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SUMMARY:Proper 17 - Year C
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				  Jeremiah 2: 4-13			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Listen up\, you people of Israel;\nall you who count Jacob as your ancestor;\nListen to what the LORD has to say: \nWhat was wrong with me that so turned off your ancestors\nthat they kept as far away from me as they could?\nWhat was it that sent them off\non a merry-go-round of worthless distractions\nthat bled them of substance and character? \nNot once did they look for my help again\,\nor remember how I had rescued them from slavery.\nThey forgot how I guided them through the wilderness\,\nthrough hostile deserts and treacherous valleys;\nhow I got them safely across impassable land;\nblackened\, fearful terrain with no water;\nuninhabited places where nobody survives. \nI brought you safely into a rich and fruitful land;\na land laden with good things\, yours for the picking.\nBut you barged in and destroyed all I had given you;\nturned a precious heritage into a polluted wasteland. \nEven your religious leaders showed no interest in me! \nThey taught the law without getting to know me.\nThey defied me as they governed the people.\nThey preached a message of other gods\nand set their hearts on shallow and futile things. \nSo now I\, the LORD\, am taking you to court.\nI’m laying charges against you\nand against your children and grandchildren. \nWhoever heard of such a thing?\nSearch the earth from one end to the other.\nScour the history books and see.\nWhat other nation has ever changed its gods?\nThey are loyal even to false gods!\nBut my people have squandered their crowning glory\nby trading me in for shallow and futile things. \nI\, the LORD\, call the heavens to sit as jury\,\nto be appalled by this case;\nto weigh evidence that will shock and disgust.\nFor my my people have added crime upon crime.\nThey have turned their backs on me\,\ntheir only source of fresh\, flowing\, life-giving water;\nand they have taken to digging their own water-holes;\nstagnant puddles that stink and leak. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 81: 1\, 10-16			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	We sing our lungs out to you\, God\,\nfor you make us strong;\nwe shout for joy\, celebrating you\,\nthe God of our ancestors. \nYou are the LORD our God;\nthe God who rescued us from the land of slavery.\nWhen we come to you with our hungers\,\nyou fill us with all that we need. \nBut we have repeatedly failed to listen to you;\nthough we were your people\,\nwe dug our heels in against you. \nYou stood aside and let us have our way;\nwe made our own bed and you left us to lie in it. \nYou longed for us to listen to you;\nfor your people to get back on track. \nIf we had only been willing to cooperate\,\nyou’d have been ready to sort out our enemies.\nThose whose hostility to you was taken out on us\nwould have been sent cowering away\,\nnever to be seen again. \nIf only we had responded to your call\, LORD\,\nyou would have spread a banquet before us\nfeeding us with the sweetest and best of everything. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Hebrews 13: 1-8\, 15-16			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	See to it that love continues to run both ways in all your dealings with one another. Don’t limit your hospitality to your friends. Some people who have welcomed strangers into their homes were actually opening their doors to God’s messengers without realising it. Keep standing up for those who are in detention\, just as you would if you were locked up with them. Imagine yourselves in the shoes of those who are being harshly mistreated and work for them accordingly. Don’t let out of sight mean out of mind! \nSee to it that the vowed life of marriage is treated with the respect it deserves. Protect the sacredness of the sexual intimacy within vowed relationships. God will sort out those who drag sex into the mire of selfishness\, dishonesty and betrayal. \nKeep the lust for money right out of your lives. Be satisfied with what you have\, trusting in God’s promise to never let you down or abandon you. We can say with confidence: \n“The Lord looks after me;\nI’ve got nothing to fear.\nWhat harm can anyone do me?” \nRemember your leaders through whom you heard God’s message. Watch the way they live and note what comes of it. Model yourselves on their example of faith. Such examples don’t go out of date\, because Jesus Christ is the same now as he always was and always will be. Let us continue to offer the gift of praise to God through Christ. Keeping God’s name on our lips is a real gift\, but it is not the only gift that matters. Don’t overlook the importance of sharing what you have and working for the good of others\, because these too are gifts that delight God. