[Sunday's Worship Service and Scripture Readings]

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 Second Sunday after Pentecost 6-7-26

The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth
     from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you.
     I am God, your God.
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;
     your burnt offerings are continually before me.
I will not accept a bull from your house
     or goats from your folds.
For every beast of the forest is mine,
     the cattle on a thousand hills.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
     and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning,
     is now, and will be forever. Amen.
The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth
     from the rising of the sun to its setting.

 

Collect of the Day

Almighty and most merciful God, You sent Your Son, Jesus Christ, to seek and to save the lost. Graciously open our ears and our hearts to hear His call and to follow Him by faith that we may feast with Him forever in His kingdom; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

 

[Hosea 5:15 - 6:6]  15 Then I will return to my place until they admit their guilt and look to me for help. For as soon as trouble comes, they will search for me."… 

1 "Come, let us return to the LORD! He has torn us in pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds.  2 In just a short time, he will restore us so we can live in his presence.  3 Oh, that we might know the LORD! Let us press on to know him! Then he will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring."  4 "O Israel and Judah, what should I do with you?" asks the LORD. "For your love vanishes like the morning mist and disappears like dew in the sunlight. 5 I sent my prophets to cut you to pieces. I have slaughtered you with my words, threatening you with death. My judgment will strike you as surely as day follows night.  6 I want you to be merciful; I don't want your sacrifices. I want you to know God; that's more important than burnt offerings.

 

[Romans 4:13-25]  13 It is clear, then, that God's promise to give the whole earth to Abraham and his descendants was not based on obedience to God's law, but on the new relationship with God that comes by faith.  14 So if you claim that God's promise is for those who obey God's law and think they are "good enough" in God's sight, then you are saying that faith is useless. And in that case, the promise is also meaningless.  15 But the law brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)  16 So that's why faith is the key! God's promise is given to us as a free gift. And we are certain to receive it, whether or not we follow Jewish customs, if we have faith like Abraham's. For Abraham is the father of all who believe.  17 That is what the Scriptures mean when God told him, "I have made you the father of many nations." This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who brings into existence what didn't exist before. 

18 When God promised Abraham that he would become the father of many nations, Abraham believed him. God had also said, "Your descendants will be as numerous as the stars," even though such a promise seemed utterly impossible!  19 And Abraham's faith did not weaken, even though he knew that he was too old to be a father at the age of one hundred and that Sarah, his wife, had never been able to have children.  20 Abraham never wavered in believing God's promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God.  21 He was absolutely convinced that God was able to do anything he promised.  22 And because of Abraham's faith, God declared him to be righteous.  23 Now this wonderful truth-- that God declared him to be righteous-- wasn't just for Abraham's benefit.  24 It was for us, too, assuring us that God will also declare us to be righteous if we believe in God, who brought Jesus our Lord back from the dead.  25 He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised from the dead to make us right with God.

 

[Matthew 9:9-13]   9 As Jesus was going down the road, he saw Matthew sitting at his tax-collection booth. "Come, be my disciple," Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him.  10 That night Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to be his dinner guests, along with his fellow tax collectors and many other notorious sinners. 11 The Pharisees were indignant. "Why does your teacher eat with such scum?" they asked his disciples.  12 When he heard this, Jesus replied, "Healthy people don't need a doctor-- sick people do."  13 Then he added, "Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: 'I want you to be merciful; I don't want your sacrifices.' For I have come to call sinners, not those who think they are already good enough."

 

 

 

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