Leader: 1 May God be merciful and bless us. May his face smile with favor on us. ALL: 2 May your ways be known throughout the earth, your saving power among people everywhere. 3 May the nations praise you, O God. Yes, may all the...
Leader: 6 God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us. ALL: 7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. Leader: 12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it...
Leader: 7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. All: Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. Leader: 9 God showed how much he loved us...
ALL: 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Leader: In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ALL: 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or...
4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 9 You...
Leader: 11a Remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth … 12 you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once...
Brothers and sisters, God does not leave us in our sin and shame. He does not abandon us to our self-centered decision-making. We prefer to starve ourselves on the world’s bread that cannot satisfy. But at this table, our God provides us with the Bread of Life. Jesus...
The Lord has hidden his face from our sin. He has blotted out all of our iniquity. For Christ Jesus, the Perfect suffered for the imperfect, the sinless became sin for the sinner. We are forgiven and freed to live in a right relationship with God. He has created...
French: 16c On ne paraîtra point devant l'Éternel les mains vides. 17 Chacun donnera ce qu'il pourra, selon les bénédictions que l'Éternel, ton Dieu, lui aura accordées.English: 16c No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: 17 Each of you...
Leader: Christ is risen!ALL: The tomb is open and empty.Leader: Christ is risen!ALL: Our sins were buried with Him. In Him, we have new life that will never end.Leader: Christ is risen!ALL: The angels of God are rejoicing.Leader: Christ is risen!ALL: He truly is King...
Leader: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,ALL: We worship him together! Leader: Our God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world,ALL: We worship him together! Leader: Our God adopted us as children through Jesus Christ,ALL:...
Leader: The Lord says, 24 I will gather you up from all the nations and bring you home again to your land. ALL: 25 “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will wash your sins away, and you will no longer worship idols. Leader:...
Leader: The Lord says to His people: “Maintain justice, and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.People: “Blessed is the one who keeps the Sabbath, and keeps his hands from evil.”Leader: The Lord says: “To those who...
Leader: 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: ALL: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; Leader: 7 rather, he made himself nothing...
Leader 1: 1 Cantad a Jehová cántico nuevo;Cantad a Jehová, toda la tierra.Leader 2: 1 Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! ALL: 2 Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to...
ALL: God of the NationsOur hearts are often far from youOur hearts are closed to our neighborWe stand with our tribe, we keep strangers far awayWe hide behind walls, we speak badly of othersThese things dishonor you, they break your heartWhen we harm instead of heal,...
Isaiah 35:3–10 (NLT)Leader: 3 Strengthen those who have tired hands, and encourage those who have weak knees. ALL: 4 Say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, and do not fear, for your God is coming to destroy your enemies. He is...
Leader: 7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. ALL: 6 We all, like sheep, have...
Leader: 15 This is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: ALL: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to...
14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me, 15 just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They will...