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1 Chapter 1 : Abingdon Preaching Annual - PDF Free Download The Abingdon Preaching Annual and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more Enter your mobile number or address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Color helps form general expectations for any occasion. Traditionally, purples, grays, and blues have been used for seasons of a penitential character such as Advent and Lent, although any dark colors could be used. White has been used for events or seasons with strong christological meaning such as the Baptism of the Lord or the Easter Season. Yellows and golds are also possibilities at such times. Red has been reserved for occasions relating to the Holy Spirit such as the Day of Pentecost or ordinations or to commemorations of the martyrs. Green has been used for seasons such as the Season after Epiphany or the Season after Pentecost. The absence of any colored textiles from Maundy Thursday to the Easter Vigil is a striking use of contrast. Colors and textures can be used most effectively in textiles for hangings on pulpits, on lecterns if any, for the stoles worn by ordained ministers, or for ministerial vestments. Violet purple or blue Christmas: Gold or white for December White thereafter, through the Baptism of the Lord. Or, in the days between January 6 and the Sunday of the Baptism, green may be used. Ordinary Time both after Epiphany-Baptism and after Pentecost: White Lent Prior to Holy Week: Black is sometimes used for Ash Wednesday. On Palm-Passion Sunday, violet purple or [blood] red may be specified. For the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy Week, the same options exist, although with variations as to which color to use on each day. For Holy Thursday, violet purple or [blood] red may be used during the day and changed to white for the evening Eucharist. Then the church may be stripped. Good Friday and Holy Saturday: Stripped or black; or [blood] red in some churches on Good Friday. Or gold for Easter Day and perhaps its octave, then white for the remainder of the season until the Vigil of Pentecost. White Christ the King: We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou those, O God, who confess their faults. Restore thou those who are penitent; According to thy promises declared unto mankind In Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake; That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, To the glory of thy holy Name. Eucharistic Make this Bread the precious Body of thy Christ, And that which is in this Chalice, the precious Blood of thy Christ Transmuting them by thy Holy Spirit So that they may be to those that partake, unto sobriety of soul, unto remission of sins, unto communion of thy Holy Spirit, unto fulfilment of the Kingdom of the heavens, unto boldness toward thee, not unto judgement, nor unto condemnation. To Thee I flee, O merciful and mighty God. Shine into my heart with the True Sun of Thy righteousness. Enlighten my mind and keep all my senses, that henceforth I may walk uprightly and keep Thy commandments, and may finally attain unto eternal life, even to Thee, Who art the source of life, and be admitted to the glorious fruition of Thy inaccessible Light. A General Thanksgiving Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men; [particularly to those who desire now to offer up their praises and thanksgivings for thy late mercies vouchsafed unto them. And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful; and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; It is in dying that we are Page 1

2 born to eternal life. A Prayer of Saint Chrysostom Almighty God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests; Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Ruler of all creation! Who hast vouchsafed that I should live even down to the present hour, forgive the sins I have committed this day by deed, word or thought. Cleanse, O Lord, my humble soul of all corporal and spiritual stain. And grant, O Lord, that I may during this night have a peaceful sleep, so that on rising from my humble bed, I should continue to praise Thy holy Name throughout all the days of my life, and that I be victorious over all the physical and spiritual enemies battling against me. Deliver me, O Lord, from all vain thoughts that defile me, and from evil desires. And man, who is a part of your creation, wishes to praise you You arouse him to take joy in praising you, for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you Lord, let me seek you by calling upon you, and let me call upon you by believing in you, for you have been preached to us. Lord, my faith calls upon you, that faith which you have given to me, which you have breathed into me by the incarnation of your Son and through the ministry of your preacher. A Collect for Peace O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee, we, being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Thomas Nelson and Sons,, 6. John Chrysostom and Basil the Great ed. David Nutt,, Doubleday,, I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended to the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. The Nicene Creed C. We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. The Athanasian Creed ca. Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Ghost. The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate, and the Holy Ghost uncreate. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal. As also there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated, but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible. And yet they are not three Almighties, but one Almighty. And yet they are not three Gods, but one God. And yet not three Lords, but one Lord. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by himself to be both God and Lord, So are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion, to say, There be three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. And in this Trinity none is afore, or after other; none is greater, or less than another; But the whole three Persons are co-eternal together and co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. He therefore that Page 2

3 will be saved must thus think of the Trinity. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man; God, of the Substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the Substance of his Mother, born in the world; Perfect God and perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead; and inferior to the Father, as touching his Manhood. Who although he be God and Man, yet he is not two, but one Christ; One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into God; One altogether; not by confusion of Substance, but by unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and Man is one Christ; Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God Almighty, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies and shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil into everlasting fire. This is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved. Page 3

