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SUMMARY:Proper 26 - 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				  Habakkuk 1: 1-4; 2: 1-4			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	My name is Habakkuk and I am a prophet. I went to God seeking an explanation for the way things are. \nFor crying out loud\, LORD!\nHow long will it be before you listen?\nHow long do I have to scream blue murder\nbefore you come to the rescue? \nWhy do you make me witness so much evil?\nWhy am I forced to see such things?\nEverywhere I look: violence and carnage\,\nfighting and madness on every side. \nLaw and order are out the window.\nJustice is a joke.\nThe corrupt ride roughshod over decent people\,\nand twisted laws protect them as they do. \nSo what have you got to say\, LORD?\nI’m not budging from this spot until you answer.\nI’m going to stand right here\, all eyes and ears\,\nuntil you respond to my complaint. \nThen the LORD answered me\, saying: \nGet the vision down in writing\nin words that everyone can understand\,\nand get it to the publishers on the double. \nThe vision I have made known is still true.\nWhen the time is right\, what it speaks of will happen.\nIt may seem to be taking its time in coming\,\nbut hang in there. It will happen.\nYou can count on it. \nSome people won’t have a bar of it\nbecause they are all spineless fluff;\nbut those who are fair dinkum live by it\nwith enduring courage and integrity. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 119: 137-144			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	You always do the right thing\, LORD\,\nand your judgments are spot on.  \nYou have set out your instructions for us\,\nmarking the way of honesty and integrity. \nWhen I see opponents ignoring your teachings\,\nI get so angry I could explode. \nYour promises have tested true over and over\nand I will cherish your every word as I serve you. \nI might be a nothing\, a no one\,\nbut I know how to stick to your ways. \nYour commitment to what’s right never ends\nand your law is the essence of truth. \nTough times have come to torment me\,\nbut your teachings still put a smile on my face. \nYour directions are the ultimate in justice;\nthey show me the way to fullness of life. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  2 Thessalonians 1: 1-4\, 11-12			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	To the church in Thessalonica; a people who belong to God our Father and the Lord Jesus\, the Messiah. \nThis letter comes to you from the three of us: Paul\, Silvanus\, and Timothy. \nWe greet you as God’s own children and wish you all the best – God’s love and peace given through the Lord Jesus the Messiah. \nSisters and brothers\, we are constantly expressing our thanks to God for you. How could we not?! Your faith is growing in leaps and bounds\, and your love for each other continues to expand and deepen. We have even found ourselves boasting about you when we’ve been visiting God’s people in other churches. We go on and on about how your commitment and faith have remained rock-solid\, despite the campaign of vilification and abuse you have had to endure. \nThrough these tough times we continue to pray that God will enable you to live up to your calling. We pray too that God will be at work among you\, to make sure that every goal you set yourselves in faith and integrity is achieved. In that way\, your lives will be putting the name of our Lord Jesus up in lights. In your union with him\, you will also be sharing the glory because in extravagant generosity\, our God and the Lord Jesus the Messiah always share the glory. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Luke 19: 1-10			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	The road Jesus was on took him through the town of Jericho. There was a man named Zacchaeus there who was despised as a traitor\, because he had made his fortune working as a debt collector for the Roman occupation forces. He was eager to lay eyes on Jesus\, but so was everyone else and he couldn’t see past the crowd because he was too short. So he nicked up the street a bit and climbed a tree in order to get a good view when Jesus came past. When Jesus got to that point on the road\, he looked up and called out to him\, “Zacchaeus\, come on down. I need you to put me up at your place for the night.”
    Zacchaeus nearly fell out of his tree in his eagerness to welcome Jesus into his home. The onlookers\, though\, were outraged\, and they began to grumble. “This Jesus has lost the plot. He’s gone home with the scum of the earth.” \nZacchaeus stood up and said to Jesus\, “I’m turning over a new leaf\, Lord. I am giving half of everything I own to the poor\, and anybody I have ripped off\, I am repaying four times over.” \nIn reply\, Jesus announced\, “God’s new life has broken out in this house today. Just like his ancestor Abraham\, this man is one of God’s chosen ones. You see\, the New Human has come to search for the lost and rescue them.” \n©2004 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				  Isaiah 1: 10-18			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	During the reigns of Uzziah\, Jotham\, Ahaz\, and Hezekiah as kings of Judah\, the LORD spoke through Isaiah\, the son of Amoz. This is a message Isaiah was given about Judah and Jerusalem. \nListen to what I say\, for I am the LORD.\nYou rulers are no better than the rulers of Sodom!\nYou people are no better than the people of Gomorrah!\nSo take note of what I have to say. \nWhat do I care for all your sacrifices?\nI have had a gutful of them.\nIf I see one more burnt offering\n– be it a ram or a grain-fed calf –\nI think I’m going to puke.\nI can’t stand all this blood you keep offering\nfrom slaughtered bulls\, lambs and goats. \nWhat on earth makes you think\nthat this is the way to please me?\nGet out of my temple and stay out.\nYour gifts are wasted.\nYour incense is nothing but a smokescreen.\nI can’t stand all your sacred days and special gatherings;\nyour pomp and ceremony doesn’t hide your evil ways. \nYou can fill your calendar with special events\nto celebrate this\, that and the other thing\,\nbut I despise them deep in my guts.\nThey have drained my patience;\nI can’t put up with even one more. \nYou can raise your hands to me in prayer\,\nbut I’ll look away;\nYou can pray till you’re blue in the face\nbut I’ll block my ears.\nAll I see on your hands is blood;\nall I hear in your prayers is excuses. \nClean up your act;\nscrub yourselves clean\, inside and out;\ndon’t let me see any more corruption from you.\nQuit your evil\,\nlearn to do the right thing;\nmake justice your goal\,\nprevent the use and abuse of people;\nstand up for the vulnerable\,\ntake sides with the forgotten. \nCome on\, let’s sort this out.\nI am the LORD. Listen to me.\nYour sins are as red as scarlet\,\nbut they will be white as snow;\nthey are crimson like blood\,\nbut they will be like fresh-cut wool. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 32: 1-7			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	What a blessing it is to be among those you have forgiven\, LORD\,\nthose whose record of wrongdoing you have wiped clean. \nPeople who are honest about their lives\nhave everything going for them;\nthey never have to cover their tracks\nor worry that they’ll be in your bad books. \nI used to keep my sins to myself\, LORD\,\nbut they poisoned me from within;\nwasting my body\,\ntormenting my mind. \nDay and night I felt your eyes following me;\nI lived in fear that you’d see right through me.\nThe joy of living evaporated\nin the burning heat of my guilt. \nThen I decided to come clean with you\, LORD\,\nto own up to all I’d done and stop living a lie.\nI made a full confession to you\, LORD\,\nand you gave me a full pardon\, forgiving all my sin. \nNow\, like all your faithful people\, LORD\,\nI am always ready to open myself to you in prayer.\nWhen trouble breaks its banks\,\nyour faithful ones are on safe ground. \nYou are like a bomb shelter for us\, LORD;\nyou protect us from danger.\nThanks to you\, LORD\, we can still laugh;\nwe can dance around singing songs of freedom. \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 give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor through you\, our faith is growing abundantly\nand our love for one another is increasing. \nAll that exists was established by your decree\,\nand even when wickedness has surrounded your people\nyour vision held firm for the appointed time\nand your righteous people lived by their faith. \nIn Jesus the Christ\,\nyou have come to seek out and save the lost.\nWhen those stunted by sin were drawn to him\nhe offered your gracious welcome and inspired repentance.\nThrough your power\nhe is fulfilling every good resolve and work of faith.