You are invited to the in-person Worship Service on July 23 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
You can worship live on ZOOM by clicking the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9658816441 or Meeting ID: 965 881 6441
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Ordinary Time
Sunday, July 23, 2023, 10 am
Psalm 19
The law of Love is perfect,
reviving the soul;
The testimony of Love is sure,
making wise the simple;
The precepts of Love are right,
the heart;
The authority of Love is pure,
enlightening the eyes;
The spirit of Love is glorious,
enduring forever;
The rites of Love are true,
awakening compassion.
Children’s Time Rev. Clyde Vaughn
Special Music Blest Are They Duet by Bob & Joan Culbertson
Words & Music by David Haas
Vocal Arr. By David Haas & Michael Joncas
Message “Jesus Condones Waste” Rev. Clyde Vaughn
The message is from the story of Mary anointing Jesus’ feet with a costly ointment. How do we worship Jesus?
John 12:1-8
Mary Anoints Jesus
1Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.2 There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him. 3 Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’s feet, and wiped them[a] with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?” 6 (He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) 7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She bought itso that she might keep it for the day of my burial. 8 You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
~ Aesop, 5th century BC Greek storyteller
