Sermon Text: Matthew 5:21-37
That our lives may pulse with
vitality that echoes your own
O Christ, we are
continuously tempted to push the limits to see how close to the fringes of
fidelity we can come without courting judgment or catastrophe.
You call us to another way.
You call us to lives in which hearts and minds are deeply tuned to the desire
of God and in which obedience is offered as a response of gratitude and
gladness.
Tune our lives so that they
pulse with vitality that echoes your own. Remove violence from our hearts.
Remove our lust for control over others, especially those who appear more
vulnerable than us. Eliminate our desire to treat relationships as disposable
commodities when we grow tired of them. Enable us to speak truthfully, without
qualifying our words in ways that manipulate others.
Enable us to follow You in
every practice of faithfulness. Amen.
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