Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Year C - Worship Service - 11:00 AM Service -- Pastor Naomi Carriker

From February 09, 2025 11:00 am until February 09, 2025 12:00 pm
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Introduction

The fifth Sunday after Epiphany continues to highlight unlikely instruments and circumstances appointed to reveal God’s glory. “Who will go for us?” God asks. A person of unclean lips, a former persecutor of the church of God, and three fishermen who couldn’t catch a thing. More surprising still, perhaps, is that we are also called.

 

 

 

Prayer of the Day

Most holy God, the earth is filled with your glory, and before you angels and saints stand in awe. Enlarge our vision to see your power at work in the world, and by your grace make us heralds of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.

Amen.

First Reading: 

Isaiah 6:1-8 [9-13]

Through a vision in the temple, the eighth-century prophet Isaiah is called by God to announce judgment against Israel. Aware of his sinfulness and shortcomings, Isaiah is initially hesitant. But when God calls, Isaiah responds, “Here am I; send me!”

 

Psalm:

Psalm 138 I will bow down toward your holy temple. (Ps. 138:2)

Second Reading:  

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Paul delivers in a nutshell the story of the gospel that was given to him. In the lineage of the Christian faith, we have received the good news of God’s love from generations of believers before us, and we continue to tell this story to the world.

 

Gospel:  

Luke 5:1-11

Jesus’ teaching of God’s word has begun to draw great crowds. For Simon, James, and John, Jesus’ teaching inspires hospitality, then obedience, and then risk. After Jesus’ creative power is revealed, fear and amazement leads these three fishermen to leave everything behind to become apostles.

1  Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God,

2  he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.

3  He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

4  When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

5  Simon answered, “Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets.” 

6  When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets were beginning to break.

7  So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

8  But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

9  For he and all who were with him were amazed at the catch of fish that they had taken;

10  and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.”

11  When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him.