Daily Readings for Friday December 21,2012

Season of Annunciation

Colossians 1
10	to lead a life worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
11	May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,
12	giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
13	He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
14	in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
15	He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation;
16	for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities -- all things were created through him and for him.

Mark 1
1	The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
2	As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way;
3	the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight -- "
4	John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
5	And there went out to him all the country of Judea, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
6	Now John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leather girdle around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey.
7	And he preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
8	I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."