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Weekly Nurture Devotion
November 16: Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
Read Isaiah 65:17-25
Here we have Isaiah’s picture of the new heavens and earth that God is creating. It is a vision of shalom, or peace that ends with peace. What images in this passage speak to your hopes and dreams? How do we join God in working toward this vision of peace in our world today?
Worship -November 16 at 10:00 am
We welcome you to in-person or online worship services in the Sanctuary on
Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 10:00 am.
The Rev. Dr. Patricia Jarvis will be at the pulpit this Sunday. The Sermon is
“Body Building”.
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
Come alive to us, living Word, in the hearing of scripture. Gather us to yourself as we gather to the reading and preaching of the Word so that understanding your will for us, we may go to do it. Amen.
SCRIPTURE I Corinthians 12:12-27
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect, whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
THE WORD OF THE LORD!
Thanks be to God!
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Upcoming Events
OUR STEWARDSHIP CAMPAIGN , Journey to Generosity – the way of Jesus, begins this Sunday. It ends on November 23. Please pray about how you can help.
Urgent need for food!
Heart and Hand Food Pantry has an urgent need for food. They are asking for our assistance.
Their needs list follows:
Fruit, Rice, Beans, Jelly, Ravioli, Spaghetti Noodles, Crackers, Soup, Jiffy Mix, Ramen Noodles, Chicken Noodle Soup, or any other canned or boxed food.
There is also an urgent need for diapers of all sizes.