Luke (2025)

For our Old Testament reading, please let’s turn together to the book of Leviticus. If you’re using the Pew Bible, the reading is found on page 108. We’ll be reading from chapter 15 of Leviticus, verses 25 through 30. And the reason for this particular reading is because it addresses the condition of someone we’re going to see in the New Testament reading. So, Leviticus 15, verses 25 through 30. Listen to this. This is the very word of God.…

And please, for our Old Testament reading, turn again to the book of Isaiah, this time to chapter 14. Isaiah 14, and our reading will be verses 12 through 23. And let us Give careful attention to this reading now, because this is the very word of God. How you are fallen from heaven, O day star, sun of dawn. How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low. You said in your heart, I…

our Old Testament reading. Please turn in your Bibles to the book of Psalms, Psalm 89. And the reading will be verses one through nine. Psalm 89, one through nine. Listen to this. This is the very word of God. Emaskel of Ethan, the Ezraite. I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. For I said, steadfast love will be built up forever. In the…

And for our reading from the Old Testament, I invite you to turn to the prophecy of Isaiah chapter 60. And our reading will be verses one through seven. Isaiah 60, one through seven. Listen to this. This is the very Word of God. Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples. But the Lord will arise upon you,…

Jeremiah 13, verses 12 through 17. Listen to this. This is the very word of God. You shall speak to them this word. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, every jar shall be filled with wine. And they will say to you, do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine? Then you shall say to them, thus says the Lord, behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land, the…

And take your Bibles, please, and turn to the book of Leviticus. If you’re using the Pew Bible, the reading will be found on page 98 of that Pew Bible. We’ll be reading from Leviticus chapter seven, starting in verse 28, and reading through verse 36. Leviticus 7, 28 through 36. Listen to this. This is the very Word of God. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever offers the sacrifice of his…

Our Old Testament reading is from Psalm 51. That quintessential prayer and psalm of repentance. Psalm 51, and we will read verses one through 10. Listen to this. This is the very Word of God. To the choir master, a psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him after he had gone into Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love. According to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from…

Before our Old Testament reading, please turn to the book of First Kings. In our evening worship service, not long ago, we went through the book of First Kings together. So if you’re with us on the occasion upon which the sermon was from First Kings 17, these words will be very familiar. Our reading is 1 Kings chapter 17, verses 17 through 24. At this point, Elijah had been living in the home of a widow who had a…

And for our Old Testament reading, turn to the book of Psalms, where our reading will be Psalm 67. Psalm 67. Listen to this. This is the very word of God. to the choir master with stringed instruments, a psalm, a song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us. That your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. Let the peoples praise you, O God.…

Listen to this. This is the very word of God. Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with choice vines. He built a watchtower in the midst of it and hewed out a wine vat in it. And he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants…