July 16, 2023 The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost

<p><strong>Entrance Hymn #440 <em>Blessed Jesus, At Thy Word</em></strong></p><p><strong>Sequence Hymn #589 <em>Almighty God, Your Word is Cast Like Seed</em></strong></p><p><strong>Offertory Music <em>Musician Voluntary</em></strong></p><p><strong>Communion Music <em>Musician Voluntary</em></strong></p><p><strong>Post-Communion</strong></p><p><strong>Hymn #530 <em>Spread, O Spread, Thy Mighty Word</em></strong></p><p><strong>THE COLLECT OF THE DAY</strong></p><p>O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.&nbsp;<em>Amen.</em></p><p><strong>FIRST READING&nbsp;<em>Isaiah 55:10-13</em></strong></p><p>As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.</p><p>For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the LORD&nbsp;for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.</p><p><strong>PSALM&nbsp;<em>Psalm 65:1-8, 9-13 Te decet hymnus&nbsp;</em></strong>1&nbsp;You are to be praised, O God, in Zion; *</p><p>to you shall vows be performed in Jerusalem.</p><p>2&nbsp;To you that hear prayer shall all flesh come, * because of their transgressions.</p><p>3&nbsp;Our sins are stronger than we are, * but you will blot them out.</p><p>4&nbsp;Happy are they whom you choose</p><p>and draw to your courts t