Opening Prayer: Almighty God, keep me holy so I may be Your dwelling place. Help me to be obedient, and to know Your presence in my life. Amen.

Read: Mark 6:1-13
Reflect: Why do you think the people in Jesus’ hometown could not accept him? What is the importance of Jesus instructing his disciples on what to take as the go on their journey? How do you think they knew what to preach as they went out? What do you think their words were to the people they spoke with?

Prayer: for the church, for others, and for myself

Hymn: “Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty”
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee.
Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore Thee,
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
Cherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee,
Which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.

Holy, holy, holy! though the darkness hide Thee,
Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see;
Only Thou art holy- There is none beside Thee
Perfect in power, in love, in purity.

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
All Thy works shall praise Thy name in earth, and sky, and sea.
Holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

Closing Prayer: Come Lord, and fill your people with your Holy Spirit, that we might obey you, and show your glory to the world around us. Amen.