4 Chapter 2 : Abingdon Preaching Annual (ebook) by David N. Mosser The Abingdon Preaching Annual This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. A lectionary is a standard table of Scripture readings that may be used for worship or teaching in churches. Although there are many designs for lectionaries, both formal and informal, this book directs itself to the ecumenical Revised Common Lectionary. Can others, say nonlectionary preachers, find the Abingdon Preaching Annual useful? The Annual includes prayers and calls to worship. It incorporates benedictions and meditations for preachers. The Abingdon Preaching Annual also consists of sermons arranged by a lectionary template, but the lectionary binds no one to it. The lectionary is merely a tool for preaching. Why would preachers use the lectionary? Naturally, there are many reasons to use the lectionary and here follow only a few. First, in a world of increasingly biblical illiteracy, the lectionary gives a three-year tour through the most noted passages. Second, it allows the laity to participate more fully in the preaching event, in that they can study the Scripture prior to worship. Third, the lectionary can aid in Christian education when all Sunday school classes are able to learn about the same biblical text. Fourth, it encourages preachers to employ the whole breadth of Scripture. The lectionary is a tool to help people learn, hear, and absorb what the Bible offers to modern peopleâ life abundant. I would like to offer a word of caution, however. Like many entities in life, a book like The Abingdon Preaching Annual offers either a blessing or a curse. In a hurried day when preachers can download the sermon du jour in five or fewer minutes, it is tempting to delete our work in preaching. I once was startled to open a neighboring church newsletter and find an article that I had written plagiarized word for word. The only difference between the two articles was the name signed at the conclusion. Many of the Abingdon Preaching Annual writers are at the tops of their fields. Because this is so, I urge you not to let their fine work tempt you to do less for your own unique congregation than God calls you to do. Rather, my hope is that this book will provide a mental conversation on biblical texts with the authors. Most of us do not hear many other people preach, but we can see how others might handle or preach the same topics on which we preach. This is the blessing of a book like the Abingdon Preaching Annual. In this sense, I hope and pray that this book will engage us as partners in the preaching dialogue that we all need. After all, preaching is not simply a virtuoso performance by solitary individuals. The slogan of the Peace Corps speaks well to the enterprise of preaching: It takes time and energy. Preaching includes not only biblical study and an understanding of theology but also a real grasp of the human condition. No preacher will succeed if he or she does not understand both Scripture and the people for whom it is authoritative. My hope is that this Abingdon Preaching Annual will become a partner in your conversations about Scripture, preaching, and your congregation. I hope this book is a work of loveâ both in its gathering and in its broadcasting the good news of Jesus Christ. No longer children, these high school graduates will either move toward the working world or continue education at an institution of higher or vocational learning. Either way, our students leave the nest of home to venture into a wider world. This sermon tries to acknowledge student achievements. We also want them to remember that their church prays for them, loves them, and has high hopes for their future. This is Senior Sunday, and as a church, we want to wish you well, congratulate you, and thank you for representing our church family so well. We want to bless you in the name of God. We want you to remember that as you begin to move from your childhood homes and make your way into the worldâ as students or workers or bothâ that you take part of us with you wherever you go. In a sense, our own hopes go with you as you grow into and toward your own hopes and aspirations. A resourceful preacher on such a day as this might quickly turn to some biblical passage or another to share various pieces of biblical wisdom. The Bible is full of wisdom, and we stand and sit here as a people shaped and formed by this collection of books we call the Bible. The problem is that the Bible in general, and Jesus in particular, have little by way of wisdom to offer seventeen- and eighteen-year-old people. However, if we think about the problem for a moment, the answer Page 4

5 may have been under our noses all the time. It happens in the life of a Jewish youngster at the age of thirteen. A Protestant equivalent of this ceremony is confirmation. At confirmation, we as a church recognize that those who were children in the eyes of the church have now assumed an adult confession or profession of faith. Do you see the answer to our problem? In Bible times, there was really no such thing as a teenager. One was either a child or an adult. A person was either pre-mitzvah or post-mitzvah, but there was no truly accurate category in between. We, however, have a category of age that stands between being an adult in the fullest sense of our understanding and our understanding of what constitutes being a child. You are a child because there are many things that you cannot legally doâ yet! At the same time, each of you is reasonably mature, and there are not many questions about it. So now what do we do? I think we want to look at what reasonably mature people do as they wait to fully mature. The answer concerns each person in this sanctuary. We are each on our way to becoming what God has created us to be. None of us have arrived yet, and few of us want to get to the point that we stop growing in wisdom or in grace. We all want to become better people, more mature in our faith and in our relationships with other people, especially with regard to people whom we care about deeply. When speaking of maturing, Christians speak of transformation. We are interested in the formation of individuals. The church is also interested in the formation of congregations. Paul writes for us words that we all live by if we are Christian. What does this mean? It means simply that as living and breathing human beings we are on a quest to find out who we are. It is a lifetime search, and no one worth his or her salt ever finishes the quest. If America is about nothing else, it is about the invention of the self. Because we have little use for history, and because we refuse the comforts of a society established on the blueprint of class privilege, we find ourselves set adrift at birth in an existential void, inheriting nothing except the obligation to construct a plausible self, to build a raft of identity Who else is the American hero if not a wandering pilgrim who goes forth on a perpetual quest? Transformation lets God change you into what God created you to be. God takes the stuff of brain and heart and shapes a unique creatureâ you. Alfred A Knopf,, p. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. As your pastor, I wanted to remind you of this choice. I also want to remind you that this choice is not undertaken only on your high school graduation. Rather, it is a choice that you will make over and over in your life. You sit in a sanctuary full of people who also must make these decisions daily. Naturally, we all have our ways of going on the quest. Some do it watching television. Others quest for the meaning of life in video games or searching for pleasure in even more questionable pursuits, such as overindulgence in alcohol or drugs. But one way or another, we either quest or quit. I am a Christian today because I searched and searched among the wisest and most thought provoking people I could find to read. Finally, however, I came to the awareness that what my little church had tried to teach me had a lot of merit. My church had long before introduced me to a person named Jesus. Jesus had plenty to teach me. Jesus taught me about what life means and how I might fit into a community that said following Jesus was the most important and meaningfilled thing I would ever do. They told me this when I was six, ten, and eighteen, and I still believe the people who taught me and loved me. To you seniors I want to say one thing: You will all be transformed. Each of you will take your own path and make your own quest. As Psalms 8 puts it: What are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. We want you transformed from young people eager to discover yourselves and the world into individuals who find yourselves in the everlasting and loving arms of the God we know most fully in Jesus Christ. I want you to notice something interesting. Some of the most important symbols of the Christian life are symbols of transformationâ the caterpillar into a butterfly and death into life. Chapter 3 : Abingdon Press The Abingdon Preaching Annual Page 5

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