Welcome in the name of Jesus Christ!

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1 Welcome in the name of Jesus Christ! We thank God that you have joined us this morning for worship. If you are visiting with us, we thank God you are here and pray our worship together will be a mutual blessing. If you are looking for a church home, we hope Abiding Savior can meet your needs. Please introduce yourself to one of the Pastors. We ask both members and visitors to kindly fill out attendance cards and pass them to the center aisle. The ushers will gather them during the Sermon Hymn which follows the Children s Message. Feel free to add a prayer request for the Pastor to include in the congregational prayer. We love children here at Abiding Savior. Parents are encouraged to sit in the front pews so that young children can see what is happening during worship. If you should want to make use of our cry room or nursery, please ask one of our ushers for directions. Ministers Rev. Dr. Thomas Rogers... Senior Pastor Rev. Glenn Lucas... Associate Pastor Rev. Richard Schumm, Emeritus... Assistant to the Pastors Mrs. Donna Lucas... Principal Pam Howard... Preschool Director Chris Rogers... Music Director & Organist Kyle Salesky.Director of Family and Youth Ministries Hank Hellfeld... Deacon Call Us Church Office... (949) School Office... (949) Preschool Office... (949) On the Web...

2 Worship Service of Word and Song Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany Saturday, February 11, :00 p.m. Sunday, February 12, :30 a.m. WELCOME Please stand. OPENING CONGREGATIONAL SONG Our God Saves Sing Twice In the Name of the Father, in the Name of the Son, In the Name of the Spirit, Lord, we come; We re gather d together to lift up Your Name, To call on our Savior, to fall on Your grace; Hear the joyful sound of our offering as Your saints bow down, As Your people sing; We will rise with You, lifted on Your wings, And the world will see that Our God saves, our God saves; There is hope in Your Name; Mourning turns to songs of praise; Our God saves, our God saves. Words & Music by Paul Baloche & Brenton Brown Copyright 2007 Thankyou Music (Integrity s Hosanna! Music) All rights reserved Used by permission CCLI # INVOCATION Pastor: In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen! CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTI BSOLUTION ON Worshippers are invited to kneel for the Confession and Absolution. Those who desire not to kneel may sit or stand. Pastor: Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Pastor: If You, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness; therefore You are feared. Pastor: Since we are gathered to hear God s Word and call upon Him in prayer and praise, and receive the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ in the fellowship of this altar, let us first consider our unworthiness and confess before God and one another that we have sinned in thought, word, and deed, and that we cannot free ourselves from our sinful condition. Together as His people, let us take refuge in the infinite mercy of God, our heavenly Father, seeking His grace for the sake of Christ, and saying: God, be merciful to me, a sinner. 2

3 Almighty God, have mercy upon us, forgive us our sins, and lead us to everlasting life. Amen. Pastor: Almighty God in His mercy has given His Son to die for us and for His sake forgives us all our sins. As a called and ordained servant of Christ, and by His authority, I therefore forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. OLD TESTAMENT READING DEUTERONOMY 30:15-20 See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his just decrees then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. Lector: This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. CONGREGATIONAL SONG God of This City You re the God of this city, You re the King of these people, You re the Lord of this nation, You are. You re the light in this darkness, You re the hope to the hopeless, You re the peace to the restless, You are. Women: There is no one like our God, there is no one like our God! Greater things have yet to come, And greater things are still to be done in this city! Greater things have yet to come, And greater things are still to be done here. You re the Lord of creation, The Creator of all things, You re the King above all kings, You are. You re the Strength in the weakness, You re the Love to the broken, You re the Joy in the sadness, You are. 3

4 Women: There is no one like our God, there is no one like our God! Greater things have yet to come, And greater things are still to be done in this city! Where glory shines from hearts alive with praise for You and love for You in this city. Greater things have yet to come, and greater things are still to be done here. There is no one like our God, there is no one like our God! There is no one like You, God, there is no one like You, God! Greater things have yet to come, and greater things are still to be done here. Women: Aaron Boyd, Andrew McCann, Ian Jordan, Peter Comfort, Peter Kernoghan, Richard Bleakley Copyright 2006 sixsteps Music (Admin. By EMI Christian Music Publishing) All rights reserved Used by permission CCLI # EPISTLE READING 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-9 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, I follow Paul, and another, I follow Apollos, are you not being merely human? What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God s fellow workers. You are God s field, God s building. Reader: This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Please stand for the Reading of the Holy Gospel. THE HOLY GOSPEL LUKE 14:1-14 One Sabbath, when [Jesus] went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not? But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out? And they could not reply to these things. Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, Give your place to this person, and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. 4

