ALL ANGELS BY THE SEA
WEEKLY TIDINGS
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Directions to All Angels on Sunday, July 4
Please take Bay Isles Parkway (at the light) then turn on Bay Isles Road just before the security gate, to avoid the parade route.
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Fellowship is back! After the service, coffee and treats will be available in the narthex. Beginning this week, there is only one service, at 10 am.
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Masks are optional for those who have been fully vaccinated.
Communion bread will be offered inside during the service.
To live-stream - go to AllAngelsLBK.org, click on the "All Angels Enter Here" picture and you will be routed to our YouTube channel.
Zoom - go to https://zoom.us/j/5955701807 and watch and listen live. Be sure to stick around after the service for our coffee hour chat-with-your-neighbor time.
The service will begin with the lighting of the altar candles. If you are participating at home, you are invited to light a candle with us to create a sacred space of worship at home.
The bulletin can be found on the All Angels Website:
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Altar Flowers
The flower guild announces that we are accepting donations for weekly fresh Altar Flowers. Flowers may be in remembrance of a loved one or in thanksgiving for a special event or special blessings.
Suggested donation remains at $75. Your dedication will be posted in the bulletin on the Sunday chosen.
There are several ways to designate your gift:
- Sign up on the poster on the gallery table for the date you want. Follow up with step 2.
- Send a check made out to All Angels by the Sea to the office with "Flowers in the memo line. Please include a note indicating the wording you would like in the bulletin and the date you would like the remembrance.
- Stop by the office or call the office at 941-383-8161 with donation information and a check as in step 2.
Thank you for your generous support of flowers at All Angels.
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Altar Flowers for Sunday, July 4th
are given by CJ and Katzy Nager
in memory of her father Adams Bailey for his birthday.
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Scripture Readings, July 4
Ezekiel 2:1-5
Psalm 123
2 Corinthians 12:2-10
Mark 6:1-13
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6 Don Edwards
9 Carol Doenecke
12 Happy Grahn
13 Sylvia Thompson
13 Jinx Kochan
20 Anne Roberts
22 Edson Sheppard
23 Tanya Edwards
24 Laurel Vaughn
30 Pearl Fisher
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12 Sandy and Connie Jose
12 Courtney and Gloria
Blackman
18 Ed and Elyse Rogers
20 John and Dee Binney
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Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer invites you to pray with them, every day,
at 8 am, wherever you are. When you enter into prayer at 8 am (Eastern), you will know that others are praying at the same time.
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Prayers for our People
We pray on behalf of all whose needs of body, soul and mind are great. Especially we lift before you the needs of: Downs IV, Holden, Stan, Brian, Lou and Andrew. Grant healing and recovery for Tom and Beverly. Give peace and strength for those going through cancer treatments, especially Downs III, Joy, Victoria, Andres, Alex, Colleen, Jack, Connie and Douglas. Visit and comfort all who are under the care of skilled nursing, especially Bob, Timothy, Don and Barbara. Be near to all who are in hospice care especially John and Henry.
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Summer Choir
Are you looking for a a new experience this summer? I recommend The Summer Choir. No audition, rehearse at 9:20 each Sunday morning. No long term commitment. Can't attend every Sunday? No problem. Come when you can. More information? Call me at 941 896 5541, or email dhooey@verizon.net or see me after church. You will receive a very warm welcome!
Dale
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Organ Concerts
Join us every Thursday at 11:00 am for our Organ Concert in the Park.
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Art Gallery
Our "New to You" art sale continues online. To see what is available for sale, please visit our website: www.allangelslbk.org
Our gallery artist for the month of July is Chris Collins. Please stop by and enjoy the work of this talented artist and church member. 100% of the sale of his artwork goes to the mission and ministry of All Angels. Checks should be written to All Angels by the Sea.
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Men's Discussion Groups
American Economist Milton Friedman was the topic of a piece in the Wall Street Journal this week. The author asks if Friedman was right when he said “I predict that China will move increasingly toward political freedom if it continues its successful move to economic freedom.”
Is a free market associated with political freedom? What about religious freedom? What does the Bible say about this? These questions and more will be discussed on Tuesday - both in person and on-line.
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Online Giving
If you would like to give to the offering plate electronically, you can find the online giving link on our All Angels website by clicking the link below:
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A-B-A
In this past Sunday’s sermon, I talked about the unique way Mark has organized his Gospel, called the A-B-A. The example I used was the lesson for the day of Jesus heading to Jairus’ house to heal his daughter when a sick woman said to herself, if I touch Jesus’ cloak I will be healed. She touched him and was healed. After talking with the woman, he resumed going to Jairus’ house. The A-B-A is this: the “A” is going to Jairus’ home. The “B” in the story was being interrupted by the woman who was healed. Then, Jesus resumed the “A” and went to Jairus’ home. This pattern is repeated throughout Mark’s Gospel and makes it unique among the gospels. I had suggested that Mark arranged it this because the “B” in life happens – even Jesus can’t avoid it! When the “B” pops up, we may want to treat the opportunity like Jesus who doesn’t act out in anger but in compassion and curiosity.
This Sunday, I will (most likely) preach on the lesson from 2 Corinthians so I won’t be able to follow up with you on Mark’s A-B-A pattern. Nevertheless, I am writing to you about it. The Gospel story, in summary, is this: (A) Jesus is traveling the countryside preaching in synagogues about the Kingdom of God and healing people. (B) He came to his hometown and found that no one would listen to him and he “laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them; he was amazed at their unbelief.” (A) He then went about among other villages teaching/healing and sent the disciples out two by two to teach and heal.
The B in the story is Jesus not making an impact and, instead, being amazed at their unbelief. Just a few sentences earlier, Jesus was amazed at the woman’s belief that if she simply touched him she’d be healed. And now, in his hometown, with the people he grew up with, they believed nothing about nobody.
A few years ago, a parishioner who is now a retired admiral in the Navy, commented on the story. He was at sea and successfully led his portion of the coordinated attack on Saddam Hussein’s regime. There were more than five thousand sailors and aviators under his command. When he returned home, and after the family hugged him and were so thrilled to have him back safe and sound, he asked his teenaged daughter to take off her shoes in the house. She laughed at him and walked away. He quickly learned that prophets are not without honor except in their hometown! He too ran into the B in life and realized that he had some relationship work to do with his daughter. Instead of using his commander voice, he used his dad-voice and talked with her until late in the evening. He noticed the next morning that her shoes were by the front door by his. The B in life made him feel glad and thankful that he spent time talking, and not commanding, his child.
Jesus didn’t give up when no one would learn nothing-about-nobody. He kept on keeping on and, as a result of that B, he raised up others to help him. I imagine that one group of disciples returned to his hometown and taught and healed. Today, I am a part of a long historic line of people who are sent to teach and to heal, just as are Rev. Maggie and Fr. Fred. I am thankful for the B that Jesus ran into in his hometown. If not for his amazement at their unbelief, would we even have pastors and priests today? I am also thankful that Jesus kept on keeping on – that he knew to return to the A of life.
-Fr. Dave
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