THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT

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1 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many Mark 10:45 THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT Order of Worship March 22, :00 am Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod) 3014 McKinley St N E info@gloriadeilcms.org Minneapolis, MN website:

2 Welcome to God s house today!!! A special welcome to visitors and guests; we are pleased that you have joined us today! If you have no church family and if we can be of any help to you please call the pastor or speak with him after the service. We invite all guests to sign the Guest Register or the visitor s card in the pew. We pray that as we continue to celebrate Christ s resurrection, through God s Word and all of worship, you will feel God s love for you and be empowered to live as God s child this week. Today s Focus What should we think about the day they went to Jesus and said to Him: "Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask of You." And when Jesus answered, "What is it you want Me to do for you?" Today let us regard James and John and their audacious request with far more seriousness than we may want to at first. Let us regard James and John as if they were us and realize that we haven t been listening and taking to heart what God has been saying to us. Is there something you d like us to pray for today? There are yellow Prayer Request cards at the Usher counter. Please hand your request to an usher before the service or hand it to them during the offering. They will give them to the pastor to include in the prayers for today. The Lord s Supper is celebrated on the 1st & 3rd Sundays /month. We joyfully share our conviction that this is The Lord's Table. We receive the true Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, together with the bread and wine in a manner our human reason cannot understand. (Real Presence) By communing together with our Lord and one another: - we express a common faith that Jesus is Son of God and Son of Man - that Jesus is our Savior and only way for salvation; - That Jesus offers us His Body and Blood in a mysterious yet real way - that Christ's sacrificial death assures us of the forgiveness of our sins; - and that God is strengthening us in this Sacrament to live a more godly life and to amend with the help of the Holy Spirit, those areas not in conformity with God s will. - We declare these statements because it is our concern for people to not be hypocritical between their faith and practice. Those who share these convictions are welcome to come and celebrate the blessings of God's Table at the Altar. Persons unable to approach the Altar may be communed in the pew, please notify the Pastor or Elder if you wish this service. The white wine in the center is denatured (alcohol removed) wine. MIDWEEK 5 March 25 th at 6:30 pm continues our journey down the road to understand the Lenten Lies, we will consider some of those lies as we also consider the answers of Jesus who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Our theme for Midweek 5 is Entertainment is Always Good Luke 23:4-9.

3 BIRTHDAYS 28 th Millie House ANNIVERSARY: 26 th Rick & Vicki Tousignant IN OUR PRAYERS Jean Brede, Karmon Christopherson, Walter Cutter, Harvey Gresens, Don Grunnes, Madeline Heining, Ashley Kruse, Lorraine Niemela, Roselyn Norman, Rev. Gerald Peterson, Shirley Slagle REQUESTED PRAYERS The family of Wally Schultz (Layne Bettermann s cousin) Lisa Kleinwolterink (K & M Christopherson s daughter) Mandy (niece of Deb Forsberg) Dick Gillund (Patty & Meridel s brother) Dennis Larson (Dorothy Woll s brother) Jimmy Royal (friend of Patty & Meridel s brother) Lawrence Schlais, Jr. (Larry Schlais father) Kathy Schnapp (Don Grunnes cousin) John Svac (Bev s son) TODAY S LUTHERAN HOUR "No Regrets? Follow Jesus!" Matt. 16:21-26 In the end, forgiven sinners will not regret having followed Jesus. NEXT WEEK ON THE LUTHERAN HOUR March 29 "Show Me" John 19:17-18 Speaker Emeritus: Rev. Ken Klaus Jesus really did die and three days later He really did conquer death through His resurrection. Listen on WCCO AM at 6:05 am, Sunday mornings, or listen anytime at If you subscribe to XM Satellite Radio you can also hear The Lutheran Hour on XM 170 Sundays at noon. NEW SECRETARY NEEDED God has blessed Jeannie and George with a new opportunity to serve Him. They will be returning to Missouri as soon as their house is sold. We will surely miss her! Please keep Jeannie and George, as well as the ERC, in your prayers as we look for her replacement. SUNDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY Today we continue our four week Sunday study called Build Your Kingdom Here. What we do is often an even more powerful witness than what we say. WED MORNING BIBLE CLASS at 10 am noon. We will be continuing our study of Genesis chapter 16. CONSTANT SEEKERS 16:11 Our next time of prayer will be Monday, March 30th at 6:30 pm in the Koinonia Room. If you cannot join us, please be a part of the group by praying individually at home.

