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This Weeks Readings
God
speaks to us in Scripture read and proclaimed.
Readings for January
29, 2012
4th Sunday After the Epiphany
First
Reading
Deuteronomy 18:15-20
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among
you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. 16
For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of
the assembly when you said, Let us not hear the voice of the
LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will
die.
17 The LORD said
to me: What they say is good. 18
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow
Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them
everything I command him. 19
I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words
that the prophet speaks in my name. 20
But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not
commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be
put to death.
Psalm
PSALM:
Psalm 111
Praise the LORD.
I will extol the LORD with all my heart
in the council of the upright and in the
assembly.
Great are the works of the LORD;
they are pondered by all who delight in
them.
Glorious and majestic are his deeds,
and his righteousness endures forever.
He has caused his wonders to be remembered;
the LORD is gracious and compassionate.
He provides food for those who fear him;
he remembers his covenant forever.
He has shown his people the power of his works,
giving them the lands of other nations.
The works of his hands are faithful and just;
all his precepts are trustworthy.
They are established forever and ever,
enacted in faithfulness and uprightness.
He provided redemption for his people;
he ordained his covenant
forever
holy and awesome is his name.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
all who follow his precepts have good
understanding.
To him belongs eternal praise.
Second
Reading
1 Corinthians 8:1-13
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that We all
possess knowledge. But knowledge puffs up while love builds
up. 2 Those who
think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. 3
But whoever loves God is known by God.
4 So then, about
eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that An idol is
nothing at all in the world and that There is no
God but one. 5
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as
indeed there are many gods and many
lords), 6
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came
and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through
whom all things came and through whom we live.
7 But not
everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed
to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having
been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is
defiled. 8 But
food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat,
and no better if we do.
9 Be careful,
however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling
block to the weak. 10
For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your
knowledge, eating in an idols temple, wont that
person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? 11
So this weak brother or sister, for whom
Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12
When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience,
you sin against Christ. 13
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin,
I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.
Gospel
GOSPEL: Mark 1:21-28
They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus
went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22
The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one
who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. 23
Just then a man in their synagogue who was
possessed by an impure spirit cried out, 24 What
do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I
know who you arethe Holy One of God!
25 Be
quiet! said Jesus sternly. Come out of
him! 26 The
impure spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a
shriek.
27 The people
were all so amazed that they asked each other, What is this?
A new teachingand with authority! He even gives orders to
impure spirits and they obey him. 28
News about him spread quickly over the
whole region of Galilee.
Sermon
Pastor Roger Kastelle
109 years of service to the Congregation and Community
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