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SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2020
SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2020
1 In the beginning, when God created the universe,
2 the earth was formless and desolate. The raging ocean that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness, and the Spirit of God was moving over the water.
3 Then God commanded, “Let there be light”—and light appeared.
4 God was pleased with what he saw. Then he separated the light from the darkness,
5 and he named the light “Day” and the darkness “Night”. Evening passed and morning came—that was the first day.
6 Then God commanded, “Let there be a dome to divide the water and to keep it in two separate places”—and it was done. So God made a dome, and it separated the water under it from the water above it.
8 He named the dome “Sky”. Evening passed and morning came—that was the second day.
9 Then God commanded, “Let the water below the sky come together in one place, so that the land will appear”—and it was done.
10 He named the land “Earth”, and the water which had come together he named “Sea”. And God was pleased with what he saw.
11 Then he commanded, “Let the earth produce all kinds of plants, those that bear grain and those that bear fruit”—and it was done.
12 So the earth produced all kinds of plants, and God was pleased with what he saw.
13 Evening passed and morning came—that was the third day.
14 Then God commanded, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin;
15 they will shine in the sky to give light to the earth”—and it was done.
16 So God made the two larger lights, the sun to rule over the day and the moon to rule over the night; he also made the stars.
17 He placed the lights in the sky to shine on the earth,
18 to rule over the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God was pleased with what he saw.
19 Evening passed and morning came—that was the fourth day.
20 Then God commanded, “Let the water be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let the air be filled with birds.”
21 So God created the great sea monsters, all kinds of creatures that live in the water, and all kinds of birds. And God was pleased with what he saw.
22 He blessed them all and told the creatures that live in the water to reproduce, and to fill the sea, and he told the birds to increase in number.
23 Evening passed and morning came—that was the fifth day.
24 Then God commanded, “Let the earth produce all kinds of animal life: domestic and wild, large and small”—and it was done.
25 So God made them all, and he was pleased with what he saw.
26 Then God said, “And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small.”
27 So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female,
28 blessed them, and said, “Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.
29 I have provided all kinds of grain and all kinds of fruit for you to eat;
30 but for all the wild animals and for all the birds I have provided grass and leafy plants for food”—and it was done.
31 God looked at everything he had made, and he was very pleased. Evening passed and morning came—that was the sixth day.
1 And so the whole universe was completed.
2 By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working.
3 He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.
4 And that is how the universe was created.
1 O Lord, our Lord, your greatness is seen in all the world! Your praise reaches up to the heavens;
2 it is sung by children and babies. You are safe and secure from all your enemies; you stop anyone who opposes you.
3 When I look at the sky, which you have made, at the moon and the stars, which you set in their places-
4 what are human beings, that you think of them; mere mortals, that you care for them?
5 Yet you made them inferior only to yourself; you crowned them with glory and honour.
6 You appointed them rulers over everything you made; you placed them over all creation:
7 sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;
8 the birds and the fish and the creatures in the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord, your greatness is seen in all the world!
11 And now, my brothers and sisters, goodbye! Strive for perfection; listen to my appeals; agree with one another; live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All God’s people send you their greetings.
16 The eleven disciples went to the hill in Galilee where Jesus had told them to go.
17 When they saw him, they worshipped him, even though some of them doubted.
18 Jesus drew near and said to them, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.
19 Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
20 and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age.”
SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2020
SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2020
1 The Lord appeared to Abraham at the sacred trees of Mamre. As Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day,
2 he looked up and saw three men standing there. As soon as he saw them, he ran out to meet them. Bowing down with his face touching the ground,
3 he said, “Sirs, please do not pass by my home without stopping; I am here to serve you.
4 Let me bring some water for you to wash your feet; you can rest here beneath this tree.
5 I will also bring a bit of food; it will give you strength to continue your journey. You have honoured me by coming to my home, so let me serve you.” They replied, “Thank you; we accept.”
6 Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick, take a sack of your best flour, and bake some bread.”
7 Then he ran to the herd and picked out a calf that was tender and fat, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to get it ready.
8 He took some cream, some milk, and the meat, and set the food before the men. There under the tree he served them himself, and they ate.
9 Then they asked him, “Where is your wife Sarah?” “She is there in the tent,” he answered.
10 One of them said, “Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son.” Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening.
11 Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah had stopped having her monthly periods.
12 So Sarah laughed to herself and said, “Now that I am old and worn out, can I still enjoy sex? And besides, my husband is old too.”
13 Then the Lord asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really have a child when I am so old?’
14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
15 Because Sarah was afraid, she denied it. “I didn’t laugh,” she said. “Yes, you did,” he replied. “You laughed.”
(21:1–7)
1 The Lord blessed Sarah, as he had promised,
2 and she became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham when he was old. The boy was born at the time God had said he would be born.
3 Abraham named him Isaac,
4 and when Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded.
5 Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac was born.
