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SUMMARY:4th Sunday of Advent - Year A
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				  Isaiah 7: 10-16			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	The LORD sent word to King Ahaz of Judah\, saying: \nI\, the LORD your God\, will give you a sign so that you can be sure that it is really me who is sending you this promise of safety. What sign do you want? Something dramatic\, deep the earth or high in the sky? You name it\, and I’ll do it. \nBut Ahaz refused\, saying\, “I will ask no such thing. Far be it from me to demand guarantees from the LORD.” So Isaiah the prophet spoke on behalf of the LORD\, saying: \nThen get this into your head\, you who rule from David’s throne. Haven’t you made enough people sick and tired of your weak-as-water religious posturing? Do you have to try it on with God as well?! Well\, the Lord is going to go ahead and give you a sign anyway. Check this out: there is a girl who is pregnant. She will give birth to a baby boy and he will be given the name Emmanuel\, which means ‘God is with us.’ Before he is old enough to choose between right and wrong\, he will be eating foods that you can’t even get hold of in the present crisis. Yes\, even before he is old enough to take responsibility for his own behaviour\, the threat of war will have passed. The two countries whose armies are terrorising you will have disappeared without a trace. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 80: 1-7\, 17-19			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	God\, you are the one who watches over your people\nlike a lifeguard supervising a dangerous beach\,\nwatching from a high seat\, like a king enthroned.\nListen to our prayer and clearly flag the boundaries\,\nso that your tribes will no longer get out of their depth. \nUp and at it\, God!\nCome equipped to rescue us.\nCome and smile on us again\, God;\nsave us and revive us with your kiss of life. \nLORD God\, you rule over everything;\nhow much longer will you keep us in the sin bin\,\nturning away in anger when we pray? \nYou reduced our rations to tears alone;\ntears by the plate full\, tears by the cup full.\nYou made us the laughing stock of our enemies\nand even our neighbours turn up their noses. \nCome and smile on us again\, God;\nsave us and revive us with your kiss of life. \nTake our side again\, your wayward favourite child\,\nthe one you raised by hand to be your own.\nWe will never go off the rails again;\nsave us now and your name will be on our lips forever. \nLORD God\, you rule over everything;\nCome and smile on us again;\nsave us and revive us with your kiss of life. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Romans 1: 1-7			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	This letter comes to you from me\, Paul\, a labourer in the service of Jesus Christ. I was called to be one of his special ambassadors and assigned to the task of broadcasting the wonderful message of God’s love in Christ. This message did not come out of the blue; you only have to read the writings of the prophets in the sacred scriptures to know that God had been promising it for some time. The message centres on God’s Son who was born into a family of King David’s descendants — a weak human like us — and who was declared to be the Son of God by being raised from the dead to new life — a powerful Spirit like the Holy One. I speak of course\, of Jesus\, the Messiah and our Lord. It is through him that we have come to be on the receiving end of God’s extravagant generosity. It is also through him that we have been made ambassadors with the special assignment of bringing the outsiders into a new relationship with God based on trust and obedience. Jesus the Christ gets all the credit for this\, and you\, of course\, were among those who have responded to the call to hand yourselves over to him in this way. \nSo this letter comes to you — God’s much loved people in the city of Rome — who have been called to dedicate yourselves wholly and solely to God. \nI 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. \n©2004 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Matthew 1: 18-25			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	This is the story surrounding the birth of Jesus the Messiah. His mother\, Mary\, was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph who was a descendant of King David. But before they had lived together\, Joseph found out that Mary was pregnant. It was the Holy Spirit who had made her pregnant\, but Joseph didn’t know that. Joseph was a staunch ‘respectability and law-and-order’ man\, but he still didn’t want to see Mary publicly disgraced\, so he made plans to break off the engagement on the quiet. But just when he had sorted this out in his head\, a messenger from the Lord spoke to him in a dream saying:\n“Joseph\, hold your nerve and go ahead and get married to Mary\, because the child in her womb was conceived by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a baby boy and you are to treat him as your own. Give him the name Jesus\, because he will live up to its meaning by saving his people from their toxic ways.” \nAs these events took place\, they shed new light on the words that the Lord had spoken through the prophet: \n“Check this out:\na virgin will fall pregnant and give birth to a son\,\nand people will speak of him as Emmanuel.” \n‘Emmanuel’ is a Hebrew name meaning ‘God is with us.’ When Joseph woke up after his dream\, he followed the instructions from the Lord’s messenger to the letter. He went ahead and married Mary\, but they remained celibate until after the baby was born. As instructed\, Joseph named the boy Jesus. \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 you rest your hand upon us\,\ncalling us to be your holy saints and giving us life again. \nBefore time began\, your Holy Spirit brooded over the chaos\nand brought the earth and its inhabitants to birth.