9th Sunday after Pentecost July 26, 2026
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 125 (pg. 613)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------ # 295
“In Christ There Is No East or West”
*Confession of Sins ……………….……….……………....... pg. 2
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Deuteronomy 7:6-9 (pg. 179)
2nd Reading: Romans 8:28-39 (pg. 1123)
*The Gospel: Matthew 13:44-52 (pg. 974)
*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 --------------------------------------------------------------- # 544
“Power in the Blood”
Sermon: Acts 12 – “God’s Purposes”
THE CLOSING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 72
“What Wondrous Love Is This”
*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 #544: "Power in the Blood"
Memory verse: Matthew 14:27 “Immediately
Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be
afraid.”
Anniversary Committee will meet following the service today.
The WMF will be doing a school supply drive again in July. You may buy supplies or give money to Sandy.
This week’s activities:
2nd – Sun. – Worship with Holy Communion, 9:00 am,
(Acts13)
CHURCH CLEANING: July 27-Aug 2 Pat Klumb & Amy Cleveland
Usher’s for Sunday, Aug. 2: Chad Lau & Chris Punt
August Communion Lay Assistant: Scott Olson
*Call to Worship: Psalm 125
125 Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount
Zion,
which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
2 As the mountains surround
Jerusalem,
so the Lord surrounds his people,
from this
time forth and forevermore.
3 For the
scepter of wickedness shall not rest
on the land allotted to
the righteous,
lest the righteous stretch out
their hands
to do wrong.
4 Do good,
O Lord, to those who are good,
and to those who are upright
in their hearts!
5 But those
who turn aside to their crooked ways
the Lord will lead away
with evildoers!
Peace be upon Israel!
1st Reading:Deuteronomy 7:6-9
6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
2nd Reading: Romans 8:28-39
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we
are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
*The Gospel: Matthew 13:44-52
44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, 46 who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.
47 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. 48 When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad. 49 So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous 50 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
51 “Have you understood all these things?” They said to him, “Yes.” 52 And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”