Poolesville Presbyterian Church
07.13.2025; Season after Pentecost, Proper 10(15)

Call To Worship (from the Book of Common Worship):
Leader: God of hope and safety, like sheep who go astray, we have
wandered from your paths of life and light.
Response: We have heard the Shepherd's voice calling us by name, but
we have turned instead to our own way.
Leader: Show us your tender mercy; restore us in the security of your fold.
Response: Lead us back to still waters, seat us again at your bounteous table.
Leader: Fill us with your Spirit, that we might bear glad witness to
your saving mercy, revealed to us in the Great Shepherd, Jesus Christ,
our Lord. Amen.

Hymn 8 Eternal Father, Strong to Save

Prayer of Confession:
Gracious God, your instructions to us are clear. Love You and love our neighbors. Yet in the face of that clear instruction, we somehow manage to find other things to do instead. We chase after worldly power and worldly profit. We let ourselves be ruled by spirits other than your grace. Remind us, Lord, to turn ourselves always to your service, and towards the radical compassion that defines Your reign. In Christ we ask this, AMEN.

Assurance of Pardon
Leader: Who is in a position to condemn?
All: Only Christ, who lived for us, died for us, and reigns in power for us.
Leader: Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation altogether. The
past is finished and gone. Everything is fresh and new.
Friends, what is the good news of the Gospel?
Unison: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. AMEN.

Scripture Readings:

First: Psalm 82

Second: Luke 10:25-37

Hymn 36 For the Fruits of All Creation

Third: Amos 7:7-17

Sermon: The King's Sanctuary

Affirmation of Faith (from the Barmen Declaration, 8.17-8.18)
The Christian Church is the congregation of the brethren in which Jesus Christ acts presently as the Lord in Word and Sacrament through the Holy Spirit. As the Church of pardoned sinners, it has to testify in the midst of a sinful world, with its faith as with its obedience, with its message as with its order, that it is solely His property, and that it lives and wants to live solely from His comfort and from His direction in the expectation of His appearance.We reject the false doctrine, as though the church were permitted to abandon the form of its message and order to its own pleasure or to changes in prevailing ideological and political convictions.

Hymn 267 Come, Christians, Join to Sing

Charge and Benediction