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June 15, 2025
Pastor Kyle Giermann
Pastor Kyle Giermann
Sunday, June 15, 2025
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First Reading: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

In the Bible, wisdom is portrayed in terms sometimes human and sometimes divine. Often, wisdom is personified as feminine. In this passage, Woman Wisdom is depicted not only as the first creation of God, but also as God’s helper, rejoicing in God’s creation, especially in human beings.
 1 Does not wisdom call,
  and does not understanding raise her voice?
 2 On the heights, beside the way,
  at the crossroads she takes her stand;
 3 beside the gates in front of the town,
  at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
 4 “To you, O people, I call,
  and my cry is to all that live.

 22 The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,
  the first of his acts of long ago.
 23 Ages ago I was set up,
  at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
 24 When there were no depths I was brought forth,
  when there were no springs abounding with water.
 25 Before the mountains had been shaped,
  before the hills, I was brought forth—
 26 when he had not yet made earth and fields,
  or the world’s first bits of soil.
 27 When he established the heavens, I was there,
  when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
 28 when he made firm the skies above,
  when he established the fountains of the deep,
 29 when he assigned to the sea its limit,
  so that the waters might not transgress his command,
 when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
  30 then I was beside him, like a master worker;
 and I was daily his delight,
  rejoicing before him always,
 31 rejoicing in his inhabited world
  and delighting in the human race.”

Psalm: Psalm 8

Your glory is chanted above the heavens. (Ps. 8:2)
 1 O | Lord our Lord,
  how majestic is your name in | all the earth!—
 2 you whose glory is chanted above the heavens out of the mouths of in- | fants and children;
  you have set up a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe | and avenger. R
 3 When I consider your heavens, the work | of your fingers,
  the moon and the stars you have set | in their courses,
 4 what are mere mortals that you should be mind- | ful of them,
  human beings that you should | care for them? R
 5 Yet you have made them little less | than divine;
  with glory and hon- | or you crown them.
 6 You have made them rule over the works | of your hands;
  you have put all things un- | der their feet:
 7 all | flocks and cattle,
  even the wild beasts | of the field,
 8 the birds of the air, the fish | of the sea,
  and whatever passes along the paths | of the sea.
 9 O | Lord our Lord,
  how majestic is your name in | all the earth! R

Second Reading: Romans 5:1-5

Paul describes the life of faith with reference to God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Even now, we have peace with God through Jesus, and our hope for the future is grounded in the love of God that we experience through Christ’s Holy Spirit.
1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

Gospel: John 16:12-15

Jesus’ ongoing presence with the disciples will be made known through the coming Spirit who will guide them and communicate to them Jesus’ will and glory.
[Jesus said,] 12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.”