October 13, 2024
Scripture Reference – James 1:19-27 (NRSV): You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger, for human anger does not produce Godâs righteousness. Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power […]
Read MoreOctober 7, 2024
Scripture Reference â Matthew 6:25-34 (CEB): âTherefore, I say to you, donât worry about your life, what youâll eat or what youâll drink, or about your body, what youâll wear. Isnât life more than food and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds in the sky. They donât sow seed or harvest grain or […]
Read MoreOctober 7, 2024
Scripture Reference – John 14:1-6, 25-27 (NRSV): âDo not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Fatherâs house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for […]
Read MoreSeptember 29, 2024
Scripture Reference â Mark 5:24-35 (NRSV): So he went with him. And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians and had spent all that she had, and she was no […]
Read MoreSeptember 29, 2024
Scripture Reference – Luke 19:1-10 (NRSV): He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed […]
Read MoreSeptember 22, 2024
Scripture Reference â Ruth 1:16-18 (CEB): But Ruth replied, âDonât urge me to abandon you, to turn back from following after you. Wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Wherever you die, I will die, and there […]
Read MoreSeptember 22, 2024
Scripture Reference – Luke 15:1-10 (NRSV): Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, âThis fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.â So he told them this parable: âWhich one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, […]
Read MoreSeptember 16, 2024
Scripture Reference â John 4:1-26 (CEB): Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was making more disciples and baptizing more than John (although Jesusâ disciples were baptizing, not Jesus himself). Therefore, he left Judea and went back to Galilee. Jesus had to go through Samaria. He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, which was near […]
Read MoreSeptember 16, 2024
Scripture Reference – Luke 15:11-32 (NRSV): Then Jesus said, âThere was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, âFather, give me the share of the wealth that will belong to me.â So he divided his assets between them. A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled […]
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2024
Scripture Reference âMatthew 5:13-16 (CEB): âYou are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its saltiness, how will it become salty again? Itâs good for nothing except to be thrown away and trampled under peopleâs feet. You are the light of the world. A city on top of a hill canât be hidden. Neither do […]
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