Worship at Batavia First UMC

Our worship service takes place every Sunday morning at 9:30am. 

We invite you to join us in person or to follow the service live on Facebook.

Children’s Sunday school takes place during our worship service. 

Nursery care is available.

Our building is ADA accessible.

There is a time of fellowship with light refreshments following the service.

We invite you to join us for both worship and fellowship.

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This Week’s Worship at Batavia First

 

Sunday, October 19

The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

 

This week our focus will be on 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 and Luke 18:1-8. 

Pastor Marilyn’s morning message is titled “Persistent Faith”, and the theme of the message is that we care for the ones he cares for, advocate for the ones he advocates for.  Thoughts and prayers are active and require persistence.  

 

The children will hear a message from Pastor Marilyn titled “Be Patient”. 

 

Homework:  Find at least one way to take action related to a justice issue about which you are praying.

 

 

We have written Sunday’s Scripture readings below.  Reading them now and thinking and praying about them the rest of the week will bless us with a more complete and meaningful understanding of them when we hear them again on Sunday morning. 

2 Timothy 3:14 – 4:5 (NRSV)

Paul’s Charge to Timothy

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.  All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you:  proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching.  For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.  As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.

 

Luke 18:1-8 (NRSV)

The Parable of the Widow and the Unjust Judge

     Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.  He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people.  In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’  For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’ ” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says.  And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night?  Will he delay long in helping them?  I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them.  And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

This is the Word of the Lord. 

Thanks be to God.

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