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October 2025

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Whole Faith

Choosing Faith

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

When Jesus asks in our text this week, “Where are the other nine?” (verse 17), he isn’t fishing for gratitude. Instead, he is declaring that gratitude that leads to praise is part of the way of the disciple.

Faith is a partnership with God as we enter into relationship for our good and the good of the world around us. We are choosing every day to live by our faith, to be shaped by our faith, and to submit all our actions and relationships to the measure of faith. In this worship series, we invite you to examine what it means to be people of faith. We are the people who are choosing faith.

Abbreviations:

  • UMH: United Methodist Hymnal
  • TFWS: The Faith We Sing

Theme Hymn:

  • My Faith Looks Up to Thee UMH 452
  • Call or Response to Prayer:
  • Faith Is Patience in the Night TFWS 2211
  • Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying TFWS 2193

Music Notes

Cultivating gratitude that leads to praise requires that we pay attention to all who bring God’s presence and love into our lives. This would be a good week for testimony, maybe even through song.

  • Through It All UMH 507
  • There Is a Balm in Gilead UMH 375
  • Give Thanks TFWS 2036
  • Healer of Our Every Ill TFWS 2213

In This Series...


Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C - Lectionary Planning Notes Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C - Lectionary Planning Notes Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C - Lectionary Planning Notes Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C - Lectionary Planning Notes

Colors


  • Green

In This Series...


Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C - Lectionary Planning Notes Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C - Lectionary Planning Notes Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C - Lectionary Planning Notes Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C - Lectionary Planning Notes