6 Sarah said, “God has brought me joy and laughter. Everyone who hears about it will laugh with me.”
7 Then she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
1 I love the Lord, because he hears me; he listens to my prayers.
2 He listens to me every time I call to him.
(21:1–7)
12 What can I offer the Lord for all his goodness to me?
13 I will bring a wine offering to the Lord, to thank him for saving me.
14 In the assembly of all his people I will give him what I have promised.
15 How painful it is to the Lord when one of his people dies!
16 I am your servant, Lord; I serve you, just as my mother did. You have saved me from death.
17 I will give you a sacrifice of thanksgiving and offer my prayer to you.
18 In the assembly of all your people, in the sanctuary of your Temple in Jerusalem, I will give you what I have promised. Praise the Lord!
1 Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 He has brought us by faith into this experience of God’s grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God’s glory!
3 We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance,
4 endurance brings God’s approval, and his approval creates hope.
5 This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God’s gift to us.
6 For when we were still helpless, Christ died for the wicked at the time that God chose.
7 It is a difficult thing for someone to die for a righteous person. It may even be that someone might dare to die for a good person.
8 But God has shown us how much he loves us—it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!
35 Jesus went round visiting all the towns and villages. He taught in the synagogues, preached the Good News about the Kingdom, and healed people with every kind of disease and sickness.
36 As he saw the crowds, his heart was filled with pity for them, because they were worried and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
37 So he said to his disciples, “The harvest is large, but there are few workers to gather it in.
38 Pray to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his harvest.”
1 Jesus called his twelve disciples together and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and every sickness.
2 These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee;
3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew, the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
4 Simon the Patriot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.
5 These twelve men were sent out by Jesus with the following instructions: “Do not go to any Gentile territory or any Samaritan towns.
6 Instead, you are to go to the lost sheep of the people of Israel.
7 Go and preach, ‘The Kingdom of heaven is near!’
8 Heal the sick, bring the dead back to life, heal those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases, and drive out demons. You have received without paying, so give without being paid.
9 Do not carry any gold, silver, or copper money in your pockets;
10 do not carry a beggar’s bag for the journey or an extra shirt or shoes or a stick. Workers should be given what they need.
11 “When you come to a town or village, go in and look for someone who is willing to welcome you, and stay with him until you leave that place.
12 When you go into a house, say, ‘Peace be with you.’
13 If the people in that house welcome you, let your greeting of peace remain; but if they do not welcome you, then take back your greeting.
14 And if some home or town will not welcome you or listen to you, then leave that place and shake the dust off your feet.
15 I assure you that on the Judgement Day God will show more mercy to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah than to the people of that town!
16 “Listen! I am sending you out just like sheep to a pack of wolves. You must be as cautious as snakes and as gentle as doves.
17 Watch out, for there will be those who will arrest you and take you to court, and they will whip you in the synagogues.
18 For my sake you will be brought to trial before rulers and kings, to tell the Good News to them and to the Gentiles.
19 When they bring you to trial, do not worry about what you are going to say or how you will say it; when the time comes, you will be given what you will say.
20 For the words you will speak will not be yours; they will come from the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
21 “Men will hand over their own brothers to be put to death, and fathers will do the same to their children; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.
22 Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.
23 When they persecute you in one town, run away to another one. I assure you that you will not finish your work in all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
(10:9–23
SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2020
SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2020
8 The child grew, and on the day that he was weaned, Abraham gave a great feast.
9 One day Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham, was playing with Sarah’s son Isaac.
10 Sarah saw them and said to Abraham, “Send this slave and her son away. The son of this woman must not get any part of your wealth, which my son Isaac should inherit.”
11 This troubled Abraham very much, because Ishmael was also his son.
12 But God said to Abraham, “Don’t be worried about the boy and your slave Hagar. Do whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I have promised.
13 I will also give many children to the son of the slave woman, so that they will become a nation. He too is your son.”
14 Early the next morning Abraham gave Hagar some food and a leather bag full of water. He put the child on her back and sent her away. She left and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 When the water was all gone, she left the child under a bush
16 and sat down about a hundred metres away. She said to herself, “I can’t bear to see my child die.” While she was sitting there, she began to cry.
17 God heard the boy crying, and from heaven the angel of God spoke to Hagar, “What are you troubled about, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. God has heard the boy crying.
18 Get up, go and pick him up, and comfort him. I will make a great nation out of his descendants.”
19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well. She went and filled the leather bag with water and gave some to the boy.
20 God was with the boy as he grew up; he lived in the wilderness of Paran and became a skilful hunter.
21 His mother found an Egyptian wife for him.
1 Listen to me, Lord, and answer me, for I am helpless and weak.
2 Save me from death, because I am loyal to you; save me, for I am your servant and I trust in you.
3 You are my God, so be merciful to me; I pray to you all day long.
4 Make your servant glad, O Lord, because my prayers go up to you.
5 You are good to us and forgiving, full of constant love for all who pray to you.
6 Listen, Lord, to my prayer; hear my cries for help.
7 I call to you in times of trouble, because you answer my prayers.
8 There is no god like you, O Lord, not one has done what you have done.
9 All the nations that you have created will come and bow down to you; they will praise your greatness.
10 You are mighty and do wonderful things; you alone are God.
16 Turn to me and have mercy on me; strengthen me and save me, because I serve you, just as my mother did.
17 Show me proof of your goodness, Lord; those who hate me will be ashamed when they see that you have given me comfort and help.
