Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time*

Job 33:1-33

Psalm 34:11-18

Matthew 12:1-21 OR Mark 3:7-19 OR Luke 6:1-16

Hebrews 12:(1-3) 4-17


INVOCATION [from GREATER ATTENTION: LERW, YEAR D]

Praise be to you, O Lord of the Sabbath, for you have made the Sabbath for our sake, taking in to account our need for refreshment, renewal, and rest! Yet you have also called us to be disciplined, and you discipline those whom you love, and chastise every child whom you accept. Thank you, LORD, that even your discipline, though it may seem painful rather than pleasant at the time, is a sign of your love and acceptance. Therefore, come! Receive our praise and teach us! Grant each of us a teachable spirit, not concerning ourselves, for the moment, with what our neighbors need to hear, but listening to your voice speaking to our own particular need. Instruct and inspire us, correct and admonish us, that we may share in your holiness, and trust in the knowledge that you only ever discipline us for our good.

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Job 32:1-22

Psalm 89:5-18; 38-52

Hebrews 11:(1-3) 4-7, 17-28 (39-40)

Luke 5:27-39

CALL TO WORSHIP [from GREATER ATTENTION: LERW, YEAR D]                                

Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD,

your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!

            For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD?

            Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?

The LORD is a God feared in the council of the holy ones,

great and awesome above all that are around him!

            O LORD God of hosts, who is as mighty as you?

            Your faithfulness, O LORD, surrounds you!

Happy are the people who know the festal shout,

who walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance!

            Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.

Transfiguration Sunday

Job 36:24-37:24

Psalm 11

Matthew 8:5-13 OR John 4:43-54

Jude (OR Hebrews 13:9-14, 17-25, if Transfiguration preempts Fifth OT)


   

OPENING PRAYER [from GREATER ATTENTION: LERW, YEAR D]

Almighty God, surrounded with golden splendor, you are awesome in your majesty! Who can look upon you in your radiance? You load the clouds with moisture and from your chamber come the whirlwind and the rain. They turn round and round by your guidance, and accomplish on the earth all that you command. You say, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and the showers serve as a sign to everyone, so that all whom you have made may know you are God. Whether for correction, or for your creation, or for love, you cause it to happen, thus providing for people everywhere and giving food from heaven in abundance. Therefore, we praise you, O God. We give you thanks, O Lord, even as we seek sanctuary in you, our refuge; even as we take shelter in your holy loving presence, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Beloved of God.

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time*

Job 34:1-20

Psalm 28

Matthew 6:7-15

Hebrews 13:9-14 (15-16) 17-25

       

OPENING PRAYER [from GREATER ATTENTION: LERW, YEAR D]

O God our Father, your Son and our Lord Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. We realize, in light of the constant changes and challenges we face, that have no lasting city here on earth, but we look for the city, the new Jerusalem, that is to come. Through your Son and in his Spirit, we offer you our continual sacrifice of praise, the fruit of those who confess his name. Accept then our songs and prayers of praise and adoration, and strengthen our hearts with grace, for we seek the bread of your presence, and we gather at the table where your Son has offered the blood of the eternal covenant, in whose name we pray.

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time [Proper 2]*

Job 35:1-16

Psalm 119:(1-16) 17-32

Matthew 7:13-20

2Peter 2

         

DECLARATION FOR FORGIVENESS [From GREATER ATTENTION: LERW, YEAR D]

Yes, people are slaves to whatever masters them, but those who repent and confess their sins in true humility have a good Lord who is unsurpassed, the Master who has bought them for freedom by the gift of his own Son. And if this same God, who saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; if he rescued Lot, a righteous man greatly distressed by the licentiousness of the lawless, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial; for indeed the one who calls us to enter life through the narrow gate has struggled through that gate ahead of us, has opened the way for us, and in this way has delivered us from death to life. Know that, in Jesus Christ, we are given the victory over sin that he himself gained on our behalf. Therefore, be at peace in the knowledge that in Christ we are forgiven and free to enter into the fullness of life.  

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time [Proper 1]*

Job 34:21-37

Psalm 12

Matthew 7:1-12

2Peter 1:1-15

CALL TO CONFESSION [from GREATER ATTENTION: LERW, YEAR D]

The eyes of God are upon the ways of mortals, and he sees all their steps. There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves. But all human vision is obscured and inverted, for people find fault with others for the very things they themselves do and have done. This is why Jesus said, “Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye?” Friends, in humble obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ, let us first take the logs out of our own eyes in confession and repentance, and then, by God’s grace, we may perhaps see clearly enough to assist our neighbors. Let us confess our sins.