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Sunday’s Scripture Readings for Jan. 16, 2022 Psalm 36:5-10 5 Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,     your faithfulness to the skies. 6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,     your justice like the great deep.     You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. 7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!     People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. 8 They feast on the abundance of your house;     you give them drink from your river of delights. 9 For with you is the fountain of life;     in your…

Scripture readings for December 26, 2021 Luke 2:41-52 The Boy Jesus at the Temple 41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. 44 Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking…

Scripture reading for Sunday, December 12, 2021 Luke 1: 39 – 45 Mary Visits Elizabeth 39 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40 where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! 43 But why am I so favored, that…

Bible scripture for Sunday, November 28, 2021 Psalm 48 A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. 1 Great is the Lord, and most worthy of praise,     in the city of our God, his holy mountain. 2 Beautiful in its loftiness,     the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion,     the city of the Great King. 3 God is in her citadels;     he has shown himself to be her fortress. 4 When the kings joined forces,     when they advanced together, 5 they saw her…

Bible scripture for Sunday, November 21, 2021 Isaiah 9:1-7 9 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan— 2 The people walking in darkness     have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness     a light has dawned. 3 You have…

Bible Scriptures for Sunday, November 14, 2021 Amos 1:1-2, 5:14-15, 21-24 1 The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa—the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel. 2 He said: “The Lord roars from Zion     and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up,     and the top of Carmel withers.” 14 Seek good, not evil,     that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,…

Scripture readings for Sunday, October 31, 2021 1 Kings 5: 1 – 5; 8: 1 – 13 Preparations for Building the Temple 5 When Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king to succeed his father David, he sent his envoys to Solomon, because he had always been on friendly terms with David. 2 Solomon sent back this message to Hiram: 3 “You know that because of the wars waged against my father David from all sides, he could not build a temple…

Sunday’s Scripture for Oct. 24, 2021 1 Samuel 16: 1 – 13 Samuel Anoints David 16 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.” 2 But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me.” The Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and…

Bible scripture for Sunday, October 17, 2021 1 Samuel 3: 1 – 21 The Lord Calls Samuel 3 The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli. In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions. 2 One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place. 3 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house of the Lord, where the ark of God was. 4 Then the Lord called Samuel. Samuel answered, “Here I am.” 5 And…

Bible Scripture for Sunday, October 10, 2021 Exodus 16: 1 – 18 Manna and Quail 16 The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. 2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and…