Pentecost 9 August 7, 2022
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost August 7, 2022 Luke 10:38-42 What Did I Choose Today? As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care…
Pentecost 8 July 31, 2022
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost July 31, 2022 Luke 10:25-37 Wrong Question— Right Answer! On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” He answered: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind” and, “Love…
Pentecost 7 July 24, 2022
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost July 24, 2022 Galatians 6:1-10, 14-16 Why We Do the Things We Do! Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then…
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost July 17, 2022
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost July 17, 2022 Galatians 5:1, 13-25 You Were Called to Be Free! It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: “Love…
Pentecost 5 July 10, 2022
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost July 10, 2022 Galatians 3:23-29 Pictures of God’s Plan for His Children! Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law. You are all sons of God through faith in Christ…
Pentecost 4- Fourth of July July 3, 2022
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost July 3, 2022 Galatians 2:11-21 Stand Firm in Your Gospel Freedom! When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him…
The Third Sunday after Pentecost June 26, 2022
The Third Sunday after Pentecost June 26, 2022 Galatians 1:11-24 The Gospel is a Hill Worth Dying On! I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and…
Father’s Day June 19, 2022
Father’s Day June 19, 2022 Luke 7: 1-10 Strive to Have a Great Faith! When Jesus had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man…
Trinity Sunday June 12, 2022
Trinity Sunday June 12, 2022 John 16:12-15 The Triune God is the God Who Saved Us! “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what…
Pentecost Sunday June 5, 2022
Pentecost Sunday June 5, 2022 Genesis 11:1-9 Pentecost Takes the Babbling Out of Babel! Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,…