25 September 2022 is the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost.
The main reading this week is from Paul’s Letter to Timothy in the New Testament (1 Timothy 2:1-7).
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Main reading from Scripture for today
1 Timothy 2:1-7 (from The Message translation of the Bible)
Simple Faith and Plain Truth
2 1-3 The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Saviour God wants us to live.
4-7 He wants not only us but everyone saved, you know, everyone to get to know the truth we’ve learned: that there’s one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us—Jesus, who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out. This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth.
Video of today’s service from St. James’
What is this world if it’s not where the generous, abundant love of God meets the narrow, clinging grasp of human nature? Here, the apostle Paul, urging and encouraging those who follow in the faith, reminds us of the core of God’s truth, God’s heart and how we should respond to a knowledge of that.
REV. GEOFF MCKEE
Our God is a Great Big God
(Our God is a Great Big God is) the best of theology and we can be sure if the apostle Paul could be with us today, he would say a wholehearted ‘amen’ to it.
REV. GEOFF MCKEE