4 COINS for MISSIONS We will be collecting coins to help support the new mission River of Life Lutheran Church, St. Peters, MN. Any loose change you have can be deposited into the yellow cans at the back of the church. We will be collecting coins through Sunday, June 14 th. The coins will be given at the Opening Service on June 18 the MNS District Convention. CONSTANT SEEKERS 16:11 Our next time of prayer will be Monday, March 30th at 6:30 pm in the Koinonia Room. If you cannot join us, please be a part of the group by praying individually at home. A NEW WEDNESDAY BIBLE STUDY After Easter a new study on the three Epistles of John will be starting. This is an excellent time to see if you are true to the Doctrinal, Social and Moral tests that John establishes for the early Church. See you there!!! LUTHERANS FOR LIFE In America, we removed the religious moral compass from our children and now we are shocked when some sad soul murders his classmates. We removed morality from our youngster s education, and we are surprised to see high schoolers sexting. This is why we say we can do no better than to listen to the Lord. Rev. Ken Klaus, speaker emeritus on The Lutheran Hour ANNUAL SPRING KITCHEN AND DINING ROOM CLEANING Our kitchen and our tables and chairs need their yearly cleaning. Thursday, March 26th at 9:00 a.m. is the day for both men and women to put on your scrubbing clothes and help with the project. The more hands, the faster the project will go. Please bring your own rubber gloves, rags and buckets; we ll purchase the cleaning supplies. We ll keep a coffee pot on. Let s make it a party!! WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELP!! There is a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board. STEWARDSHIP Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. Jesus gives everything He has: He gives Himself. That self-giving is the model for our giving in all aspects of our lives. In our family, in our church, and in the world at large, Jesus calls us to follow His example in self-giving. We can only do this if we are connected to His self-giving in faith. SALVATION ARMY FOOD SHELF Remember the needy when you are shopping! This past month 71 lbs. of food was donated. Food as well as household supplies are needed at the Salvation Army. Thanks! DEUTSCHER GOTTESDIENST, Good Friday, April 3 rd, 10:30 am, at Trinity First Church, Minneapolis. Rev. Peter Nafzger will deliver the message.

5 OUR WEEKLY CALENDAR 03/22 Sun Lent 5 8:45 am Education Hour 10 am Worship 11:15 am Bible Class 1-3 pm TLCM Worship 6 pm NA 03/23 Mon 6:30 pm AL-ANON 1 8 pm AA & AL ANON 2 03/24 Tues 9 am Pastors Winkle 03/25 Wed 10 am Bible Class Noon Newsletter assembly 6:30 pm Midweek Service 6:30 pm TLWCC Bible Class 03/26 Thur 10 am API 03/27 Fri Pastor s Day Off 5 pm TLWCC Music Practice 8 pm AA 03/28 Sat 10 am TLWCC Worship 2 pm TLCM Music Practice 6 pm TLWCC Worship & Fellowship 03/29 Sun Palm Sunday 8:45 am Education Hour 10 am Worship 11:15 am Bible Class 1-3 pm TLCM Worship 6 pm NA Attendance: 03/15 43; Midweek $250 Giving: 03/15 Loose/Regular $1,655; Lent $20; Flowers $30; Total $1,705 Needed for 2015 Budget: $3, SERVING TODAY Elder: Karmon Christopherson; Ushers: Wade Billmeyer, Dale Raschke Altar Care: Shirley Holzinger Counters: Lorraine Niemela, Verlayne Sather NEWSLETTER ASSEMBLY Since our newsletters will now be received in our mailboxes here at church, or via , they can be assembled later in the month. This month s newsletter assembly will be held Wednesday, March 25 th at noon.

6 LIFE LINE SCREENING We are pleased to host this Life Line Screening event on April 22 at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. Do you have high cholesterol or high blood pressure, or have a poor diet? If you answer yes to any of these questions, you may want to consider being screened for your risk of stroke. Life Line Screening uses ultrasound technology to view the plaque build-up in your carotid arteries, the main arteries that carry blood to the brain. Blockages in these arteries are a leading cause of stroke. Register for a Wellness Package which includes 4 vascular tests and osteoporosis screening from $149 ($139 with our member discount). All five screenings take minutes to complete. In order to register for this event and to receive a $10 discount off any package priced above $129, please call or visit EASTER SUNDAY IS APRIL 5 TH! We are ordering again from Bachman s the last day to order is Palm Sunday, March 29th. A sign-up sheet is on the entryway bulletin board. As always, you can bring your own too but sign the sheet so we know how many flowers to plan for! Easter lilies $7.50 (6 ) white Asiatic Lily $5.50 (6 ) pink, yellow, orange Mums $10.00 (6 ) yellow, white, purple Azaleas $15.50 (6 ) pink, white, pink/white bi-color Tulips $8.50 (6 ) yellow, purple, orange, pink Hydrangea $18.00 (6.5 ) blue Pansy Bowl $17.50 (14 ) LENTEN SEASON REMINDERS March 25 Midweek 6 6:30 pm Entertainment Is Always Good Luke 23:4-9 March 29 Palm Sunday 10 am He Made Himself Nothing Philippians 2:5-11 April 2 Maundy Thursday - HC Noon and 6:30 pm Only Bread and Wine Matthew 26:26-28 April 3 Good Friday Noon and 6:30 pm Death Is Always Bad April 5 The Resurrection of Our Lord - HC 10 am The Final Lie 1 Corinthians 15:17-20 DIAL-A-DEVOTION is a daily devotion supported by Trinity Lutheran Church, White Bear Lake. There is a new devotion and prayer each day. Call and follow the directions.

