Hosea’s Message
SCRIPTURE READING Hosea 11:1-91When Israel was a child, I loved him,and out of Egypt I called my son. 2 The more I called them,the more they went from me;they kept sacrificing to the Baals,and offering incense to idols. 3 Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk,I took them up in my arms;but they did not know that I healed them. 4 I led them with cords of human…
All Saints’ Sunday
SCRIPTURE READING 1 Kings 18:17-39 Reader: Our reading today is from First Kings, chapter 18. All: Speak Lord, for we are…
Kingdom Divided
SCRIPTURE READING 1 Kings 12:1-17, 25-29 Reader: Our readings today are from first Kings, chapters 12 and 25. All: Speak Lord, for we are listening. The Northern Tribes…
David Anointed King
FIRST READING 2 Samuel 5:1-5; 6:1-5 Reader: Our readings today are from Samuel,…
Ruth
SCRIPTURE READING Ruth 1:1-17 Reader: Our reading today is from Ruth, chapter…
Moses and God’s Name
FIRST READING Exodus 1:8-14; 2:23-25 The Israelites Are Oppressed 8 Now a new king arose over Egypt who did not know…
Jacob Wrestles God
FIRST READING Genesis 32:9-13 Reader: Our reading today is from Genesis, the 32nd chapter.All: Speak Lord, for we are listening. 9 And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of myfather Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to yourkindred, and I will do you good,’ 10 I am not worthy of the least of all thesteadfast love and all the…
Isaac Born to Sarah
FIRST READING Genesis 18:1-15 A Son Promised to Abraham and Sarah 1 The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. 2 He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them and bowed down to the ground. 3 He…
Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden Genesis 2:4b-25 4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; 6 but a…
REDEEMING WITH JUSTICE SCRIPTURE READING Nehemiah 5:1-13 Nehemiah Deals with Oppression 1 Now there was a great outcry of…