Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost October 22, 2017

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Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost October 22, 2017 Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church 460 West Annapolis Street - West Saint Paul, MN 55118 Church Office: (651) 457-9232 Fax: (651) 457-1893

1 Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost October 22, 2017 Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church 460 West Annapolis Street - West Saint Paul, MN Church Office: (651) Fax: (651) stjlc@saintjameslutheran.com Visit our web site: Pastor Michael Albrecht malbrecht@saintjameslutheran.com Pastor Dale Critchley dcritchley@saintjameslutheran.com Terese Thune Youth Director tthune@saintjameslutheran.com Pastor Ralph Rokke rrokke@saintjameslutheran.com Pastor Richard Stadler rstadler@saintjameslutheran.com Tom Rowland Organist & Choir Director trowland5726@comcast.net Shirley Hess Parish Nurse pnstjlc@saintjameslutheran.com

2 WELCOME TO WORSHIP! The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost October 22, 2017 Separation of Church and State is a slogan we hear often. Martin Luther calls the Church the Kingdom of God s right hand and the State the Kingdom of God s left hand. Both the Church and the State have been instituted by God. We are citizens of both kingdoms. So, what shall we give to Caesar, and what shall we give to God? GUESTS AND VISITORS, we are delighted that you are worshiping with us today! Please take a moment to fill out a Welcome, Guest card which is available in the pew racks and place it in the offering. For every guest who completes this form, Saint James will donate $5 to the Neighbor s Food Shelf. Also, stop by the Visitor Welcome Center as you leave and pick up a small gift. Thank you for coming, and please come back and visit again soon. You are always welcome here at Saint James. LARGE PRINT COPIES OF THE SERVICE ARE AVAILABLE IN THE NARTHEX. PREPARING FOR WORSHIP You are invited to ponder Psalm 96, which can be found in the pew Bible on pages SPECIAL POCKET HEARING SYSTEMS are available from the ushers for anyone desiring an amplified broadcast of the service. THE NURSERY is not staffed but is available for parents who have young children who become noisy or restless during the service. We are thankful for families who teach their children to worship by bringing them to church. When your little ones become noisy, feel free to take them to the narthex or the nursery to settle them down. The service can be seen and heard on TV in both locations. 2

THE ORDER OF SERVICE ORGAN PRELUDE: The God of Abraham Praise Proulx GATHERING HYMN: Christian Worship #582 Awake, My Soul, and with the Sun Thomas Ken was born at Berkhampstead in July of 1637.

3 THE ORDER OF SERVICE ORGAN PRELUDE: The God of Abraham Praise Proulx GATHERING HYMN: Christian Worship #582 Awake, My Soul, and with the Sun Thomas Ken was born at Berkhampstead in July of Both of his parents died during his childhood, and he grew up under the guardianship of Izaak Walton, author of The Compleat Angler, who had married his elder sister, Ann. Ken was educated at Winchester College and Oxford, graduating in The dominant Presbyterianism of Winchester and Oxford did not shake his firm attachment to the Church of England. He became the Bishop of Bath and Wells in Bishop Ken is known as the author of the Morning, Evening, and Midnight Hymns, the first and second of which have found a place in almost every English hymnal for the last 150 years. Ken died at Longleat on March 19, At dawn the following day, while his faithful friends sang "Awake, my soul, and with the sun," he was laid to rest beneath the East Window of the Church of St. John in Frome the nearest parish in his old Diocese of Bath and Wells. "I am dying," Ken had written, "in the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West; and, more particularly, in the Communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from both Papal and Protestant innovation, and adheres to the Doctrine of the Cross." Those able, please stand for stanza 5 PASTORAL GREETING: Pastor Albrecht SERVICE OF THE WORD: Christian Worship, ages PRAYER OF THE DAY Please be seated PSALM OF THE DAY: Christian Worship, page 102 Psalm 96 SAINT JAMES CHOIR: (10:30) O Worship the King Callaway OLD TESTAMENT LESSON: Isaiah 45:1-7 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed: 2 I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron, More than 100 years before Cyrus the Great was born, the prophet Isaiah promised that God would use Cyrus to accomplish great things. The LORD says, I call you by your name though you do not know me. 3

3 I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.

4 3 I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name. 4 For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me. 5 I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, 6 that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. 7 I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things. Reading Response P: This is the word of the Lord. C: Thanks be to God! P: Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Alleluia! C: (sing) Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! The Apostle Paul rejoices that the faithfulness of the Thessalonian believers has become well known in Macedonia (northern Greece) and in Achaia (southern Greece). The Thessalonians have endured persecution, but they wait eagerly for Jesus, who rose from the dead. EPISTLE LESSON: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. 2 We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, 3 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 4 For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, 5 because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake. 6 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, 7 so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8 For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything. 9 For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. Reading Response P: This is the word of the Lord. C: Thanks be to God! 4

VERSE OF THE DAY: Christian Worship, page 40 GOSPEL LESSON: Matthew 22:15-22 15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.

