Readings for Celebrating Advent
Be Thankful
A psalm of thanksgiving.
100 Let the whole earth shout triumphantly to the Lord!(A)
2 Serve the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.(B)
3 Acknowledge that the Lord is God.
He made us, and we are his[a](C)–
his people, the sheep of his pasture.(D)
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving(E)
and his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him and bless his name.(F)
5 For the Lord is good, and his faithful love endures for ever;
his faithfulness, through all generations.
20 See! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.(A)
21 ‘To the one who conquers I will give the right to sit with me on my throne,(B) just as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
22 ‘Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.’
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