2023-02-01 — Paul didn’t even have a house band.


BIBLE PASSAGE — When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery
of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you
except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I came to you in weakness and in fear
and in much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible
words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your
faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this
age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish. But we speak God’s
wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the human heart conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches
everything, even the depths of God. For what human being knows what is truly
human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what
is truly God’s except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of
the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts
bestowed on us by God. — Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Series A
Type in a subject or a bible reference, like John 7:1-4 or simply Matthew 3.

