Sundays at All Hallows (October 5, 2025) Is Now Online

Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows.

The selection of hymns, psalm, canticles, and other sacred music can enliven and brighten a Sunday service, or it can have the opposite effect.

We may not notice how the choice of music affects our Sunday services because we have become accustomed to it. However, first-time visitors to our Sunday services notice it as do viewers of our Sunday services online or on cable TV. If we make a bad first impression, the former may decide not to return for a second visit; the latter may switch to the livestream or cable TV broadcast of another church. They are not likely to stay around long enough to get to know us or learn what else we may have to offer. It is one of the realities of the times in which we now live.

In this Sunday’s service we are introducing four new songs—a new setting of the Venite (Psalm 95), which with the settings of the Benedicite and the Gloria in Excelsis we introduced last Sunday we will be using for the next several Sundays. All three have refrains in which you can join. We plan to repeat them for a long enough period to enable you to become comfortable joining in the verses.

As for the variable elements of the service, the variable psalm is a Taizé style setting of Psalm 37:1-6 with a short, easy-to-learn ostinato refrain, the anthem is Scott Soper’ choral arrangement of Timothy Dudley Smith’s “Spirit of God within Me.” The final hymn is a contemporary arrangement of John Newton’s “How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds” from Emu Music.

This Sunday’s message is touches on the common mission of all Christians to make Christ known and how the Holy Spirit enables us to do that through our words and deeds.

Reading: Habakkuk 1: 1-4; 2: 1-4; 2 Timothy 1: 1-14; and Luke 17: 5-10

Message: Called to Be Gospel Workers

Link: https://allhallowsmurray.blogspot.com/2025/10/sundays-at-all-hallows-october-5-2025.html

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If you are new to Sundays at All Hallows, you may find these directions helpful:

-It is recommended that after reading or hearing each lesson to take time to reflect on what you read or heard during the period of silence which follows each lesson. It is also recommended that you do the same thing after reading or hearing the message.

-When you open the link to a video in a new tab, check auto-play to make sure it is in the off position. Otherwise, a second video with a different song will follow the first.

-If an ad plays when you open a link to a video in a new tab, click the refresh icon of your browser until the song appears.

-If a song begins partway through the video, click pause, move the slider to the beginning, and then click play.

-An ad may follow a song so as soon as the song is finished, close the tab.

May Sundays at All Hallows be a blessing to you.