\nWhen he was killed in a perversion of justice\,\nyou raised him from the dead\,\nand now you are glorifying him in us\,\nand us in him\,\nand through your grace\nyou are establishing your eternal justice\nin the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2004 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 for coming in Jesus Christ\nat the appointed time\,\nto seek out and save the lost\nand to fulfil every good resolve and work of faith. \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 give you all thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor through you\, our faith is growing abundantly\nand our love for one another is increasing. \nAll that exists was established by your decree\,\nand even when wickedness has surrounded your people\nyour vision held firm for the appointed time\nand your righteous people lived by their faith. \nIn Jesus the Christ\,\nyou have come to seek out and save the lost.\nWhen those stunted by sin were drawn to him\nhe offered your gracious welcome and inspired repentance.\nThrough your power\nhe is fulfilling every good resolve and work of faith.\nWhen he was killed in a perversion of justice\,\nyou raised him from the dead\,\nand now you are glorifying him in us\,\nand us in him\,\nand through your grace\nyou are establishing your eternal justice\nin the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. \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©2004 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Christ came to seek out and to save the lost\nand by grace he makes us worthy of his call.\nMade righteous in him by faith\, we will live. \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 live by faith.\nPatiently trust in God’s promised future;\nlive by God’s teachings\,\nand let your love for one another increase. \nAnd may God give you grace and peace;\nMay Christ Jesus make you worthy of his call;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit fulfil in you\nevery good resolve and work of faith. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2004 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\nFor crying out loud\, Lord!A sermon on Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nGood News for the RichA sermon on Luke 19:1-10 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nGrowing in Faith and LoveA sermon on 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4\, 11-12 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nSalvation Comes CallingA sermon on Luke 19:1-10 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThe Problem of Being LittleA sermon on Luke 19:1-10 by Ian Cook\n\n\n\nThe Scandal of the Scared Little Rich GuyA sermon on Luke 19:1-10 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThe Just Shall Live By FaithA sermon on Habakkuk 2:4 by Geoff Leslie
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SUMMARY:Proper 26 - 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				  Habakkuk 1: 1-4; 2: 1-4			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	My name is Habakkuk and I am a prophet. I went to God seeking an explanation for the way things are. \nFor crying out loud\, LORD!\nHow long will it be before you listen?\nHow long do I have to scream blue murder\nbefore you come to the rescue? \nWhy do you make me witness so much evil?\nWhy am I forced to see such things?\nEverywhere I look: violence and carnage\,\nfighting and madness on every side. \nLaw and order are out the window.\nJustice is a joke.\nThe corrupt ride roughshod over decent people\,\nand twisted laws protect them as they do. \nSo what have you got to say\, LORD?\nI’m not budging from this spot until you answer.\nI’m going to stand right here\, all eyes and ears\,\nuntil you respond to my complaint. \nThen the LORD answered me\, saying: \nGet the vision down in writing\nin words that everyone can understand\,\nand get it to the publishers on the double. \nThe vision I have made known is still true.\nWhen the time is right\, what it speaks of will happen.\nIt may seem to be taking its time in coming\,\nbut hang in there. It will happen.\nYou can count on it. \nSome people won’t have a bar of it\nbecause they are all spineless fluff;\nbut those who are fair dinkum live by it\nwith enduring courage and integrity. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 119: 137-144			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	You always do the right thing\, LORD\,\nand your judgments are spot on.  \nYou have set out your instructions for us\,\nmarking the way of honesty and integrity. \nWhen I see opponents ignoring your teachings\,\nI get so angry I could explode. \nYour promises have tested true over and over\nand I will cherish your every word as I serve you. \nI might be a nothing\, a no one\,\nbut I know how to stick to your ways. \nYour commitment to what’s right never ends\nand your law is the essence of truth. \nTough times have come to torment me\,\nbut your teachings still put a smile on my face. \nYour directions are the ultimate in justice;\nthey show me the way to fullness of life. