Sunday! Our first week gathering via Zoom and Facebook Live—in real time. It did not go very smoothly, with stable connection, but we did it!
Welcome and Worship: Alvin and Kelsey Shim
Testimony: Lorinda Conley, Danielle and Kevin Riley
Prayer: Bob Ekblad
Message: Gracie Ekblad
Call to Action: Mike Neelley
Blessing: Kevin Riley
Isaiah 59, interpreted by Gracie
3) You have blood on your hands and have committed crimes with your fingers.
You have lied with your lips and spoken evil things with your tongue.
4) People are charged in court unfairly, no one accuses based on all the facts.
They rely on empty plea agreements, and speak lies, which results in
lawlessness and more evil.
7) People eagerly run to do evil and they are quick to shed innocent blood.
They think evil thoughts.
Everywhere they go they cause ruin and destruction.
8) They do not know the way of peace and there is no justice where they go,
They’ve made a crooked road for themselves.
Nobody on that road knows peace.
9) Therefore, justice is far behind us, and goodness is nowhere to be found.
10) We hope for light, but there is only darkness…
14) Justice is pushed back
and righteousness stands far away.
For truth has stumbled in the streets, and honesty cannot enter.
15) Truth is nowhere to be found,
and whoever goes away from evil becomes a victim themself.
The Lord saw it and it displeased him,
that there was no justice.
16) He saw that there was no one,
He couldn’t believe that there was no one to intervene.
So his Own Arm brought Him salvation,
And His righteousness upheld Him.
17) He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on garments of vengeance for clothing
and wrapped himself in zeal as a coat.
18) So He will repay, according to their deeds,
wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies;
He will pay back the coastlands.
19) So they shall respect the Name of the Lord from the west,
and his glory from the rising of the sun;
For he will come like a rushing stream,
which the wind of the Lord drives.
20) “And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob
who turn from sin,” declares the Lord.
21) “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord.
“My Spirit that is upon you, and my Word that I have put in your mouth,
will not leave your mouth, or the mouth of your children, or the mouth
of your grandchildren,” says the Lord, “from this time forth and forever
more.”