August 12, 2007 - Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
SERMON TITLE:
“The Church: Home Away from Home”
OPENING PRAYER
Almighty God, who has given
a day of rest to your people, and, through your Spirit in the Church, has consecrated the
first day of the week to be a perpetual memorial of your Son’s resurrection: grant
that we may use your gift so that, refreshed and strengthened in soul and body, we may
serve you faithfully all the days of our life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE:
Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped
for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old received divine approval.
By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen
was made out of things which do not appear. . . By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called
to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not
knowing where he was to go. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign
land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he
looked forward to the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. By faith
Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she
considered him faithful who had promised. Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead,
were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand
by the seashore. These all died in faith, not having received what was promised, but
having seen it and greeted it from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers
and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a
homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would
have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a
heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for
them a city. ’
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