United Presbyterian Church
2360 Longwood Ave., Reedsport, OR 97467 (541) 271-3214. Pastor: (541) 218 7657Sunday Service:
10:30. Office and Pastor's Hours: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9:00 til 2:00; Saturday from 9:00 to 11:30.
Last updated: 01/15/2025
The Lay Leader for Sunday, January 19, 2025 is John.
OLD TESTAMENT
Psalm 22:1-9
1. My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of
my groaning? 2. O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night, but
find no rest. 3. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. 4. In you
our ancestors trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. 5. To you they
cried, and were saved; in you they trusted, and were not put to shame. 6. But I
am a worm, and not human; scorned by others, and despised by the people. 7. All
who see me mock at me; they make mouths at me, they shake their heads; 8.
“Commit your cause to the Lord; let him deliver—let him rescue the one in whom
he delights!” (NRSV)
GOSPEL
John 2:1-11
1. On the third day
there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2.
Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3. When the wine
gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4. And Jesus
said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet
come.” 5. His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6. Now standing
there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each
holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7. Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with
water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8. He said to them, “Now draw some
out, and take it to the chief steward.” So they took it. 9. When the steward
tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from
(though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the
bridegroom 10. and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then
the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good
wine until now.”
11. Jesus did this,
the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his
disciples believed in him. (NRSV)