Sermons from 2022

1The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw. 2O Lord, how long shall Icry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you “Violence!” and youwill not save? 3Why do you make me see wrong-doing and look attrouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contentionarise. 4So the law becomes slack and justice never prevails. The wickedsurround the righteous—…

For lo, the Lord is coming out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. 4 Then the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax near the fire, like waters poured down a steep place. 5 All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it…

SCRIPTURE READING 2 Kings 5:1-15aNaaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great 5man and in high favor with his master, because by him the Lord had 5 given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered fromleprosy. 2Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girlcaptive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. 3She…

SCRIPTURE READING 1 Kings 3:4-284The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principalhigh place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on thataltar.5At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; andGod said, “Ask what I should give you.” 6And Solomon said, “You haveshown great and steadfast love to your servant my father David,…

2 Samuel 11:1-5, 26-27; 12:1-9 Psalm 51:1-9 FIRST READING 2 Samuel 11:1-5, 26-27; 12:1-911In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Davidsent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged theAmmonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 2Ithappened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and waswalking…

SCRIPTURE READING Joshua 24:1-26Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, andsummoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers ofIsrael; and they presented themselves before God. 2And Joshua said to allthe people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Long ago yourancestors—Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor—lived beyond theEuphrates and…

SCRIPTURE READING Exodus 19:3-7; 20:1-173Then Moses went up to God; the Lord called to him from the mountain,saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the Israelites:4You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you oneagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5Now…

SCRIPTURE READING Exodus 14:5-7, 10-14, 21-295When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the minds ofPharaoh and his officials were changed toward the people, and they said,“What have we done, letting Israel leave our service?” 6So he had hischariot made ready, and took his army with…

FIRST READING Genesis 29:1-23Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer ofPharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from theIshmaelites who had brought him down there. 2The Lord was withJoseph, and he became a successful man; he was in the house of hisEgyptian master. 3His master saw that the Lord was with him, and thatthe Lord caused…

FIRST READING Genesis 12:1-9Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindredand your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make ofyou a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, sothat you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless…