WEBVTT 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:24.879 Blessed be God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:29.120 Blessed be God's family now and forever. 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:30.079 Amen. 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:31.759 Let's pray together. 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:40.720 Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are opened, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid. 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:46.319 Cleanse the folks of their hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit. 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:54.240 That we may perfectly love thee and worthy magnify thy holiness through us of the Lord. 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:54.800 Amen. 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:40.480 Let us pray. 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:47.360 Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the Spirit to think and do always those things that are right. 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:53.600 That we who cannot exist without you may by you be enabled to live according to your will. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:06:00.160 Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:01.360 Amen. 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:02.879 Please be seated. 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:31.600 Jacob settled in the land where his father had lived as an alien in the land of Canaan. 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.800 This is the story of the family of Jacob. 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:40.560 Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers. 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:49.839 He was a helper to the sons of Bala and Zalapah, his father's wives, and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. 00:06:50.800 --> 00:07:01.040 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children because he was the son of his old age, and he had made him a long robe with sleeves. 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:10.720 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him. 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.920 Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem. 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:22.959 And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Sekem? 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:26.240 Come, I will send you to them, he answered. 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:28.079 Here I am. 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:35.040 So he said to him, Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring word back to me. 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:38.079 So he sent them from the valley of Hebron. 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:42.079 He came to Shechem, and a man found him wandering in the fields. 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:45.120 And the man asked him, What are you seeking? 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:48.319 I'm seeking my brothers, he said. 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.240 Tell me, where are they pastoring the flock? 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:57.439 And the man said, They have gone away before I heard them say, Let us go to Dauphin. 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:00.959 So Joseph went after his brothers and vowed them at Dauphin. 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:08.240 And they saw him from a distance, and before he came near to them, they conspired to kill him. 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:11.920 They said to one another, Here comes the dreamer. 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:23.759 Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits, and then we shall say that a wild animal has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams. 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:30.639 But when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hand, saying, Let us not take his life. 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:45.360 Reuben said to them, Shed no blood, throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him, that he might rescue him out of their hand and restore him to his father. 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:55.679 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the long robe with the sleeves that he wore, and they took him and threw him into a pit. 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:00.080 The pit was empty, there was no water in it. 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:02.240 And then they sat down to eat. 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:11.440 And looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead with their camels, carrying down a balm and resin, and on their way to carry it down to Egypt. 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:18.879 Then Judah said to his brothers, What a prophet is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:26.799 Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh. 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:28.960 His brothers agreed. 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:40.879 And when some Mede traders passed by, they drew Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:42.960 And they took Joseph to Egypt. 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:47.039 Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people. 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:04.399 Give thanks to the Lord and call upon God's name. 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:10.879 Sing to the Lord, sing praises. 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:17.440 Glory in God's holy name. 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:24.480 Search for the Lord and the strength of the Lord. 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:30.720 Remember the marvels God has done. 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:39.279 Oh, offspring offspring of Abraham, God's servant. 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:48.879 Then the Lord called for a famine in the land. 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:55.279 Then the Lord sent a man before them. 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:01.519 They bruised his feet in feathers. 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:08.000 Until his prediction came to pass. 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:13.759 The king sent and released him. 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:20.639 He sent them as a master over his household. 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:19.360 Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law, that the person who does these things will live by them. 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:27.679 But the righteousness that comes from faith says, do not say in your heart, who will ascend into heaven? 