6th Sunday after Pentecost July 20, 2025
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 27:7-14 (pg. 543)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 50
“O God, Our Help in Ages Past”
*Confession of Sins …………………….……………............ pg. 2
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
HYMN --------------------------------------------------------------- # 239
“Look upon Us, Blessed Lord”
Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Genesis 18:1-14 (pg. 14)
2nd Reading: Colossians 1:21-29 (pg. 1168)
*The Gospel: Luke 10:38-42 (pg. 1033)
*Response to the Gospel …………………………………..… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith - The Apostles’ Creed ………………... pg. 4
*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 5 – “Bodily Order”
THE CLOSING HYMN ------------------------------------------ # 455
“O That the Lord Would Guide My Ways”
*The Lord’s Prayer ………………………………………….. pg. 5
*The Benediction ………………………………..…………... pg. 5
*Three-fold Amen ………………………………...…………. pg. 5
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning, especially our guests and visitors. May our Father’s mercy in Jesus assure you of the forgiveness of all your sins. If you have not established your church home in our area, we are anxious to share with you all the blessings which God gives us through His Word. We ask that you please sign our guest book, and we hope that you return to worship with us again soon.
Announcements
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."
The Semi-Annual Meeting will be held today following the worship service.
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. Today is the last day for donations.
This week’s activities:
27th – Sun. – Worship, 9:00 am, (1 Timothy 6)
CHURCH CLEANING: July 14 – 20 Kendra Thies & Nicole Grosz
*Call to Worship: Psalm 27:7-14
7 Hear my voice when I call, Lord;
be merciful to me and answer me.
8 My
heart says of you, “Seek his face!”
Your face, Lord, I will seek.
9 Do not hide your face from me,
do not turn
your servant away in anger;
you have been my helper.
Do not
reject me or forsake me,
God my Savior.
10 Though
my father and mother forsake me,
the Lord will receive me.
11 Teach me your way, Lord;
lead me
in a straight path
because of my oppressors.
12 Do
not turn me over to the desire of my foes,
for false
witnesses rise up against me,
spouting malicious accusations.
13 I remain confident of this:
I
will see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.
14 Wait for the Lord;
be
strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord.
1st Reading: Genesis 18:1-14
18 The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. 2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
3 He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by. 4 Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree. 5 Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant.”
“Very well,” they answered, “do as you say.”
6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.”
7 Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it. 8 He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.
9 “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him.
“There, in the tent,” he said.
10 Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.”
Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. 12 So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
2nd Reading: Colossians 1:21-29
21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— 23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
24 Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. 25 I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— 26 the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. 27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
28 He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. 29 To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.
*The Gospel: Luke 10:38-42
38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”