Sunday July 20, 2025

Prelude
Announcements
Opening Hymn – #428 For the Healing of the Nations (4 verses)
Opening Prayer
1st Scripture Reading – Amos 7:7-17
Special Music – Beskins & Zimmermans – “Ave Verum Corpus”
Children’s Time
Joys & Concerns / Pastoral Prayer / Lord’s Prayer
Hymn – #413 A Charge to Keep I Have (4 verses)
Mission & Ministry Moment – VBS Mission Project – Beth Sova
Loving the Wider World through Our Giving (Doxology #95)
2nd Scripture Reading – Luke 10:25-37
Pastor’s Message “The Plummet and the Path” – Pastor Devin
Praise Music – Build Your Kingdom Here
Benediction
Postlude

1st Scripture Reading – Amos 7:7-17

7 This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a
plumb line in his hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A
plumb line.” Then the Lord said,
“See, I am setting a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will spare them no longer;
9
the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
Amaziah Complains to the King
10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, “Amos has
conspired against you in the very center of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his
words. 11 For thus Amos has said,
‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel must go into exile
away from his land.’ ”
12And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, earn your bread there,
and prophesy there, 13 but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is
a temple of the kingdom.”
14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I am no prophet nor a prophet’s son, but I am a herdsman
and a dresser of sycamore trees, 15 and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord
said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
16 “Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.
You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’
17 Therefore thus says the Lord:
Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land shall be parceled out by line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.”

2nd Scripture Reading – Luke 10:25-37

The Parable of the Good Samaritan
25An expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit
eternal life?”
26He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”
27He
answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with
all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself.”
28And he said to him,
“You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
29 But wanting to vindicate himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30
Jesus replied,
“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers, who
stripped him, beat him, and took off, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going
down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite,
when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan while
traveling came upon him, and when he saw him he was moved with compassion. 34He went to
him and bandaged his wounds, treating them with oil and wine. Then he put him on his own
animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii,
gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him, and when I come back I will repay you
whatever more you spend.’
36Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man
who fell into the hands of the robbers?”
37He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus
said to him, “Go and do likewise.”