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:36.639 That is, to bring Christ down, or who will descend into the abyss, that is, to bring Christ up from the dead. 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:38.320 What does it say? 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.759 The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart. 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:47.519 That is the word of faith that we proclaim. 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:57.600 Because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:06.320 For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:12.240 The Scripture says, no one who believes in him will be put to shame. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.720 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:22.480 The same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him. 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:28.240 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:33.360 But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed? 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:38.159 And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard? 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:42.799 And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him? 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:47.360 And how are they to proclaim him unless they are sent? 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:55.279 As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news. 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:59.519 Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people. 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:59.279 Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side while he dismissed the crowds. 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:04.400 And after he dismissed the crowds, he went up to the mountain by himself to pray. 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:06.559 When evening came, he was there alone. 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:12.720 But by this time the boat, battered by the waves, was far from the land, for the wind was against them. 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:16.559 And early in the morning Jesus came walking toward them on the sea. 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:22.640 But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, It is a ghost. 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:24.960 And they cried out in fear. 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:29.200 But immediately Jesus spoke to them and said, Take heart, it is I. 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:30.880 Do not be afraid. 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:36.240 Peter answered him, Lord, if it's you, command me to come out to you on the water. 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:37.920 Jesus said, Come. 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:43.039 So Peter got out of the boat, started walking on the water, and came toward Jesus. 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:46.559 When Peter noticed the strong wind, he became frightened. 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:50.000 Beginning to sink, he cried out, Lord, save me. 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:57.759 Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught Peter, saying to him, You of little faith, why did you doubt? 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:00.640 When they got into the boat, the wind ceased. 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:05.279 Those in the boat worshiped him, saying, Truly, you are the Son of God. 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:08.480 The gospel of the Lord. 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:11.680 Praise be to thee, Lord Christ. 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:33.279 Please be seated. 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:44.079 Just a reminder that we're kind of in the middle of what we call ordinary time, and a reminder that that doesn't mean nothing special is happening. 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:53.839 Rather, this time is meant for us, having gone through the holy days of Easter and through Pentecost, to think about how we're going to reorder our lives. 00:18:54.079 --> 00:19:03.680 It's this time for ordering our lives liturgically, not only with the ways in which we pray, but in the ways in which we conceive of Jesus and act out of that. 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:06.960 And so here we get this sort of fantastic story. 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:11.920 And look, I hope we understand to resist the literal interpretation. 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:17.039 Like after church, I'm not going to encourage you to walk on Clear Lake for a number of reasons. 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:20.480 It's hot, and if you've got a cut, you could probably die. 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:22.799 So those are being some of them. 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:28.319 And look, we need to extend a little bit of understanding here because the story is more than literal. 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:34.880 Reminder to you that biblically the image of water represents often chaos. 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:42.720 So Jesus, as much as he's literally walking on waves, he's walking on top of chaotic waves in the world. 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:45.599 More on that in a second, but I don't think you need more from me. 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:46.720 I think you get that. 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:57.440 He comes along, right, and uh there's this interesting moment that happens in the story where this is God made manifest in a human being, and the people think he's a scary ghost. 00:19:57.759 --> 00:20:05.839 So I want you to pause and think about that because back when I was uh growing up, the church told me there's one unforgivable sin. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:07.039 Have you heard this before? 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:20.720 The unforgivable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which is when God shows up and does something incredible, the unforgivable sin is to give that credit to evil instead of goodness. 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:23.200 What does that look like? 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:30.000 Well, I don't know if you know this, but 40 years ago, a rogue bishop ordained eleven women in the Episcopal Church. 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:36.319 They decided that they could wait until the General Convention decided it was fit and right to do so, or they could just do it. 