Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Watchword for the Week — Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him. Deuteronomy 30:19,20
Sunday, September 4 — Deuteronomy 30:15–20; Psalm 1
Philemon 1–21; Luke 14:25–33
Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death. Psalm 68:20 (NIV)
That evening, at sunset, they brought to Jesus all who were sick or possessed with demons. Mark 1:32
Father, in our weakness, strengthen us. In our despair, comfort us. In our infirmity, heal us. Amen.