News & Announcements. Christ the King Sunday November 25, 2018 UPCOMING EVENTS & MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES. At Messiah, we are powered by God s Grace!

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1 News & Announcements UPCOMING EVENTS & MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES ANGEL TREE: The Angel Tree is back! Please take an angel from the tree and buy gifts accordingly. Wrapped gifts will need to be returned to Messiah by December 9th with your angel tag securely attached to the gift. If there are multiple gifts for the same child, please tie or bag them together. Gifts will delivered on Tuesday, December 11th between 4:00-5:00pm and we ll need volunteers to help us get the gifts from Messiah to the Aurora Technology Center. Please mark your CONNECT sheet if you can assist with this! Thank you for your generosity! PRESCHOOL Representatives from council met with the Fire Marshall this past week. The meeting was an informational meeting to gather information on requirements should we move forward with a pre-school. Basically there would be very minimal expenditure necessary as far as fire code requirements to open a pre-school. We will be posting a list of FAQ in the weeks ahead. Please continue praying for this outreach possibility and giving your feedback. At Messiah, we are powered by God s Grace! God s grace comes to us as we are. through grains of wheat that comprise the bread of Christ we share and that gathers us into the one Body of Christ. through grapes that are poured out together in the Blood of Christ, as we pour ourselves out into the world. through water that fills the baptismal font, washes us clean, and embraces us as Children of God..through the Holy Spirit that lives within us as the breath of life and that inspires us to live as grace-powered throughout the world. Messiah Lutheran Church, ELCA 415 S. 18th St., Aurora, NE Senior Pastor - Rev. Sarah Ruch Pastor of Children, Youth & Family - Rev. Miles Ruch, Jr Sunday November 25, /25/ /25/2018

2 A warm welcome to all today! May this time of worship strengthen your faith and desire to serve the Creator who loves us with everlasting love in Christ Jesus. As disciples of Christ, we encourage you to CONNECT with ministry opportunities here at Messiah! Children are welcome in this worship service, and encouraged to participate in any way they are able to. Teach the children sitting around you how to use their hymnals, bulletins, follow the screens, and sing & speak loudly! We value the noise made by our children! Visitors, we are especially glad to see you. Please come again!! Please fill out a CONNECT sheet today. After you ve recorded your name(s) and pertinent information, please turn these sheets over and think about the ways in which you can use the gifts and talents given to you in the ministry here at Messiah. CONNECT sheets can be placed in the offering plate as we give our gifts of time, talent, and treasure to God. THIS WEEK AT MESSIAH Sunday, November 25th 9:00 am -- Worship 10:15 am -- Hanging of the Greens 10:15 am -- Year of the Bible 6:00 pm -- Year of the Bible Tuesday, November 27th 8:30 am -- Moms in Prayer 2:00 pm -- Quilt Guild 6:30 pm -- Lions Club Wednesday, November 28th 6:30 pm -- Confirmation 7:00 pm -- Youth Group -- Blanket Making Service Project 7:00 pm -- First Place 8:00 pm -- Choir Practice Friday, November 30th 6:30 am -- Men s Breakfast Sunday, December 2nd 9:00 am -- Worship/Baptism/Choir 10:15 am -- Sunday School 10:15 am -- Year of the Bible 6:00 pm -- Year of the Bible News & Announcements UPCOMING EVENTS & MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES HANGING OF THE GREENS: Today following worship! Please stay and help us trim the tree and dress the sanctuary for the coming Advent and Christmas season! MEN S BREAKFAST: The next Men s Breakfast will be on Friday, November 30th at 6:30am. Join us for breakfast and fellowship! CHILDREN S CHRISTMAS PROGRAM: Join us on Sunday, December 9th during worship to hear our children proclaim the Good News of God s greatest gift to us: Jesus Christ! SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGING: Messiah s Confirmation Class will be ringing the bells for Salvation Army at the Aurora Mall on Friday, December 7th and Saturday, December 8th. Come out to see them and support this great ministry in Aurora! ALL funds gathered through the red kettle at the Aurora Mall stay in Hamilton County and are used to help those in need. Thanks in advance for your generosity! CHRISTMAS CAROLING: All of Messiah is invited as we bring Christmas cheer through Christmas Caroling! Sunday, December 9th from 4-6pm. We ll sing at our area Nursing Homes and the homes of some of our Messiah home-bound members and then join in cookies and hot chocolate afterward! 11/25/ /25/

3 *BLESSING Serving Us in Worship Today The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord s face shine on you with grace and mercy. The Lord look upon you with favor and + give you peace. SENDING SONG Rejoice, for Christ Is King! ELW 430 DISMISSAL Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. Powered by God's grace, we will! Thanks be to God. Ushers: Duane Katt Bill Arndt Youth Ushers: Jaylee Schuster Courtney Oswald Reader: Todd Jensen Acolytes: Kasey Schuster Musician: Julie Jensen A Few Notes. Greeters: Dick & Barb Berthold Sound Booth: David Olson Video Recorder: Mike Stewart PowerPoint: Cassidy Knust Worship Asst: Cami Knust Coffee Bar Hosts: Pam & Tim Tyma * Indicates congregation please stand if able. Congregational responses are printed in BOLD type ELW stands for Evangelical Lutheran Worship. This is the Cranberry colored hymnal found in each pew. You are welcome to look up our songs and liturgy in these hymnals, or follow along on the screens. If a p. is listed before the number, these are the small numbers found on the lower corners of each page in the front of the hymnal. If a number is simply listed, these are the large numbers found on the top corners in the back half of the hymnal. Copyright 2018 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #SAS New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Communion today will be celebrated at the railing. You will be offered unleavened bread and an individual cup of wine or white grape juice. Gluten-free bread and Nut-free wafers are available from each server. Please simply indicate to your server that this is needed. We practice an open communion table at Messiah. If you are a baptized child of God and believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, you are welcome at the table. 11/25/ /25/2018 3

