judges: Correcting your spiritual vision
July 9 Service (Note: start time is at 10:30 am)
Note: There are no in-person services at CCFC this week. We will broadcast a service of Morning Prayer at 9:00 am on Sunday morning, then meet at the Allegheny RiverTrail Park at 10:30 am (please note the start time!) for a shortened service with a Homily & Holy Communion. Children’s Ministry will be available.
The service is held in their indoor Welcome Center. Stay after for BYOB Coffee Hour!
Sermon Title: Othniel
Preacher: The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth
The collect for the day
Grant us, O Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who can do no good thing apart from you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
The FIRST lesson: Judges 3: 7-11
Othniel
7 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth. 8 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years. 9 But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. 10 The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim. 11 So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
psalm 105: 1-5
1 Give thanks unto the Lord and call upon his Name;
tell the peoples what things he has done.
2 O let your songs be of him, and praise him,
and let your speech be of all his wondrous works.
3 Rejoice in his holy Name;
let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
4 Seek the Lord and his strength;
seek his face evermore.
5 Remember the marvelous works that he has done,
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.
BCP 2019
The gospel: john 3: 16-21
For God So Loved the World
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
