Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. John Sundara
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. John Sundara
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill (8 am) & The Rev. John Sundara (5 pm)
  

Worship Online

• Traditional Service in the Church (9 am - with Order of Service & Announcements)
• Modern Worship in the HLC (11:15 am - with Announcements)
  

All-Ages Education Hour — 
10:15 am Administration Building

Our Favorite Heresies – Hall Life Center
Lectionary Lectio Divina Group – Nau Family Room
Family Matters – L16 & L18
Modern Worship Warmup – Parlor

Children's Summer Sunday School
Birth - age 2: Rm 114
Age 2: Rm 120
Age 3 - Kinder: Rm 122
Grades 1 - 5 : Rm 115

Youth Summer in the Psalms Sunday School – Room 238

Happening Today

Soles4Souls Shoe Drive
Donate your new or gently used shoes and sneakers to fund global anti-poverty initiatives with Soles4Souls. All styles, types and sizes of donated shoes are welcome, as long as they are gently worn (including single and mismatched shoes)! Bring shoes to Sumners Hall on Sundays through July.

The Collect of the Day

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.

Luke 9:51-62

9:51 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him. 53 But the people did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. 54 And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” 55 But he turned and rebuked them. 56 And they went on to another village.
The Cost of Following Jesus

57 As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” 59 To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 60 And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” 61 Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” 62 Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Musical Offering in the Church

At the Offertory, we hear the hymn “O God beyond all praising” as penned by British hymnist Michael Perry. Perry served as Vicar of Tonbridge and as a canon of Rochester Cathedral. “O God beyond all praising” was written specifically for the melody THAXTED in 1982, a composition by the early 20th-century British composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934). This tune was taken from the middle section of the Jupiter movement of his orchestral suite The Planets and named after Thaxted, the English village where Holst lived most of his life. The tune is normally associated in the U.K. with a more patriotic text, “I vow to Thee, my country.” Perry composed his text in response to a call for alternative words that would be more appropriate for Christian worship. The result is the memorable, majestic hymn of praise that we hear this morning.