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Luke 14: 1\, 7-14			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Once on the Sabbath day\, Jesus was invited to a dinner at the home of one of the leading members of the devoutly religious Pharisee party. Throughout the evening\, he was being closely watched by everyone there. \nNoticing how most of the guests were angling for the best seats at the top of the table\, Jesus turned the scene into an illustration\, saying\, “When you are invited as a guest to a formal dinner – a wedding banquet or the like – don’t rush to park yourself in the number one seat. There may be some more prominent celebrities on the guest list\, and when one of them turns up\, your host will come and ask you to vacate your seat for them. You’ll have egg all over your face in front of everyone\, and there may be nothing but the scummy seats left for you. If looking good in public is so important to you\, it would be a much better strategy to park yourself down in the back corner somewhere. Then when you are seen down there\, your host will come and say\, ‘Come on\, my friend\, we can find you a better seat than this.’ You’ll get a much better write-up in the social pages for that! The fact is that those who big-note themselves will be knocked off their perches\, but those who avoid the limelight will end up as everyone’s hero.” \nThen Jesus turned to the one who had invited him and said\, “When you are throwing a party\, don’t just invite your friends\, family and well-heeled neighbours. They will all return the favour sometime and so\, rather than being a gift\, your party will become something you are repaid for. Instead\, invite people who are always being left out – the down-and-outs\, the misfits\, the refugees\, the disabled. You’ll find that far more richly rewarding\, and although they can never repay you\, when God’s people are all raised from the dead\, you’ll be more than repaid. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Below are the alternative 1st Reading and Psalm themed to the Gospel lection			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Prior to the revision of the Lectionary in 1992\, the 1st reading and the psalm that responded to it were chosen to link thematically with the gospel reading. After hearing the critique of those who said that the Hebrew Scriptures\, from which the first reading is usually chosen\, should be allowed to speak with their own voice rather than just add support to the gospel reading\, the Lectionary was revised so that during Ordinary Time\, the 1st reading runs in its own semi-continuous series\, working through various books of the Hebrew Bible. The older themed series continues to be available as an alternative. \nThe weekly prayers offered here at LaughingBird Resources are based on the four readings above\, and do not draw on the themed 1st reading and psalm. \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Sirach 10: 12-18			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Arrogant pride is born when people turn their backs on the Lord.\nIt is conceived in hearts that are cut off from their Maker. \nArrogant pride has its roots in sin\,\nand those who are addicted to it spew forth corruption. \nThat’s why the Lord brings terrible disasters on them\nand wipes them out completely. \nThe Lord topples arrogant rulers\,\nand hands their authority to humble people. \nThe Lord tears out arrogant nations by the roots\,\nand replaces them with unpretentious peoples. \nThe Lord rids the planet of arrogant empires\,\nleaving nothing but scorched earth where they stood.\nSome of them were destroyed so completely\nthat even the memory of them was erased. \nHuman beings were never intended to become arrogant.\nViolence and hostility were not part of their creator’s design. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  OR  Proverbs 25: 6-7			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Don’t go big noting yourself\nor nominating yourself for the honours lists.\nIt is far better to have others calling for your promotion\nthan to be dismissed as completely up yourself. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 112			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	We are singing your praises\, LORD! \nHow good life is for those who respect you\, LORD\,\nfor those who gladly do what you want them to do. \nTheir children will follow in their footsteps\,\ndoing what’s right and going from strength to strength. \nYou fill their homes with good things\,\nand guarantee their good reputation. \nTheir generosity\, tolerance\, and integrity shine forth in a dark world\,\nlighting up the way for others to follow. \nLORD\, you see that things go well\nfor those who conduct their business fairly\nand lend generously to those in need. \nYou guarantee a firm footing for people of integrity;\ntheir reputation will long outlast them. \nBad news will not break them\,\nfor they have an inner strength grounded in you\, LORD.