You are invited to the Celebration of Independence Day with Holy Communion on July 6 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Celebration of Independence Day with Holy Communion
Sunday, July 6, 2025, 10 am
Hot Topics for Summer
For the month of July, we will kick off 4th of July Celebration with Hot Topics for Summer, a 4-part sermon series on “America, the Land that I Love.” We will be examining four areas of American life today that are being challenged.
July 6: Part 1) “Brother, Can You Spare Me a Dime?”
Theme: Widening Income Inequality and the Biblical Ethics of Economic Justice
July 13: Part 2) “Just Who’s Country Is It?”
Theme: History of Immigrants and assault on immigrants today
July 20: Part 3) “Do Not Give Your Mind Away”
Theme: Assault on Academic Freedom, Press Freedom, and Erasing History
July 27: Part 4) “We Are Not the Only Game in Town”
Theme: Climate Justice & Creation Care
Children’s Time “Three Brothers with Peculiar Habits” Pastor John
The Great Depression Bread Lines in 1932
Message America, the Land that I Love: Rev. John Song
Part 1) “Brother, Can You Spare Me a Dime?”
Theme: Widening Income Inequality and the Biblical Ethics of Economic Justice
Luke 16:19-31
The Rich Man and Lazarus
“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was being tormented, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. He called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner evil things, but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony. Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’ He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house for I have five brothers that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.’ Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’ He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’ ”
Luke 1: 52-53
“He has brought down the powerful from their thrones and lifted up the lowly;
he has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.”
Micah 6:8
“What does the Lord require of you,
but to do justice,
and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?”
The Migrant mother Florence Thompson and her children
during the Great Depression by Dorothea Lange in 1936
