apart as a sacred day. \nTreat those who have raised you with due respect\, and your future will be secure in the land that I\, the LORD your God\, am giving you. \nDo not kill anyone. \nDo not engage in any relationship that betrays or trivialises anyone. \nDo not steal what rightly belongs to others. \nDo not sacrifice the truth about someone else in order to win your case. \nDo not desire things that belong to other people. Do not go wishing you could get your hands on someone else’s home or lover or employees or assets or anything else. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 19			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Your glory is written in the sky\, God;\nyour artistry is carved on the face of the earth.\nFrom one day to another\, the message passes on\,\nand each night puts the next one in the know. \nNot a word is spoken\,\nnot a sound do they make;\nyet their silence reverberates around the earth\nand their unspoken message echoes from pole to pole. \nYou made the sun at home flying across the sky.\nIt takes to its task with the eagerness of a bridegroom;\nas exultant as an athlete breasting the tape.\nAs your messenger\, God\, it does its rounds\,\nfrom one end of the sky to the other\,\nwarming everything in its path. \nYour revealed will is right on the mark\, LORD;\nit gives our souls their second wind.\nWhat you says goes\,\nand any fool can wise up by taking note. \nYour instructions are spot on\, LORD;\nanyone who follows them will be glad they did.\nWhat you direct us to do is easy to see\,\nand once seen\, everything become clear. \nRespect for you keeps us true\, LORD\,\nnothing can corrupt it\, now or ever.\nWhat you decide is always accurate;\na fair ruling\, beyond dispute. \nYour Word is worth far more\nthan even diamond encrusted gold!\nIt is sweeter by far\nthan any mouth watering delicacy\,\neven chocolate dipped strawberries with cream! \nBut that’s not all!\nYour Word\, O LORD\, keeps me out of danger\,\nand following it pays off richly. \nCan anyone put their finger on all their own faults?\nLORD\, eradicate the bugs I haven’t even identified yet. \nRemind me not to entertain sour contemptuous thoughts\,\nand don’t let them start pulling my strings.\nWithout them\, I can stay on course\,\nand keep my record clean. \nThat’s what I want\, O LORD.\nI want all the things I say\,\nand all the things I mull over in my heart\,\nto be things I’d be proud to offer to you\,\nfor you are the bedrock of my life;\nthe one who puts me back where I belong. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  1 Corinthians 1: 18-25			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	The message about the cross sounds like a lot of mindless cock-and-bull to those who have thrown their lot in with this present world order and are going down with the ship. But to those of us who are being saved from that\, it is nothing less than the power of God! God spoke about this in the Scriptures: \n“I will expose the brilliant insights of your experts\nand the wise counsel of your gurus;\nI will expose them for what they really are\,\na load of codswallop!” \nSo where are the intellectuals now? Where are the religious experts? Where are those who have an answer for everything? What have they got to show for all their cleverness now that God has turned all the conventional wisdom on its head and made it look foolish? Seeing that no amount of human cleverness had ever woken anybody up to God’s ways\, God made the wise decision to use something that seemed utterly foolish to everyone — our preaching! — to rescue those who would trust the message. Most people want something more than this. Those with a religious world view demand to see miraculous signs to prove that it is from God. Those with a modern rational world view insist that it should have to prove its intellectual credibility. But what we are preaching is a Messiah who was strung up and killed. The religious people find this unthinkable\, and the intellectuals regard it as primitive nonsense; but to those who have heard the call of God\, whatever their background\, it is the ultimate good news of God’s chosen one — as miraculous and profound as one could ever wish for! When it’s all said and done\, the sum total of the human race’s intellectual achievements don’t even begin to stack up against the foolishness of God; and the combined force of all the world’s powers is puny in comparison to the weakness of God. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  John 2: 13-22			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Jesus travelled up to Jerusalem shortly before the Jewish religious festival known as Passover. He walked into the Temple and found people selling the cattle\, sheep and pigeons required for the religious sacrifices. He also saw the money changers seated at their tables supplying the required currency for the temple taxes. Jesus grabbed a length of rope and\, wielding it like a stock-whip\, drove them all out of the Temple and trashed their stalls. It was bedlam\, with cattle and sheep going in all directions and coins spilling everywhere as he kicked over the money changer’s tables and shouted at those selling the pigeons\, saying\, “Get those things out of here. Stop treating my Father’s house like a shopping mall!” \nIt reminded his followers of the passage of scripture that says\, “I will be consumed by passion for your house.” \nThe Jewish authorities were soon on the scene demanding to know whether he could produce any evidence that his actions were authorised. Jesus answered them\, “Tear down this temple\, and in three days I will raise it back up.” \nThe authorities snorted\, “The construction of this temple has taken forty-six years\, and it’s still not finished. Are you so out-of-your-tree that you think you could rebuild it in three days?” \nOf course\, Jesus was really describing his own body as the new temple. After he had been raised from the dead\, his followers remembered that he had said this\, and it reinforced their belief in the words of scripture and in the words spoken by Jesus. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nPrayers\n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Eucharistic Preface			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Let us lift up our hearts.\nWe lift them to the Lord.\nLet us give thanks to the Lord our God.\nIt is right to give our thanks and praise. \nIt is indeed right to give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor the Word of your cross\, though appearing foolish\,\nis the power and wisdom which save us. \nYou created the universe;\nthe skies tell of your glory\nand the earth bears witness to your steadfast love.\nYou brought your people from slavery to freedom\nand gave your holy commandments through Moses;\nwords that guide the simple and sharpen vision\,\nreviving the soul and delighting the heart. \nWhen the world\, in its sophistication and pride\,\nmade an idol of money\nand a marketplace of your temple\,\nusing your name only to boost profits\,\nyou sent your Son\, Jesus Christ\,\nfilled with zeal for your honour.\nHe was torn down by the fury of evil and corruption\,\nbut rose again in three days\,\nforever establishing the foolishness and weakness of God\nas the pathway of life and salvation. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Short Preface (for insertion into Eucharistic prayers with fixed prefaces)			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	We give thanks for your Son\, Jesus Christ\,\nwho came\, filled with zeal for your honour\,\nand revealed to us that the way of the cross\,\nwhich\, though appearing weak foolish to the world\,\nis the power and wisdom which save us. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  General Prayer of Thanksgiving			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	(Preface reformatted for use apart from communion)\n\nWe give you all thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor the Word of your cross\, though appearing foolish\,\nis the power and wisdom which save us. \nYou created the universe;\nthe skies tell of your glory\nand the earth bears witness to your steadfast love.\nYou brought your people from slavery to freedom\nand gave your holy commandments through Moses;\nwords that guide the simple and sharpen vision\,\nreviving the soul and delighting the heart. \nWhen the world\, in its sophistication and pride\,\nmade an idol of money\nand a marketplace of your temple\,\nusing your name only to boost profits\,\nyou sent your Son\, Jesus Christ\,\nfilled with zeal for your honour.\nHe was torn down by the fury of evil and corruption\,\nbut rose again in three days\,\nforever establishing the foolishness and weakness of God\nas the pathway of life and salvation. \nTherefore\, with our hearts lifted high\,\nwe offer you thanks and praise at all times\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord\,\nwho lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, for ever and ever.\nAmen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	The message of the cross is the power of God to salvation.\nThough faults hide within us\,\nthrough Christ crucified\,\nGod forgives us and frees us from blame for sin. \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Commission & Benediction			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Go now\, with God’s foolishness and weakness\nas your only wisdom and strength.\nProclaim Christ crucified\,\nand seek riches only in the love of God’s Word\nand in zeal for God’s house. \nAnd may God’s just demands be your nourishment & delight.\nMay Christ be the power and wisdom of God to you.\nAnd may the Holy Spirit keep you\, thought and word\,\nin God’s good grace. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nSermons\n\n\n\nSermons will open in new tabs from our SYCBaps church website. \n\n\n\n\nWhen Jesus Takes OffenceA sermon on John 2:13-22 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nA Question of IdentityA sermon on Exodus 20:1-17 by Alison Sampson\n\n\n\nVery Busy\, Very Important?A sermon on Psalm 19 & Exodus 20:1-17 by Alison Sampson\n\n\n\nUpending Our TablesA sermon loosely connected to John 2:13-22 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nObjects of DesireA sermon on Exodus 20:1-17 & John 2:13-22 by Nathan Nettleton
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