God’s strength will always help us as we witness to our faith
Collect: Proper 7[i]
O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving-kindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Genesis 21: 8-21 . . . Abraham banishes his maidservant Hagar and the child Ishmael.
Romans 6: 1b-11 . . . Paul reminds the Roman community that God’s great gift of salvation overflows freely
Mathew 10: 10:24-39 . . . Jesus reassures his disciples of their great worth to God.
The Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler, Senior Minister of the Riverside Church in New York City and a popular preacher, speaker, and writer, preaches a sermon called “Nobody Goes It Alone,” based on Matthew 10:24-39. Butler insists that even though the church of Jesus Christ is deeply flawed, we need it. We need each other. As Maya Angelou once said, “Nobody, but nobody, can make it out there alone.”