5 VERSE OF THE DAY: Christian Worship, page 40 GOSPEL LESSON: Matthew 22: Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. 16 And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone s opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances. 17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? 18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? 19 Show me the coin for the tax. And they brought him a denarius. 20 And Jesus said to them, Whose likeness and inscription is this? 21 They said, Caesar s. Then he said to them, Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar s, and to God the things that are God s. 22 When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away. Reading Response P: This is the Gospel of the Lord. C: Praise to You, O Christ! Those able, please stand The Pharisees and the Herodians did not usually get along with each other, but they work together to set a trap for Jesus. If Jesus recommends paying taxes to Caesar, many of the Jews will disagree. If Jesus opposes payment of taxes to Caesar, the Herodians will accuse Him of rebellion against the Romans. THE APOSTLES CREED: Christian Worship, page 41 SAINT JAMES CHOIR: (10:30) Praise to the Lord Hastings Please be seated SERMON HYMN: Christian Worship #618 Before the Lord We Bow Francis Scott Key was born August 1, 1779 at Terra Rubra, the family plantation in Frederick County (now Carroll County) Maryland. Key graduated from St. John s College in Annapolis, Maryland in 1796, and read the law under his uncle, Philip Barton Key, who was (along with his wife) loyal to the British Crown during the Revolutionary War. Key married Mary Lloyd on January 1, During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the British Colonel John Skinner, dined aboard a British ship. Skinner and Key were there to negotiate the release of prisoners, one of whom was a resident of Maryland, who had been arrested after jailing British troops who were looting local farms. Key was not allowed to return to his own ship because he had become familiar with the strength and position of the British units and with the British intent to attack Baltimore. Thus, Key was unable to do anything but watch the bombarding of the American forces at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore on the night of September 13 14, At dawn, Key saw an American flag still waving. Back in Baltimore, Key wrote a poem about his experience, "Defence of Fort M'Henry." Thomas Carr, a music publisher, set it to the tune To Anacreon in Heaven, a popular tune Key had already used for his earlier song "When the Warrior Returns," celebrating U.S. heroes of the First Barbary War. (Key also used the "star-spangled" flag imagery in the earlier song.) Though somewhat difficult to sing, The Star Spangled Banner became increasingly popular, competing with Hail, Columbia, which was the de facto national anthem by the time of the Civil War. More than a century after its first publication, Key s song was adopted as the American national anthem, first by an Executive Order from President Wilson in 1916 (which had little effect beyond requiring military bands to play what became known as the "Service Version") and then by a Congressional resolution in 1931, signed by President Hoover. 5 Children are invited to come forward during the sermon hymn for the Children s Message.

SERMON: Text: Matthew 22:15-22 Title: What Shall We Give to God? Those able, please stand RESPONSE TO THE SERMON: Christian Worship, page 20 Give online at give.4gvn.

6 SERMON: Text: Matthew 22:15-22 Title: What Shall We Give to God? Those able, please stand RESPONSE TO THE SERMON: Christian Worship, page 20 Give online at give.4gvn.us You can find step by step directions in the I Give Online card available in the pew racks. OFFERING: We joyously and gratefully bring our first fruits to God. OFFERTORY: Let all mortal flesh keep silence Schack Those able, please stand HYMN OF REDEDICATION: Christian Worship #619 God Bless Our Native Land Charles Timothy Brooks was an American Unitarian minister, born at Salem, Massachusetts on June 20, He graduated from Harvard in 1832, and from the Divinity School at Cambridge in In that year, he began his ministry at Nahant, Massachusetts, subsequently preaching at Bangor and Augusta in Maine, and at Windsor, Vermont. In 1837, he became pastor at Newport, Rhode Island, where he remained until 1871, when he resigned because of ill-health. Brooks translated Friedrich Schiller s William Tell from German into English in This was followed by translations of many other German poems and songs. In 1853, after a voyage to India for his health, Brooks wrote a narrative titled Eight Months on the Ocean and Eight Weeks in India." He died at Newport, Rhode Island on June 14, Please be seated PRAYER FOR OURSELVES AND OTHERS LORD S PRAYER Those able, please stand BENEDICTION 6

SENDING HYMN: Christian Worship #617 Christ, by Heavenly Hosts Adored Henry Harbaugh was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania on October 24, 1817, of Swiss descent.

