Serving on JUNE 22, 2008

Just a reminder that we have cut the Old Testament readings during the summer.Bob+

8:00 AM

Usher: Muriel Schulz
Usher: Blake LaMar

Epistle: Kathy Van Orden
Psalm: Jim Babcock

Prayers: Velda Ishizaki

Chalice: Jim Babcock

Chalice: Kathy Van Orden

10:00 AM

Usher: Susan DeFrank
Usher: Gail Connolly

First Reading: Rob Nelson
Psalm: Laurie Nelson

Prayers: Nan Wilson

Chalice: Bob Nelson

Chalice: Sandie Nelson


SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
(JUNE 22, 2008)

O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your lovingkindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Romans 6:1b-11

Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17
Inclina, Domine

CANTOR: Bow down your ear, O LORD, and answer me, * for I am poor and in misery.

PEOPLE: Keep watch over my life, for I am faithful; * save your servant who puts his trust in you.

CANTOR: Be merciful to me, O LORD, for you are my God; * I call upon you all the day long.

PEOPLE: Gladden the soul of your servant, *
for to you, O LORD, I lift up my soul.

CANTOR: For you, O LORD, are good and forgiving, * and great is your love toward all who call upon you.

PEOPLE: Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer, * and attend to the voice of my supplications.

CANTOR: In the time of my trouble I will call upon you, * for you will answer me.

PEOPLE: Among the gods there is none like you, O LORD, * nor anything like your works.

CANTOR: All nations you have made will come and worship you, O LORD, * and glorify your Name.

PEOPLE: For you are great; you do wondrous things; * and you alone are God.

CANTOR: Turn to me and have mercy upon me; * give your strength to your servant; and save the child of your handmaid.

PEOPLE: Show me a sign of your favor, so that those who hate me may see it and be ashamed; * because you, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.


Matthew 10:24-39

Jesus said to the twelve disciples,
"A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!
"So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. And even the hairs of your head are all counted. So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
"Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
"For I have come to set a man against his father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
and one's foes will be members of one's own household.
"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it."