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SUMMARY:4th Sunday between Epiphany and Lent - 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				  Micah 6: 1-8			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Open your ears\, for this is what the LORD has to say: \nIf you have got a complaint\, stand up and let it be heard.\nLet the mountains and hills be your witnesses. \nFor I am calling on the mountains to hear my dispute.\nI am calling on the earth itself\nto take my complaint to heart.\nFor I\, the LORD\, have a dispute to settle with my people\,\nand I will have it out with you\, my chosen ones. \nWhen have I ever done the wrong thing by you\, my people?\nWhat have I done to make you sick of me?\nAnswer me that! \nI was the one who got you out of the land where you were slaves;\nbroke you free and put you back where you belonged.\nI was the one who provided you with good leaders:\nMoses\, Aaron\, and Miriam. \nAnd don’t forget\nhow King Balak of Moab conspired to curse you\,\nand how it backfired on him\nwhen he gave the job to Balaam.\nAnd don’t forget\, my people\,\nhow you got from one side of the great river to the other.\nKeep in mind all that I\, the LORD\, have done;\nall the actions I have taken to get you to safety. \nHaving been reminded of all this\,\nhow can we express our thanks to the LORD?\nIs there anything we could ever give\nthat would be worthy of our God? \nShould we offer our most treasured possessions\nas a sacrifice on God’s altar?\nWould the LORD like us to sacrifice a year’s wages\,\nor even hand over everything we own?\nShould we sacrifice our children to pay the price;\nour own flesh and blood for the sin deep within us? \nCome on people! God has told us what is good.\nWe know what the LORD wants from us: \nTo make sure everybody gets a fair go;\nTo be passionate about caring for others;\nAnd to stay on track with God without getting full of ourselves. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 15			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	LORD\, who is welcome at your table?\nWho can stay in the place you call your own? \nYou have given us the answer\, LORD.\nIt is those who walk with integrity\nand do the right thing;\nthose who speak the honest truth\nand do not use their words to wound;\nthose who do not exploit their friends\nor put down their neighbours.\nIt is those who hate corruption\nand look up to those who honour you\, LORD;\nthose who give their word\nand stand by it even if it costs them;\nthose who lend freely\, without seeking a profit\,\nand cannot be bribed into shafting the innocent. \nYou honour such people\, LORD\,\nand anchor them on unshakable ground. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  1 Corinthians 1: 18-31			\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. \nSisters and brothers\, you don’t have to look any further than your own experience of God’s call to see the truth of this. Not many of you were academic hot-shots. Not many of you were movers and shakers in the corridors of power. Not many of you were feted as celebrities. But God chose you! God chose those who were dismissed as fools to expose the bankruptcy of the world’s accepted wisdom. God chose those who were weak and vulnerable in the world to show up the corruption of those who wield power. God consistently chooses what is despised as the dregs by the world\, things which are seen as worthless\, to expose the worthlessness of things which are seen as being ‘it and a bit’. Because of this\, no one who is accepted into God’s presence has any grounds for blowing their own trumpet. God and God alone is the source of the life you share in union with the Messiah\, Jesus. It is only in Jesus that we have been able to tap into God’s wisdom. And it is only in Jesus that our lives have been put back on track\, given a clean bill of health\, and set on the path to wholeness. For this reason\, the scriptures make sense to us when they say: \n“If you are going to blow your trumpet about something\,\nblow it about the Lord!” \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Matthew 5: 1-12			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Jesus found himself increasingly surrounded by crowds of people\, so one day he headed off up the mountain. He sat down up there and his committed followers gathered around to hear what he had to say. This is what he taught them: \n“Those who depend entirely on God for their welfare\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they are already at home in the culture of heaven. \n“Those who are stricken with grief\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they will receive the ultimate comfort. \n“Those who allow others to have first claim on everything\nhave got it made\,\nbecause the whole world will be given to them. \n“Those who hunger and thirst to see the world put right\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they will be richly satisfied. \n“Those who readily treat others better than they deserve\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they will be treated with extravagant mercy. \n“Those whose hearts are unpolluted\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they will see God. \n“Those who forge peace and reconciliation in places of hostility\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they will be known as God’s own children. \n“Those who are attacked and abused for sticking to what is right\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they are already at home in the culture of heaven. \n“When people turn on you\nand do all they can to make your life a misery;\nwhen they make false allegations about you\nand drag your name through the mud\,\nall because of your association with me\,\nyou have really got it made!\nKick up your heels and party\,\nbecause heaven is coming\nand you will be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams!\nYou are in great company\,\nbecause they were just as vicious\nto God’s faithful messengers in the past. \n©2002 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 have always shown us\nwhat is good and what you require of us. \nYou laid the foundations of the earth\,\nand the mountains and hills witness to your justice.\nYou redeemed your people from the house of slavery\nand called us to remember your saving acts\,\nthat we might know your ways\nand live our lives in justice\, kindness and humility. \nWhen our own wisdom and discernment\nfailed to bring us near to you\,\nyou chose what was foolish\, weak and despised in our eyes\nto break the grip of human wisdom and strength:\nChrist Jesus our Lord\,\nand him crucified.