Scripture and Prayer on Friday, September 10, 2021
Pastor David reads Philippians 3:1-16 and offers a prayer from Hall’s Psalms and Hymns:
Lord, we thy presence seek;
May ours this blessing be:
Give us a pure and lowly heart,
A temple meet for thee.Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Friday, September 10, 2021
It’s Not My Business
Just then someone spoke up from the crowd and said, “Master, you should tell my older brother that he has to divide the family inheritance and give me my fair share!” Jesus answered, “My friend, you can’t expect me to help you with this. It’s not my business to settle arguments between you and your brother – that’s yours to settle.” Speaking to the people, Jesus continued, “Be alert and guard your heart from greed and always wishing for what you don’t have. For your life can never be measured by the amount of things you possess.” (Luke 12:13-15, The Passion Translation)
We often read this story from the perspective of the brothers or the people in the crowd. This time, let’s take a look at it from Jesus’s perspective. In this section of Luke, Jesus is on his long journey to Jerusalem where he will be crucified. He has just spoken a number of “woes” against the Pharisees and other religious leaders because of their hypocrisy. And here in chapter 12, Jesus is encouraging his followers to remain faithful and not to fear or worry about what those religious authorities might do to them.
In the midst of all this, someone comes to Jesus with this strange request to mediate a dispute about their family inheritance. The request is strange to our ears, but it was typical in that time for rabbis like Jesus to weigh in on disputes like this.
Watch how Jesus responds, though: “It’s not my business to settle arguments between you and your brother.”
Did you catch that? “It’s not my business.” Continue reading
Daily Scripture & Prayer from August 19, 2021
Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, August 19, 2021
Pastor David reads Mark 12:28-34 and offers a prayer from Ignatius of Loyola:
Lord Jesus Christ, fill us, we pray, with your light and life that we may show forth your wonderful glory. Grant that your love may so fill our lives that we may count nothing too small to do for you, nothing too much to give and nothing too hard to bear.
Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, August 19, 2021
Daily Scripture & Prayer from August 18, 2021
Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Pastor David reads Mark 12:13-27 and offers a prayer from John Calvin:
May the Lord grant that we may engage in contemplating the mysteries of his heavenly wisdom with really increasing devotion, to his glory and to our edification.
Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Daily Scripture & Prayer from August 16, 2021
Scripture and Prayer on Monday, August 16, 2021
Pastor David reads Mark 11:12-25 and offers a prayer from Charles Wesley:
Forth in your name, O Lord, I go,
My daily labor to pursue,
You, only you, resolved to know
In all I think or speak or do.The task your wisdom has assigned
O let me cheerfully fulfill,
In all my works your presence find,
And prove your good and perfect will.Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, August 16, 2021
Worship Service on Sunday, August 15, 2021
August 15, 2021 Sunday morning worship. Thank you for watching.
Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Sunday, August 15, 2021
Daily Scripture & Prayer from August 13, 2021
Scripture and Prayer on Friday, August 13, 2021
Pastor David reads Mark 10:46-52 and offers a prayer from Benedict:
Father,
give us wisdom to perceive you,
intellect to understand you,
diligence to seek you,
patience to wait for you,
eyes to behold you,
a heart to meditate on you,
and a life to proclaim you,
through the power of the Spirit
of our Lord Jesus ChristPosted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, August 12, 2021
Daily Scripture & Prayer from August 12, 2021
Scripture and Prayer on Thursday, August 12, 2021
Pastor David reads Mark 10:32-45 and offers a prayer from Henry Martyn:
Send out your light and your truth, that I may live always near to you, my God. Let me feel your love, that I may be as it were already in heaven, that I may do my work as the angels do theirs; and let me be ready for every work, ready to go out or go in, to stay or depart, just as you direct. Lord, let me have no will of my own, or consider my true happiness as depending in the smallest degree on anything that happens to me outwardly, but as consisting totally in conformity to your will.
Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Thursday, August 12, 2021
Daily Scripture & Prayer from August 11, 2021
Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Pastor David reads Mark 10:17-31 and offers a prayer from St. Augustine:
O God, who has warned us that you will require much from those to whom much is given: grant that we, whose lot is cast in so goodly a heritage, may strive together the more abundantly, by prayer, by almsgiving, by fasting, and by all appointed means, to extend to those who do not know you what we so richly enjoy; and as we have entered into the labors of others, so to labor, that others may enter into ours, to the fulfillment of your holy will and the salvation of all humankind; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Daily Scripture & Prayer from August 9, 2021
Scripture and Prayer on Monday, August 9, 2021
Pastor David reads Mark 9:42-50 and offers a prayer from the Book of Common Prayer:
O Lord, who has taught us that all our doings without charity (love) are worth nothing: Send your Holy Ghost and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whoever lives is counted dead before you. Grant this for your only Son Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen.
Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Monday, August 9, 2021