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Prayer of the Day
Everlasting God, you give strength to the weak and power to the faint. Make us agents of your healing and wholeness, that your good news may be made known to the ends of your creation, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.

Scripture readings
Isaiah 40:21-31
Psalm 147:1-11
1 Corinthians 9:16-23
Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

"The New Normal"
Mark 1:29-39
In the midst of a global pandemic, we hear of Jesus healing a woman with a fever. He goes to Simon’s mother-in-law, takes her by the hand, and lifts her up in newness of life. She is healed. Healed, she begins to serve. This recently ill woman understands what her son-in-law and the other disciples do not: When Jesus heals you, he doesn’t leave you the way you were. He makes you more like him. To be healed by Christ is to live for others, not yourself. She gets it (and the men don’t). As we look with hope to the end of this pandemic, we pray that God does not simply restore us to who we were, but that God frees us to live beyond ourselves, looking to the needs of others. The new normal of a life lived in Christ is serving others to the glory of God.

 

Hymns

 In our prayers we remember Hope for Grieving Children.