THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY

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1 THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY Our Savior Lutheran Church Newton, Iowa February 4, 2018

2 OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH Missouri Synod Office Phone: Reverend Joel Picard, Pastor Cell Phone: Reverend David Brandt, Pastor Cell Phone: Rev. Carl & Chen Hsi Li Hanson Our Missionaries, Hong Kong, China Rev. Dr. Thomas & Mary Aadland Rev. James & Angela Sharp Our Missionaries, Kenya Our Missionaries, Uruguay The Fifth Sunday after Epiphany February 4, 2018 We have a hearing assistance system. Contact an usher if you would like to use a personal receiver. Welcome to Our Savior Lutheran Church! We thank God you are here and pray that God s Word will speak to you today. Guests, we hope you will join us often as we gather around the Word. We want to know how we may serve you, so please sign the guest book. Also, please introduce yourself to those around you and to the Pastor. Those desiring to receive the Body and Blood of Christ in the Sacrament at the Altar, please review both sides of the Communion Registration Card in the pew before. If you are in agreement you may hand it to our usher as you come for communion. During winter months: If the Elders decide conditions are unsafe for conducting service, a message will be left on the answering machine. We will contact KCOB, WHO & KCCI and attempt to send out an . Celebrant: Elder: Organist: Pianist: Choir Director: Media Team: Lay Readers: Ushers: Greeters: Altar Guild: Bulletin Assembler: Attendance 1/28 60 Those Serving This Week Pastor Joel Picard Doug DeJong Joy McGinley Miranda Ervin Julie Dlouhy Doug W. / Amanda Marilyn Jessen Jary Boger & Lowell Zimmermann Bob & Marsha Berndt Carole Zimmermann Michael Weddell Elders at Our Savior Chairman Doug DeJong Secretary Rick Schiller Charities/Acolytes Randy Ervin Lay Readers/Greeters Ron Dlouhy Ushers/Altar Guild Tim Huegel

3 THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY February 4, Divine Service Setting 3 WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION P In the name of the Father and of the T Son and of the Holy Spirit C Amen P Beloved in the Lord! Let us draw near with a true heart and confess our sins unto God our Father, beseeching Him in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to grant us forgiveness. P Our help is in the name of the Lord, C who made heaven and earth. P I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, C and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. P O almighty God, merciful Father, C I, a poor, miserable sinner, confess unto You all my sins and iniquities with which I have ever offended You and justly deserved Your temporal and eternal punishment. But I am heartily sorry for them and sincerely repent of them, and I pray You of Your boundless mercy and for the sake of the holy, innocent, bitter sufferings and death of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to be gracious and merciful to me, a poor, sinful being. P Upon this your confession, I, by virtue of my office, as a called and ordained servant of the Word, announce the grace of God unto all of you, and in the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the T Son and of the Holy Spirit. C Amen. ENTRANCE HYMN Fight the Good Fight LSB 664 KYRIE (Page 186) C Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. 3

4 SALUTATION AND COLLECT OF THE DAY P The Lord be with you. C And with thy spirit. P Let us pray. O Lord, keep Your family the Church continually in the true faith that, relying on the hope of Your heavenly grace, we may ever be defended by Your mighty power; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. C Amen. OLD TESTAMENT READING Isaiah 40:21 31 Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness. Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble. To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing. Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God? Have you not known? Have you not heard? 4

5 The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. A This is the Word of the Lord. C Thanks be to God. EPISTLE READING 1 Corinthians 9:16 27 For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship. What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel. For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings. Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. A This is the Word of the Lord. C Thanks be to God. 5

6 ALLELUIA AND VERSE P Alleluia. [Jesus] went throughout all Galilee, C preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons. Alleluia. HOLY GOSPEL Mark 1:29 39 P The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark the first chapter. C Glory to You, O Lord. And immediately [Jesus] left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon s motherin-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them. That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons. And the whole city was gathered together at the door. And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him. And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, and they found him and said to him, Everyone is looking for you. And he said to them, Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out. And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons. P This is the Gospel of the Lord. C Praise to You, O Christ. SERMON HYMN O Little Flock, Fear Not the Foe LSB 666 SERMON By Pastor Joel Picard OFFERTORY (LSB pages 192 & 193) C Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation, and uphold me with Thy free spirit. Amen. OFFERING 6

7 PRAYER OF THE CHURCH PREFACE (LSB page 194) P The Lord be with you. C And with thy spirit. P Lift up your hearts. C We lift them up unto the Lord. P Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. C It is meet and right so to do. P It is truly good, right, and salutary.... evermore praising You and saying: SANCTUS (LSB page 195) LORD S PRAYER (LSB page 196) THE WORDS OF OUR LORD (LSB page 197) PAX DOMINI (LSB page 197) AGNUS DEI (LSB page 198) DISTRIBUTION HYMNS Thy Body, Given for Me, O Savior LSB 619 Thy Strong Word LSB 578 NUNC DIMITTIS (LSB page 199) C Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace according to Thy word, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the face of all people, a light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of Thy people Israel. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. THANKSGIVING (LSB page 200) A O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, C and His mercy endureth forever. 7

