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God,
you are our beginning and you will be our end;
we are made in your image and likeness.
We praise and thank you for this day.
This is the day on which you created light
and saw that it was good.
This is the day in whose early morning light
we discovered the tomb was empty,
and encountered Christ, the world’s true light.
For us your acts are gracious
and your love endures for ever.
Amen.
New Testament Reading - Sermon on an Unknown God
22So Paul, standing before them at the Mars Hill forum, addressed them as follows:
“Men of Athens, I notice that you are very religious, 23for as I was out walking I saw your many altars, and one of them had this inscription on it — ‘To the Unknown God.’ You have been worshiping him without knowing who he is, and now I wish to tell you about him.
24“He made the world and everything in it, and since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn’t live in man-made temples; 25and human hands can’t minister to his needs—for he has no needs! He himself gives life and breath to everything, and satisfies every need there is. 26He created all the people of the world from one man, Adam,a and scattered the nations across the face of the earth. He decided beforehand which should rise and fall, and when. He determined their boundaries.
27“His purpose in all of this is that they should seek after God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him — though he is not far from any one of us. 28For in him we live and move and are! As one of your own poets says it, ‘We are the sons of God.’ 29If this is true, we shouldn’t think of God as an idol made by men from gold or silver or chipped from stone. 30God tolerated man’s past ignorance about these things, but now he commands everyone to put away idols and worship only him. 31For he has set a day for justly judging the world by the man he has appointed, and has pointed him out by bringing him back to life again.”
. . . . . Acts 17:22-31- Implied
Intercession
Pray for 3 people on your heart ending with the prayer below.
To you, O Lord, we lift our eyes;
to you, enthroned in the heavens.
Lord, have mercy. E te Ariki, kia aroha mai.
Let our cry come before you, O Lord;
grant us understanding, according to your word.
Christ, have mercy. E te Karaiti, kia aroha mai.
Let your merciful goodness come to us, O Lord;
and your salvation, according to your promise.
Lord, have mercy. E te Ariki, kia aroha mai.
Satisfy those who thirst,
and fill the hungry with good things.
Christ, have mercy. E te Karaiti, kia aroha mai.
Your kingship has dominion over all,
and with you is our redemption.
Lord, have mercy. E te Ariki, kia aroha mai.
Amen.
