November 17, 2024

Reading: Matthew 13:10-16 – Matthew 13:33 

Sermon: God of the Everyday

Reading: Matthew 13: 10-16- Matthew 13:33

10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;
    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
    they hardly hear with their ears,
    and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’[a]

16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds[a] of flour until it worked all through the dough.”

Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.

Thanks be to God.

Thank you to everyone who helped with this service!

Service Leader: Carol Gilliam

Musicians:

Dr. Deborah Henry, Miguel Brito, our choir & Pat McKee on guitar

Greeter: Bonnee Ware

Scripture reader: Arnaud Painvin

Sound/Live Streaming and Slides: Charlotte Taylor & Brenda Williams