Serving on Sunday, September 2, 2007

8:00 AM

Usher: Muriel Schulz
Usher: Ginger Consani

First Reading: Erica Green
Psalm: Erica Green
Prayers of the People: Kathy Van Orden

Chalice: Kathy Van Orden
Chalice: Erica Green


10:00 AM

Usher: Sandie Nelson
Usher: Bob Nelson

First Reading: Gail Connolly
Psalm: Nan Wilson
Prayers of the People: Sandie Nelson

Chalice: Gwen Fleischer
Chalice: NEEDED

Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness; and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.


Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured. Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers. Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you." So we can say with confidence,
"The Lord is my helper;
I will not be afraid.
What can anyone do to me?"
Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.


Psalm 81:1, 10-16 Page 704, BCP
Exultate Deo
1
Sing with joy to God our strength *
and raise a loud shout to the God of Jacob.
10
I am the LORD your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt and said, *
"Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it."
11
And yet my people did not hear my voice, *
and Israel would not obey me.
12
So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts, *
to follow their own devices.
13
Oh, that my people would listen to me! *
that Israel would walk in my ways!
14
I should soon subdue their enemies *
and turn my hand against their foes.
15
Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, *
and their punishment would last for ever.
16
But Israel would I feed with the finest wheat *
and satisfy him with honey from the rock.


Luke 14:1, 7-14

On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely.
When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, `Give this person your place,' and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, `Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."
He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."