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your faith enlivens your spirit and engages your mind as we celebrate God’s
love and healing for the world with the resurrection of Christ, our Risen Lord.

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READ THE SERMON

October 2, 2022 – 17th Sunday after Pentecost
Rev. Denise Clark-Jones

“REMEMBERING TOGETHER”

We celebrate World Communion Sunday today with Christians of every tribe and tongue throughout the world.  At the Communion table, God’s gift of our diversity becomes united in worship of Jesus Christ. We remember together the life, death, and resurrection of our Savior. In our reading from Lamentations, the unknown author mourns the destruction of Jerusalem. He remembers the promise of the city and all that might have been. The psalmist remembers the time after Jerusalem’s destruction when the exiles were forced by their Babylonian captors to sing, though they were grieving for all they had lost. Singing praises to God was difficult for people experiencing deep grief and fear. Our epistle reading from 2 Timothy, was written as if it were Paul’s farewell letter to Timothy. Before passing on his baton, Paul warns Timothy he must be faithful to the teachings of Christ, the “good treasure” of the gospel,” which he learned from Paul and Timothy’s own family. In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus assures his disciples that faithful prayer in his name is powerful and effective. Even the prayer of one who prays with faith the size of the smallest seed, the mustard seed, can be fulfilled by God, who is powerful enough to do what is impossible for the petitioner.

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Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

“What goes through your mind as you sit in the sanctuary and look around?

As I sit in my pew and look up at the cross with the wonderful light illuminating it, I am reminded of why I am at Westminster on this particular day. The cross reminds me that Christ died for me and, in a sense, I am to do the same in my daily life. The brightness of the cross illustrates for me the brightness of living my life in the way of Christ.”