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:39.680 And at the time, people said, it's a ghost. 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:43.039 It's a ghost! And what do you know? 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:45.119 It was Jesus walking on the waves. 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:50.720 This is one of our opportunities to think, how do we label things and do we get it right? 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:59.119 Sometimes we call things ghostly that are in fact God's glory made manifest, so we probably ought to be careful how we judge. 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:06.640 Jesus shows up to the boat, and uh, you probably know this story if you've been in church before. 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:08.799 Peter says, Let me come out. 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:10.559 And um, what do you know? 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:11.279 He does. 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:16.799 Successfully, he makes it out of the boat, and then he starts to sink. 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:20.240 Now, I don't know if you grew up with a flannel board. 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:35.039 I grew up with a flannel board, and there's this picture of Jesus who's sort of giving Peter the hand down, and he's supposed to look nice in the face and all that, but Jesus didn't look all that happy, sort of like, why didn't you get this right, Peter, with a smile, right? 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:37.039 That was the flannel board in my memory. 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:41.119 And I don't know if you realize this, there's no tone in the scriptures. 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:46.400 So the way we read it often says more about us than it does about what's in the book. 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:52.799 The tone I grew up with is, you of little faith, why did you doubt? 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:55.759 And the lesson was I better not doubt. 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:58.240 Anybody else get that lesson? 00:21:58.319 --> 00:21:59.440 I'm just curious. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:05.359 Yeah, and the problem is, right, I got lots of doubts. 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:12.319 I actually hope you have lots of doubts, too, because we live in a cognitive dissonance kind of universe, right? 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:18.000 But I'd like you to consider that maybe there's a different way to read this story. 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:28.400 You ever heard that story where Jesus says if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can tell a mountain to throw itself into the chaos and it'll do it? 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:28.960 Right? 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:30.640 Heard that story? 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:34.640 Maybe Jesus is pretty happy that we have little faith. 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:38.240 I want to make sure you hear that again. 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:41.759 This much faith can do a lot. 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:49.680 So if Peter has a little faith, maybe Jesus is actually pretty happy he had a little faith. 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:51.759 He had a little faith. 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:54.319 He had enough to get out of a boat. 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:00.960 We could hear Jesus accusing Peter, why did you doubt? 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:06.400 But we could also hear Jesus asking curiously, why did you doubt? 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:12.000 Which makes me think, maybe Jesus had some doubts. 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:14.000 God, I hope so. 00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:18.079 Because if he didn't, boy, he doesn't understand me at all. 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:21.200 I don't know why Peter doubted. 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:22.640 I know why I doubt. 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:32.000 I doubt because sometimes we walk on one wave of chaos and then there's a tsunami right after it. 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:33.039 Right? 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:37.440 Boy, it's really hard to steal the ocean sometimes. 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:46.960 I got doubts because, you know, I don't think I want God to give me a hand down of the water. 00:23:47.119 --> 00:23:48.799 I want to do it myself. 00:23:50.640 --> 00:23:55.200 And I don't really want to give handowns to other people because look, they should get themselves out. 00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:56.319 I did that, right? 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:58.319 Hard work, discipline, education. 00:23:58.480 --> 00:24:00.240 That's how we get out of the chaos. 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.279 So I guess I'll help you, but really you should help yourself. 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:04.880 I got doubts like that. 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:09.920 I got doubts like, hey, if I don't do something, it's not gonna get done. 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:11.680 You ever have doubts like that? 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:13.920 It becomes really weird as a priest, right? 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:16.799 I get doubts like, oh man, the budget in the ASA. 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:21.440 That's some kind of reflection on, I don't know, my spirituality or piety. 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:23.839 I have doubts like that. 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:29.359 I have doubts like, God, I thought I was doing something really good and it's really dang miserable. 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:31.759 So what's up with that? 00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:33.759 Aren't I doing the right thing? 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:35.200 Why is it so hard? 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:38.000 Please tell me you have those doubts. 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:41.119 I guarantee you Jesus had those doubts. 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:48.799 I guarantee you that if Jesus was a human being, like the scriptures say, he thought, why am I getting nailed to this thing? 00:24:54.640 --> 00:25:02.880 So if you get nothing else, I think there's a way we can shift this scene where Jesus is not pointing at Peter. 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:08.400 He's actually happy Peter had enough faith to get out of the boat and he wants to know, what are your doubts? 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:09.839 I'll tell you mine. 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:12.880 And then Peter, Jesus does this really interesting thing. 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:16.559 He doesn't wait until Peter sinks so that he learns his lesson. 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:17.920 Do you notice the word? 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:19.200 Immediately. 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:23.359 Immediately gives him a hand up. 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:25.039 A hand up. 00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:31.200 Now I don't know if you realize. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:40.000 Most Episcopal churches, and you're you're in one right now, architecturally are designed to look like an upside-down boat hole. 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:41.759 Right? 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:46.720 Because historically we've said the church is the ship of salvation. 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:51.920 And sure enough, I don't even need to explain to you very well, although we'll talk about it in one second. 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:53.920 The world's kind of full of chaos. 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:54.400 Right? 00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:56.160 The world and even homes are. 00:25:56.480 --> 00:26:01.519 And so the image has been that the church is the boat of salvation on the waves. 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:06.720 And this story is a great reminder that there's people out there struggling in the chaos. 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:12.960 And part of what Jesus asks us to do is just have enough little faith to get out and give them a hand up. 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:14.640 And guess what? 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:18.319 We might sink, which is why there's other people in the boat that can pull us in. 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:20.880 And when you get in the boat, we get a little rest. 00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:27.039 And we get a little bit of nourishment for our spirits and our bodies, and then hopefully we don't stay in the boat. 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:28.400 We come back to it. 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:34.400 But we go out looking for folks, frankly, who nobody's giving a hand up to. 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:36.720 A hand up to. 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:48.000 And if we're honest, and this is true about being an Episcopalian, we love, and a clergy person too, we love helping people, but we're hard to help. 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:52.480 Part of the story is I will gladly take your hand. 00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:55.039 It is a gift to me. 00:26:55.200 --> 00:27:01.599 You're pulling me out of this chaos, and I'd love to give it to somebody else or to you in return. 00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:02.640 This is the model. 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:04.880 So why did we read that Genesis story? 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:06.880 Well, it has a lot to do with the chaos. 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:13.440 Honestly, we could talk about what's happening on the other side of the world, but look, this is just about family chaos, right? 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:19.519 If you've got a sibling, I'm sure the question came in your head, which one of us do our parents love more? 00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:21.839 I've got a brother. 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:23.759 I knew the answer to that. 00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:27.039 This is a story about that. 00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:31.200 This is a story with 12 kids, and it's really clear who the favorite one is. 00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:32.000 It's Joseph. 00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:34.720 And the brothers do this very middle school boy thinking. 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:38.079 Well, geez, if we kill Joseph, then dad will have to love us. 00:27:39.119 --> 00:27:41.279 You may say, that is so extreme. 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:43.599 Have you ever been in middle school and been a boy? 00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:45.839 Like, this is how the brain works, right? 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:50.559 And this is the chaotic life, frankly, we live in. 00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:52.319 Look at the brotherly love they give him. 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:53.519 Well, let's not kill him. 00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:55.839 We could sell him into slavery and get some money. 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:57.279 He's our brother after all. 00:27:57.359 --> 00:28:00.720 I mean, look, this is family dynamics at its worst. 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:03.920 We don't even have to talk about starving people in Africa. 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:05.440 This is what we live in. 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:10.240 If you have a family member, you know this chaos of being in family. 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:13.119 There's not a tidy resolution to the story. 00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:25.279 There's a description that this is what the waters are like, wave after wave after wave, and that we're called, honestly, to get on the waves and pull people out. 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:32.319 And dare I say also to be willing to take that hand and not think, well, I may not really need it this time. 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:35.039 I'm going to save it, Tillo, and I do. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.119 Take the hand. 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:39.759 Take the hand, walk the waves. 00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:45.359 I don't know how we quiet the storm, but I know we don't do it sitting in the boat. 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:58.640 Please join me as we pray our faith in the words of an I seeing creed. 00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:10.160 We believe in one God, the Father, Maker of the Earth, of all that is seen is unseen. 