{"content":[{"text":"Sunday, June 6, 2021","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.046173,"width":0.20540400000000003,"height":0.019632000000000004}},{"text":"PENTECOST 2","bbox":{"left":0.656781,"top":0.046173,"width":0.15563300000000002,"height":0.019632000000000004}},{"text":"CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS \n Gracious God, we open our hearts to you, you know each of us inside and out, \n we cannot hide anything from you. Create in us hearts of love and humble us to \n serve you by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit. Renew our relationship with \n you and restore our joy as we worship you and magnify your holy name. Amen","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.086779,"width":0.788157,"height":0.10102100000000003}},{"text":"Let us confess our sins in the presence of God and of one another.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.200137,"width":0.601861,"height":0.01963200000000001}},{"text":"God of Grace, have mercy on us. We confess that we have turned from you and \n given ourselves into the power of sin. We humbly repent and we want to be close to \n you again. In your compassion forgive us our sins, known and unknown, things we \n have done and things we have failed to do. Restore our relationship with you. \n Uphold us and strengthen us with your Holy Spirit, so that we may live and serve \n you once again through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen. \n God loved us even when we were dead in sin, and made us alive together with Christ. \n By grace you have been saved through faith. In the name of ☩ Jesus Christ, \n all of your sins are forgiven. May God strengthen you with power through the \n Holy Spirit, that you may know Jesus’ great mercy and love for you. Amen.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.232107,"width":0.865306,"height":0.205731}},{"text":"PRAYER OF THE DAY \n Let us pray….All-powerful God, in Jesus Christ you turned death into life and defeat into \n victory. Increase our faith and trust in him, that we may triumph over all evil in the \n strength of the same Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.450175,"width":0.8684480000000001,"height":0.08054099999999997}},{"text":"FIRST READING: Genesis 3:8-15 \n Immediately after Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit, they hide from God. Neither takes \n responsibility for their sin, instead blaming each other, the snake, and even God. The curse on \n the snake was understood as a messianic prophecy by the early church, who associated Eve’s \n “offspring” with Christ. \n 8[Adam and Eve] heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the \n evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God \n among the trees of the garden.9But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are \n you?” 10He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; \n and I hid myself.” 11He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree \n of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be \n with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” 13Then the Lord God said to the woman, \n “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” 14The \n Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals \n and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat \n all the days of your life. 15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your \n offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.” \n The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.544594,"width":0.879378,"height":0.36512}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}