Serving on JUNE 29, 2008

8:00 AM

Usher: Muriel Schulz
Usher: NEEDED

Epistle: Kathy Van Orden
Psalm: Velda Ishizaki


Prayers: Jim Babcock

Chalice: Jim Babcock

Chalice: Kathy Van Orden

10:00 AM

Usher: Bob Nelson
Usher: Sandy Nelson

Epistle: Sandy Pringle
Psalm: Elizabeth Pringle


Prayers: Jeanne Kipp

Chalice: Rob Nelson

Chalice: Susan Mulledy-DeFrank

SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (JUNE 29, 2008)

Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Romans 6:12-23

Do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 13
Usquequo, Domine?

CANTOR: How long, O LORD? will you forget me for ever? *
how long will you hide your face from me?

PEOPLE: How long shall I have perplexity in my mind, and grief in my heart, day after day?* how long shall my enemy triumph over me?

CANTOR: Look upon me and answer me, O LORD my God; *
give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

PEOPLE: Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him," * and my foes rejoice that I have fallen.

CANTOR: But I put my trust in your mercy; * my heart is joyful because of your saving help.

PEOPLE: I will sing to the LORD, for he has dealt with me richly; * I will praise the Name of the Lord Most High.

Matthew 10:40-42

Jesus said, "Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple-- truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward."