Palm Sunday, 2020. Verse for the Week: John 3:14b–15 “The Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.” Call to Worship: Psalm 118:1–2, 19–29 1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. 2 Let all Israel repeat: […]
5th Sunday of Lent Verse for the Week: Matthew 20:28 “For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Call to Worship: Psalm 24 1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to […]
4th Sunday of Lent Verse for the Week: John 12:24 “Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” Call to Worship: Psalm 23 1 The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need. 2 He […]
3rd Sunday of Lent. Verse for the Week: Luke 9:62. Jesus said, “Anyone who puts a hand to the plow and then looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of God.” Call to Worship: Psalm 95 1 Come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us […]
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil. For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry. During that time the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.” But […]
“Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven. When you give to someone in need, don’t do as the hypocrites do—blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call attention to their acts of charity! I tell you […]
Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead. As he talked about this openly with his disciples, Peter […]
4th Sunday after Epiphany / Presentation of the Lord It was time for their purification offering, as required by the law of Moses after the birth of a child; so Jesus’ parents took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. The law of the Lord says, “If a woman’s first child is a […]
2nd Sunday after Epiphany This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Sosthenes. I am writing to God’s church in Corinth, to you who have been called by God to be his own holy people. He made you holy by means […]
Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the reign of King Herod. About that time some wise men from eastern lands arrived in Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose in the east, and we have come to worship him.” King Herod was deeply […]