Messenger 09/11/25

14th Sunday After Pentecost

Our Guest Pastor this week will be Rev. Scott Wylie

This week’s scripture readings will be Jeremiah 4:11-14 & 21-27

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A hot wind comes from me out of the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse, a wind too strong for that. Now it is I who speak in judgment against them.

Look! He comes up like clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined! O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?

How long must I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet? “For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.” I looked on the earth, and it was complete chaos, and to the heavens, and they had no light. I looked on the mountains, and they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro. I looked, and there was no one at all, and all the birds of the air had fled. I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger. For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation, yet I will not make a full end.

1 Timothy 1:12-17

I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he considered me faithful and appointed me to his service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost. But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience as an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life. To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

To view the entire bulletin, click the link below.

Coming up next week we have:

Wednesday (9/17)

Men’s Breakfast - 7:00 am at Avenue Bread on James Street

Sunday (9/21)

Christian Book Club - 10:30 am via Zoom. email office@gardenstreetumc.org to join

Handbells - 11:15 am at 2401 Cornwall Ave.

Sunday Worship - 2:30 pm at 2401 Cornwall Ave.

Upcoming

Board of Stewards - 9/16 at 4:00pm, Pastors Office

FCCB Rummage Sale - 9/20 from 9:00am - 2:00pm at 2401 Cornwall Ave. in the Parking Lot

United Methodist Solidarity Day - 9/20 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm at the Northwest Detention Center - 1623 E J St, Tacoma WA

Can’t make it in person? View the live on YouTube!