Sunday, July 10, 2022 Once again, this coming week, God’s Word keeps us focused, this time on loving our neighbor. The story of Ruth is touching and inspiring from beginning to end. In our Old Testament Lesson we hear that Naomi, Ruth’s mother-in-law, was a Jewish woman who had moved to Moab from Israel with…
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Last week we heard about the focus and commitment expected of every single follower of Jesus. This Sunday, July 3, 2022, our readings focus in on the special tasks and responsibilities given to those Jesus calls to be shepherds of his people and ministers of the Gospel. In our Old Testament Lesson the Lord uses…
Opening Prayer Lord Jesus, speak Your teaching of life to us all! Text: Matthew 20:1-16 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his…
Text: Psalm 74:1-9, 12 O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture? Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed – This Mount Zion where You have dwelt. Lift up Your feet to the…
Opening Prayer O God, let truth and love permeate our souls. Amen. Text: Ephesians 4:11-16 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come…
Opening Prayer O God, let us be vessels of gold and silver in Your house. Amen. Text: First Corinthians 5:9-13 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners,…
Text: Psalm 12 Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak. May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things, Who have said, “With…
Opening Prayer Lord, have mercy on us. Let the Word of Your reproof be for our salvation. Text: Revelation 3:1-6 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that…
Opening Prayer Search me, O God, and know my heart, and lead me on the way of life. Amen. Text: Matthew 13:36-43 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.” He answered and said…
Opening Prayer Lord, give us the Spirit of truth, love, peace, and joy. Amen. Text: Colossians 3:12-17 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave…