Year: 2018

FIRST READING Numbers 21:4-9 4From Mount Hor {the Israelites} set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. 5And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the … [Read more…]

FIRST READING Exodus 20:1-17 1God spoke all these words, saying, 2“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3You shall have no other gods before me. 4You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is … [Read more…]

FIRST READING Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 1When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, 2that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” 3Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to … [Read more…]

FIRST READING Genesis 22:1-18 1After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which … [Read more…]

GOD’S WILL AND GOD’S PROMISE Everyone here I suppose is familiar with the story of how God told Abraham that he had to sacrifice his son Isaac. The story in the Bible is told mainly from the perspective of Abraham. But have you ever stopped and thought about it from Isaac’s view-point? Well this evening … [Read more…]

FIRST READING Exodus 34:29-35 29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 30Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, … [Read more…]

FIRST READING Isaiah 40:21-31 21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a … [Read more…]

FIRST READING Deuteronomy 18:15-20 15{Moses said,} “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers — it is to him you shall listen — 16just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let … [Read more…]

FIRST READING Jonah 3:1-5, 10 1Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” 3So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly … [Read more…]

FIRST READING 1 Samuel 3:1-20 1Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. 2At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down … [Read more…]