8 POST-COMMUNION COLLECT (LSB page 201) A Let us pray. A We give thanks to You, almighty God, that You have refreshed us through this salutary gift, and we implore You that of Your mercy You would strengthen us through the same in faith toward You and in fervent love toward one another; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. SALUTATION & BENEDICAMUS (LSB pages 201 & 202) P The Lord be with you. C And with thy spirit. A Bless we the Lord. C Thanks be to God. BENEDICTION (LSB page 202) P The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and T give you peace. C Amen, amen, amen. CLOSING HYMN Jerusalem the Golden LSB 672 Acknowledgments Divine Service, Setting One from Lutheran Service Book 2006 Concordia Publishing House. Reprinted with permission. Unless otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Created by Lutheran Service Builder 2006 Concordia Publishing House. 8

9 U U U U U Lord, Teach us to Pray Remember in your prayers... For Healing, Wholeness and Shalom U Leola Benac, recuperating at home. U Charlene Vesely, residing at Windsor Manor in Grinnell. U Pastor Mike Maddick and wife, Melanie, both undergoing treatment for cancer. U John McGinley, diagnosed with prostate cancer. U Marilyn Mertz s son, Jim, health concerns. U Ed & Geneva Trost. U Robert Wolfe, Bills Jenkins nephew The Ministry of The Pregnancy Center of Central Iowa. Michael McGinley, Kelsi, Katka & Bazil, as Michael continues his ministerial training as a Vicar in Chariton, Iowa. Rev. Dr. Thomas and Mary Aadland, Our Missionaries to Kenya James and Angela Sharp, Our Missionaries to Uruguay. Carl & Chen Hsi Li Hanson, Our Missionaries to Hong Kong, China. J.P. & Aimee Cima, working in Vietnam. Jesse Narit & Naomi Phan, Stronghold, Cambodia. Pastor & Karen Moore, Our Missionaires to Houston, Tx. The Malaria Initiative and the end of Malaria deaths in the world. 9

10 This Week at Our Savior... Sunday (28) :00am Worship :30am Sunday School and MG Program Tuesday (30) :55pm Bridgehouse 12: Bulletin Deadline - AM Thursday (1) :00-9:00pm Fel. Hall RSVD Friday (2) :30am Bible Midtown :00-7:30pm Room 6 RSVD Sunday (4) :00am Worship :30am Sunday School and MG Program Mitebox Sunday January 29th Thelma Pettet January 31st Barry DeJong February 3rd Jon DeGreef 10

11 Announcements BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES [I]f it is wrong to kill a human fetus, it is wrong because this interrupts the vocation of that fetus to praise God and enjoy Him forever, a vocation given it by God Himself in and with the gift of existence, a vocation we may not override for purposes of our own without offending against the rights of God. Douglas Farrow, author of Desiring a Better Country: Forays in Political Theology A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life Lutheran Family Service of Iowa Aurora Ave., Ste 410W, Urbandale, IA ( ) LIFE QUOTES [I]f it is wrong to kill a human fetus, it is wrong because this interrupts the vocation of that fetus to praise God and enjoy Him forever, a vocation given it by God Himself in and with the gift of existence, a vocation we may not override for purposes of our own without offending against the rights of God. Douglas Farrow, author of Desiring a Better Country: Forays in Political Theology - A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life - LWML BULLETIN BYTE In Thailand, China, and Mongolia, the Lutheran Church is growing among young believers eager to pass along their new faith to their children, but there are not enough Lutheran children s books in their own language, and are unaffordable to many. Through this mission grant, Lutheran Heritage Foundation is translating, publishing, and distributing children s books, such as A Child s Garden of Bible Stories, God s Word for You, and Bible Stories in Pictures. For more information, go to ALTAR GUILD NOTICE We re always looking for new helpers to keep our dedicated Altar Guild team strong. If you d like to help or need trained if you re unfamaliar with those duties, please notify our secretary, Amanda Hartz, in person, by phone ( ) or send an (oursavr@windstream.net). Thanks! TRIVIA NIGHT I trust you have circled Sunday, February 11th, 2018 for a fun game of Trivia. The fun will start at 3:30 P.M., a fee of one canned food item for the Food Pantry will get you in. Be sure to bring your friends, neighbors and relatives along with you. What team will be declared the winners of TRIVIA for the year of 2018? Come and find out! 11

12 Announcements QUILTING February Dates for quilting are as follows: Monday, February 5th Wednesday, February 7th Monday, February, 19th Wednesday, February 21st CALL FOR ARTISTS If you would like to contribute original or reproduction artwork for the bulletin covers during our Lenten mid-week services, please contact Doug DeJong at (515) or Art is needed for a variety of themes and anyone is welcome to contribute. 12