From da309867c86346dbb8a6d1c2bd39b64e00fddfc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gary Talent Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:42:38 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Add PoC for 20260301 --- PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20260301.md | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20260301.md diff --git a/PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20260301.md b/PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20260301.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd6ec23 --- /dev/null +++ b/PHBC/PoCs/PoC-20260301.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +## Context + +Lord's Supper + +Scripture Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-19 + +Sermon Text: Luke 20:27-47 + +## Prayer + +Our Father, + +We come to you as sinners, inheritors of futile ways. +Following our first father according to the flesh, we turned from You and +forgot You, cultivating inexcusable ignorance. +We are heirs of a sinful nature, of defiled hearts given to corrupt desires. + +Both we and our forefathers have sinned. +We insulted You by placing our trust in innumerable idols made of perishable things. +The worshipful cravings of our hearts drifted to unworthy objects, rather than +the one God that could satisfy. + +We have placed our hope for happiness in money and possessions and family and +all manner of created things. +We fixate on an age that is passing. +Desiring the honor of man, we act boastfully and we devour one another, while +forgetting our great hope for the honor that will come at the revelation of +Your Son. + +We take little joy in the glories of the mysteries veiled in ages passed. + +We beneficiaries of the great wonder for which creation exists still seek after +the cravings of the ignorance from which we are now free. +We know by Your Word that we must be reminded not to indulge fleshly passions. +We indulge the desires of the natural man, as we neglect the deeper longings +that You have awakened within us. + +You have awakened us to tastes for Bread more delectable than creation could +ever imagine, but we indulgent people insult You still. +We do not glut on the all satisfying glories found in Your Word. +We taste, but we do not devour. +We do not drink deeply Your inexpressible joys. +We settle for the common delights of a fallen creation that was always intended +to be less than that which we are now called to. + +Sinful passions pervade our lives, but we come to You now in hope. + +By blood, we are sinners, but the blood of Your Son is righteous and is given +as ransom for us. + +We confess now our sin and our hope in words, shortly we will confess again as +we partake. +Hear our plea, as we again appeal to You again for a good conscience. + +It was for us, for our sin, that the body and blood before us now was broken +and shed. +And in the presence of this blood, no accuser can stand, and so we come to You +now. + +You, oh God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, be Father to us. +Help us to turn from the inheritance of Adam, and to Your inheritance, that was +secured for us by the precious blood of Your Son. + +It is in the name of Your righteous Son Christ Jesus that that we come to You. +Amen.