Sunday July 27, 2025
Prelude
Announcements
Opening Hymn – #454 Open My Eyes, That I May See (3 verses)
Opening Prayer
1st Scripture Reading – Amos 8:1-12
Hymn – #399 Take My Life, and Let It Be (3 verses)
Children’s Time
Joys & Concerns / Pastoral Prayer / Lord’s Prayer
Hymn – #596 Blessed Jesus, at Thy Word (3 verses)
Mission & Ministry Moment –
Christmas in July (Haiti shoes), VBS Personal Dignity Kits, Noisy Offering
Loving the Wider World through Our Giving (Doxology #95)
2nd Scripture Reading – Luke 10:38-42
Pastor’s Message “A Famine of Hearing” – Pastor Devin
Praise Music – “Lord I Need You”
Benediction
Postlude

1st Scripture Reading – Amos 8:1-12
The Basket of Fruit
1 This is what the Lord God showed me: a basket of summer fruit. 2 He said, “Amos, what do you
see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,
“The end has come upon my people Israel;
I will spare them no longer.
3 The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day,”
says the Lord God;
“the dead bodies shall be many,
cast out in every place. Be silent!”
4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy,
and bring to ruin the poor of the land,
5
saying, “When will the new moon be over
so that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
so that we may offer wheat for sale?
We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier
and practice deceit with false balances,
6 buying the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”
7 The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who lives in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?
9 On that day, says the Lord God,
I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10
I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on all loins
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
11 The time is surely coming, says the Lord God,
when I will send a famine on the land,
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.

2nd Scripture Reading – Luke 10:38-42
Jesus Visits Martha and Mary
38 Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village where a woman named Martha
welcomed him. 39 She had a sister named Mary, who sat at Jesus’s feet and listened to what he
was saying. 40 But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, so she came to him and asked,
“Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her, then, to
help me.”
41 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by
many things, 42 but few things are needed—indeed only one. Mary has chosen the better part,
which will not be taken away from her.”