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Hymn #68 The Advent of Our King Hymn #57 O Bride of Christ, Rejoice Hymn #613 Jerusalem the Golden Jeremiah 33:14-18 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 21:1-9 Collect for the First Sunday in Advent Stir up, we beseech Thee, Thy power, O Lord, and come, that by Thy protection we may be rescued from the threatening perils of our sins and saved by Thy mighty deliverance; Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. Sermon on the Holy Gospel 1)          Jesus sends two disciples into the village to exercise their faith and teach us faith. Their errand seems regular. They are to fetch transportation for Jesus. Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Except this isn’t Jesus’ donkey and colt. They belong to someone else, presumably the man who tethered them. But this doesn’t faze the Lord, who instructs the two disciples, And if anyone say...

Hymn #568 We Praise Thee, O God, Our Redeemer, Creator Hymn #36 Now Thank We All Our God Hymn #569 O Lord, I Sing with Lips and Heart Sirach 50:22-24 1 Timothy 2:1-8 St. Luke 17:11-19 1)        This is quite the gift Jesus gives these ten men. They are afflicted with leprosy, a living death. Every day they see with their eyes the deterioration of their flesh. Each moment they are keenly aware of the rotting away of their earthly existence. Shunned by everyone, relegated to a colony outside the city so as to not infect anyone else, they are utterly alone. The only company they have is one another, each one having nine other men with the same death sentence slowly playing out each day of their life. There is no hope in this leper colony. No one walks away from leprosy. The only way out of this colony and existence is on a gurney. But Jesus is near. He travels through Galilee, through Samaria, and as He enters this city to preach the good news of the ki...

Hymn #67 The Bridegroom Soon Will Call Us Hymn #609 Wake, Awake for Night Is Flying Hymn #446 Rise, My Soul, To Watch and Pray Isaiah 65:17-19 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 St. Matthew 25:1-13 Collect For Trinity XXVII Absolve, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy people from their offenses, that from the bonds of our sins which by reason of our frailty we have brought upon us we may be delivered by Thy bountiful goodness; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. Collect for the End of the Church Year We thank Thee, Lord God, Heavenly Father, that in the past Church Year Thou hast preserved Thy Word among us in purity and by it effectively enlivened our souls; and we beseech Thee, that Thou wouldst graciously forgive us all our neglect, unbelief, and disobedience with respect to Thy Word, and continue to give us this precious treasure with Thy blessing forevermore; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, ...