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Jeremiah Overview

Prayer

Our Heavenly Father,

You made the heavens and the earth.  You sustain and rule over all creation.  We praise you because everything exists for your glory, including us.  We see glimpses of your glory in the creation around us.  We thank you for bright, blue skies and crisp, cold air.  We thank you for all the good gifts you give to us for our enjoyment. 

Please forgive us for all the times that we seek our own glory.  Forgive us for the times where we worship created things rather than the creator.  Please forgive us for our selfishness and for the times where we choose sin over holiness.

We thank you for giving your Son for us.  Thank you that Jesus paid our debt in full.  Thank you that the greatest Son was treated as an enemy so that we who were enemies might become sons and daughters.

We thank you that we can call you ‘Father’.  Thank you for adopting us into your family.  Thank you for loving us despite all the ways in which we fail to love you.  Please forgive us for doubting and questioning your love.  Thank you for the love of others that we experience.  Please grow us in gratefulness.

As we spend time over the coming months in the book of Jeremiah, please show us afresh the power of your word.  Please convict us of sin and cause us to want to repent and change and grow.  Please help us to see your calling on our lives to follow Jesus faithfully, no matter the cost.  Please grow us so that we will trust you more and be used by you, for your glory. 

We thank you that in Jeremiah we’re reminded of your sovereignty, your presence, your protection and the assurance that your word is powerful and true.  Please use us, in our weakness, to declare your words of hope to the world.

We pray all these things in the name of Jesus,
Amen

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Sermon

Bible Reading (included): Jeremiah 1

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Welcome

Prayer

Today, let us hear and be strengthened by the word of God:
“Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart. Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” Deut 6:4-7.

Lord God, even though Jesus taught us to call you Father, you are infinitely more wonderful than any earthly father could ever be
You are the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort
So move our hearts to hear your word and to come clean about the sin in our lives
For too long we have gone our own way, pleasing ourselves, living our own lives, doing what we want to do
We acknowledge our complete and utter failure to trust you with our whole lives
Thank you that we don’t have to pretend to be spiritual, to be righteous, to be holy, 
to have it all together, to be someone else, to be something more.
THERE IS ONLY ONE WHO IS TRULY HOLY
We thank you for Jesus, for his work on the cross, that through his death and resurrection 
he has made a way for our sins to be forgiven
Thank you that no matter what we have done or what we have failed to do, we can experience forgiveness and know the joy of starting again
Lord, in the midst of this current global crisis, you are still seeking those who are lost, you are still reaching out to those who are struggling, you are still healing those who are sick, you are still holding those who are hurting.
We pray for those whose work involves caring for people in hospitals and nursing homes with COVID-19: Watch over their lives, give them grace and strength, help them to know you are near
Thank you, Lord, that we can come to you with confidence, we can know your love, and experience your peace, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Sermon

Bible Reading (included): Romans 16:1-16, 21-23

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Welcome

Prayer

“Have you never heard?
Have you never understood?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of all the earth.
He never grows tired or weary
No one can measure the depths of his understanding”

Isaiah 40:28

Lord, our heavenly Father, eternal and ever-living God, thank you for your goodness to us. In this moment of prayer, lift us above this present earthly turmoil, and set our hearts and minds on you.

In the midst of our inability to comprehend the enormity of brokenness and deterioration in our fractured world, bring us comfort and peace and strength, speak to us from your word, lift us above our limited human perspective, enable us by your grace to see things from your eternal perspective.

Forgive our lack of faith and hope, and forgive us for those times when we have doubted you. Give us grace to live again, to respond to your invitation, to hear Jesus when he says to us:

“Do not let your heart be troubled

I am the First and the Last and the living one
I died, and behold I am alive for evermore
and I have the keys of Death and Hades

I am the resurrection and the life
Those who believe in me will live, even though they die
And everyone who lives and believes in me will never die

Did I not tell you that if you believed
you would see the glory of God?”

Father of compassion you never fail to strengthen and comfort those who cry out to you

We pray for the people of Hong Kong

For all those experiencing persecution, injustice and oppression

Break the power of those who would seek to dominate (and) oppress and subjugate people

We pray for those who are fighting for their lives from coronavirus, and other illnesses and diseases.

We pray for those who at this very moment feel far away from God.

Help them to begin again to take steps with Jesus

Sermon

Bible Reading (included): Romans 12

Discussion Questions

• How does the gospel create deep community?
• What things have helped or hindered your experience of Christian community?
• How does 12:9-21 convict you? What do you need to repent of?
• Discuss a few ways that you and your church community practically obey v. 9-20?

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