July 13, 2025 – Gospel Focus: Luke 10:25–37
This Sunday we’ll turn our hearts to Luke 10:25–37—the familiar but ever-challenging parable of the Good Samaritan. Jesus tells this story in response to a question we’re still asking today: “Who is my neighbor?” In it, compassion crosses boundaries, defies categories, and disrupts prejudice. As we prepare to worship together, here are a few questions to carry with you this week:
- I wonder what keeps us from seeing the suffering right in front of us.
- I wonder how courage and compassion might look in our own lives this week.
- I wonder who has been a neighbor to you when you needed it most.
- I wonder how God might be inviting us to “go and do likewise,” embodying mercy, justice, and grace in real ways.
Let’s also pray especially for our youth group at Passport Camp this week—that they would experience God’s love and guidance in powerful ways.
I hope you’ll join us Sunday as we listen for Jesus’ call to become neighbors in a world so desperate for compassion.
Grace and Peace,
Rev. Sterling W. Severns, Pastor
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Image: Vincent van Gogh, The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), 1890. Public Domain. Courtesy of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
