This Week's Service
October 30, 2011
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Opening Prayer
Intimate Friend, weave your holy journey into our hearts and steps. Let your story illumine our path, so that no matter what joys or difficulties we experience in life, we may still walk toward your promise. May your words be our guide. Amen.
Scripture Reading
1 Peter 2:1-5 (New International Version)
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
As you come to him, the living Stone — rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him — you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Luke 10:38-42 (New International Version)
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
| Sermon: | “The Doorway of Spiritual Growth” |
9 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
Spanish Worship
Noon