\nWith their trust in you\, they are calm in a crisis;\nfearless in the fight\,\nand they always end up on top. \nYou will honour their strength\nand make their integrity a lasting legacy\,\nfor they have been open-handed\, especially to the poor. \nAll this throws corrupt people into a snarling rage.\nBitterness consumes them\nas their dreams crumble to nothing. \n©2001 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 offer you our sacrifice of praise\, O God\,\nfor despite our poverty\, brokenness and blindness\,\nyou invite us to feast with you forever. \nYou created all the earth\nand led your people out of slavery into a plentiful land\nto feast on finest wheat and pure wild honey. \nWhen we abandoned you — our fountain of living water —\ngoing instead after things which were worthless and defiled\,\nyour love for us remained constant\,\nand in mercy\, you never abandoned us.\nInstead you sent us your child\, Jesus Christ\,\nwho is the same yesterday\, today and forever.\nHis witness to your all-embracing love\nso offended the values of the world\nthat he was tortured to death\,\nbut you raised him to new life\,\nand now\, through him\,\nyou are teaching us to share and do good\nso that our lives may be a pleasing sacrifice to you. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2001 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 thank you that even when we abandoned you\n— our fountain of living water —\nstill in your love and mercy you never abandoned us\,\nbut raised us with Christ to share and do good\nso that our lives may be a pleasing sacrifice to you. \n©2001 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 offer you our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving\, O God\,\nfor despite our poverty\, brokenness and blindness\,\nyou honour us with your righteous ones. \nYou created all the earth\nand led your people out of slavery into a plentiful land\nto feast on finest wheat and pure wild honey. \nWhen we abandoned you — our fountain of living water —\ngoing instead after things which were worthless and defiled\,\nyour love for us remained constant\,\nand in mercy\, you never abandoned us.\nInstead you sent us your child\, Jesus Christ\,\nwho is the same yesterday\, today and forever.\nHis witness to your all-embracing love\nso offended the values of the world\nthat he was tortured to death\,\nbut you raised him to new life\,\nand now\, through him\,\nyou are teaching us to share and do good\nso that our lives may be a pleasing sacrifice to you. \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©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ\nhas given himself for us\, saying:\n”I will never leave you or forsake you.\nThose who humble themselves will be lifted up.” \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Commission & Benediction			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Go now and walk in all God’s ways.\nKeep your lives free from the love of money\nbut let love between people continue and be honoured.\nShow hospitality to strangers.\nPray for those who suffer torture and imprisonment\nand do not neglect to do good. \nAnd may God be your strength;\nMay Christ Jesus be for you a fountain of living water;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit raise you to life\nwith all God’s righteous ones. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2001 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\nThe Prosecutor’s CaseA drama/sermon on Jeremiah 2: 4-13 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThe Economy of CompassionA on Luke 14. 7-14 by Garry Deverell\n\n\n\nYou Are Invited …A sermon on Luke 14: 1\, 7-14 & Hebrews 13: 1-8\, 15-16 by Samara Pitt\n\n\n\nSacrifices That Please GodA sermon on Hebrews 13:1-8\, 15-16 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nYesterday and Today and ForeverA sermon on Hebrews 13:1-8\, 15-16 & Luke 14:1\, 7-14 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nHeading for Rock Bottom with JesusA sermon on Luke 14:1\, 7-14 & Jeremiah 2:4-13 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nWhy Drink From that Pool?A sermon on Luke 14:1\, 7-14 & Jeremiah 2:4-13 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThe Awkwardness of Being a GuestA on Luke 14. 1-24 by Cas Wepener\n\n\n\nCreating Beauty Amidst ChaosA sermon on Hebrews 13:1-8\, 15-16; Jeremiah 2: 4-13 & Luke 14:1\, 7-14 by Nathan Nettleton
