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Second Sunday of Advent

Devotional

Stephen P. McCutchan
Philippians 1:3-11
excerpted from Water From the Rock : Lectionary Devotional for Cycle C
Stephen P. McCutchan
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8, Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13
excerpted from Streams of Living Water : Lectionary Devotional for Cycle B
William W. Helland
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Pause Before The Pulpit : Personal Reflections For Pastors On The Lectionary Readings

Drama

Robert F. Crowley
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Scenes : 58 Vignettes For Cycle B
John A. Tenbrook
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Thespian Theology : Advent, Christmas, Epiphany -- Cycle B

Poems

Andrew Daughters
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from A GOSPEL TREASURY : Poems Based on Lectionary Gospels

Prayer

Dennis Koch
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Contemporary Lectionary Prayers : Cycle B

Preaching

Mark Ellingsen
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Preaching Workbook: Series IX, Cycle B
Carlos Wilton
Isaiah 40:1-11, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Preaching Workbook : Series VIII, Cycle B
John R. Brokhoff
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Preaching Workbook : Series IV
George M. Bass
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Preaching Workbook : Series III
Hugh H. Drennan
Psalm 85:8-13
excerpted from Aids To The Psalms : Exploring The Message
E. Carver Mcgriff
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Preaching Workbook : Series VI, Cycle B
Jerry L. Schmalenberger
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Preaching Workbook : Series VII, Cycle B
Russell F. Anderson
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Preaching Workbook : Series V, Cycle B
Elizabeth Achtemeier
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Preaching And Reading The Old Testament Lessons : With an Eye to the New
George M. Bass
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Preaching Workbook : Series III

Sermon

Richard A. Hasler
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Facing the Future with Hope: Cycle B Gospel Text Sermons for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Light in the Land of Shadows: Cycle B Sermons for Advent, Christmas, And Epiphany, First Lesson Texts
David E. Leininger
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Lectionary Tales for the Pulpit : Series VI, Cycle B
Scott Suskovic
2 Peter 3:8-15a
excerpted from Sermons on the Second Readings : Series III, Cycle B
Robert J. Elder
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Sermons on the Gospel Readings : Series III, Cycle B
Richard E. Gribble, CSC
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Sermons on the First Readings : Series III, Cycle B
Richard E. Gribble, CSC
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Sermons on the Gospel Readings : Series II, Cycle B
Donald Charles Lacy
2 Peter 3:8-15a
excerpted from Sermons on the Second Readings : Series II, Cycle B
Schuyler Rhodes
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Sermons On The First Readings : Series II, Cycle B
Frederick C. Edwards
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Why Don't You Send Somebody? : Sermons For Advent, Christmas, Epiphany
Glenn Schoonover
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Christmas Is A Quantum Leap : Sermons For Advent, Christmas And Epiphany
John A. Stroman
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from God's Downward Mobility: Cycle B Gospel Texts Sermons for Advent, Christmas, And Epiphany
Harold C. Warlick, Jr.
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from LIGHT IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS : Sermons For Advent, Christmas And Epiphany, Cycle B
Wayne Brouwer
2 Peter 3:8-15a
excerpted from Humming Till The Music Returns : Second Lesson Sermons For Advent/Christmas/Epiphany
Maurice A. Fetty
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from A God For This World : Gospel Sermons For Advent/Christmas/Epiphany
William L. Self
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Defining Moments : First Lesson Sermons For Advent/Christmas/Epiphany
Frederick R. Harm
2 Peter 3:8-15a
excerpted from Sermons On The Second Readings : For Sundays In Advent, Christmas, And Epiphany
Paul E. Flesner
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Sermons On The Gospel Readings : Series I, Cycle B
Curtis Lewis
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Sermons On The First Readings : Series I, Cycle B

Stories

Gregory L. Tolle
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Lectionary Tales For The Pulpit : Series IV, Cycle B
John E. Sumwalt
Jo Perry-Sumwalt
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Lectionary Tales For The Pulpit : 62 Stories For Cycle B
Constance Berg
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Tales For The Pulpit : Series II Cycle B
John E. Sumwalt
Todd Chrisler
John E. Sumwalt
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Vision Stories : True Accounts Of Visions, Angels, And Healing Miracles

