21 <\/sup> the people whom I formed for myself
so that they might declare my praise.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPhilippians 3:4b-14<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
4 <\/sup>even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: 5 <\/sup>circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6 <\/sup>as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n7 <\/sup>Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8 <\/sup>More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 <\/sup>and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. 10 <\/sup>I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, 11 <\/sup>if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n12 <\/sup>Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 <\/sup>Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 <\/sup>I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 <\/sup>Let those of us then who are mature be of the same mind; and if you think differently about anything, this too God will reveal to you. 16 <\/sup>Only let us hold fast to what we have attained.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGospel Reading<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nJohn 12:1-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1<\/sup>Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2 <\/sup>There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. 3 <\/sup>Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus\u2019 feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 <\/sup>But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, 5 <\/sup>\u201cWhy was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?\u201d 6 <\/sup>(He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) 7 <\/sup>Jesus said, \u201cLeave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. 8 <\/sup>You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nThanks Be To God!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More Precious Than Silver or Gold Isaiah 43:16-21 16 Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,17 who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior;they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:18 Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.19 I am about to do a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bflchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bflchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bflchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bflchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bflchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bflchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/www.bflchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bflchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bflchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bflchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bflchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}