Trinity 13.26, Rite II C
Service Folder📖🔍 Isaiah 29:18-19 ▪ 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 ▪ ✞ Mark 7:31-38 A man who was deaf and therefore also had an impediment in his speech was brought to Jesus (Mark 7:31–37). Jesus put His fingers into the man’s ears, spat and touched his tongue; and sighed “Ephphatha” opening the man’s ears, and loosening his tongue to speak plainly as Isaiah prophesied…
Theme: Humility – Pharisee and Publican Service Folder📖🔍 ✞ Luke 18:9-14 ▪ ✞ Matthew 9:9-13 The lowly tax collector who prayed, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” was the one who went down to his house justified before God, not the respectable, outwardly righteous Pharisee who trusted in himself and his own good living (Luke 18:9–14). The one who penitently despairs…
Theme: Renewed Obedience Service Folder📖🔍 Jeremiah 7:1-11 ▪ I Corinthians 12:1-11 ▪ ✞ Luke 19:41-18 In today’s Gospel (Luke 19: 41-18) Jesus weeps over Jerusalem and its Temple because of its coming destruction. Destruction would come, because the city refused to see that God visited them in the Person of Jesus. Jesus then cleansed the Temple of merchandising as a type of…
Theme: The Steward’s Shrewdness Sanctified Service Folder📖🔍 I Chronicles 29:10-13 ▪ I Corinthians 10:6-13 ▪ ✞ Luke 16:1-9 “The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness” (Luke 16:1–9). The steward’s shrewdness is praiseworthy for two reasons. First, he knew the master would be merciful. He trusted that the master would honor the debts he forgave in the master’s name. In the…
Service Folder📖🔍 Service Folder (print) Jeremiah 23:21-32 ▪ Romans 8:12-17 ▪ ✞ Matthew 7:15-23 There are two ways – one is a broad way that leads to destruction and the other is a narrow way that leads to life. Along the way are false prophets who, like ravenous wolves entice souls to leave the narrow way for the broad way. Though they…
Theme: Providence Service Folder📖🔍 I Kings 17:8-16 ▪ Romans 6:19-23 ▪ ✞ Mark 8:1-9 God kept his Word through the prophet Elijah to provide for a widow and her son when all seemed hopeless. (In Kings 17:8-16) That Word is fulfilled in the Word made flesh, Jesus, who had compassion on a crowd of 4000 and provided bread for them in the…