Carpet Installation Is Complete!! And it looks beautiful!! Thank you to Lin Frank for meeting with the installers and touching base with them all week while they worked!
We have some new computer and camera operators
for Zooming Sunday services. Thanks to Pat Adams, Jen Huckman and Kaitlyn
Marshall for joining the team, and welcome! They join existing team members
Christi Humphrey, Tina Quinn, Patti Rau and Sammie Wakefield. If this is
something that interests you, please let me know. The more people we have the
less frequently everyone needs to serve.
Masks are required at St.
Andrew’s again – please wear a mask whenever you enter the building. Thank you
for your understanding and cooperation, and stay healthy!
Blessings, Caroline
The remaining Sundays at 8:00 and 10:00 AM
This Sunday-August 19th
13th Sunday after Pentecost
at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m.
The
Collect
Grant, O merciful God, that your
Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth
your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ
our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever
and ever. Amen.
First
Lesson 1
Kings 8:22-30, 41-43
In the Hebrew
scripture lesson Solomon offers praise to the Lord and prays that the newly
built temple may be a house for the Lord’s gracious presence. King Solomon and the elders have just given
the ark of the covenant a home, placing it in the temple they are now
dedicating. Solomon recognizes that God
transcends all human buildings, but asks the Lord to be present to those who
call upon God in this temple–not only the people of Israel, but also foreigners
who come to worship in Jerusalem.
Psalm
84
A song of the pilgrims’ happiness as
they come to worship in the temple of the Lord.
The
Second Lesson Ephesians 6:10-20
In this New Testament lesson
Christians are instructed to put on the whole armor of God in order to defend
themselves from the powers of evil, which are beyond any human control. The passage recognizes that it is God who
will take the active role against these superhuman forces. In this battle it is the Christian’s primary
task to stand and resist. The language
and imagery may once have been used in an address to newly baptized disciples. Finally, they are urged to be constant in
prayer, remembering Paul who is now in prison.
The
Gospel John
6:56-69
In the gospel we hear of different responses
to Jesus’ claim that he is the heavenly bread that gives the life of the
eternal age to those who eat it. His are
words of spirit and life, but many can understand them only in a materialistic
sense and are life the Israelites who did not trust God in the wilderness. Yet, if this saying is hard for them to
believe, more difficult still will be Jesus’ ascent into heaven as the Son of
Man. As Jesus knew would happen, many
disciples now turn away, but Peter confesses him to be God’s holy one who has
the words of eternal life.
Updating the Prayer List
Please let Deb know if you need someone added to the prayer list. Thank you.
OFFICE HOUR CHANGES
Please note that the office will now be open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
Church Office (603) 323-8515
Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday: 1:00pm-4:00pm
Debra
Put on the
whole armor of God.
—Ephesians 6.11
You can't wear two suits of armor at once.
Wear either the armor of defensiveness,
the armor of being right, of superior power;
or the armor of God: the armor of love.
Dare to walk into this world
unshielded from hurt and disappointment,
unprotected except by your faith in grace
and your trust in the Love at the heart of all things.
Be willing to be wrong, to be humiliated,
to be powerless, to suffer for love.
Let there be no armor, no barrier
between you and life.
Love is vulnerability,
which is receptiveness to life.
Therein lies its power.
It's the armor of God.
You will be wounded; but you will live.
You will not be safe, but you will be saved.
From:
Steve
Garnaas-Holmes
August 17, 2021
FROM SUNDAY, AUGUST 15TH
