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JULY 14-18

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Each Week
Join us for Tuesday
Morning Prayer at 9:15am followed by coffee and doughnuts (or perhaps dog treats)

 

Sunday Services
9:15am
Morning Prayer
10:30am
Holy Communion

6:00pm
Evening Prayer
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Tuesday Services
9:15am
Morning Prayer
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Wednesday Services
3PM  this week only
6:00pm

Evening Prayer

Check the calendars above
for other special services

 

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Rt. Rev. David Hustwick
Rector

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Most of our services

are now streamed there live

& then are posted there !!

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Rev. Paul Henderson
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Mrs. Beth Lepak
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NEXT
BIBLE
STUDY

June 28th
10:30am
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On Saturday

June 28th

join us for

Adult

BIBLE STUDY

on the Last Saturday

of each Month

10:30 to 11:30 AM

for info call Nick

269-953-7468

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Fallen World

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Bible Study Group

 

Concepts and Patterns:

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Concepts and Patterns:

The Call of God and Man Part 12 .

Bible Readings  :

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  • Luke 6:17-49

    • The multitudes and the disciples come to call on Jesus and he teaches them my things.

  • John 3:22-36

    • John’s disciples call on him to explain why so many go after Jesus.

  • Mark 2:23-28

    • The Pharisees call on Jesus to answer for his disciples eating corn on the Sabbath day.

  • John 4:1-43

    • Jesus calls on the Samaritan woman.

  • Mark 3:1-6

    • Jesus calls on the Pharisees to judge if it better to do good or evil on the Sabbath day.

  • Matthew 9:18-26

    • Jesus called o to heal a ruler’s daughter.

  • Mark 3:20-35

    • Jesus called to answer those who say he is from Beelzebub.

  • Matthew 10 (1-42)

    • Jesus us calls on the 12 to walk in faith and gives them instruction.

  • Luke 7:1-10

    • A centurion calls on Jesus to heal his servant.

  • John 5 (1-47)

    • Jesus calls on an infirm man to walk and later to sin no more.

  • Luke 7:11-35

    • The disciples of John the Baptist call on Jesus to say if he is the Christ.

  • Luke 7:36-50

    • Some pharisees call on Jesus to dine with them

  • Mark 6:30-44

    • Jesus entreated by his disciples how they can feed 5,000 people with so little food.

  • Matthew 14:23-33

    • Peter calls on Jesus to call him on the water; Jesus calls Peter to keep his faith.

  • Matthew 17:1-13

  • Three of the disciples called to bear to witness to Jesus in the Transfiguration.

  • Luke 17:11-19

  • Jesus called on to heal the 10 lepers.

  • John 6:25-71

  • Jesus calls on the people to hear his words, that he is the true bread from heaven.

  • Mark 10:35-45

  • James and John call on Jesus to ask if they may sit at his right and left hand.

  • Luke 10:38-40

  • Martha calls on Jesus to tell her sister Mary to help her serve him and his disciples.

  • Luke 11:37-54

  • Jesus calls on the pharisees and lawyers to repent from their wickedness.

  • John 11:1-44

  • Jesus calls on Lazarus, who has been dead for 4 days, to come out of his tomb.

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Mr. Nick Acker
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Join Lay Readers

Nick & Liam

all summer

for Morning Prayer

in downtown

HASTINGS

(across from the Courthouse)

Each TUESDAY at 12:30PM

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This Week's Collect & Sermon Text

TRINITY IV

The Fourth Sunday after Trinity

 

 

The Collect

O GOD, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; Increase and multiply upon us thy mercy; that, thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal. Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake our Lord. Amen

 

The Text for This Week's Sermon


The Epistle. Rom. viii. 18

I RECKON that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

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The Sermon for This Week

  The comedian Henny Youngman always joked that he just got back from a pleasure trip.---- Taking his mother-in-law to the airport!

 

  Life does have many such pleasures, but of course we know that life is not all just pleasure, and you will suffer adversity as you go through life.

 

  However we are told by Saint Paul today, that as Christians, we may as well from time to time, expect to encounter some extra suffering for our faith.

 

Rom. 8:18 “For I reckon that the suffering of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”

 

   The writer of today's epistle, Saint Paul, was a man well acquainted with suffering for his faith.

 

  Paul, in the course of his missionary travels, had been ship wrecked, beaten, stoned, and had been forced to struggle against not only the heathens who resisted his ministry, but also had been bitterly opposed by his own people, the Jews.

 

   He also suffered from a physical disorder. This “thorn in the flesh” as he called it, (we are not sure exactly what it was), caused him great difficulty in carrying out his ministry.

 

   All of these sufferings, he tells us, shrink in comparison to the “glory” which shall be revealed.

 

  This “glory” is something so great that the human mind cannot fully grasp it or words adequately express it. It is a glory of life spent in the very presence of God who we shall see face to face. It is a glory of endless life of complete happiness without sin.

 

   It is a glory that could only come about by the sacrifice of God's only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Christ's death on the cross for the sins of all mankind, makes this glory possible.

 

  A glory made possible by such a sacrifice must be marvelous beyond our limited human imagination.

 

  The Church, (and Christians), are under attack around the world, and here in the United States as well, by forces of evil. It has been so since the beginning, but sadly in the last several years we as Christians are more likely to experience hardship as a result of our faith.

 

   So as we go through our lives here on earth and experience hardships and adversity, we as Christians should always remember that we have a Savior.

 

  A Savior who has reconciled us to our Heavenly Father.

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  A Savior who has, with his precious blood, paid the price for our sins.

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  A Savior who makes it possible for us to look forward to everlasting glory with him in heaven.

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Vacation Bible School
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We pray for our Armed Forces at each of our Morning and Evening Prayer services.

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  O LORD God of Hosts, stretch forth, we pray thee, thine almighty arm to strengthen and protect the Armed Forces of our country and those of our allies; Support them in the day of battle, and in the time of peace keep them safe from all evil; endue them with courage and loyalty; and grant that in all things they may serve without reproach; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

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Memorial Day in Middleville 2022
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Memorial Days

ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, in whose hands are the living and the dead; We give thee thanks for all those thy servants who have laid down their lives in the service of our country. Grant to them thy mercy and the light of thy presence, that the good work which thou hast begun in them may be perfected; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen.

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