00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:30.079 And believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, to try to be God and Father, God from God, life from life, true God and true God, begotten my name, of one being with the Father, who made all things from him. 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:41.920 For us for our salvation, became God in heaven, our Holy Spirit, and became Virgin Mary, man. 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:48.480 Our safety was to the Line of Justice, he died for death and turn. 00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:53.119 On the third day, you will begin for important to church. 00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:57.519 He is sent to heaven and deceived the right hand of God. 00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:04.880 He will come again in the Lord to judge the living dead, and you kingdom will have no way. 00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:12.480 You believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord with your eye, who proceeds from the Father and Son. 00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:16.160 With the Father and Son who gives worship and glorified. 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:23.920 We God. 00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.480 We love the resurrection of the dead and life. 00:30:53.200 --> 00:31:01.279 For the peace from above, for the loving kindness of God, and for the salvation of our souls, let us pray to the Lord. 00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:14.400 For the peace of the world, for the welfare of the Holy Church of God, and for the unity of all peoples, let us pray to the Lord. 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:48.880 For the people and clergy of the church, for bishops and other ministers, the priest in our community, Mike, Jim and Craig, our bishops Andy, Hector, Jeff, and Kay in the Diocese of Texas, all Saints Cameron, Christchurch Mahia, and Christchurch Temple, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin, and our presiding bishop Michael, let us pray to the Lord. 00:31:52.400 --> 00:32:03.200 For our parish and our vestry, that the source of wisdom may guide us, the source of strength may support us, and the source of love may unify us. 00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:05.279 Let us pray to the Lord. 00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:26.160 For all who govern and hold authority in every nation, for the members of the armed forces throughout the world, and for all who struggle for peace and justice, that they may act with prudence and vision to plant the signs of your dominion everywhere. 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:28.160 Let us pray to the Lord. 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:39.279 For this city, for every city and community, and for those who live in them, let us pray to the Lord. 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:50.240 For the good earth which God has given us, and for the wisdom and will to conserve it, let us pray to the Lord. 00:32:53.920 --> 00:33:05.440 For the aged and infirm, for the widowed and orphans, and for the sick and the suffering, especially those on our parish prayer list, let us pray to the Lord. 00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:15.680 The congregation is invited to name their own celebrations or petitions, silently or aloud. 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:24.400 Let us pray to the Lord. 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:36.720 For the poor and the oppressed, for the unemployed and the destitute, for prisoners and captives, and for all who remember and care for them. 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:38.880 Let us pray to the Lord. 00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:49.279 For all who have died in the hope of the resurrection, and for all the departed, let us pray to the Lord. 00:33:52.720 --> 00:34:00.400 For deliverance from all danger, violence, oppression, and degradation, let us pray to the Lord. 00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:10.400 That we may end our lives in faith and hope, without suffering and without reproach. 00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:12.480 Let us pray to the Lord. 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:17.199 In the communion of St. 00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:25.360 Thomas and of all the saints, let us commend ourselves and one another and all our life to Christ our God. 00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:35.920 All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and so let us confess our sin against God and our neighbor. 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:43.119 The hatred that divides nation from nation, race from race, class from class. 00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.039 Father, forgive. 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:50.159 The covetous desires of people and nations to possess what is not their own. 00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:52.079 Father, forgive. 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:57.119 The greed which exploits the work of human hands and lays waste to the earth. 00:34:57.440 --> 00:34:58.880 Father, forgive. 00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:02.480 Our envy of the welfare and happiness of others. 00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:04.239 Father, forgive. 00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:09.039 Our indifference to the plight of the imprisoned, the homeless, the refugee. 00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:11.199 Father, forgive. 00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:15.519 The lust which dishonors the bodies of women, children, and men. 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:17.840 Father, forgive. 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:22.480 The pride which leads us to trust in ourselves and not in God. 00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:24.639 Father, forgive. 00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:29.440 The Almighty and Compassion of God grant you absolution and remission of all your sin. 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:30.880 True repentance. 00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:35.199 Amendment of life and the grace and consolation of the Holy Spirit. 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:36.239 Amen. 00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:42.480 So be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you. 00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:46.320 And now at this point in our liturgy, I asked us for a little bit of faith. 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:48.320 We stand because that works. 00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:50.800 God has given us a hand up. 00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:53.519 The peace of the Lord be always with you. 00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:03.199 Okay. 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:29.119 So there's these little cards that say welcome. 