Epiphany 8 Date: February 27, 2011
Theme: Worry-free Living
– Matthew 6:24-34
(Pastor John Hein)
The Order of Worship: Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p 5 ff (Also available on laminated sheet in pew)
Hymns:
TLH 368: The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare
TLH 145: Jesus, Refuge of the Weary
TLH 413: I Walk in Danger All the Way
TLH 200, st 1-6: I Know That My Redeemer Lives
WS 784: Lord, Take My Hand and Lead Me
Scripture Readings:
Isaiah 49:13-18
1 Corinthians 4:1-13
Sermon Theme:
Worry-free Living
Matthew 6:24-34
(24) “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (25) “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? (26) “Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (27) “Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? (28) “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; (29) “and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (30) “Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? (31) “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ (32) “For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. (33) “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (34) “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (NKJVTM)
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