diff --git a/Originals/PoC-20260517.md b/Originals/PoC-20260517.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..87d4f90 --- /dev/null +++ b/Originals/PoC-20260517.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +## Context + +Scripture Reading: Exodus 19:1-9a + +Sermon Text: 1 Peter 2:1-10 + +Song: How Sweet and Aweful Is The Place + +## Prayer + +Our Father, + +We come to You as sinners, as trespassers, as lawbreakers. +Once we all were of a people utterly alien to righteousness and utterly +incapable of attaining to it, and we offered nothing to merit the +deliverance You have wrought for us through Your Son. +You regard us, who You have called, as a treasured possession among the +peoples, yet in ourselves, we were of one nature the countless who make the +wretched choice. +Indeed, "Why [were *we*] made to hear Thy voice?" +Those deaf to Your voice do not provide us a favorable contrast, as there we +see the same unbelief and hostility toward You that we would still hold, but +for Your mercy on us. + +You set us apart as a distinct people, but we, in our flesh, so easily lapse +into identifying with different tribes. +We often set our first identity not with Your people, but with those who vote +as we vote, or who work on what we work on. +We may know in our heads that our identity should orbit around Christ, and we +will say as much, but we at times see our brothers as enemies and those who +hate You as allies. + +You have given us the riches of Your Word, but as a people, we long for a king +like those of other peoples. +We want to worship as they worship. +We simply do not fathom the impassable chasm between the holiness that You call +us to, and futility of the world You are delivering us from. +Though we saw what You did to Egypt, we aspire to be like Egypt. + +You have provided everyone of us here with reason to trust You, but we are +quick to fall into unbelief. +We are quick to cast our trust on the power of the flesh. +We trust You when You act, but we do not trust You in the waiting. + +We read the actions of others with malice, and we think it nothing to slander +them in our hearts. +We play the part of the accuser, and we dredge up and inflate the sins of those +who wrong us. + +We hold envy in our hearts and indict You as unjust in Your allotment of gifts. + +Father, we ask that You would continue to draw from Your vast well of patience. +Bring us safely home, to the rest of Your promised kingdom. +For the sake of Him who did keep Your covenant on our behalf, make us a +treasured people for Your own possession. + +It is in the name Your righteous Son, Christ Jesus that we pray. +Amen. diff --git a/Revisions/PoC-20260517.md b/Revisions/PoC-20260517.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..69cde0a --- /dev/null +++ b/Revisions/PoC-20260517.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +## Context + +Scripture Reading: Exodus 19:1-9a + +Sermon Text: 1 Peter 2:1-10 + +Song: How Sweet and Aweful Is The Place + +## Prayer + +Our Father, + +We come to You as sinners, as trespassers, as lawbreakers. +Once we all were of peoples utterly alien to righteousness and utterly +incapable of attaining to it, and we offered nothing to merit the +deliverance You have wrought for us through Your Son. +You regard us, who You have called, as a treasured possession among the +peoples, yet in ourselves, we were of one nature the countless who make the +wretched choice. +Indeed, "Why [were *we*] made to hear Thy voice?" +Those deaf to Your voice do not provide us a favorable contrast, as there we +see the same unbelief and hostility toward You that we would still hold, but +for Your mercy on us. + +You set us apart as a distinct people, but we, in our flesh, so easily lapse +into identifying with other tribes. +We often set our first identity not with Your people, but with those who vote +as we vote, or who work on what we work on. +We may know in our heads that our identity should orbit around Christ, and we +will say as much, but we at times see our brothers as enemies and those who +hate You as allies. + +You have given us the riches of Your Word, but as a people, we long for a king +like those of other peoples. +We want to worship as they worship. +We simply do not fathom the impassable chasm between the holiness that You call +us to, and futility of the world You are delivering us from. +Though we saw what You did to Egypt, we aspire to be like Egypt. + +You have provided everyone of us here with reason to trust You, but we are +quick to fall into unbelief. +We are quick to cast our trust on the power of the flesh. +We trust You when You act, but we do not trust You in the waiting. + +We read the actions of others with malice, and we think it nothing to slander +them in our hearts. +We play the part of the accuser, and we dredge up and inflate the sins of those +who wrong us. + +We hold envy in our hearts and indict You as unjust in Your allotment of gifts. + +Father, we ask that You would continue to draw from Your vast well of patience. +Bring us safely home, to the rest of Your promised kingdom. +For the sake of Him who did keep Your covenant on our behalf, make us a +treasured people for Your own possession. + +It is in the name Your righteous Son, Christ Jesus that we pray. +Amen.