The Readings for this Sunday

Third Sunday After Pentecost

Genesis 3:8-15

In our Hebrew scripture lesson we hear of the results of Adam and Eve’s act of disobedience in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve now experience alienation from God and hide from the divine presence. The text also offers explanation for the estrangement between humankind and other creatures of the earth, symbolized by the serpent. Because of their disobedience and coming to the knowledge of good and evil, the man and woman now live in disharmony with the world and one another.

Psalm 130

A plea for mercy offered in patient hope to the faithful Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1

In this passage Paul speaks of the eternal and glorious hope that belongs to Jesus’ disciples even in the midst of trouble and mortality. The apostle has just told of the difficulties that beset his ministry. These, however, have not prevented his preaching of the gospel. Now he quotes scripture to express his conviction that the belief of Christians can and must be proclaimed in all circumstances. Although our physical being is gradually decaying, we are inwardly being renewed in accordance with what is unseen and eternal.

Mark 3:20-35

In our gospel lesson Jesus is accused of being possessed by the prince of demons. He responds by describing his battle against Satan and indicating that true relationship with him is based in the doing of God’s will. The passage suggests a certain separation between Jesus and his own relatives due to the intensity of his ministry. To those who charge him with doing good by the power of evil, Jesus answers with figures of speech—one implies that Jesus himself is the man who must first bind Satan before destroying his power. A warning is given not to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit—by which perhaps is meant calling good evil.

Note: Introductions to the Readings are from the book  Introducing the Lessons of the Church Year, 3rd Ed.  (Kindle Edition) by Frederick Borsch and George Woodward.

Music in Worship

Edwin Hansen, Music Director

Prelude  (a time for quiet prayer before worship)

Worship Music

#569 "God the Omnipotent"

#620 "Jerusalem, my happy home"

#490 "I want to walk as a child of the light"

#508 "Breathe on me, breath of God"

#685 "Rock of ages, cleft for me"

#594 "God of grace and God of glory"

Postlude  (a time to finish our worship with music)

A History of Hymns: "I want to walk as a child of the light"

This will be our Offertory Hymn on Sunday, June 10, 2018

We should recognize Beelzebul as the Canaanite god Baal, reduced from deific grandeur to a malevolent spirit. Such a pattern of deliberate debasement of foreign deities into demons was common in the ancient world. Revelation, for instance, urges us to “give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk” ( Revelation 9:20 ). Paul, too, makes the connection between pagan deities, or idols, and demons: “What do I imply then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God” ( 1 Corinthians 10:19–20 ).

From: "Who the Devil is Beelzebul?"

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Collect for Proper 5

O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. ~BCP 229

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