Reading: Genesis 21: 8-15 Verse 17: “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid”. Hagar and Ishmael are sent out into the wilderness....

Reading: Genesis 21: 8-21 Verse 10: “She said to Abraham, ‘Get rid of that slave woman and her son'”. Several years after Sarah and...

Reading: Matthew 10: 1-23 Verses 19-20: “Do not worry about what to say or how to say it… it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit”....

Reading: Matthew 9: 35-38 Verse 35: “Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching… preaching… and healing”. Today’s short...

Reading: Romans 8: 6-8 Verse 8: “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us”. As the...

Reading: Romans 5: 1-5 Verse 5: “Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit”....

Reading: Psalm 100 Verse 5: “For the Lord is good and his love endures forever”. Today’s Psalm of praise is one that can be used to give...

Readings: Genesis 18: 9-15 and Genesis 21: 1-7 Verse 12: “So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, ‘After I am worn out and my master...

Reading: Genesis 18: 1-8 Verse 2: “When he saw them, he hurried… to meet them and bowed low to the ground”. The church service has run...

Reading: 2nd Corinthians 13: 11-13 Verse 11b: “The God of love and peace will be with you”. As we return to Paul’s closing words in his...

Reading: 2nd Corinthians 13: 11-13 Verse 11: “Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace”. After being a...

Reading: Matthew 28: 16-20 Verse 18: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me”. Jesus begins his final words reminding...

Reading: Matthew 28: 16-20 Verse 17: “When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted”. At the very end of Matthew’s gospel,...

Reading: Psalm 8 Verses 3 and 4: “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers… what is man that you are mindful of him”?...

Reading: Genesis 1:26 – 2:4a Verse 28: “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it”. Our passage today begins with...

Reading: Genesis 1:1 to 2:4a Verse 25: “And God saw that it was good”. Today we read the story of creation. It is a summary of how our...

Reading: Acts 2: 12-15 Verse 12: “Amazed and perplexed they asked on another, ‘What does this mean”’? The Jews from all over the world...

Reading: John 20: 19-23 Verse 19: “When the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and said,...

Reading: 1st Corinthians 12: 3b-13 Verse 12: “The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts… they form one body”. Paul is...

Reading: Acts 2: 14-18 Verse 17: “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my spirit on all people”. For the followers of Jesus...