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  2 Thessalonians 1: 1-4\, 11-12			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	To the church in Thessalonica; a people who belong to God our Father and the Lord Jesus\, the Messiah. \nThis letter comes to you from the three of us: Paul\, Silvanus\, and Timothy. \nWe greet you as God’s own children and wish you all the best – God’s love and peace given through the Lord Jesus the Messiah. \nSisters and brothers\, we are constantly expressing our thanks to God for you. How could we not?! Your faith is growing in leaps and bounds\, and your love for each other continues to expand and deepen. We have even found ourselves boasting about you when we’ve been visiting God’s people in other churches. We go on and on about how your commitment and faith have remained rock-solid\, despite the campaign of vilification and abuse you have had to endure. \nThrough these tough times we continue to pray that God will enable you to live up to your calling. We pray too that God will be at work among you\, to make sure that every goal you set yourselves in faith and integrity is achieved. In that way\, your lives will be putting the name of our Lord Jesus up in lights. In your union with him\, you will also be sharing the glory because in extravagant generosity\, our God and the Lord Jesus the Messiah always share the glory. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Luke 19: 1-10			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	The road Jesus was on took him through the town of Jericho. There was a man named Zacchaeus there who was despised as a traitor\, because he had made his fortune working as a debt collector for the Roman occupation forces. He was eager to lay eyes on Jesus\, but so was everyone else and he couldn’t see past the crowd because he was too short. So he nicked up the street a bit and climbed a tree in order to get a good view when Jesus came past. When Jesus got to that point on the road\, he looked up and called out to him\, “Zacchaeus\, come on down. I need you to put me up at your place for the night.”
    Zacchaeus nearly fell out of his tree in his eagerness to welcome Jesus into his home. The onlookers\, though\, were outraged\, and they began to grumble. “This Jesus has lost the plot. He’s gone home with the scum of the earth.” \nZacchaeus stood up and said to Jesus\, “I’m turning over a new leaf\, Lord. I am giving half of everything I own to the poor\, and anybody I have ripped off\, I am repaying four times over.” \nIn reply\, Jesus announced\, “God’s new life has broken out in this house today. Just like his ancestor Abraham\, this man is one of God’s chosen ones. You see\, the New Human has come to search for the lost and rescue them.” \n©2004 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				  Isaiah 1: 10-18			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	During the reigns of Uzziah\, Jotham\, Ahaz\, and Hezekiah as kings of Judah\, the LORD spoke through Isaiah\, the son of Amoz. This is a message Isaiah was given about Judah and Jerusalem. \nListen to what I say\, for I am the LORD.\nYou rulers are no better than the rulers of Sodom!\nYou people are no better than the people of Gomorrah!\nSo take note of what I have to say. \nWhat do I care for all your sacrifices?\nI have had a gutful of them.\nIf I see one more burnt offering\n– be it a ram or a grain-fed calf –\nI think I’m going to puke.\nI can’t stand all this blood you keep offering\nfrom slaughtered bulls\, lambs and goats. \nWhat on earth makes you think\nthat this is the way to please me?\nGet out of my temple and stay out.\nYour gifts are wasted.\nYour incense is nothing but a smokescreen.\nI can’t stand all your sacred days and special gatherings;\nyour pomp and ceremony doesn’t hide your evil ways. \nYou can fill your calendar with special events\nto celebrate this\, that and the other thing\,\nbut I despise them deep in my guts.\nThey have drained my patience;\nI can’t put up with even one more. \nYou can raise your hands to me in prayer\,\nbut I’ll look away;\nYou can pray till you’re blue in the face\nbut I’ll block my ears.\nAll I see on your hands is blood;\nall I hear in your prayers is excuses. \nClean up your act;\nscrub yourselves clean\, inside and out;\ndon’t let me see any more corruption from you.\nQuit your evil\,\nlearn to do the right thing;\nmake justice your goal\,\nprevent the use and abuse of people;\nstand up for the vulnerable\,\ntake sides with the forgotten. \nCome on\, let’s sort this out.\nI am the LORD. Listen to me.\nYour sins are as red as scarlet\,\nbut they will be white as snow;\nthey are crimson like blood\,\nbut they will be like fresh-cut wool. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 32: 1-7			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	What a blessing it is to be among those you have forgiven\, LORD\,\nthose whose record of wrongdoing you have wiped clean. \nPeople who are honest about their lives\nhave everything going for them;\nthey never have to cover their tracks\nor worry that they’ll be in your bad books. \nI used to keep my sins to myself\, LORD\,\nbut they poisoned me from within;\nwasting my body\,\ntormenting my mind. \nDay and night I felt your eyes following me;\nI lived in fear that you’d see right through me.\nThe joy of living evaporated\nin the burning heat of my guilt. \nThen I decided to come clean with you\, LORD\,\nto own up to all I’d done and stop living a lie.\nI made a full confession to you\, LORD\,\nand you gave me a full pardon\, forgiving all my sin. \nNow\, like all your faithful people\, LORD\,\nI am always ready to open myself to you in prayer.\nWhen trouble breaks its banks\,\nyour faithful ones are on safe ground. \nYou are like a bomb shelter for us\, LORD;\nyou protect us from danger.\nThanks to you\, LORD\, we can still laugh;\nwe can dance around singing songs of freedom. \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 give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor through you\, our faith is growing abundantly\nand our love for one another is increasing. \nAll that exists was established by your decree\,\nand even when wickedness has surrounded your people\nyour vision held firm for the appointed time\nand your righteous people lived by their faith. \nIn Jesus the Christ\,\nyou have come to seek out and save the lost.\nWhen those stunted by sin were drawn to him\nhe offered your gracious welcome and inspired repentance.\nThrough your power\nhe is fulfilling every good resolve and work of faith.\nWhen he was killed in a perversion of justice\,\nyou raised him from the dead\,\nand now you are glorifying him in us\,\nand us in him\,\nand through your grace\nyou are establishing your eternal justice\nin the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2004 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 for coming in Jesus Christ\nat the appointed time\,\nto seek out and save the lost\nand to fulfil every good resolve and work of faith. \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 give you all thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor through you\, our faith is growing abundantly\nand our love for one another is increasing. \nAll that exists was established by your decree\,\nand even when wickedness has surrounded your people\nyour vision held firm for the appointed time\nand your righteous people lived by their faith. \nIn Jesus the Christ\,\nyou have come to seek out and save the lost.\nWhen those stunted by sin were drawn to him\nhe offered your gracious welcome and inspired repentance.\nThrough your power\nhe is fulfilling every good resolve and work of faith.\nWhen he was killed in a perversion of justice\,\nyou raised him from the dead\,\nand now you are glorifying him in us\,\nand us in him\,\nand through your grace\nyou are establishing your eternal justice\nin the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. \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©2004 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Christ came to seek out and to save the lost\nand by grace he makes us worthy of his call.\nMade righteous in him by faith\, we will live. \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 live by faith.\nPatiently trust in God’s promised future;\nlive by God’s teachings\,\nand let your love for one another increase. \nAnd may God give you grace and peace;\nMay Christ Jesus make you worthy of his call;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit fulfil in you\nevery good resolve and work of faith. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2004 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\nFor crying out loud\, Lord!A sermon on Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nGood News for the RichA sermon on Luke 19:1-10 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nGrowing in Faith and LoveA sermon on 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4\, 11-12 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nSalvation Comes CallingA sermon on Luke 19:1-10 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThe Problem of Being LittleA sermon on Luke 19:1-10 by Ian Cook\n\n\n\nThe Scandal of the Scared Little Rich GuyA sermon on Luke 19:1-10 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThe Just Shall Live By FaithA sermon on Habakkuk 2:4 by Geoff Leslie
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