Saturday (Contemporary Worship) 5:00p Sunday (Traditional Worship) 8:00a & 10:45a Adult Bible Studies and Sunday School 9:30a The Bridge 11:00a Saturday (The Bridge
WELCOME! GUEST SERVICES: Are you interested in Bible classes, Sunday School, youth activities or our senior adult ministry? Stop by the information center in the lobby we want to meet you and help you. GUEST PARKING: For your convenience, guest parking is located across from the main church entrance. AUTOMATIC DOORS: Two sets of automatic doors are available. One is located on the west entrance door (4) and the other is located on the main doors (2). LISTENING DEVICES for those who have difficulty hearing the service are available at the sound booth at the back of the sanctuary. TODAY S SERMON IS AVAILABLE ONLINE, along with prior sermons and Bible studies, at www.stmfw.org/recorded-sermons/. St. Michael loves new parents and small children! WE WELCOME CHILDREN IN WORSHIP, but if you need it, a nursery for children under age 5 is located in Room 24B. Please ask an usher for directions. BUDDY BAGS are available for small children in the lobby. You may pick one up prior to service and return on your way out. Enjoy! CHANGING TABLES are located in the family and women s restrooms adjacent to the lobby. THE CRY ROOM is our lobby. Please pull up a chair so that you may watch and listen to our worship service. INFORMATION ABOUT MOPS: contact Alyssa Bornheimer at stephenalyssa@gmail.com. 1
THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER April 29, 2018 Theme of the Day: A Baptist pastor, named Robert Lowry (1826 1899), aptly summarizes today s reading from Leviticus 17: What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus! What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus! PRESERVICE INVOCATION AND CALL TO WORSHIP [From selected verses in Hebrews 10:19 22] P: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. C: Amen. P: Since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus C: By a new and living way opened up for us. P: Let us draw near to God with sincere hearts and in full assurance of faith C: Having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience. P: Christ is risen! All: He is risen, indeed! Alleluia! HYMN Jesus Lives! The Victory s Won 490 (stanzas 1 4) WELCOME CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS P: O Holy One of Israel, we call to you and name you as eternal, ever-present, and boundless in love. Yet there are times, O God, when we become weak and weary. C: Sometimes shame clenches tightly around our hearts, and we feel like giving up. P: Sometimes fear makes us feel so small, then our problems look so big. C: Sometimes doubt invades our lives, and our spirits languish. 2
P: Holy God, in the daily round from sunrise to sunset, remind us again that in Jesus you are near us, for us and in us. C: He has come to bring good news to the poor; P: To bind up the brokenhearted; C: And to proclaim liberty to the captives. P: What can wash away my sin? All: Nothing but the blood of Jesus! You are invited to silently reflect on the fact that though our sin is great, Christ s love is greater. P: In Jesus Christ our God gives us a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. His blood was shed for you! Your sins are completely and eternally forgiven in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Christ is risen! All: He is risen, indeed! Alleluia! HYMN Jesus Lives! The Victory s Won 490 (stanza 5) PRAYER OF THE DAY P: The Lord be with you. C: And also with you. P: Let us pray. Loving Father, you tell us through Moses that life is in the blood. We thank and praise you that through Christ s cleansing blood we have life forgiven life, joyful life and resurrection life. We pray in Jesus name. All: Amen. CHILDREN S MESSAGE EIGHTH GRADE CONFIRMATION TESTIMONY 8:00a Landyn Ringenberg, whose confirmation verse is 2 Timothy 2:5 CHILDREN S CHURCH 10:45a Led by Heather Nutter Supervised Children s Church is in the Conference Room. They will return during the offering. 3
