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Weekly Gospel Reading |
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Readings for March 7, 2010 Third Sunday in Lent |
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not
on your own understanding. Proverbs
3:5 |
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Lutheran Church of the Covenant |
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First Reading: Isaiah 55:1-9 "Come, all you who are thirsty, come
to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine
and milk without money and without cost. 2 Why spend money on what is not
bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat
what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. 3 Give ear
and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting
covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David. 4 See, I have made him
a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander of the peoples. 5 Surely you
will summon nations you know not, and nations that do not know you will
hasten to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he
has endowed you with splendor." 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil
man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon. 8 "For my thoughts are not
your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. 9
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than
your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. NIV Psalm 63:1-8 Second Reading: 1 Corinthians
10:1-13 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact,
brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all
passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and
in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food 4 and drank the same
spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied
them, and that rock was Christ. 5
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were
scattered over the desert. 6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us
from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters, as
some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and
drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry." 8 We should not commit sexual immorality,
as some of them did-and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. 9 We
should not test the Lord, as some of them did-and were killed by snakes. 10
And do not grumble, as some of them did-and were killed by the destroying
angel. 11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as
warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. 12 So, if you
think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 13 No temptation
has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not
let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he
will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. NIV The Gospel: Luke 13:1-9 Now there were some present at that time who told
Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
2 Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners
than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3 I tell you,
no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who
died when the tower in Siloam fell on them-do you think they were more guilty
than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent,
you too will all perish." 6 Then he told this parable: "A man had a
fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but
did not find any. 7 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For
three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and
haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?' 8
"'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone for one more year, and I'll dig
around it and fertilize it. 9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then
cut it down.'" NIV |