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Monday, January 4, 2021 For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy. + OPENING CALL TO PRAISE AND PRAYER How great are your works, O LORD! O God, open our lips, Your thoughts are ver-y deep! Psalm 92:1-5 and our mouths shall proclaim your praise.

From the rising of the sun to its setting, we praise your name, O God. + MORNING PRAYER The Holy One be with you; And also with you. + REMEMBRANCE OF BAPTISM Let us pray: By Word and water God renews us this day in the living fountain of God’s grace, Let us pray: and raises us with Christ Jesus Dawn from on high, to live a new life in the Spirit. * OSL Your light illumines all our days. Satisfy us in the morning Awaken us to your visitations throughout this day. with your steadfast love, O God, Be merciful in us for the sake of others. that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Make us fearless when confronting injustice and need, that we may give you glory in the power of the Spirit. Amen.

+ MORNING CANTICLE OF THANKSGIVING * For All the Saints It is good to give thanks to the LORD, + Psalm 110 ICB to sing praises to your name, O Most High; The king will drink from the brook on the way. to declare your steadfast love in the morning, Then he will be strengthened and win the battle. and your faithful-ness by night, to the music of the lute and the harp, The Lord said to my Master, to the melody of the lyre. “Sit by me at my right side until I put your enemies under your control.” 1/04/21

2 The Lord will make you king in Jerusalem over all nations. + WORD: James 4:11-17 VOICE

And you will rule your enemies in their own countries. 11 My brothers and sisters, do not assault each other with 3 Your people will join you on the day you come to power. criticism. If you decide your job is to accuse and judge You have been dressed in holiness from birth. another believer, then you are a self-appointed critic and You have the freshness of a child. judge of the law; if so, then you are no longer a doer of the 4 The Lord has made a promise law and subject to its rule; you stand over it as a judge. and will not change his mind. 12 Know this—there is One who stands supreme as Judge He said, “You are a priest forever, and Lawgiver. He alone is able to save and to destroy, so a priest like Melchizedek.” who are you to step in and try to judge another?

5 The Lord is beside you to help you. 13 Listen carefully, those of you who make your plans and When he becomes angry, he will crush kings. say, “We are traveling to this city in the next few days. We’ll 6 He will judge those nations, filling them with dead bodies. stay there for one year while our business explodes and He will defeat rulers all over the world. revenue is up.” 14 The reality is you have no idea where your 7 The king will drink from the brook on the way. life will take you tomorrow. You are like a mist that appears Then he will be strengthened and win the battle. one moment and then vanishes another. 15 It would be best

Glory to you, O Trinity, most holy and blessed, to say, “If it is the Lord’s will and we live long enough, we 16 one God, now and for-ever, A-men. hope to do this project or pursue that dream.” But your that does not The king will drink from the brook on the way. current speech indicates an arrogance acknowledge the One who controls the universe, Then he will be strengthened and win the battle. and this kind of big talking is the epitome of evil. 17 So if you know the

right way to live and ignore it, it is sin—plain and simple. + SILENCE FOR REFLECTION Holy wisdom, holy word.

Thanks be to God!

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+ SILENCE FOR REFLECTION Through your merciful compassions, God our God, the dawn from on high shall visit us, to shine on those kept in dungeons + CANTICLE OF ZECHARIAH and the shadows of death We bless you, Adonai, God of Israel, and to guide our feet onto the path of peace. for you come to visit us and ransom us from bondage. LUKE 1:68-79

You have brought forth a strong De-liverer Glory to you, O Trinity, most holy and blessed, in the house of your child David. one God, now and for-ever, A-men. This is what your holy prophets an-nounced:

deliverance from enemies

and from the hand of all who hate us; + THE APOSTLE’S CREED mercy a-mong our ancestors, I believe in God, and remembrance of your ho-ly covenant. the Father Almighty, This is the promise you swore to maker of heaven and earth. our an-cestor, Abraham, And in Jesus Christ, to make us un-a-fraid, his only Son, our Lord; to rescue us from our enemies, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, to serve before you, holy and just, born of the virgin Mary, all the days of our lives. suffered under Pontius Pilate, And this, my little child, was crucified, died, and was buried; shall be called prophet of the Most High, the third day he rose from the dead; going before you, Adonai, to pre-pare your paths, he ascended into heaven, making your people know de-liverance and sits at the right hand of the Father Almighty. by the forgiveness of their sins. From there he shall come again to judge

