Preparing the Way – Sunday
The Second Sunday of Advent
Series: Lectio Concordia
• Online jigsaw puzzle of today's reading • Index
Lectio Concordia is constructed with the understanding that Sunday's lessons and hymns come from worship at your church, and that your additional reading today is the sermon. If you are unable to make it to a church, we invite you to use the video embedded here on our website.
• Collect: You are gracious and merciful, Father, having made a way to you through this wilderness of life. Continue to to draw me to you so that my life may be redeemed through Christ Jesus who lives with you and your Spirit, forever one God. Amen.
• Year A: Isaiah 11:1–10; Psalm 72:1–7, 18–19; Romans 15:4–13; Matthew 3:1–12
• Year B: Isaiah 40:1–11; Psalm 85; 2 Peter 3:8–15a; Mark 1:1–8
• Year C: Malachi 3:1–7b; Psalm 66:1–12; Philippians 1:2–11; Luke 3:1–20
• Benediction: You have sent your messenger to prepare the way before you, so help us to return to you as you would return to us, and save us in the coming Day. Amen.
• Memory Verse Aid: IATV; YATB. WAIM AIIH, HIITBMF, FAFM YCDN. (John 15:5)
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Rev. Dr. Mark E. Ryman has served as Pastor for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury, NC, since 2021. Previously, Pastor Ryman served congregations in North Carolina and Ohio, as well as a call to specialized ministry with Sola Publishing.
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