Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Milford

Paul’s Letter To the Philippians 3:1-11 [NLTse] Whatever happens, my dear brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. I never get tired of telling you these things, and I do it to safeguard your faith. 2 Watch out for those dogs, those people who do evil, those mutilators who say you must be circumcised to [...]

Introduction As our reading from the Book of Acts begins, the apostles Peter and John, empowered by Jesus, have just miraculously healed a man who had been lame from birth so that he could walk. But when Peter and John begin crediting the man’s miraculous healing to Jesus, proclaiming that God had brought Jesus back [...]

The Prophet Isaiah 58:1-14 [NLTse] “Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast. Shout aloud! Don’t be timid. Tell My people Israel of their sins! 2 Yet they act so pious! They come to the Temple every day and seem delighted to learn all about Me. They act like a righteous nation that would never [...]

The Gospel According to Matthew 24:37-51 [NLTse] 37 “When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day. 38 In those days before the flood, the people were enjoying banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat. 39 People didn’t realize what was going to happen [...]

Psalm 122 A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. A psalm of David. 1 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.” 2 And now here we are, standing inside your gates, O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is a well-built city; its seamless walls cannot be breached. [...]

The Prophet Jeremiah 31:31-34 [NLTse] “The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. [...]

According to Luke 5:1-11 [NLTse] One day as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee,[a] great crowds pressed in on him to listen to the word of God. 2 He noticed two empty boats at the water’s edge, for the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. 3 Stepping [...]

Introduction Our reading this morning comes as King Solomon has just completed the building of the Temple in Jerusalem… 1 Kings 8:1, 6, 10-11, 22-30, 41-43 [NLTse] 1 Solomon then summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes—the leaders of the ancestral families of the Israelites.  They were to [...]