The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost July 14, 2024
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost July 14, 2024 Mark 6:7-13 Meaningful Ministry — Sent With God’s Own Authority! 7Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits. 8These were his instructions: “Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. 9Wear sandals but not an extra tunic. 10Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. 11And if any place will not…
Pentecost 7 July 7, 2024
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost July 7, 2024 Ezekiel 2:1-7 Meaningful Ministry — Not Glee and Gratitude, But Rejection and Resentment! 1He said to me, “Son of man, stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.” 2As he spoke, the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet, and I heard him speaking to me. 3He said: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me;…
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost June 30, 2024
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost June 30, 2024 Mark 5:21-24a, 35-43 Amazing Truths About Our Amazing God— Our Living Lord Completely Changes Our View of Death! 21When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came there. Seeing Jesus, he fell at his feet 23and pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please…
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost June 23, 2024
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost June 23, 2024 Mark 4:35-41 Amazing Truths About Our Amazing God— Our God is With Us Through All the Storms of Life! 35That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” 36Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. 37A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that…
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost June 16, 2024
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Father’s Day June 16, 2024 Mark 4:26-34 Amazing Truths About Our Amazing God— From the Tiniest Seed Grows the Largest Kingdom! 26He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel…
The Third Sunday after Pentecost June 9, 2024
The Third Sunday after Pentecost June 9, 2024 Genesis 3:8-15 Amazing Truths About Our Amazing God— The Devil Does His Worst, Yet Jesus Always Wins! 8Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” 10He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was…
The Second Sunday after Pentecost June 2, 2024
The Second Sunday after Pentecost June 2, 2024 Mark 2:23-3:6 Amazing Truths About Our Amazing God— Spiritual Rest is a Gift, Not Something We Earn! 23One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” 25He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and…
Trinity Sunday May 26, 2024
Trinity Sunday May 26, 2024 Romans 8:12-17 Amazing Truths About Our Amazing God— Only a Triune God Can Deliver What Only a Triune God Can Offer! 12Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. 13For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, 14because those who are led by the…
Pentecost Sunday May 19, 2024
Pentecost Sunday May 19, 2024 John 15:26, 27;16:4b-11 Resurrection Reality— Christ Has Not Left Us Alone! 26“When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 27And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you. 5Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none…
Easter 7 Mother’s Day May 12,2024
The Seventh Sunday of Easter May 12, 2024 John 17:11b-19 A Mother’s Day Perspective on Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name— the name you gave me— so that they may be one as we are one. 12While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. 13“I…