Sermon preview, week of November 4, 2026
Choose This Day
This Sunday’s order
- Sunday
- Reading
- Joshua 24:1-3
- Preaching
- Jonathan Balmer
This is a sermon preview for Sunday, November 8, 2026.
Preaching: Rev. Jonathan Balmer.
The readingJoshua 24:1-3
“…choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve… But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” — Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25
Read Joshua 24:1-3
1Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God. 2And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods. 3But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,
Berean Standard Bible, public domain
Faith is renewed again and again. Many of us remember when we first trusted God, but faith is also an everyday commitment. At Shechem, Joshua boldly puts the question directly to the people of Israel: whom will you serve? He doesn’t assume their answer, and he admits that some may turn away, yet he declares, “But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” In the New Testament, Paul tells the Thessalonians that their turn from idols to serve the living God was plain for everyone to see.
This Sunday we’ll ask ourselves: who are we serving, and is it obvious?
This Sunday is also a special stewardship emphasis Sunday
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