Posts from March 2016 (Page 2)

This year Holy Week falls in March. It starts with Palm Sunday, includes Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, and ends with Holy Saturday. Holy Saturday is the last day of Lent and is the day before Easter. During this week we remember the events that lead up to the Resurrection.   In our Palm Sunday worship, we recall Jesus’ entry into the city of Jerusalem. The Gospel tells us that many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others…

Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:  Revelation 4 (ESV) The Throne in Heaven 4 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven,…

Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:  2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (ESV) 14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. As sinful creatures, we are not able on our own…

Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:  Isaiah 6:1-8 (NIV) Isaiah’s Commission 6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted,seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to…

Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Luke 19:1-10 (ESV) Jesus and Zacchaeus 19 He entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature. 4 So he ran on ahead and climbed…

Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   John 11:17-19 (ESV) I Am the Resurrection and the Life 17 Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles[a] off, 19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. John 11:32-45 (ESV) 32 Now when Mary came to where Jesus…

    Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Mark 14:3-9 (ESV) Jesus Anointed at Bethany 3 And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. 4 There were some who said to…

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: Colossians 1:15-21 (ESV) The Preeminence of Christ 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold…

  Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart: Genesis 45:1-8 (ESV) Joseph Provides for His Brothers and Family 45 Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, “Make everyone go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 2 And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of…

Click this link to hear an audio version of the below text narrated by SOTH member Jerry Rhinehart:   Genesis 42:5-11 (ESV) 5 Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 6 Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground. 7 Joseph…