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SUMMARY:Proper 17 - Year C
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				  Jeremiah 2: 4-13			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Listen up\, you people of Israel;\nall you who count Jacob as your ancestor;\nListen to what the LORD has to say: \nWhat was wrong with me that so turned off your ancestors\nthat they kept as far away from me as they could?\nWhat was it that sent them off\non a merry-go-round of worthless distractions\nthat bled them of substance and character? \nNot once did they look for my help again\,\nor remember how I had rescued them from slavery.\nThey forgot how I guided them through the wilderness\,\nthrough hostile deserts and treacherous valleys;\nhow I got them safely across impassable land;\nblackened\, fearful terrain with no water;\nuninhabited places where nobody survives. \nI brought you safely into a rich and fruitful land;\na land laden with good things\, yours for the picking.\nBut you barged in and destroyed all I had given you;\nturned a precious heritage into a polluted wasteland. \nEven your religious leaders showed no interest in me! \nThey taught the law without getting to know me.\nThey defied me as they governed the people.\nThey preached a message of other gods\nand set their hearts on shallow and futile things. \nSo now I\, the LORD\, am taking you to court.\nI’m laying charges against you\nand against your children and grandchildren. \nWhoever heard of such a thing?\nSearch the earth from one end to the other.\nScour the history books and see.\nWhat other nation has ever changed its gods?\nThey are loyal even to false gods!\nBut my people have squandered their crowning glory\nby trading me in for shallow and futile things. \nI\, the LORD\, call the heavens to sit as jury\,\nto be appalled by this case;\nto weigh evidence that will shock and disgust.\nFor my my people have added crime upon crime.\nThey have turned their backs on me\,\ntheir only source of fresh\, flowing\, life-giving water;\nand they have taken to digging their own water-holes;\nstagnant puddles that stink and leak. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 81: 1\, 10-16			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	We sing our lungs out to you\, God\,\nfor you make us strong;\nwe shout for joy\, celebrating you\,\nthe God of our ancestors. \nYou are the LORD our God;\nthe God who rescued us from the land of slavery.\nWhen we come to you with our hungers\,\nyou fill us with all that we need. \nBut we have repeatedly failed to listen to you;\nthough we were your people\,\nwe dug our heels in against you. \nYou stood aside and let us have our way;\nwe made our own bed and you left us to lie in it. \nYou longed for us to listen to you;\nfor your people to get back on track. \nIf we had only been willing to cooperate\,\nyou’d have been ready to sort out our enemies.\nThose whose hostility to you was taken out on us\nwould have been sent cowering away\,\nnever to be seen again. \nIf only we had responded to your call\, LORD\,\nyou would have spread a banquet before us\nfeeding us with the sweetest and best of everything. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Hebrews 13: 1-8\, 15-16			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	See to it that love continues to run both ways in all your dealings with one another. Don’t limit your hospitality to your friends. Some people who have welcomed strangers into their homes were actually opening their doors to God’s messengers without realising it. Keep standing up for those who are in detention\, just as you would if you were locked up with them. Imagine yourselves in the shoes of those who are being harshly mistreated and work for them accordingly. Don’t let out of sight mean out of mind! \nSee to it that the vowed life of marriage is treated with the respect it deserves. Protect the sacredness of the sexual intimacy within vowed relationships. God will sort out those who drag sex into the mire of selfishness\, dishonesty and betrayal. \nKeep the lust for money right out of your lives. Be satisfied with what you have\, trusting in God’s promise to never let you down or abandon you. We can say with confidence: \n“The Lord looks after me;\nI’ve got nothing to fear.\nWhat harm can anyone do me?” \nRemember your leaders through whom you heard God’s message. Watch the way they live and note what comes of it. Model yourselves on their example of faith. Such examples don’t go out of date\, because Jesus Christ is the same now as he always was and always will be. Let us continue to offer the gift of praise to God through Christ. Keeping God’s name on our lips is a real gift\, but it is not the only gift that matters. Don’t overlook the importance of sharing what you have and working for the good of others\, because these too are gifts that delight God. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Luke 14: 1\, 7-14			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Once on the Sabbath day\, Jesus was invited to a dinner at the home of one of the leading members of the devoutly religious Pharisee party. Throughout the evening\, he was being closely watched by everyone there. \nNoticing how most of the guests were angling for the best seats at the top of the table\, Jesus turned the scene into an illustration\, saying\, “When you are invited as a guest to a formal dinner – a wedding banquet or the like – don’t rush to park yourself in the number one seat. There may be some more prominent celebrities on the guest list\, and when one of them turns up\, your host will come and ask you to vacate your seat for them. You’ll have egg all over your face in front of everyone\, and there may be nothing but the scummy seats left for you. If looking good in public is so important to you\, it would be a much better strategy to park yourself down in the back corner somewhere. Then when you are seen down there\, your host will come and say\, ‘Come on\, my friend\, we can find you a better seat than this.’ You’ll get a much better write-up in the social pages for that! The fact is that those who big-note themselves will be knocked off their perches\, but those who avoid the limelight will end up as everyone’s hero.” \nThen Jesus turned to the one who had invited him and said\, “When you are throwing a party\, don’t just invite your friends\, family and well-heeled neighbours. They will all return the favour sometime and so\, rather than being a gift\, your party will become something you are repaid for. Instead\, invite people who are always being left out – the down-and-outs\, the misfits\, the refugees\, the disabled. You’ll find that far more richly rewarding\, and although they can never repay you\, when God’s people are all raised from the dead\, you’ll be more than repaid. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Below are the alternative 1st Reading and Psalm themed to the Gospel lection			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Prior to the revision of the Lectionary in 1992\, the 1st reading and the psalm that responded to it were chosen to link thematically with the gospel reading. After hearing the critique of those who said that the Hebrew Scriptures\, from which the first reading is usually chosen\, should be allowed to speak with their own voice rather than just add support to the gospel reading\, the Lectionary was revised so that during Ordinary Time\, the 1st reading runs in its own semi-continuous series\, working through various books of the Hebrew Bible. The older themed series continues to be available as an alternative. \nThe weekly prayers offered here at LaughingBird Resources are based on the four readings above\, and do not draw on the themed 1st reading and psalm. \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Sirach 10: 12-18			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Arrogant pride is born when people turn their backs on the Lord.\nIt is conceived in hearts that are cut off from their Maker. \nArrogant pride has its roots in sin\,\nand those who are addicted to it spew forth corruption. \nThat’s why the Lord brings terrible disasters on them\nand wipes them out completely. \nThe Lord topples arrogant rulers\,\nand hands their authority to humble people. \nThe Lord tears out arrogant nations by the roots\,\nand replaces them with unpretentious peoples. \nThe Lord rids the planet of arrogant empires\,\nleaving nothing but scorched earth where they stood.\nSome of them were destroyed so completely\nthat even the memory of them was erased. \nHuman beings were never intended to become arrogant.\nViolence and hostility were not part of their creator’s design. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  OR  Proverbs 25: 6-7			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Don’t go big noting yourself\nor nominating yourself for the honours lists.\nIt is far better to have others calling for your promotion\nthan to be dismissed as completely up yourself. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 112			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	We are singing your praises\, LORD! \nHow good life is for those who respect you\, LORD\,\nfor those who gladly do what you want them to do. \nTheir children will follow in their footsteps\,\ndoing what’s right and going from strength to strength. \nYou fill their homes with good things\,\nand guarantee their good reputation. \nTheir generosity\, tolerance\, and integrity shine forth in a dark world\,\nlighting up the way for others to follow. \nLORD\, you see that things go well\nfor those who conduct their business fairly\nand lend generously to those in need. \nYou guarantee a firm footing for people of integrity;\ntheir reputation will long outlast them. \nBad news will not break them\,\nfor they have an inner strength grounded in you\, LORD.