Sunday’s Readings, July 31, 2022 Jesus is our priceless Treasure! He made possible everything that lasts forever. Without Him, there is only death and decay and life is meaningless. “Nothing but vapor,” Ecclesiastes said. “Totally vapor. Everything is just vapor that vanishes.” In our Old Testament Lesson King Solomon, calling himself the pen-name “Ecclesiastes” (which…
Sunday’s Lectionary Readings – July 24, 2022 What a Friend we have in Jesus! And what a privilege it is to carry everything to God in prayer! So how should we pray? And what should we pray for? Our readings this week answer those important questions. In our Old Testament Lesson Abraham prays on behalf…
Last week Jesus reminded us, His disciples, to focus on the Love He has for us so that we can love our neighbor as ourselves. This week (Sunday, July 17) our readings focus on our need to be filled with the Word of God. In our Old Testament Lesson the Lord Himself appears to Abraham…
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…
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…