Holy and Awesome, Your Name--Nov. 16, 2019

Holy and awesome is your name, Lord God.

You have sent redemption to your people

in the form of Jesus, who underwent

great suffering, and was killed,

and on the third day, raised.

Over Jesus,

death has no power.

According to the greatness

of your steadfast love,

spare us, O God.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 56; 149; 118; 111

Neh. 13:4-22

Rev. 20:1-6

Matt. 16:21-28

Selected Verses

Ps. 111:9

[The LORD] sent redemption to his people;
          he has commanded his covenant forever.
          Holy and awesome is his name.

Neh. 13:22

And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the sabbath day holy.  Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.

Rev. 20:1-6

Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection.  Over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him a thousand years.

Matt. 16:21

From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.