\nThrough your prophets speaking in the holy scriptures\nyou promised us a child\nborn as a sign of your saving presence with us. \nYour promise has taken flesh in your child\, Jesus the Christ\,\nwho was born of the line of David.\nWhen he was killed by your enemies\,\nyour Spirit brought him forth again\nby resurrection from the dead.\nThrough him the light of your presence has been restored\nand we have been called into the obedience of faith\nthat we might belong to Jesus Christ forever\,\nliving by the hope conceived in us by the Holy Spirit. \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 give you thanks that through Christ\nthe light of your presence has been restored\nand we have been called into the obedience of faith\nthat we might live by the hope conceived in us by the Holy Spirit. \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 you rest your hand upon us\,\ncalling us to be your holy saints and giving us life again. \nBefore time began\, your Holy Spirit brooded over the chaos\nand brought the earth and its inhabitants to birth.\nThrough your prophets speaking in the holy scriptures\nyou promised us a child\nborn as a sign of your saving presence with us. \nYour promise has taken flesh in your child\, Jesus the Christ\,\nwho was born of the line of David.\nWhen he was killed by your enemies\,\nyour Spirit brought him forth again\nby resurrection from the dead.\nThrough him the light of your presence has been restored\nand we have been called into the obedience of faith\nthat we might belong to Jesus Christ forever\,\nliving by the hope conceived in us by the Holy Spirit. \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	Through Jesus Christ we have received grace:\nthe light of God’s presence is restored to us\nand we are saved. \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 the hope conceived within you.\nRefuse evil and choose good.\nCall on the name of the Lord.\nWalk with God in faithful obedience\,\nand do not fear public disgrace. \nAnd may God be with you;\nMay Christ Jesus save you from your sins;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit restore to you the light of God’s presence. \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\nSpeaking of pregnant virgins\, did you hear the one…A drama/sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nWhat are you really made of?A sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nExpect the UnexpectedA sermon on Romans 1:1-7 & Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nTarnished GoodsA sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nGod’s Suspect Sexual HistoryA sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nWhat if it was God?A sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nWhy the Virgin Birth is not the Biggest ShockA sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nBlood on the sand and God with usA sermon on by Nathan Nettleton
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SUMMARY:4th Sunday of Advent - Year A
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				  Isaiah 7: 10-16			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	The LORD sent word to King Ahaz of Judah\, saying: \nI\, the LORD your God\, will give you a sign so that you can be sure that it is really me who is sending you this promise of safety. What sign do you want? Something dramatic\, deep the earth or high in the sky? You name it\, and I’ll do it. \nBut Ahaz refused\, saying\, “I will ask no such thing. Far be it from me to demand guarantees from the LORD.” So Isaiah the prophet spoke on behalf of the LORD\, saying: \nThen get this into your head\, you who rule from David’s throne. Haven’t you made enough people sick and tired of your weak-as-water religious posturing? Do you have to try it on with God as well?! Well\, the Lord is going to go ahead and give you a sign anyway. Check this out: there is a girl who is pregnant. She will give birth to a baby boy and he will be given the name Emmanuel\, which means ‘God is with us.’ Before he is old enough to choose between right and wrong\, he will be eating foods that you can’t even get hold of in the present crisis. Yes\, even before he is old enough to take responsibility for his own behaviour\, the threat of war will have passed. The two countries whose armies are terrorising you will have disappeared without a trace. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 80: 1-7\, 17-19			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	God\, you are the one who watches over your people\nlike a lifeguard supervising a dangerous beach\,\nwatching from a high seat\, like a king enthroned.\nListen to our prayer and clearly flag the boundaries\,\nso that your tribes will no longer get out of their depth. \nUp and at it\, God!\nCome equipped to rescue us.\nCome and smile on us again\, God;\nsave us and revive us with your kiss of life. \nLORD God\, you rule over everything;\nhow much longer will you keep us in the sin bin\,\nturning away in anger when we pray? \nYou reduced our rations to tears alone;\ntears by the plate full\, tears by the cup full.\nYou made us the laughing stock of our enemies\nand even our neighbours turn up their noses. \nCome and smile on us again\, God;\nsave us and revive us with your kiss of life. \nTake our side again\, your wayward favourite child\,\nthe one you raised by hand to be your own.\nWe will never go off the rails again;\nsave us now and your name will be on our lips forever. \nLORD God\, you rule over everything;\nCome and smile on us again;\nsave us and revive us with your kiss of life. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Romans 1: 1-7			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	This letter comes to you from me\, Paul\, a labourer in the service of Jesus Christ. I was called to be one of his special ambassadors and assigned to the task of broadcasting the wonderful message of God’s love in Christ. This message did not come out of the blue; you only have to read the writings of the prophets in the sacred scriptures to know that God had been promising it for some time. The message centres on God’s Son who was born into a family of King David’s descendants — a weak human like us — and who was declared to be the Son of God by being raised from the dead to new life — a powerful Spirit like the Holy One. I speak of course\, of Jesus\, the Messiah and our Lord. It is through him that we have come to be on the receiving end of God’s extravagant generosity. It is also through him that we have been made ambassadors with the special assignment of bringing the outsiders into a new relationship with God based on trust and obedience. Jesus the Christ gets all the credit for this\, and you\, of course\, were among those who have responded to the call to hand yourselves over to him in this way. \nSo this letter comes to you — God’s much loved people in the city of Rome — who have been called to dedicate yourselves wholly and solely to God. \nI 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. \n©2004 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Matthew 1: 18-25			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	This is the story surrounding the birth of Jesus the Messiah. His mother\, Mary\, was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph who was a descendant of King David. But before they had lived together\, Joseph found out that Mary was pregnant. It was the Holy Spirit who had made her pregnant\, but Joseph didn’t know that. Joseph was a staunch ‘respectability and law-and-order’ man\, but he still didn’t want to see Mary publicly disgraced\, so he made plans to break off the engagement on the quiet. But just when he had sorted this out in his head\, a messenger from the Lord spoke to him in a dream saying:\n“Joseph\, hold your nerve and go ahead and get married to Mary\, because the child in her womb was conceived by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a baby boy and you are to treat him as your own. Give him the name Jesus\, because he will live up to its meaning by saving his people from their toxic ways.” \nAs these events took place\, they shed new light on the words that the Lord had spoken through the prophet: \n“Check this out:\na virgin will fall pregnant and give birth to a son\,\nand people will speak of him as Emmanuel.” \n‘Emmanuel’ is a Hebrew name meaning ‘God is with us.’ When Joseph woke up after his dream\, he followed the instructions from the Lord’s messenger to the letter. He went ahead and married Mary\, but they remained celibate until after the baby was born. As instructed\, Joseph named the boy Jesus. \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 you rest your hand upon us\,\ncalling us to be your holy saints and giving us life again. \nBefore time began\, your Holy Spirit brooded over the chaos\nand brought the earth and its inhabitants to birth.\nThrough your prophets speaking in the holy scriptures\nyou promised us a child\nborn as a sign of your saving presence with us. \nYour promise has taken flesh in your child\, Jesus the Christ\,\nwho was born of the line of David.\nWhen he was killed by your enemies\,\nyour Spirit brought him forth again\nby resurrection from the dead.\nThrough him the light of your presence has been restored\nand we have been called into the obedience of faith\nthat we might belong to Jesus Christ forever\,\nliving by the hope conceived in us by the Holy Spirit. \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 give you thanks that through Christ\nthe light of your presence has been restored\nand we have been called into the obedience of faith\nthat we might live by the hope conceived in us by the Holy Spirit. \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 you rest your hand upon us\,\ncalling us to be your holy saints and giving us life again. \nBefore time began\, your Holy Spirit brooded over the chaos\nand brought the earth and its inhabitants to birth.\nThrough your prophets speaking in the holy scriptures\nyou promised us a child\nborn as a sign of your saving presence with us. \nYour promise has taken flesh in your child\, Jesus the Christ\,\nwho was born of the line of David.\nWhen he was killed by your enemies\,\nyour Spirit brought him forth again\nby resurrection from the dead.\nThrough him the light of your presence has been restored\nand we have been called into the obedience of faith\nthat we might belong to Jesus Christ forever\,\nliving by the hope conceived in us by the Holy Spirit. \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	Through Jesus Christ we have received grace:\nthe light of God’s presence is restored to us\nand we are saved. \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 the hope conceived within you.\nRefuse evil and choose good.\nCall on the name of the Lord.\nWalk with God in faithful obedience\,\nand do not fear public disgrace. \nAnd may God be with you;\nMay Christ Jesus save you from your sins;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit restore to you the light of God’s presence. \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\nSpeaking of pregnant virgins\, did you hear the one…A drama/sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nWhat are you really made of?A sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nExpect the UnexpectedA sermon on Romans 1:1-7 & Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nTarnished GoodsA sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nGod’s Suspect Sexual HistoryA sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nWhat if it was God?A sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nWhy the Virgin Birth is not the Biggest ShockA sermon on Matthew 1: 18-25 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nBlood on the sand and God with usA sermon on by Nathan Nettleton
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