\nRaised to new life\,\nhe has made known to us what the wise never guessed\,\nthat you honour not what the world seeks\nbut those who walk with you the way of the cross. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2005 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 what was foolish\, weak and despised\n— Christ Jesus our Lord\, and him crucified —\nyou broke the grip of human wisdom and strength\,\nhonouring not what the world seeks\nbut those who walk with you the way of the cross. \n©2002 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 have always shown us\nwhat is good and what you require of us. \nYou laid the foundations of the earth\,\nand the mountains and hills witness to your justice.\nYou redeemed your people from the house of slavery\nand called us to remember your saving acts\,\nthat we might know your ways\nand live our lives in justice\, kindness and humility. \nWhen our own wisdom and discernment\nfailed to bring us near to you\,\nyou chose what was foolish\, weak and despised in our eyes\nto break the grip of human wisdom and strength:\nChrist Jesus our Lord\,\nand him crucified.\nRaised to new life\,\nhe has made known to us what the wise never guessed\,\nthat you honour not what the world seeks\nbut those who walk with you the way of the cross. \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©2005 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	God decided\, through a message considered foolish\,\nto save those who believe.\nThrough our life in Christ Jesus\,\nwe have been put right with God\,\nand set free to be God’s holy people. \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Commission & Benediction			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Go out into the world.\nWalk with integrity.\nDo only what is right.\nSpeak the truth with courage. \nAnd may God reward your mercy with divine mercy;\nMay Christ Jesus allow you to see God;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit lead you into righteousness and peace\n    and fill you with all the blessings of God’s children. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2002 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\nTrusting a stupid weak failureA sermon on 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nGodly Living – Why Bother?A sermon on Micah 6: 1-8; Psalm 15; Matthew 5: 1-12 & 1 Corinthians 1: 18-31 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nBlessed are those with lots to learnA sermon on Matthew 5:1-12 & 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThe Be-Jesus-like AttitudesA sermon on Matthew 5:1-12 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nBloody SacrificesA sermon on Micah 6:1-8; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 & Matthew 5:1-12 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nRe-imagining the Kingdom in the time of Global TraumaA sermon on Matthew 5:1-12 by Francesca Nuzzolese\n\n\n\nBlessed and BlessingA sermon on Matthew 5:1-12 by Nathan Nettleton
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SUMMARY:4th Sunday between Epiphany and Lent - 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				  Micah 6: 1-8			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Open your ears\, for this is what the LORD has to say: \nIf you have got a complaint\, stand up and let it be heard.\nLet the mountains and hills be your witnesses. \nFor I am calling on the mountains to hear my dispute.\nI am calling on the earth itself\nto take my complaint to heart.\nFor I\, the LORD\, have a dispute to settle with my people\,\nand I will have it out with you\, my chosen ones. \nWhen have I ever done the wrong thing by you\, my people?\nWhat have I done to make you sick of me?\nAnswer me that! \nI was the one who got you out of the land where you were slaves;\nbroke you free and put you back where you belonged.\nI was the one who provided you with good leaders:\nMoses\, Aaron\, and Miriam. \nAnd don’t forget\nhow King Balak of Moab conspired to curse you\,\nand how it backfired on him\nwhen he gave the job to Balaam.\nAnd don’t forget\, my people\,\nhow you got from one side of the great river to the other.\nKeep in mind all that I\, the LORD\, have done;\nall the actions I have taken to get you to safety. \nHaving been reminded of all this\,\nhow can we express our thanks to the LORD?\nIs there anything we could ever give\nthat would be worthy of our God? \nShould we offer our most treasured possessions\nas a sacrifice on God’s altar?\nWould the LORD like us to sacrifice a year’s wages\,\nor even hand over everything we own?\nShould we sacrifice our children to pay the price;\nour own flesh and blood for the sin deep within us? \nCome on people! God has told us what is good.\nWe know what the LORD wants from us: \nTo make sure everybody gets a fair go;\nTo be passionate about caring for others;\nAnd to stay on track with God without getting full of ourselves. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 15			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	LORD\, who is welcome at your table?\nWho can stay in the place you call your own? \nYou have given us the answer\, LORD.\nIt is those who walk with integrity\nand do the right thing;\nthose who speak the honest truth\nand do not use their words to wound;\nthose who do not exploit their friends\nor put down their neighbours.\nIt is those who hate corruption\nand look up to those who honour you\, LORD;\nthose who give their word\nand stand by it even if it costs them;\nthose who lend freely\, without seeking a profit\,\nand cannot be bribed into shafting the innocent. \nYou honour such people\, LORD\,\nand anchor them on unshakable ground. \n©2001 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  1 Corinthians 1: 18-31			\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. \nSisters and brothers\, you don’t have to look any further than your own experience of God’s call to see the truth of this. Not many of you were academic hot-shots. Not many of you were movers and shakers in the corridors of power. Not many of you were feted as celebrities. But God chose you! God chose those who were dismissed as fools to expose the bankruptcy of the world’s accepted wisdom. God chose those who were weak and vulnerable in the world to show up the corruption of those who wield power. God consistently chooses what is despised as the dregs by the world\, things which are seen as worthless\, to expose the worthlessness of things which are seen as being ‘it and a bit’. Because of this\, no one who is accepted into God’s presence has any grounds for blowing their own trumpet. God and God alone is the source of the life you share in union with the Messiah\, Jesus. It is only in Jesus that we have been able to tap into God’s wisdom. And it is only in Jesus that our lives have been put back on track\, given a clean bill of health\, and set on the path to wholeness. For this reason\, the scriptures make sense to us when they say: \n“If you are going to blow your trumpet about something\,\nblow it about the Lord!” \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Matthew 5: 1-12			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Jesus found himself increasingly surrounded by crowds of people\, so one day he headed off up the mountain. He sat down up there and his committed followers gathered around to hear what he had to say. This is what he taught them: \n“Those who depend entirely on God for their welfare\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they are already at home in the culture of heaven. \n“Those who are stricken with grief\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they will receive the ultimate comfort. \n“Those who allow others to have first claim on everything\nhave got it made\,\nbecause the whole world will be given to them. \n“Those who hunger and thirst to see the world put right\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they will be richly satisfied. \n“Those who readily treat others better than they deserve\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they will be treated with extravagant mercy. \n“Those whose hearts are unpolluted\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they will see God. \n“Those who forge peace and reconciliation in places of hostility\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they will be known as God’s own children. \n“Those who are attacked and abused for sticking to what is right\nhave got it made\,\nbecause they are already at home in the culture of heaven. \n“When people turn on you\nand do all they can to make your life a misery;\nwhen they make false allegations about you\nand drag your name through the mud\,\nall because of your association with me\,\nyou have really got it made!\nKick up your heels and party\,\nbecause heaven is coming\nand you will be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams!\nYou are in great company\,\nbecause they were just as vicious\nto God’s faithful messengers in the past. \n©2002 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 have always shown us\nwhat is good and what you require of us. \nYou laid the foundations of the earth\,\nand the mountains and hills witness to your justice.\nYou redeemed your people from the house of slavery\nand called us to remember your saving acts\,\nthat we might know your ways\nand live our lives in justice\, kindness and humility. \nWhen our own wisdom and discernment\nfailed to bring us near to you\,\nyou chose what was foolish\, weak and despised in our eyes\nto break the grip of human wisdom and strength:\nChrist Jesus our Lord\,\nand him crucified.\nRaised to new life\,\nhe has made known to us what the wise never guessed\,\nthat you honour not what the world seeks\nbut those who walk with you the way of the cross. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2005 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 what was foolish\, weak and despised\n— Christ Jesus our Lord\, and him crucified —\nyou broke the grip of human wisdom and strength\,\nhonouring not what the world seeks\nbut those who walk with you the way of the cross. \n©2002 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 have always shown us\nwhat is good and what you require of us. \nYou laid the foundations of the earth\,\nand the mountains and hills witness to your justice.\nYou redeemed your people from the house of slavery\nand called us to remember your saving acts\,\nthat we might know your ways\nand live our lives in justice\, kindness and humility. \nWhen our own wisdom and discernment\nfailed to bring us near to you\,\nyou chose what was foolish\, weak and despised in our eyes\nto break the grip of human wisdom and strength:\nChrist Jesus our Lord\,\nand him crucified.\nRaised to new life\,\nhe has made known to us what the wise never guessed\,\nthat you honour not what the world seeks\nbut those who walk with you the way of the cross. \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©2005 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	God decided\, through a message considered foolish\,\nto save those who believe.\nThrough our life in Christ Jesus\,\nwe have been put right with God\,\nand set free to be God’s holy people. \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Commission & Benediction			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Go out into the world.\nWalk with integrity.\nDo only what is right.\nSpeak the truth with courage. \nAnd may God reward your mercy with divine mercy;\nMay Christ Jesus allow you to see God;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit lead you into righteousness and peace\n    and fill you with all the blessings of God’s children. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2002 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\nTrusting a stupid weak failureA sermon on 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nGodly Living – Why Bother?A sermon on Micah 6: 1-8; Psalm 15; Matthew 5: 1-12 & 1 Corinthians 1: 18-31 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nBlessed are those with lots to learnA sermon on Matthew 5:1-12 & 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThe Be-Jesus-like AttitudesA sermon on Matthew 5:1-12 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nBloody SacrificesA sermon on Micah 6:1-8; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 & Matthew 5:1-12 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nRe-imagining the Kingdom in the time of Global TraumaA sermon on Matthew 5:1-12 by Francesca Nuzzolese\n\n\n\nBlessed and BlessingA sermon on Matthew 5:1-12 by Nathan Nettleton
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