Prayer of Confession Contemplating America’s 250th Anniversary
“we hear histories told backwards, shuffled and reconstructed to assure us that the ideas we like best are at the heart of who we’ve always been.”
Galatians 5
“listen! I, Paul am tell you that, if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you”
Galatians 4
“you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir through God”
Galatians 3
“Abraham ‘believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness'”
Galatians 2
“James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me”
Galatians 1
“Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to set us free from the present evil age”
Wisdom of Solomon 10:15-21
“she guided them along a marvelous way and became a shelter to them by day and a starry flame through the night”
Second Sunday after Christmas Day ABC
January 4, 2026
Galatians 1:1-12
“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you”
Ninth Sunday after Epiphany C
2 Corinthians 3:1-6
“you yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all”
Eighth Sunday after Epiphany B
Wisdom 10:15-21
“she guided them along a marvelous way and became a shelter to them by day and a starry flame through the night”
Second Sunday after Christmas Day ABC
January 5, 2025