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Scripture Sentences
for use at the beginning of services
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Psalm 46.1
I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Psalm 51.3
Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Psalm 51.9
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O
God, you will not despise. Psalm 51.17
This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm
118.24
Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no-one living is righteous
before you. Psalm 143.2
Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
Isaiah 55.6
Correct me, Lord, but only with justice - not in your anger, lest
you reduce me to nothing. Jeremiah 10.24
If a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and
does what is just and right, he will save his life. Ezekiel
18.27
The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we
have rebelled against him; we have not obeyed the Lord our
God or kept the laws he gave us. Daniel 9.9f
Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your
God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, and
abounding in love. Joel 2.13
The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent
before him.
Habakkuk 2.20
Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near. Matthew 3.2.
I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father
I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer
worthy to be called your son. Luke 15.18f
A time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers
will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the
kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is spirit and his
worshippers must worship in spirit and truth.
John 4.23f
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer
and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to
God.
Philippians 4.6
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God
a sacrifice of praise - the fruit of lips that confess his
name. Hebrews 13.15
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us
our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.1 John 1.8f
You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power,
for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have
their being. Revelation 4.11
Christmas
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will
be upon his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty
God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9.6
When the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born
under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full
rights of sons. Galatians 4.4
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only
Son into the world that we might live through him. 1 John 4.9
Easter
For Christ our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let
us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice
and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity
and truth. 1 Corinthians 5.7f
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his
great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter 1.3
Ascension
God exalted Christ to the highest place and gave him the name
that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and
every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father.
Philippians 2.9-11
Whitsun (Pentecost)
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and
you will be my witnesses. Acts 1.8
God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit,
whom he has given us. Romans 5.5
Trinity
Day and night those around the throne never stop saying: 'Holy, holy,
holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.' Revelation
4.8
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