Sunday’s Readings

Amos 3:1-11 Psalm 139:1-16 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 Matthew 4:12-22

Continuing the narrative from last week’s gospel reading, this week we observe Jesus’s movements through the nations and see his teachings summarized by this week’s collect: that the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. The collect takes Jesus’s teaching and simplifies them into a two part instruction: first to see and hear the Gospel and second, to respond immediately to that call. Like Andrew and Simon, we need to be open to hearing the Gospel and respond by immediately living our lives in the context of Jesus’s teachings. This means that we must daily chose to make Christ the first priority in our lives.