4 Order for Worship COMMUNION COMMUNION SONG ELW p. 146 ANNOUNCEMENTS GATHERING The Holy Spirit calls us together as the people of God. PROCESSIONAL HYMN Crown Him with Many Crowns ELW 855 *CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS In the name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you and worthily magnify your holy name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another. Most merciful God, we confess that we are captive to sin and cannot free ourselves. We have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. For the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. Forgive us, renew us, and lead us, so that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your holy name. In the mercy of almighty God, Jesus Christ was given to die for us, and for his sake God forgives us all our sins. As a called and ordained minister of the church of Christ, and by his authority, I therefore declare to you the entire forgiveness of all your sins, in the name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit. 11/25/ DISTRIBUTION HYMNS Beautiful Savior ELW 838 Here Is Bread ELW 483 *PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION Jesus Christ, host of this meal, you have given us not only this bread and cup, but your very self, that we may feast on your great love. Filled again by these signs of your grace, may we hunger for your reign of justice, may we thirst for your way of peace, for you are Lord forevermore. SENDING God blesses us and sends us in mission to the world. 11/25/

5 *HOLY, HOLY, HOLY ELW p. 144 *GREETING The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And also with you. *CANTICLE OF PRAISE ELW p. 140 *THANKSGIVING AT THE TABLE ELW p. 145 In the night in which he was betrayed Do this for the remembrance of me. Again, after supper, he took the cup, gave thanks Do this for the remembrance of me. *LORD S PRAYER Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. 11/25/ /25/2018 5

6 your abundant mercy, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. *PEACE The peace of Christ be with you always. And also with you. OFFERING *OFFERING PRAYER MEAL God feeds us with the presence of Jesus Christ. Merciful God, you open wide your hand and satisfy the need of every living thing. You have set this feast before us. Open our hands to receive it. Open our hearts to embrace it. Open our lives to live it. We pray this through Christ our Lord. *DIALOGUE ELW p. 144 The Lord be with you. And also with you. Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give our thanks and praise. *PREFACE It is indeed right, our duty and our joy, we praise your name and join their unending hymn: 11/25/ /25/

7 my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here. 37 Pilate asked him, So you are a king? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice. The gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ. SERMON HYMN OF THE DAY Lift High the Cross ELW 660 *CREED I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. *PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION With the people of God gathered here and throughout the world, we offer our prayers for the church, the world, and all people in need... Each petition ends: Lord, in your mercy, The congregation responds: hear our prayer. Hear our prayers, spoken and silent, that we commend to you this day, trusting in 11/25/ *PRAYER OF THE DAY Let us pray, Almighty and ever-living God, you anointed your beloved Son to be priest and sovereign forever. Grant that all the people of the earth, now divided by the power of sin, may be united by the glorious and gentle rule of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. WORD God speaks to us in scripture reading, preaching, and song. FIRST READING Daniel 7:9-10, Old Testament pg As I watched, thrones were set in place, and an Ancient One took his throne, his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and its wheels were burning fire. 10 A stream of fire issued and flowed out from his presence. A thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood attending him. The court sat in judgment, and the books were opened. 13 As I watched in the night visions, I saw one like a human being 11/25/2018 7

8 coming with the clouds of heaven. And he came to the Ancient One and was presented before him. 14 To him was given dominion and glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed. Word of God, word of life. Thanks be to God. PSALM 93 Old Testament pg The Lord is king, robed in majesty; the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength. The Lord has made the world so sure that it cannot be moved. 2 Ever since the world began, your throne has been established; you are from everlasting. 3 The waters have lifted up, O Lord, the waters have lifted up their voice; the waters have lifted up their pounding waves. 4 Mightier than the sound of many waters, mightier than the breaker of the sea, mightier is the Lord who dwells on high. 5 Your testimonies are very sure, and holiness befits your house, O Lord, forever and forevermore. and ever. 7 Look! He is coming with the clouds; every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail. So it is to be. 8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. Word of God, word of life. Thanks be to God. CHILDREN'S MESSAGE This is the Day! *GOSPEL ACCLAMATION ELW p. 142 *GOSPEL John 18:33-37 New Testament pg. 86 SECOND READING Revelation 1:4b-8 New Testament pg. 193 The holy gospel according to John. Glory to you, O Lord. 4b Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever 33 Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, Are you the King of the Jews? 34 Jesus answered, Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me? 35 Pilate replied, I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done? 36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, 11/25/ /25/2018 9