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Suggested themes for prayer include our congregation and its ministry, our members - especially those who are sick or in need, the mission of the Church to spread the Gospel, our nation and political leaders, an end to terrorism, and especially for peace and reconciliation in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. On the third of each month we share, with the rest of the North Carolina Synod, in a prayer vigil for peace in the Middle East. |
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Prayer for Peace |
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Lord, make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is discord, union;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that we may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and
it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
-- Attributed to St. Francis | |
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- MORNING PRAYER
I give thanks to You, heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ Your dear Son, that You have protected me through the night from all danger and harm. I ask You to preserve me, this day also, from sin and evil, that in all my thoughts, words and deeds I may serve and please You. Into Thy hands I commend my body and soul and all that is mine. Let Your holy angels have charge of me, that the wicked one have no power over me.
Amen
--Martin Luther
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
You shall have no other gods.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Honor your father and your mother.
You shall not commit murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor's house.
You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservent, or his maidservant, or his cattle, or anything that is your neighbor's.
- THE LORD'S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those
who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
forever and ever.
Amen
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Prayer for Serenity |
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O God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference;
living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr | |
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The Apostle's Creed |
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I believe in God the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended to the dead.
On the third day He rose again.
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Holy Christian Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen | |
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