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In fulfilling the Commitment to Peacemaking, we will do peacemaking
through prayer and Bible Study. — Commitment
to Peacemaking
Spiritual Nuture for Peacemakers
November 22, 2009
Note
Advent begins this year on November 29. Use Proclaiming the Good News of God's Peace, the daily Advent devotional from the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, in your personal devotions. Share copies with family and friends including those who homebound, in nursing homes, serving in the military or away at school.
Prayers
Adapt or rewrite these prayers for use in Sunday worship on November 22, 2009, or in daily devotions.
A Prayer for Christ the King/Reign of Christ Sunday
We praise you, God, for your great faithfulness. We thank you that in Jesus Christ no one is an alien or a stranger but all are members of your family and citizens of your kingdom. Help us to become a blessing to others even as we continue to grow together into a “holy temple in the Lord” and as we are “built together into a dwelling place for God.” Amen.
— The Rev. Lemuel García-Arroyo, associate presbyter, Salem Presbytery, Clemmons, North Carolina
This prayer appears in the 2009 Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study.
A Prayer for Afghanistan
Holy God, we pray for our sisters and brothers living in the midst of chaos and violence in Afghanistan. Look upon them with mercy and compassion. Where hearts are fearful and constricted, grant courage and hope. Where anxiety is infectious and widening, grant peace and reassurance. Where impossibilities close every door and window, grant imagination and resistance. Where distrust twists thinking, grant healing and illumination. Where spirits are daunted and weakened, grant dreams that flourish and soar. Bless the land of Afghanistan with honesty in commerce, truth and equality in education, honor and accountability in government, and rescue it from every evil course of action from within and without. We pray in your most holy and blessed name. Amen.
— Rev. Brian Wilker-Frey, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
This prayer appears in a collection of prayers  for peace compiled by Project Ploughshares, an ecumenical agency of the Canadian Council of Churches.
Biblical Witness to Peacemaking
A daily lectionary exploring the richness
of God's peacegiving and Christ's call to peacemaking.
Expecting Justice
- December 6, 2009 – Genesis 38
- December 7, 2009 – Exodus 5
- December 8, 2009 – Isaiah 66:1-9
- December 9, 2009 – Psalm 10
- December 10, 2009 – Luke 1:46-55
- December 11, 2009 – 1 Corinthians 6:1-11
- December 12, 2009 – James 4:11-12
Download the lectionary for the year. |
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