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Newsletter for December 14, 2006
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Lectionary Passages for December 24th, 2006
Fourth Sunday in Advent, Year C
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Micah 5:2-5 Theme: prophecy ; prophecy
Theme one-liner: predictions
A Ruler from Bethlehem 2 But you, O
Bethlehem Ephrathah,
are only a small village among all the people of
Judah.
Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you,
one whose
origins are from the distant past.
3
The people of Israel will be abandoned to their enemies
until the woman
in labor gives birth.
Then at last his fellow countrymen
will
return from exile to their own land.
4 And he will stand to lead his flock with the Lord’s strength,
in the majesty
of the name of the Lord his
God.
Then his people will live there undisturbed ,
for he will be
highly honored around the world.
5
And he will be the source of peace.
When the Assyrians invade our land
and break through our
defenses ,
we will appoint seven rulers to watch over us,
eight
princes to lead us.
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Luke 1:46-55 Theme: sing ; servant
Theme one-liner: music
The Magnificat: Mary’s Song of Praise 46 Mary responded,
“Oh, how my soul praises the Lord.
47 How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!
48 For he took notice of his lowly servant
girl,
and from now on all generations will call me blessed.
49 For the Mighty One is holy ,
and he
has done great things for me.
50 He
shows mercy from generation to generation
to all who fear
him.
51 His mighty arm has done
tremendous things!
He has scattered the proud and haughty
ones.
52 He has brought down princes
from their thrones
and exalted the humble.
53 He has filled the hungry with good things
and
sent the rich away with empty hands.
54 He has helped his servant Israel
and
remembered to be merciful.
55 For he
made this promise to our ancestors,
to Abraham and his children
forever.”
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Luke 1:39-45 Theme: visit ; relatives ; greatness
Theme one-liner: great
Mary Visits Elizabeth 39 A few
days later Mary hurried to the hill country of Judea, to the town 40 where Zechariah lived. She entered the house
and greeted Elizabeth. 41 At the sound of
Mary’s greeting , Elizabeth’s child leaped within her, and Elizabeth was filled
with the Holy Spirit.
42 Elizabeth gave a glad cry and
exclaimed to Mary, “God has blessed you above all women, and your child is
blessed. 43 Why am I so honored, that the
mother of my Lord should visit me? 44
When I heard your greeting, the baby in my womb jumped for joy. 45 You are blessed because you believed that the Lord
would do what he said.”
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Hebrews 10:5-10 Theme: holiness
Theme one-liner: spiritual ; holy
5 That is why, when Christ came into the world,
he said to God,
“You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings.
But you
have given me a body to offer.
6 You
were not pleased with burnt offerings
or other offerings for
sin.
7 Then I said, ‘Look, I have
come to do your will, O God—
as is written about me in the
Scriptures.’”
8 First, Christ said, “You did not
want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings
for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of
Moses). 9 Then he said, “Look, I have
come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second
into effect. 10 For God’s will was for us
to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all
time.
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Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers.
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