5 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, Friend, move up higher. Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. He said also to the man who had invited him, When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just. Reader: This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to You O Christ. Worshippers are invited to stand and share the peace of the Lord with each other. Children can come down to the chancel steps for the children s message. CHILDREN HILDREN S MESSAGE 9:30 a.m. Children going to Sunday School will be met at the back of the church in the center aisle. Prayer and member/guest cards will be collected during the singing of the following song: CONGREGATIONAL SONG Facedown Welcomed in to the courts of the King, I ve been ushered in to Your presence. Lord, I stand on Your merciful ground, Yet with every step tread with reverence. Welcomed in to the courts of the King, I ve been ushered in to Your presence. Lord, I stand on Your merciful ground, Yet with every step tread with reverence. Refrain: And I ll fall facedown As Your glory shines around. Yes, I ll fall facedown As Your glory shines around. Who is there in the heavens like You, And upon the earth, who s Your equal? You are far above, You re the highest of heights. We are bowing down to exalt You. Refrain Words & Music by Matt Redman Copyright 2003 Thankyou Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved. CCLI # THE SERMON REV EV. STEVE LEINHOS APOSTLE POSTLES CREED I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His 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 into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead. 5

6 I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. GATHERING OF OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS God doesn t need our money, but in His grace He gives us the privilege to be stewards of everything He has entrusted to our care. We can do more together than separately. As one body in Christ, our congregation has agreed to offer our first fruits to support ministries and missions that enable us to communicate Christ s love to everyone, everywhere; and our love for Him. Your sacrificial gift enables this holy work. MUSICAL OFFERING THE PRAYERS Transfiguration Transfiguration ABIDING PRAISE THE LORD ORD 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 for ever and ever. Amen. HO HOLY COMMUNION REGARDING HOLY COMMUNION As Lutheran communicants, we believe that Jesus Christ is truly present in this holy supper. Be mindful of the words of St. Paul: Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. (1 Corinthians 11:28) Are you truly sorry for your sins? Do you believe your sins are forgiven because Jesus died for them? Do you believe that Jesus gives you His own body and blood in the sacrament as a seal of that forgiveness? Do you have the sincere intent to do better in living the Christian life? Then come, and receive assurance and strength from Jesus. NOTE: In the center of each communion tray are a few glasses with grape juice wine for those who are on alcohol restrictive medications or who, for personal reasons, wish to abstain from wine. Also we have gluten-free communion wafers available for those who need them. They are in the small plastic containers on the wafer trays (patens). The empty plastic containers may be placed in the bags with the used communion cups. WORDS OF INSTITUTION Pastor: Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night when He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to the disciples and said: Take, eat; this is my body, which is given for you. This do in remembrance of me. In the same way also He took the cup after supper, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying: Drink of it, all of you; this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. 6

7 THE PEACE Pastor: The peace of the Lord be with you. People: And also with you. DISTRIBUTION SONGS Come as You Are Come out of sadness from wherever you've been. Come broken-hearted, let rescue begin. Come find your mercy, O sinner come kneel. Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can't heal. Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can't heal. Refrain: (So) Lay down your burdens, lay down your shame. All who are broken, lift up your face. O wanderer come c home, You're not too far. So lay down your hurt, lay down your heart, Come as you are. There's hope for the hopeless And all those who've strayed. Come sit at the table, come taste the grace. There's rest for the weary, Rest that endures. Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can't cure. Refrain Come as you are, Fall in His arms. Come as you are. There's joy for the morning, O sinner be still. Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can't heal. Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can't heal. Refrain Come as you are. Come as you are. Come as you are. Come as you are. CCLI Song # Ben Glover David Crowder Matt Maher In the Shadow of the Cross In the shadow of the cross, Let everything fall into place, again. Jesus Christ my Sacrifice, How I need to find your grace, again. Refrain: And nothing I can do could add to all You ve done, So let my soul be satisfied. As I receive Your favor, I will overcome. So in my life be glorified. Jesus Christ, my Perfect Priest, How You understand my weaknesses. Thank You for Your gift to me. Through Your sufferings I now possess this peace. Refrain 7

