The Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost Scripture Reading: Hebrews 9:24-28 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence...
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The Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 Concerning Spiritual Gifts 12 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans...
Read moreThe Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost Scripture Reading: John 4 Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman 4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus...
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The Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost Scripture Reading: Mark 10:35-45 The Request of James and John 35 Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we want you to do for us whatever we ask.” 36 “What do you...
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The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost Scripture Reading: Genesis 1:1-2:3 The Beginning 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formlessand empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit...
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The Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost Scripture Reading: Mark 10:2-16 2 Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 “What did Moses command you?” he replied. 4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to...
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The Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost Scripture Reading: Esther 7, 9:20-22 Haman Impaled 7 So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther’s banquet, 2 and as they were drinking wineon the second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is...
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The Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: Mark 9:30-37 Jesus Predicts His Death a Second Time 30 They left that place and passed through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know where they were, 31 because he was...
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The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: James 3:1-12 Taming the Tongue 3 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. 2 We all stumble in...
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The Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: Mark 7:24-30 Jesus Honors a Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith 24 Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre.[a] He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he...
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The Eighth Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:10-24 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does...
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The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:1-8 3 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it...
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