7 Catechesis Note for the Week Jesus Christ, True God and True Man Jesus Christ took on human nature without ceasing to be God. He is true God and true Man. When the time had fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman Galatians 4:4 The promise of a Saviour that God had made to Adam and Eve as they were expelled from Paradise was fulfilled: I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. (Gen 3:15). From then until the moment when the Word became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14), The origin of the Incarnation is God's love for mankind. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him (1 Jn 4:9). The Incarnation is the supreme sign of God's love for us, since God gives himself to us through the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity coming to share in our human nature in the unity of the Son's divine Person. The Incarnation is the mystery of the wonderful union of the divine and human natures in the one person of the Word. The Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human. He became truly man while remaining truly God. Jesus Christ is true God and true man" The Incarnation has a saving and redemptive purpose, as we profess in the Creed. who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary and was made man. Christ said of Himself that the Son of man came to seek and to save what was lost (Matt 18:11), and that God sent His Son into the world not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved by Him ( John 3:17). The Church defended and clarified this truth of faith during the first centuries against the heresies which denied or misrepresented it. As far back as the 1st century some Christians of Jewish origin, the Ebionites, held that Christ was simply a very holy man. Adoptionism" arose in the 2 nd century, maintaining that Jesus was the adopted son of God: that Jesus was only a man in whom God's strength dwelt. It was condemned in 190 A.D., by the Council of Antioch in 268. The Arian heresy, by denying the divinity of the Word, also denied that Jesus Christ was God. Arius was condemned by the Council of Nicaea in the year 325. Today we confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God subsistent from all eternity and that in the Incarnation He assumed human nature in His one divine Person.

8 Today s Scripture Readings Jeremiah 31:31-34: The Old Covenant was a promise of grace through faithfulness to the Law of the Lord. The Old Covenant was broken by the children of Israel. Only Jesus could keep the Old Covenant, and it is precisely His faithfulness unto death for us whereby He inaugurates the New Covenant in His blood. The New Covenant proclaims that all is finished and completed in Christ. The New Covenant proclaims forgiveness - the very message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which redeems, justifies, and sanctifies us. It is by this New Covenant that we all know the Lord, from the least to the greatest, because He forgives our iniquity and our sin He remembers no more. Hebrews 5:1-10: The High Priests in Old Testament times were able to have compassion on the people for whom they offered sacrifices and prayers because they, too, were beset with weakness. This is an important lesson for pastors today. If they don t know and understand their own sinful weakness, if they don t receive the ministry of grace for themselves, how will they be able to minister faithfully to fellow sinners? As the Old Testament priests did not take this honor upon themselves; they were called to it. So also Christ, did not honor Himself, but was called by the Father into an eternal priesthood, after the order of Melchizedek (the King of righteousness), in order to sympathize with us in our weakness by bearing our sin and to offer the final offering in His own death upon the cross. Mark 10:32-45: We cannot make atonement for our sin by our own suffering and death. Only Jesus can make satisfaction for us. Only He can drink the cup of suffering and be baptized with the baptism of death for our transgressions. And yet, we will share in His suffering and death through our baptism into Christ and through the Holy Communion. These wonderful Sacraments give us the freedom and joy of salvation in Christ, but they also carry the promise that we who confess the name of Jesus will be called upon to suffer ourselves as a testimony to our faith in the One who suffered and died for us. It is sometimes in the suffering and persecution we patiently endure that we are the greatest servant of those who do not believe in Christ. Next Week s Readings Palm Sunday Zechariah 9:9-12; Psalm 118; Philippians 2:5-11; Mark 15:1-47

9 AS WE GATHER In order for us to get the full impact of the Gospel Lesson for this Sunday, we need to pay special attention to what Jesus says before the confrontation with the disciples "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the gentiles, who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise." The disciples didn t seem to be listening. So it behooves us to check if we are listening. WE ENTER TO WORSHIP AND BE BLESSED PRESERVICE MUSIC/WELCOME CALL TO WORSHIP Lord Jesus Christ, Be Present Now LSB 902 INVOCATION CONFESSION ABSOLUTION INTROIT PRAYER FOR THE DAY HYMN OF PRAISE My Hope is Built on Nothing Less LSB 575 THE LORD COMES TO US IN HIS WORD OLD TESTAMENT READING Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV NEW TESTAMEANT READING Hebrews 5:1-10 ESV GOSPEL ANTHEM There is a Redeemer HOLY GOSPEL READING Mark 10:32-45 ESV THE APOSTLE S CREED HYMN Church of God, Elect and Glorious LSB 646 SERMON The Glory of the Cross Mark 10:32-45 ESV OUR RESPONSE TO THE WORD OFFERTORY Create in Me a Clean Heart LSB 192 OFFERING OF GOD S PEOPLE THE OFFERING PRAYER PRAYERS OF THE CHURCH THE LORD S PRAYER BENEDICTION CLOSING HYMN Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Your Word 655 LSB WE DEPART TO SERVE Don t forget to order your Easter Garden flowers!