In 1844, he began his service as pastor at Lewisburg, Lancaster and Lebanon, Pennsylvania. In 1864, he became Professor of Theology at Mercersburg.

7 SENDING HYMN: Christian Worship #617 Christ, by Heavenly Hosts Adored Henry Harbaugh was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania on October 24, 1817, of Swiss descent. In early life he was a farmer, carpenter, and teacher, but in 1840 he entered Marshall College in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. He became a minister of the German Reformed Church. In 1844, he began his service as pastor at Lewisburg, Lancaster and Lebanon, Pennsylvania. In 1864, he became Professor of Theology at Mercersburg. He was Editor of the Mercersburg Review, in which, together with Philip Schaff and John Nevin, he advocated what was called "Mercersburg Theology." His published works include books about heaven, and his Poems, published at Philadelphia in The next year he published Hymns & Chants for Sunday Schools, which includes his hymns. He died December 27, John Nevin summarized the Mercersburg Theology by saying, "Christ saves the world, not ultimately by what He teaches or by what He does, but by what He is in the Incarnation." Nevin's most popular work was The Mystical Presence, a study of the doctrine of the Lord's Supper. Another significant aspect of the Mercersburg Theology is found in Philip Schaff's Principle of Protestantism. Schaff says, "The Reformation must be regarded as still incomplete. It needs yet its concluding act to unite what has fallen asunder." He proposes a reunion of the subjective doctrines of Protestantism with the objective character of the Roman Catholic Church. This belief fostered a generous ecumenism extended toward all, especially toward Roman Catholics. The Mercersburg Theology favored an altar-based liturgy as opposed to pulpit-centered worship, centered on a lengthy sermon. This included more formal prayers, an altar rather than a table for the Lord's Supper, and a sacramental sensibility. These changes were seen as a movement in the direction of Lutheranism. ORGAN POSTLUDE: Guide me ever, Great Redeemer Carlson 7

8 SAINT JAMES FOUNDATION Remember the Foundation in your will your gift can make a difference for generations to come. Suggested Wording: In thanks to God for the gift of His Son Jesus, and for all His blessings to me in my lifetime, I gift and bequeath to Saint James Lutheran Church Foundation at 460 West Annapolis Street, West Saint Paul, MN the amount of $ or (specify the asset.). Stewardship Thought You have God in Christ. Everything else is but glitter. Be wise with the resources you have. (Contributed by a Saint James member) SERVING IN OUR WORSHIP TODAY Pastor Michael Albrecht (preaching) Pastor Dale Critchley Organist and Choir Director: Tom Rowland Saint James Choir Ushers: (8:00) Len Bohrer and Team #3 (10:30) Dave Miller and Team #4 Audio Video Team: Hannah Critchley, Sharon Ferrara, Glenn & Wendy Gatzke, Jerry Hinz, Becky Martinez, Len & Diane Munson, Jerry Peterson, Lorna Redding, and Leif Thune Screen Slide Production: Ami Heesch PEOPLE TO PRAY FOR Let us remember to pray for some of our veteran members: Lonelle Crawford, Lil Gerber, Anamae Grappendorf MISSIONS TO PRAY FOR This week please pray for Pastor Dan Schmelzer and his wife Patty, who work with street boys in Kisumu, Kenya to reconcile them with their families so they can return home. FLOWERS The flowers in the chancel vases are given in loving memory of Jon Clawson, who entered his eternal home 5 years ago on October 19 th, and in memory of his father, Tom Clawson, provided by Sue, Tim, and Tom and Bridget Living as a Local Missionary Make a list of coworkers on your calendar, one each week, and find a way to make your weekly subject s job more pleasant. If you would like to order FLOWERS please contact Altar Guild Flower Chairwoman Kathy Stadler at or stadlerek@comcast.net. 8

Third Sunday after the Epiphany January 21, 2018

Third Sunday after the Epiphany January 21, 2018 Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church 460 West Annapolis Street - West Saint Paul, MN 55118 Church Office: (651) 457-9232 Fax: (651) 457-1893 www.saintjameslutheran.com