\nWith their trust in you\, they are calm in a crisis;\nfearless in the fight\,\nand they always end up on top. \nYou will honour their strength\nand make their integrity a lasting legacy\,\nfor they have been open-handed\, especially to the poor. \nAll this throws corrupt people into a snarling rage.\nBitterness consumes them\nas their dreams crumble to nothing. \n©2001 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 offer you our sacrifice of praise\, O God\,\nfor despite our poverty\, brokenness and blindness\,\nyou invite us to feast with you forever. \nYou created all the earth\nand led your people out of slavery into a plentiful land\nto feast on finest wheat and pure wild honey. \nWhen we abandoned you — our fountain of living water —\ngoing instead after things which were worthless and defiled\,\nyour love for us remained constant\,\nand in mercy\, you never abandoned us.\nInstead you sent us your child\, Jesus Christ\,\nwho is the same yesterday\, today and forever.\nHis witness to your all-embracing love\nso offended the values of the world\nthat he was tortured to death\,\nbut you raised him to new life\,\nand now\, through him\,\nyou are teaching us to share and do good\nso that our lives may be a pleasing sacrifice to you. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2001 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 thank you that even when we abandoned you\n— our fountain of living water —\nstill in your love and mercy you never abandoned us\,\nbut raised us with Christ to share and do good\nso that our lives may be a pleasing sacrifice to you. \n©2001 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 offer you our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving\, O God\,\nfor despite our poverty\, brokenness and blindness\,\nyou honour us with your righteous ones. \nYou created all the earth\nand led your people out of slavery into a plentiful land\nto feast on finest wheat and pure wild honey. \nWhen we abandoned you — our fountain of living water —\ngoing instead after things which were worthless and defiled\,\nyour love for us remained constant\,\nand in mercy\, you never abandoned us.\nInstead you sent us your child\, Jesus Christ\,\nwho is the same yesterday\, today and forever.\nHis witness to your all-embracing love\nso offended the values of the world\nthat he was tortured to death\,\nbut you raised him to new life\,\nand now\, through him\,\nyou are teaching us to share and do good\nso that our lives may be a pleasing sacrifice to you. \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©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ\nhas given himself for us\, saying:\n”I will never leave you or forsake you.\nThose who humble themselves will be lifted up.” \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Commission & Benediction			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Go now and walk in all God’s ways.\nKeep your lives free from the love of money\nbut let love between people continue and be honoured.\nShow hospitality to strangers.\nPray for those who suffer torture and imprisonment\nand do not neglect to do good. \nAnd may God be your strength;\nMay Christ Jesus be for you a fountain of living water;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit raise you to life\nwith all God’s righteous ones. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2001 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\nThe Prosecutor’s CaseA drama/sermon on Jeremiah 2: 4-13 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThe Economy of CompassionA on Luke 14. 7-14 by Garry Deverell\n\n\n\nYou Are Invited …A sermon on Luke 14: 1\, 7-14 & Hebrews 13: 1-8\, 15-16 by Samara Pitt\n\n\n\nSacrifices That Please GodA sermon on Hebrews 13:1-8\, 15-16 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nYesterday and Today and ForeverA sermon on Hebrews 13:1-8\, 15-16 & Luke 14:1\, 7-14 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nHeading for Rock Bottom with JesusA sermon on Luke 14:1\, 7-14 & Jeremiah 2:4-13 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nWhy Drink From that Pool?A sermon on Luke 14:1\, 7-14 & Jeremiah 2:4-13 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThe Awkwardness of Being a GuestA on Luke 14. 1-24 by Cas Wepener\n\n\n\nCreating Beauty Amidst ChaosA sermon on Hebrews 13:1-8\, 15-16; Jeremiah 2: 4-13 & Luke 14:1\, 7-14 by Nathan Nettleton
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