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October 5, 2025-17th Sunday after Pentecost-World CommunioN

10am - Live In-Person Worship THIS WEEK

 

Sunday, October 5, 2025
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost| Year C


Focus Theme:
“Increase Our Faith”


Focus Prayer:
Holy God, increase our faith in action. Amen.


Focus Scripture:
Luke 17:5-10
5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” 6 The Lord replied, “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you  could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’  and it would obey you.
7 “Who among you would say to your  slave who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field,  ‘Come here at once and take your place at the table’? 8 Would  you not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me; put on your apron  and serve me while I eat and drink; later you may eat and drink’? 9 Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded? 10 So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say,  ‘We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have  done!’”


All readings for this Sunday:
Lamentations 1:1-6  and Lamentations 3:19-26 or Psalm 137 • Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 and Psalm  37:1-9 • 2 Timothy 1:1-14 • Luke 17:5-10


Focus Questions:
What is faith?
How do you measure faith?
How would increased faith impact your life?
In what ways do you act beyond your faith?
What do you pray for with your actions?

SCRIPTURES FOR This Sunday

John 17:20-23 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

 

John 17:20-23


 

20 “I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word,  21 that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,[a] so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  22 The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one,  23 I  in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the  world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you  have loved me.  

Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

 

Psalm 133

The Blessedness of Unity

A Song of Ascents.

1 How very good and pleasant it is
when kindred live together in unity!

Psalm 37: 1-9 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

Gospel: Luke 17:5-10 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

Gospel: Luke 17:5-10 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

  

Psalm 37: 1-9


1 Do not fret because of the wicked;
do not be envious of wrongdoers,
2 for they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb.

3 Trust in the Lord and do good;
live in the land and enjoy security.
4 Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

5 Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.
6 He will make your vindication shine like the light
and the justice of your cause like the noonday.

7 Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him;
do not fret over those who prosper in their way,
over those who carry out evil devices.

8 Refrain from anger and forsake wrath.
Do not fret—it leads only to evil.
9 For the wicked shall be cut off,
but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.

Gospel: Luke 17:5-10 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

Gospel: Luke 17:5-10 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

Gospel: Luke 17:5-10 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

Luke 17:5-10


5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” 6 The Lord replied, “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you  could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’  and it would obey you.
7 “Who among you would say to your  slave who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field,  ‘Come here at once and take your place at the table’? 8 Would  you not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me; put on your apron  and serve me while I eat and drink; later you may eat and drink’? 9 Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded? 10 So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say,  ‘We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have  done!’”

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