Sermon: "Will This Be on the Final?" by Bernard Taylor

Pastoral Welcome: Jacqueline Lynch

Scripture Reading: Micah 6:6–8, TNIV - Barbara Wernick

WILL THIS BE ON THE FINAL? If you have opened a bulletin recently you know of the midweek series on Elijah the Tishbite. It has been good to study with those able to attend. This morning's sermon shares insights gained from the Elijah study in two subplots surprisingly involving King Ahab. The second requirement in today's verse (Micah 6:8) is "to love mercy." The Hebrew word is hesed, an important theological term, but one that has no direct English equivalent. Fortunately, the term is applied to Ahab by his Syrian enemies (in 1 Kings 20), which helps us understand the word at the human level, and by extension, why biblical writers so frequently applied it to God. In the next chapter (1 Kings 21, the story of Ahb, Naboth, and the latter's vineyard), despite the king's long rap sheet, regret on his part manifests a side of God traditionally denied to the pages of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. --

Bernard Taylor,
Scholar in Residence

MEDITATION We hear much of love to God; Christ spoke much of love to man. We make a great deal of peace with heaven; Christ made much of peace on earth. Religion is not a strange or added thing, but the inspiration of the secular life, the breathing of an eternal spirit through this temporal world. The supreme thing, in short, is not a thing at all, but the giving of a further finish to the multitudinous words and acts which make up the sum of every common day. -- Henry Drummond, The Greatest Thing, 1891.

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