Praise and Worship Service
Worship Service
Lectionary Theme: he glorious appearance of our Lord
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Malachi 3:13-4:2 First Lesson
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Acts 1:6-11 Second Lesson
6. So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?”
7. He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.
8. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
9. When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
10. While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them.
11. They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.” Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas
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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Epistle
13. But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
14. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died.
15. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died.
16. For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
17. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever.
18. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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Matthew 24:42-51 Gospel
42. Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
43. But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.
44. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour. The Faithful or the Unfaithful Slave
45. “Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their allowance of food at the proper time?
46. Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives.
47. Truly I tell you, he will put that one in charge of all his possessions.
48. But if that wicked slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’
49. and he begins to beat his fellow slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards,
50. the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know.
51. He will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.