Praise and Worship Service
Worship Service
Lectionary Theme: Call to be compassionate / Second Sunday of the Lent
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Ruth 2:4-20 First Lesson
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Ephesians 4:25-32 Second Lesson
25. So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another.
26. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
27. and do not make room for the devil.
28. Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.
29. Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear.
30. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.
31. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice,
32. and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.
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1 John 3:13-24 Epistle
13. Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates you.
14. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. Whoever does not love abides in death.
15. All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.
16. We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.
17. How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?
18. Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
19. And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him
20. whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
21. Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God;
22. and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.
23. And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
24. All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.
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Mark 1:40-45 Gospel