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God’s Justice Rises
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God’s Justice Rises
“God’s grace fills us with the knowledge and promise that God is always working to bring about justice in all things and in our individual lives.” The Rev'd Rob Park offers prayers and a message reflecting our reading from Luke’s Gospel chapter 18:1-8.
Online Worship

God’s Justice Rises

Welcome to your online worship for Sunday, October 16, 2022.

Our theme of Gratitude, continues for a third week in the month of October at St. Mark’s. Thank you to those in the parish who have filled out their “I am Grateful For…” cards and placed them in the Gratitude Jar. I am grateful for all of you!

A thank you to Ryan Van Dijk for his wonderful music which accompanies this weeks video, and for his music ministry at St. Mark’s as our Music Director. Read more about him here.

And lastly, a reminder that if you are at all uncomfortable being in-person for worship, or if you are not feeling well, please join us here online.

Today’s Opening Sentence

“The word of God is living and active; it sifts the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”

  • Hebrews 4:12

Today’s Reading – Luke 18:1-8

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’ For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”1

Your Online Message and Prayers

Click on the above image to view our online worship on YouTube.

Thank you again for joining with your parish family in our online worship today.

God Bless you and have a blessed week. Be well!

Peace,

The Rev’d Rob Park

  1. Scripture quotation is from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.