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Opening Prayer

Mathew 14:27-30

27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”

29 “Come,” he said.

Then Peter got down out of the boat,

walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 

30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink,

cried out, “Lord, save me!”

Amen

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Worship Song Holy Holy #64

Apostles Creed (Pg. 7Hymnal)

‌I believe in God, the Father Almighty,

creator of heaven and earth;

‌I believe in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord

who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,

born of the Virgin Mary,

suffered under Pontius Pilate,

was crucified, died, and was buried;

He descended to the dead

on the third day he rose again

he ascended into heaven,

is seated at the right hand the Father

and will come again to judge the living and the dead.

‌I believe in the Holy Spirit,

the holy catholic* church,

the communion of saints,

the forgiveness of sins,

the resurrection of the body,

and the life everlasting.

Amen

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Amen

Curious Faith

Acts 17:16-34

In Athens

16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens,

he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. —————————————

17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. ——————————————

18 A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him.

Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?”

Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.”

They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. —————————

19 Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him,

“May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

 20 You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.”————————————— 

21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)————————

22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said:

“People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.

 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship,

I even found an altar with this inscription: 

to an unknown god. ——————————————

So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—

and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.————————

24 “The God who made the world and everything in it

 is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.——————————————-

 25 And he is not served by human hands,

as if he needed anything.———————————————-

Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. ——————————-

26 From one man he made all the nations,

that they should inhabit the whole earth;

and he marked out their appointed times in history

and the boundaries of their lands.——————————————-

 27 God did this so that they would seek him

and perhaps reach out for him and find him,

though he is not far from any one of us.———————————-

 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’

[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[b]—————————————

29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring,

we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver

or stone—an image made by human design and skill.——————————————-

 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance,

 but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. ———————————

31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world

with justice by the man he has appointed.

 He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”——————————————-

32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead,

 some of them sneered,

but others said,

“We want to hear you again on this subject.”——————————-

 33 At that, Paul left the Council. 

34 Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed.

Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus,

 also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Amen

Doxology

Final Worship song To God Be the Glory #98

Walk to the back

Benediction.