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:35.119 And we'd be tremendously grateful if you fill one of them out and put them in the little blue basket so we have a record of your visit. 00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:37.760 And look, you get to decide if you want to call or an email. 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:39.199 And if you don't, you don't get one. 00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:41.599 But we would be tremendously grateful if you fill one out. 00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:43.360 And thanks for worshiping with us today. 00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:46.559 There's a few announcements I want to call to your attention. 00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:51.199 Most of these are in the e-news that come, but a few I want to highlight and some that aren't. 00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:56.000 So if you're looking over here, gosh, it looks really empty in a beautiful way. 00:36:56.079 --> 00:37:09.599 And so that's because yesterday we moved all of our pipes out into a different part of the building to store because we're getting ready to start building out the chambers to hold this pipe organ and insulating the ceiling. 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:14.320 And look, we don't applaud, but you can always go up to John Leedy and thank him. 00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:19.039 He's been tireless, and yesterday he was here like 10 hours organizing and supervising this. 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:21.679 And it's well, it's a beautiful church, and you get to see it. 00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:23.840 And we're headed toward that pipe organ, which is great. 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:25.119 So thanks, John. 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:27.280 And and yeah, okay, thanks, John. 00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:37.760 It is sometimes very, very fun when we have occasions to call people out in the community. 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.480 So I don't know if you've heard of the Silver Snoopy Award. 00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:46.320 This is a thing that happens over at NASA where an astronaut identifies an employee that's gone above and beyond. 00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:50.239 Uh, something like fewer than 1% of NASA employees get this. 00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:55.599 And our 8 o'clock uh Mary McFather is going to be receiving that award on Tuesday. 00:37:55.760 --> 00:37:57.679 So huge congratulations to Mary. 00:37:57.840 --> 00:37:59.679 That's a really, really big deal. 00:37:59.840 --> 00:38:04.000 Um, really fun thing, you know, we talked about this NASA Memorial last week. 00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:08.880 I gave you an update, and there's a little bit on Facebook, and really fun thing happening with that tomorrow. 00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:20.239 Charlie Bolden and Bobby Sacher are both coming to be interviewed for a documentary about this project honoring uh black contributions to the space program since its inception. 00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:26.159 This is something the diocese has funded and that will be coming soon to that grassy knoll near you. 00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:38.719 So uh you'll get to see the fruits of this interview and documentary where they tell their story a little bit and reminder that Charlie Bolden took our pattern into space himself, which is just a really cool thing, right? 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:42.000 Because what we do up at Tables Island of this world, literally. 00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:44.800 Um, a couple other things to highlight. 00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:49.519 This coming Thursday is our youth group organizational meeting for the year. 00:38:49.599 --> 00:39:01.280 So if your kids or your neighbors' kids or your grandkids, remember we're here, is going into sixth grade tomorrow or in a week, uh, this meeting is for you. 00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:09.119 Alex is going to have the year calendar, talk about opportunities and ways you can support the youth group, and it'll be in the school annex building out here. 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:12.639 That's the new youth group room, uh the one right on the playground. 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:16.320 So that'll be at 6:30 on Thursday night. 00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:22.480 Coming Saturday is the uh the sort of the redo uh for the Bread Guild. 00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:27.599 Reminder the Bread Guild makes the Eucharistic bread that we're getting ready to eat. 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:32.960 And their first meeting since COVID is this Saturday at 1 o'clock here in Christ Hall. 00:39:33.119 --> 00:39:39.280 If you miss it, you can still kind of come and go from the guild meetings, but this is the organizational uh meeting. 00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:51.280 It's really a lovely time to meet people, and honestly, we say, all things come from you, O Lord, and of our of your own have we given you, and that's as much about our offerings as it is about the bread and the wine. 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:56.159 So this is like a lovely way to spiritually be involved in preparing us for communion. 00:39:57.280 --> 00:40:04.079 Okay, a week from Tuesday, school's starting, and so our programmatic year at church is gonna start too. 00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:11.360 So a week from Tuesday, that's August 22nd, we're gonna start an evening Bible study, and that is available for families. 00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:14.880 So that'll go Tuesday night from 6.30 to 7.30. 00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:20.880 Um, and there'll be joint offerings, one for kids and one for adults, or you can choose to do this together. 00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:23.039 It'll be in Christ Hall at 6.30. 00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:27.280 And the very first one we're doing is gonna help set the scope for the next several weeks. 00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:30.239 So Tuesday the 22nd and Christ Hall at 6:30. 00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:35.440 Uh, the other offering we're doing this uh school year starts on Wednesday the 30th. 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:37.440 The e-news had a mistake, sorry. 00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:47.440 It's on Wednesday, August the 30th, and we'll be doing several weeks of uh affirmative inquiry into world religions like Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. 