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the living and the dead. which I never recovered, and the effects of which will I believe in the Holy Spirit, continue with me through all eternity." Two months of the holy catholic Church, penitential struggle followed before, bending over a trough of the communion of saints, water to wash his tears, he felt forgiveness through Christ. the forgiveness of sins, Ordained deacon in 1821 and elder in 1824, Seybert the resurrection of the body, was elected twice to be presiding elder (1825 and 1834). In and the life everlasting. Amen. spreading the gospel primarily to the American Midwest and Canada, it is estimated that Seybert traveled over 175,000 miles on horseback, preaching 9,850 times while making

+ COMMEMORATION: JOHN SEYBERT 46,000 pastoral visits and 8,000 prayer and class meetings, “Seybert was born on July 7, 1791 in Mannheim, not to mention the 10,000 calls upon the sick and afflicted.” Pennsylvania into a German Lutheran family. Although he * For All the Saints was a confirmed Lutheran, he recalls in his journal that, "my

life, from youth up was one of wickedness, though my + SILENCE FOR REFLECTION parents tried every possible means to check and control me. Neither coaxing nor scolding, neither kindness nor sternness + COLLECT: JOHN SEYBERT availed." … When he was nineteen, however, John Gracious God, our Shepherd, we thank you for raising up attended an Evangelical Association revival held in John Seybert as pastor in your church. Remembering his Mannheim by Matthias Betz. He recalls how, "Before he was faithfulness and care, fill all shepherds of your church with half-way through, I was thoroughly convinced that he was a truth in doctrine, fidelity in Word and Sacrament, and true servant of Jesus Christ. I was also convinced that I was boldness and vision in leading the people, through Jesus no Christian, but a sinner who richly deserved the wrath of Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy God. Then and there I received a wound from the sword of Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. the Spirit and a stroke from the hammer of the Word, from * For All the Saints

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+ PRAYERS + PRAYERS FOR CITIES The Holy One be with you, Heavenly Father, in your Word you have given us a and also with you. vision of that Holy City to which the nations of the world bring their glory: Behold and visit, we pray, the cities of Let us pray: (pray for those on your heart today) the earth. Renew the ties of mutual regard which form our civic life. Send us honest and able leaders. Enable + PRAYER FOR RECOVERY OF SICKNESS us to eliminate poverty, prejudice, and oppression, that peace may prevail with righteousness, and justice with O God, the strength of the weak and the comfort of order, and that men and women from different cultures sufferers: Mercifully accept our prayers, and grant to and with differing talents may find with one another the those we pray for this day, the help of your power, fulfillment of their humanity; through Jesus Christ our that their sickness may be turned into health, and our Lord. Amen. sorrow into joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

+ COLLECT OF THE WEEK + PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may Gracious Father, we pray for your holy Catholic Church. Fill share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, humanity, your Son Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in anything it is you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and amiss, reform it. Where it is right, strengthen it; where it is in ever. Amen. want, provide for it; where it is divided, reunite it; for the sake

of Jesus Christ thy Son our Savior. Amen.

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+ THE LORD’S PRAYER + BLESSING Our Father in heaven, 9 I pray that our love will keep on growing and that we will hallowed be your name, fully know and understand 10 how to make the right choices. your kingdom come, Then we will still be pure and innocent when Christ returns. your will be done, on earth as in heaven. And until that day, 11 Jesus Christ will keep us busy doing

Give us today our daily bread. good deeds that bring glory and praise to God. Amen. Forgive us our sins Philippians 1:9-11 CEV as we forgive those who sin against us.

Save us from the time of trial

and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.

+ CONCLUDING PRAYER Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, You have brought us in safety to this new day: preserve us with your mighty power, that we may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by adversity; and in all we do direct us to the fulfilling of your

purpose, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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