August 26, 2007 - Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
SERMON TITLE:
“Our Eighteen-year Burdens, and Jesus”
OPENING PRAYER
New every morning is your
love, great God of light, and all day long you are working for good in the world. Stir up
in us desire to serve you, to live peacefully with our neighbors, and to devote each day
to your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ the Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE:
Luke 13:10-17
“Now he was teaching in one of the
synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had
crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up
straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, ‘Woman, you are set free
from your ailment.’ When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight
and began praising God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured
on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, ‘There are six days on which work ought to
be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.’ But the Lord
answered him and said, ‘You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his
ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? And ought not this
woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from
this bondage on the sabbath day?’ When he said this, all his opponents were put to
shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing.
” ’
HYMNS
Holy, Holy, Holy
I Love to Tell the Story
Blest Be the Tie that Binds
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