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Nineteenth Sunday after PentecostBible Readings: Genesis 4:1-16, Matthew 22:34-46, 2 John 1-6Worship Folder: https://tinyurl.com/5xm7st9tPastor Paul TullbergSermon text: Matthew 22:34-46Love God and Your Neighbor34 When they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees met together. 35 One of them who was an expert in the law asked him a question, trying to trap him. 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?”37 Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments.”David’s Son and David’s Lord41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question: 42 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?”They said to him, “The Son of David.”43 He said to them, “Then how can David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,44 The Lord said to my Lord,    ‘Sit at my right hand,    until I put your enemies    under your feet’?”45 “So if David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”46 No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.Ask Jesus to create for you opportunities to use your words,activities and thoughts to glorify Him this week.We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Nineteenth Sunday after PentecostBible Readings: Daniel 1:3–21, Matthew 22:15–22, Romans 13:1–7Worship Folder: https://tinyurl.com/y744pp36Pastor Paul TullbergSermon text: Matthew 22:15-22Paying Taxes to Caesar15 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted together how to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in accord with the truth. You are not concerned about gaining anyone’s approval because you are not swayed by appearances. 17 So tell us, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”18 But Jesus knew their evil purpose and said, “Why are you testing me, hypocrites? 19 Show me the coin used for the tax.”They brought him a denarius.20 He asked them, “Whose image and inscription is this?”21 “Caesar’s,” they replied to him.Then he said to them, “Therefore give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”22 When they heard this, they were amazed. Then they left him and went away.The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.Ask Jesus to create for you opportunities to use your words,activities and thoughts to glorify Him this week.We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Twentieth Sunday after PentecostBible Readings: Isaiah 25:6-9, Romans 1:16-17, Matthew 22:1-14Worship Folder: https://tinyurl.com/2k8zjdk3Pastor John MelkeSermon text: Matthew 22:1-14The Parable of the Wedding Banquet22 Jesus spoke to them again in parables. He said, 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent out his servants to summon those who were invited to the wedding banquet, but they did not want to come.4 “Then he sent out other servants and said, ‘Tell those who are invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and my fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet!’5 “But those who were invited paid no attention and went off, one to his own farm, another to his business. 6 The rest seized the king’s servants, mistreated them, and killed them. 7 As a result, the king was very angry. He sent his army and killed those murderers and burned their town.8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. 9 So go to the main crossroads and invite as many as you find to the wedding banquet.’ 10 Those servants went out to the roads and gathered together everyone they found, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 He said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wearing wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless. 13 Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.Ask Jesus to create for you opportunities to use your words,activities and thoughts to glorify Him this week.We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Nineteenth Sunday after PentecostBible Readings: Isaiah 5:1-7, Matthew 21:33-43, Philippians 3:12-21Worship Folder: https://tinyurl.com/5xm7st9tPastor Paul TullbergSermon text: Matthew 21:33-43The Parable of the Wicked Tenants33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it out to some tenant farmers and went away on a journey. 34 When the time approached to harvest the fruit, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. 35 The tenant farmers seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 36 Then the landowner sent even more servants than the first time. The tenant farmers treated them the same way. 37 Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. 38 But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance!’ 39 They took him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40 So when the landowner comes, what will he do to those tenant farmers?”41 They told him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end. Then he will lease out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his fruit when it is due.”42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?43 “That is why I tell you the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces its fruit.The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.Ask Jesus to create for you opportunities to use your words,activities and thoughts to glorify Him this week.We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Eighteenth Sunday after PentecostBible Readings: Ezekiel 18:1-4,25-32, Matthew 21:23-32, Philippians 2:1-11Worship Folder: https://tinyurl.com/3dj727wbPastor Paul TullbergSermon text: Matthew 21:23–32Jesus’ Authority Questioned23 When Jesus went into the temple courts, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him while he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things?” and “Who gave you this authority?”24 Jesus answered them, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer it, I will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?”They discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ 26 But if we say, ‘From men,’ we are afraid of the crowd, since they all regard John as a prophet.” 27 So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.”He said to them, “Then I will not tell you by what authority I do these things.”Two Sons28 “What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’ 29 He answered, ‘I will not,’ but later he changed his mind and went. 30 He came to the second and said the same thing. The second son answered, ‘I will go, sir,’ but he did not go. 31 Which of the two did the will of his father?”They said to him, “The first.”Jesus said to them, “Amen I tell you: The tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, but you did not believe him. However, the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him. Even when you saw this, you did not change your mind and believe him.The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.Ask Jesus to create for you opportunities to use your words,activities and thoughts to glorify Him this week.We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!