Worship

Robert S. Jarboe
Isaiah 40:1-11, Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from More Services for the Advent Wreath: For Lectionary Cycle B
Robert S. Jarboe
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from More Services for the Advent Wreath: For Lectionary Cycle B
Robert S. Jarboe
2 Peter 3:8-15a
excerpted from More Services for the Advent Wreath: For Lectionary Cycle B
Robert S. Jarboe
Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13
excerpted from More Services for the Advent Wreath: For Lectionary Cycle B
Robert S. Jarboe
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from More Services for the Advent Wreath: For Lectionary Cycle B
Clyde W. Wentzell
Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13
excerpted from Lectionary Hymns for Cycle B : New Hymns for the Church Year Calendar with Old Familiar Tunes
Charles And Donna Cammarata
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8, Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13
excerpted from Lectionary Worship Workbook : Series IV, Cycle B
Frank Ramirez
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Lectionary Worship Aids : Series VII, Cycle B
B. David Hostetter
Isaiah 40:1-11, Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13
excerpted from LECTIONARY WORSHIP AIDS : Series III
Dallas A. Brauninger
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD : Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Worship Workbook : Planning Ideas And Resources For The Entire Church Year
James R. Wilson
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Worship Aids : Cycle B, Series IV
Dallas A. Brauninger
Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Worship Aids : Series V, Cycle B
H. Burnham Kirkland
Isaiah 40:1-11
excerpted from Lectionary Worship Aids : Series VI, Cycle B
Wayne H. Keller
Mark 1:1-8
excerpted from Lectionary Worship Workbook : Series II, Cycle B
Frank Ramirez
excerpted from A Call To Worship : Worship Aids, Lectionary Year B

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New & Featured This Week

The Immediate Word

Dean Feldmeyer
Thomas Willadsen
Elena Delhagen
Mary Austin
Christopher Keating
George Reed
Katy Stenta
Quantisha Mason-Doll
For December 10, 2023:

Emphasis Preaching Journal

David Coffin
Amidst this season of Advent, where can mainline church leaders find hope amidst headlines in many churches’ magazines reporting the steady decline of church attendance and membership? In one study, church American membership has dipped below 50% in contrast to close to 70-75% in previous decades.
Bonnie Bates
Bill Thomas
Mark Ellingsen
Frank Ramirez
Isaiah 40:1-11

StoryShare

Peter Andrew Smith
“I think that was probably the best dinner we’ve ever had with your parents.” Stephen finished wiping the counter and then turned the dishwasher on. “It was really great to have them over.”

“They certainly seemed to enjoy themselves and even Dad was talkative,” Molly gave him a kiss on the cheek. “Thanks for cooking.”

“My pleasure, I enjoyed it.” Stephen paused. “I think I could go for a bit more pie.”

Molly rolled his eyes. “Really?”

Stephen rubbed his stomach and then grinned. “Yeah, I think so.”

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John Jamison
Object: You need pieces of clothing to dress two children. One is to be dressed in nice clothes, and the other in ‘not-so-nice’ clothes. You could either dress them like they were in Jesus’ day or as they might look today. For Jesus’ day, you might dress one child in a nice robe, with a fancy hat and staff, like a king, and the other just wrapped in something like burlap with a rope belt, like John the Baptist. For today, you might dress one child in a jacket or nice suit, and the other in old, torn jeans and a baggy, ragged shirt, or sweatshirt.

The Village Shepherd

Janice B. Scott
Call to Worship:

With John the Baptist, in our worship today let us prepare the way of the Lord and make his paths straight.


Invitation to Confession:

Jesus, we are not worthy to undo the strap of your sandals.
Lord, have mercy.

Jesus, we repent. Forgive our sins.
Christ, have mercy.

Jesus, baptise us with your Holy Spirit.
Lord, have mercy.

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Stan Purdum
(See Proper 12/Pentecost 10/Ordinary Time 17, Cycle C, for an alternative approach.)

Richard E. Gribble, CSC
The voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his 28 men aboard the Endurance bound for Antarctica, which began in 1914, is a story too few know but all should hear. The Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition, under Shackleton's command, was the first British Antarctic expedition after Norwegian Ronald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole in December 1911.
Thomas G. Long
Bright Lights, Big City is Jay McInerney's searingly-witty, emotion-ripping novel of one man's perilous drift down an alcohol and white-powder-polluted stream of delayed adolescence. The young man is bright, creative, and desperately lonely. His language is marked by the kind of sarcasm which forms at the intersection of keen intelligence, comic conceit, and human desolation.
Wayne Brouwer
Somewhere today a woman picks up another dirty shirt and tosses it into the laundry basket. She shakes her head and thinks, "I've got to get out of this marriage! He treats me like dirt! I deserve someone better, someone who really loves me! God knows I've put up with more than anyone needs to."

But she sees the picture of their wedding day on the dresser and stops. She remembers the promise she made that day: "...for better, for worse...." And she decides to stay and see if she can make this thing work.

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