1 What shall we say, then? Should we continue to live in sin so that God’s grace will increase?
2 Certainly not! We have died to sin—how then can we go on living in it?
3 For surely you know that when we were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, we were baptized into union with his death.
4 By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life.
5 For since we have become one with him in dying as he did, in the same way we shall be one with him by being raised to life as he was.
6 And we know that our old being has been put to death with Christ on his cross, in order that the power of the sinful self might be destroyed, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin.
7 For when people die, they are set free from the power of sin.
8 Since we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 For we know that Christ has been raised from death and will never die again—death will no longer rule over him.
10 And so, because he died, sin has no power over him; and now he lives his life in fellowship with God.
11 In the same way you are to think of yourselves as dead, so far as sin is concerned, but living in fellowship with God through Christ Jesus.
24 “No pupil is greater than his teacher; no slave is greater than his master.
25 So a pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and a slave like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul, the members of the family will be called even worse names!
26 “So do not be afraid of people. Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered, and every secret will be made known.
27 What I am telling you in the dark you must repeat in broad daylight, and what you have heard in private you must announce from the housetops.
28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather be afraid of God, who can destroy both body and soul in hell.
29 For only a penny you can buy two sparrows, yet not one sparrow falls to the ground without your Father’s consent.
30 As for you, even the hairs of your head have all been counted.
31 So do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows!
32 “For those who declare publicly that they belong to me, I will do the same before my Father in heaven.
33 But if anyone rejects me publicly, I will reject him before my Father in heaven.
34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the world. No, I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 I came to set sons against their fathers, daughters against their mothers, daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law;
36 your worst enemies will be the members of your own family.
37 “Those who love their father or mother more than me are not fit to be my disciples; those who love their son or daughter more than me are not fit to be my disciples.
38 Those who do not take up their cross and follow in my steps are not fit to be my disciples.
39 Those who try to gain their own life will lose it; but those who lose their life for my sake will gain it.
SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2020
SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2020
1 Some time later God tested Abraham; he called to him, “Abraham!” And Abraham answered, “Yes, here I am!”
2 “Take your son,” God said, “your only son, Isaac, whom you love so much, and go to the land of Moriah. There on a mountain that I will show you, offer him as a sacrifice to me.”
3 Early the next morning Abraham cut some wood for the sacrifice, loaded his donkey, and took Isaac and two servants with him. They started out for the place that God had told him about.
4 On the third day Abraham saw the place in the distance.
5 Then he said to the servants, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there and worship, and then we will come back to you.”
6 Abraham made Isaac carry the wood for the sacrifice, and he himself carried a knife and live coals for starting the fire. As they walked along together,
7 Isaac said, “Father!” He answered, “Yes, my son?” Isaac asked, “I see that you have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?”
8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide one.” And the two of them walked on together.
9 When they came to the place which God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10 Then he picked up the knife to kill him.
11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” He answered, “Yes, here I am.”
12 “Don’t hurt the boy or do anything to him,” he said. “Now I know that you honour and obey God, because you have not kept back your only son from him.”
13 Abraham looked round and saw a ram caught in a bush by its horns. He went and got it and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 Abraham named that place “The Lord Provides”. And even today people say, “On the Lord’s mountain he provides.”
1 How much longer will you forget me, Lord? For ever? How much longer will you hide yourself from me?
2 How long must I endure trouble? How long will sorrow fill my heart day and night? How long will my enemies triumph over me?
3 Look at me, O Lord my God, and answer me. Restore my strength; don’t let me die.
4 Don’t let my enemies say, “We have defeated him.” Don’t let them gloat over my downfall.
5 I rely on your constant love; I will be glad, because you will rescue me.
6 I will sing to you, O Lord, because you have been good to me.
12 Sin must no longer rule in your mortal bodies, so that you obey the desires of your natural self.
13 Nor must you surrender any part of yourselves to sin to be used for wicked purposes. Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.
14 Sin must not be your master; for you do not live under law but under God’s grace.
15 What, then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under God’s grace? By no means!
16 Surely you know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to obey someone, you are in fact the slaves of the master you obey—either of sin, which results in death, or of obedience, which results in being put right with God.
17 But thanks be to God! For though at one time you were slaves to sin, you have obeyed with all your heart the truths found in the teaching you received.
18 You were set free from sin and became the slaves of righteousness.
19 (I use everyday language because of the weakness of your natural selves.) At one time you surrendered yourselves entirely as slaves to impurity and wickedness for wicked purposes. In the same way you must now surrender yourselves entirely as slaves of righteousness for holy purposes.
20 When you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 What did you gain from doing the things that you are now ashamed of? The result of those things is death!
22 But now you have been set free from sin and are the slaves of God. Your gain is a life fully dedicated to him, and the result is eternal life.
23 For sin pays its wage—death; but God’s free gift is eternal life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.
40 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.
41 Whoever welcomes God’s messenger because he is God’s messenger, will share in his reward. And whoever welcomes a good man because he is good, will share in his reward.
42 You can be sure that whoever gives even a drink of cold water to one of the least of these my followers because he is my follower, will certainly receive a reward.”