SERMON INFORMATION
This Week’s Sermon Title: Behold Your King
Preacher: The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth
Dates: Nov. 20-21
THIS WEEK’S BULLETINS
THE COLLECT OF THE DAY
Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
THE LESSON: 1 CHRONICLES 11: 1-3
DAVID ANOINTED KING
Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh. 2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’” 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by Samuel.
THE PSALM: PSALM 133
1 Behold, how good and joyful a thing it is
when brethren dwell together in unity.
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard,
even Aaron’s beard, and went down to the edges of his clothing,
3 Like the dew of Hermon,
which falls upon the hills of Zion.
4 For there the Lord promised his blessing,
even life for evermore.
(BCP 2019)
THE GOSPEL: MARK 14: 3-11
JESUS ANOINTED AT BETHANY
3 And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. 4 There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? 5 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her. 6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me. 8 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial. 9 And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
JUDAS TO BETRAY JESUS
10 Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. 11 And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