8 Let my soul be satisfied. Let my soul be satisfied. In my life be glorified. In my life be glorified. Words & Music by Paul Oakley Copyright 1999 Thankyou Muisc (Admin. By EMI Christian Music Publishing) All rights reserved. Used by permission. CCLI # PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Pastor: Let us pray. O God our Father, the fountain and source of all goodness, who in loving-kindness sent Your only-begotten Son into the flesh, we thank You that for His sake You have given us pardon and peace in this sacrament, and we ask You not to forsake Your children but always to rule our hearts and minds by Your Holy Spirit that we may be enabled to serve You constantly; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. BENEDICTION Pastor: The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you. The Lord look upon you with favor and give you peace. Amen! CLOSING CONGREGATIONAL SONG God Of Brilliant Lights Sing it out, shout it loud, cover all the earth. Let the sound of the saints ev ry-where be heard. Praise the God who has come to cure ev ry broken heart. He is Lord over all; His reign will never end. Through the fire and the flood, He draws His children in. He s the light of the world brighter than the brightest star. The God of Brilliant lights is shining down over us, Breaking through the darkness covering all the earth. Oh, His love is like an ocean. Oh, forever overflowing. The God of brilliant lights is shining over us. Sinners come to the cross and lay your troubles down At the feet of the One whose mercy will abound. He s not afraid of our filth; He will never turn away. The God of Brilliant lights is shining down over us, Breaking through the darkness covering all the earth. Oh, His love is like an ocean. Oh, forever overflowing. 8

9 The God of brilliant lights is shining over us, He s shining over us. Like the morning rises, God, Your light is shining! Shining over us, He s shining over us. Like the morning rises, God, Your light is shining! Shining over us, He s shining over us. Like the morning rises, God, Your light is shining over us. The God of brilliant lights is shining down over us, Breaking through the darkness covering all the earth. Oh, His love is like an ocean. Oh, forever overflowing. Oh, His love has overtaken. Oh, we ll never be forsaken. The God of brilliant lights, the God of brilliant lights is shining over us. He s shining over us. Words & Music by Scott Cash, Ed Cash & Aaron Shust 2013 Bridge Building Music, Inc. Used by Permission. All rights reserved. CCLI # Pastor: Go in peace. Serve the Lord. Thanks be to God. Flowers ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The flowers which grace our altar this weekend are dedicated to the glory of the Lord in celebration of Lori Beniche iche s birthday. We Pray For This Week Roger & Joyce Brown, Bill & Jill Brubaker & Family, Tony & Chriss Buban & Family, Emmanuel & Karyn Bucur & Family, Raymond Bunetta, Eric & Donna Burgdorf & Family, Phyllis Burns & Family, Alan & Leslye Cain, Peter & Janet Calhoun & Family, Lu Calloway & Family Keep in Your Prayers Prayers for strength and healing, guidance and blessing for: Betsy Hotsko Patricia Howard Elizabeth Hurley Jeanne Kelly Brad Lucente Jon Ninke Bruce Olson Ross Marchand Jan McFarlane Suzanne Bailey Bill Bartlett Leigh Bassler Dorothy Carnevale Vincent Carnevale Nicole Duston Jon Fielding Terri Green Alexander Hernandez Crystal Nylander Brett Riedlinger Lee Seib Junko Shiki Denice Soresi Eileen Stewart Vernita Warsinski Ed Williams Judy Williams 9

10 We pray for those who are ill: Irene Fabre Larry Reimnitz Lou Torres Etsuko Busker Rosemary Colburn We pray for those who are recovering: Jeff Conrad Roger Gross Rocky Hewitt June Thomas 10