4th Sunday after Pentecost July 6, 2025
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Welcome and Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 66:1-7 (pg. 568)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------------- # 177
“Beautiful Savior”
*Confession of Sins …………………………….................... pg. 2
*Kyrie & Declaration of Grace ..………………………….… pg. 3
*Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Isaiah 66:10-14 (pg. 743)
2nd Reading: Galatians 6:1-10 (pg. 1158)
*The Gospel: Luke 10:1-20 (pg. 1031)
*Response to the Word ……………………………………… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Nicene Creed….…………......... pg. 18
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN -------------------------------------------------------------- # 507
“My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less”
Sermon: 1 Timothy 3 – “Are You Qualified?”
HYMN -------------------------------------------------------------- # 531
“Jesus Love Even Me”
* Communion Service: The Exhortation ……………………. pg. 6
* The Lord’s Prayer & Words of the Institution.……………. pg. 7
Lamb of God ………………………………………………. pg. 20
Hymns during the distribution of Communion: # 285, 97, 173
449, 535
*Closing Prayer
*The Benediction & Three-fold Amen ...……………………. pg. 8
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning! We ask our visitors to please sign the guest book and let us know how we may assist you in any way. God’s peace and joy be upon you!
Announcements
Holy Communion: We invite all who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and who have received Confirmation or other Biblical instruction on this Sacrament to come to the altar to participate in the Lord’s Supper. All other, including children, are invited to come forward to receive a blessing from the Pastor. We also invite you to prepare yourself by reading “Personal Preparation for Holy Communion,” (hymnal pages 14-15). Please note: The 6 cups in the center ring of the communion trays are Grape Juice for those wanting juice instead of wine.
Monthly hymn #507: "My Hope Is Built on
Nothing Less"
Memory verse: 1 Timothy
2:5-6 “For there is One God, and there is One Mediator between God
and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6who gave Himself as
a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time."
Backpacks for area schools: The WMF is buying the backpacks and they are asking for monetary donations to buy supplies to fill them. Money can be given to Sandy or Courtney. Donations will be taken until the middle of July.
The Semi-Annual Meeting will be held on Sunday, July 20th.
This Week’s Activities:
8th – Tues. – Quilting Workday, 1:00 pm
9th – Wed. – WMF, 7:00 pm
13th
– Sun. – Worship, 9:00 a.m., (1 Timothy 4)
CHURCH CLEANING: June 7 – 13 Justine Hartmann & Kathy Lau
*Call to Worship: Psalm 66:1-7
66 Shout for joy to God, all the earth;
2 sing the glory of his name;
give
to him glorious praise!
3 Say
to God, “How awesome are your deeds!
So great is your power
that your enemies come cringing to you.
4 All
the earth worships you
and sings praises to you;
they
sing praises to your name.”
5 Come and see what God has
done:
he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.
6 He turned the sea into dry land;
they passed through the river on foot.
There did we rejoice
in him,
7 who rules by
his might forever,
whose eyes keep watch on the nations—
let not the rebellious exalt themselves.
1st Reading: Isaiah 66:10-14
10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be
glad for her,
all you who love her;
rejoice with her in
joy,
all you who mourn over her;
11 that
you may nurse and be satisfied
from her consoling breast;
that you may drink deeply with delight
from her glorious
abundance.”
12 For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the
glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and you shall
nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,
and bounced upon
her knees.
13 As one whom his mother
comforts,
so I will comfort you;
you shall be
comforted in Jerusalem.
14 You shall
see, and your heart shall rejoice;
your bones shall flourish
like the grass;
and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his
servants,
and he shall show his indignation against his
enemies.
2nd Reading: Galatians 6:1-10
6 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. 5 For each will have to bear his own load.
6 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. 7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
*The Gospel: Luke 10:1-20
10 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 3 Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. 4 Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road. 5 Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’ 6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you. 7 And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house. 8 Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. 9 Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ 10 But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, 11 ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’ 12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.
16 “The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” 18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”