Sunday, September 15, 2024
All relationships are built on trust. This is true of human relationships, and it is especially true of our relationship with God. In today’s reading, we meet people who are all over the “faith spectrum”: there are religious leaders who refuse to believe, disciples who don’t fully realize how much their faith needs to grow, and a father who wants to believe but whose life circumstances make faith very hard. And at the center of the account is Jesus, the friend who reveals the trustworthiness of God and helps us to believe again (or to believe for the first time). He is more than willing to meet us in the prayer, “I do believe! Help my unbelief!”
8:00 Traditional Service
10:27 Contemporary Service
Scripture quotations are taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE ®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
Liturgical portions from Lutheran Service Book, Divine Service Setting 1. Used by permission. LSB Liturgy License no. 000012403.
“Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness,” text © 1987 Hope Publishing Co. Used by permission. LSB Hymn License no. 110005570.
All music in our Contemporary Service is performed under Hope’s CCLI Copyright License 2956118 and CCLI Streaming Plus License 21360672.
