Our guest preacher this morning is Lisa Allgood, General Presbyter, Presbytery of Cincinnati

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 2:2-4, New American Standard Bible (NASB)

² In the last days, the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains, and will be raised above the hills; and all the nations will stream to it. ³ And many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that He may teach us concerning His ways, and that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. ⁴ And He will judge between the nations, and will render decisions for many peoples, and they will hammer their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they learn war.

The artwork to the right is We the People Map America, Molly Sommers

Gospel Reading: Luke 17:20-21

²⁰ Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, ²¹ nor will people say, ‘’Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”