Lord, hear our prayer:

Father, we thank you for the good news of Christ. Each day is filled with the bad news of the way we treat each other and your creation. We rejoice to be hearers and bearers of the good news that Christ came, lived, died and was raised again as the sign that we can be forgiven and our lives can be made new. We thank you that this good news has been told all around the world, and that wherever it has been proclaimed people’s lives have been made new. We come because you are the Lord God Almighty.

Amen.

Some minor adaptation on some prayers.
David Clowes, 500 Prayers For All Occasions © 2003 by David C Cook Publishing
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