November 8, 2024
Dear Road Church Family,
This Sunday we are welcoming Chaplain Mark Porizky to our pulpit. Rev. Norm with be conducting the service and Chaplain Mark will be delivering the morning sermon message.
Our Pastoral Search Committee consisting of:
-Susan Schneider- -David Fales- -Mary Jane Cassidy- -Nick Stahl-
is pleased to announce that they have secured him as our Interim Pastor to commence in that role following Pastor Norm's retirement at the end of this December.
There will be a Coffee Hour following the service this Sunday and we encourage all to join in meeting and greeting Reverend Mark Porizky. He serves as a Chaplain at both Westerly and Lawrence & Memorial Hospitals. More information about him and what he brings and has to offer for the Road Church will follow.
SCRIPTURE: Matthew 20:1-18 SERMON: Against a Wage Based Eternity
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.
“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time
17 Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, 18 “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death
This service on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/USat7Jx4gwg?si=Ty4moBrZh_OTA6yr