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Pastor Kyle Giermann

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First Reading: Isaiah 40:21-31

The Judeans in exile have a good reason to be hopeful: the one who will bring them to freedom is the God who created the world, the God who subdues the rulers of the earth and gives strength to those who are weary.

²¹Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
²²It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to live in;
²³who brings princes to naught,
and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

²⁴Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows upon them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

²⁵To whom then will you compare me,
or who is my equal? says the Holy One.
²⁶Lift up your eyes on high and see:
Who created these?
He who brings out their host and numbers them,
calling them all by name;
because he is great in strength,
mighty in power,
not one is missing.

²⁷Why do you say, O Jacob,
and speak, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my right is disregarded by my God”?
²⁸Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
²⁹He gives power to the faint,
and strengthens the powerless.
³⁰Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted;
³¹but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint.

Psalm: Psalm 147:1-11, 20c

The Lord heals the brokenhearted. (Ps. 147:3)

¹Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises ^| to our God!
How pleasant it is to honor ^| God with praise!
²The Lord re- ^| builds Jerusalem,
and gathers the ex- ^| iles of Israel.
³The Lord heals the ^| brokenhearted
and binds ^| up their wounds.
⁴The Lord counts the number ^| of the stars
and calls them all ^| by their names. R
⁵Great is our Lord and might- ^| y in power;
there is no limit ^| to God’s wisdom.
⁶The Lord lifts ^| up the lowly,
but casts the wicked ^| to the ground.
⁷Sing to the Lord ^| with thanksgiving;
make music upon the harp ^| to our God,
⁸who covers the heav- ^| ens with clouds
and prepares rain for the earth, making grass to grow up- ^| on the mountains. R
⁹God provides food ^| for the cattle
and for the young ravens ^| when they cry.
¹⁰God is not impressed by the might ^| of a horse,
and has no pleasure in the speed ^| of a runner,
¹¹but finds pleasure in those who ^| fear the Lord,
in those who await God’s steadfast love. ^20c^| Hallelujah! R

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 9:16-23

God entrusted Paul with the responsibility of bringing the gospel to diverse people. Hence the focus of Paul’s ministry is not his own rights or privileges as an apostle but the privilege of serving God by freely sharing the good news of Christ with others.

¹⁶If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel! ¹⁷For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. ¹⁸What then is my reward? Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.
¹⁹For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. ²⁰To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those under the law. ²¹To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law) so that I might win those outside the law. ²²To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. ²³I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.

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