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Matthew 2:1-12 “Find” Epiphany Sunday

Lectionary Readings *Vanderbilt Epiphany Sunday 01-06-2019 Isaiah 60:1-6 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD…
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Phil 2:1-13 Share Faith in the Absence
If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit but in humility regard others as better than…
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Healing Not Division Mark 3:20-35
..and the crowd came together again so that they could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.” And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he…
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Luke 2:41-52 Lost in Three Days

The important of family life and the and the uncontainable and inevitable coming of age of all human beings, and the reminder that like Jesus, we also must be about our heavenly parent’s business.
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Isaiah 9:2-7 Luke 2:1-20 Christmas Eve—Arrive

For Christians, Christmas Eve is a moment of open arms— as a midwife who extends her arms to receive the newly born child. As the church, we also extend our arms to receive Jesus once again, with all that he has to offer: an incomparable love, a huge smile, the smile of God over humanity…
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Advent 4—Welcome Micah 5:2-5a Keywords: joy, hospitality, encouragement

But you, O [Rock Spring] of [Walker County], who are one of the little [communities] of [Georgia], from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in [My People], whose origin is from of old, from ancient days. Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in…
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Adv3: Do Zephaniah 3:14-20 Luke 3:7-18

The DO is to a call to worship, to praise, to celebrate, to recall the words of promise, the remember God is for us, to remind one another we are called to love even though we have not always been loving.
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Advent 1 Stand Jer. 33:14-16 Luke 21:25-36

Key words: hope, redemption, alert The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David; and he shall execute justice and…
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Psalm 146: 1- 10 “Put No Trust in Princes”

Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long. Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help. When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on…