00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:50.639 So that'll be on Wednesday mornings from 9 to 10. 00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:59.199 We're always able to have Zoom for everything we do and record everything we do in case you're having trouble sleeping. 00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:00.639 You can watch them at night. 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:02.559 And they live on our YouTube channel. 00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:05.039 So those are uh those are our opportunities coming up. 00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:10.559 You'll see them in the e-news along with the women's forum, which meets on Thursday, is starting up pretty soon too. 00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:19.119 Last thing I want to remind you of is that we have the Blood Drive on August 27th, and there's also a parish pool party on the 27th. 00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:20.639 Uh you'll see that there. 00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:26.159 It goes from 3.30 to 5.30, and we do ask people to sign up so we get the food count correct. 00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:33.280 Uh, we're getting help from the holy smokers and getting food at this uh at this pool on El Dorado. 00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:36.320 So uh if you're not getting the e-news, let me know. 00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:40.880 Uh or if you have any questions or you want to help out with any things, let me know too. 00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:43.920 Um continue to walk in love. 00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:49.199 As Christ first loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God. 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:59.679 I love to be my Jesus and light I listened, my Jesus is love thee. 00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:19.599 All things come of thee, O Lord. 00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.559 And of thine own have given thee. 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:26.079 This is the table not of the church, but of Jesus Christ. 00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:30.079 It is made ready for those who love him and those who want to love him more. 00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:30.880 So come. 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:34.000 You who have much faith and you who have little. 00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:39.519 You who have been here often and you who have not been here a long time or ever before. 00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:43.440 You who have tried to follow and you who have failed, come. 00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:46.400 Not because the church invites you, it is Christ. 00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:48.800 And he invites you to meet him here. 00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:54.079 Our service continues on page 340 in your red prayer book. 00:44:55.119 --> 00:44:56.800 Page 340. 00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:26.719 We lift them to the Lord. 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:32.800 Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:40.159 He is the wrong life to whom we give God thanks and praise. 00:45:41.599 --> 00:45:44.239 It is very meet right in our bound in duty. 00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:59.679 We should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father Almighty, everlasting God, creator of the light and source of life, who hast made us in thine image and called us to new life in Jesus Christ our Lord. 00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:08.719 Therefore, with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven, we Lord and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praising thee and singing. 00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:12.159 All glory be to thee, O Lord our God, for that thou didst create heaven and earth, and didst make us in thine own image. 00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:21.679 And of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to take our nature upon him, and to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:35.599 He made there a full and perfect sacrifice for the whole world, and did institute, and in his holy gospel command us to continue a perpetual memory of that, his precious death and sacrifice, until his coming again. 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:39.360 For in the night in which he was betrayed, Jesus took bread. 00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:42.000 And when he given thanks to thee, he broke it. 00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:45.280 Gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat. 00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:49.679 This is my body, all that I am, which is given to build you up. 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:52.880 Whenever you eat bread, remember me. 00:47:55.119 --> 00:47:57.760 Likewise after supper, Jesus took the cup of wine. 00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:01.760 And when he given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink this all of you. 00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:05.599 This is my blood, my life force, given to nourish your own. 00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:09.039 Whenever you drink wine, remember me. 00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:21.599 Wherefore, Lord and Heavenly Father, we thy people, to celebrate and make with these thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy son hath commanded us to make. 00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:31.280 Having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension, and looking for his coming again with power and great glory. 00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:44.559 Most humbly beseech thee, O merciful Father, to hear us, and with thy word and Holy Spirit to bless and sanctify these gifts of bread and wine, that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ. 00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:57.360 And we earnestly desire thy fatherly goodness to accept this, our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, whereby we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and our bodies. 00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:08.000 Grant we beseech thee that all who partake of this holy communion may worthily receive the most precious body and blood of thy Son Jesus Christ, be filled with thy grace and heavenly benediction. 00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:17.599 And also that we and all thy whole church may be made one body with him, that he may dwell in us and we in him, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. 00:49:18.079 --> 00:49:19.679