Reading Bible Verse for the Day
17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name."  
18 He replied, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.  
19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.  
20 However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."  

Bible verse for the day:
Psalm 98:1
Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. 

Old Testament Lesson:   Jeremiah 2:13    
13 "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

*The Gospel Lesson: Luke 10:17-20  
17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name."  
18 He replied, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.  
19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.  
20 However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

Reading Bible Verse for the Day

John: 16-18
11 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.  
12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?  
13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven —the Son of Man.  
14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,  
15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him."  
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.  

Bible verse for the day:
Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. 

Old Testament Reading Jeremiah 8:18-22
18 You who are my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.  
19 Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they aroused my anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"  
20 "The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved."  
21 Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me.  
22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?

*The Gospel Reading John 1:29-34
 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!  
30 This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'  
31 I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel."  
32 Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him.  
33 And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.'  
34 I have seen and I testify that this is God's Chosen One."

Old Testament Lesson:       Jeremiah 18:4-10
4 "Say to them, 'This is what the LORD says: “‘When people fall down, do they not get up? When someone turns away, do they not return?  
5 Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.  
6 I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. None of them repent of their wickedness, saying, "What have I done?"Each pursues their own course like a horse charging into battle.  
7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD.  
8 " 'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD,"when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?  
9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what kind of wisdom do they have?  
10 Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.
The Gospel Lesson: Mark 4:26-29
26 He also said, "This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.  
27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.  
28 All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.  
29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.