TODAY S SCRIPTURE LESSONS ARE ABOUT GOD S GIFT OF BLOOD OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Leviticus 17:10 14 EPISTLE LESSON Ephesians 1:3 14 SONG 8:00 Fanfare Resound 10:45 Joyful, Joyful Grace Notes GOSPEL LESSON John 6:53 58 APOSTLES CREED 8:00a PAGE 159 NICENE CREED 10:45a PAGE 158 SERMON Please see the insert for the sermon notes. HYMN Nothing but the Blood of Jesus OPPORTUNITIES OUR OFFERINGS Members and Guests, please sign the Who s Who in the Pew in the rack near the center aisle and pass it to the person next to you. OFFERTORY 8:00a Praise Waltz 10:45a Acclamation in G Minor Harmony Ringers PRAYERS OF THE CHURCH Following the pastor s prayer, What can wash away my sin, the congregation is invited to respond, Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 4
THE LORD S PRAYER The 8:00a service concludes on page 8 with the Benediction. THE CELEBRATION OF THE LORD S SUPPER 10:45a OUR COMMUNION PRACTICE The Lord s Supper is celebrated at this congregation in the confession and glad confidence that, as he says, our Lord gives into our mouths not only bread and wine but his true body and blood to eat and to drink for the forgiveness of sins and to strengthen our union with him and with one another (Matthew 26:26-28). Our Lord invites to his table those who have been baptized, repent of all sin, and set aside any refusal to forgive and love as he forgives and loves us, that they may show forth his death until he comes (1 Corinthians 11:26). Because those who eat and drink our Lord s body and blood unworthily do so to their great harm (1 Corinthians 11:28-30) and because Holy Communion is a confession of the faith which is confessed at this altar, any who are not yet instructed, in doubt, or who hold a confession differing from that of this congregation and The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, and yet desire to receive the sacrament, are asked first to speak with the pastor. If you need communion delivered to you, please notify an usher or elder before the service begins. Gluten free communion wafers are available by raising your index finger as Christ s body is distributed, signaling the elder that you wish to receive a prewrapped gluten free wafer. The wrapping can be placed in the box at the end of the first pew with the individual cups. Individual cups, should be held until the chalice has passed. Non-alcoholic wine is available in the tinted cups. If you have some other allergy or need, please contact the church office so special arrangements can be made. Children or adults who have not yet been confirmed are invited to come forward for a blessing. As you do so please cross yourselves by placing your arms over your chest. 5
PREFACE/PROPER PREFACE P: The Lord be with you, C: And also with you. P: Lift up your hearts. C: We lift them to the Lord. P: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. C: It is right to give him thanks and praise. SANCTUS (O Sons and Daughters) Holy are you, the heav nly king! With angel hosts we join to sing. Your majesty fills ev rything! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! WORDS OF INSTITUTION THE PEACE OF THE LORD P: The peace of the Lord be with you always, C: And also with you. Amen. AGNUS DEI (O Sons and Daughters) Jesus the sacrifice he brings, He is the lamb, and yet our king, We will rejoice and gladly sing, Have mercy on us, Have mercy on us, Have mercy, Lord. DISTRIBUTION HYMNS At the Lamb s High Feast We Sing 633 The Strife is O er, the Battle Done 464 Christ Has Arisen, Alleluia 466 Let All Mortal flesh Keep Silence 621 Sent Forth by God s Blessing 643 6
POST COMMUNION SONG (I Know that My Redeemer Lives) Oh, thank the Lord, whose goodness sure, And steadfast love fore er endure! Our eyes have seen, our ears have heard, And we have tasted of his word! Glory to God the Father, Son, And Holy Spirit, Three in One! Oh, thank the Lord, whose goodness sure, And steadfast love fore er endure! BENEDICTION (From Hebrews 13:20 21) P: May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Christ is risen! All: He is risen, indeed! Alleluia! HYMN Not All the Blood of Beasts 431 SILENT PRAYER Jesus, you free me, not with gold or silver, but with your holy, precious blood. Thank you. Forever! Amen. St. Michael Lutheran Church (LCMS) St. Michael Preschool Emmanuel-St. Michael Lutheran School Concordia Lutheran High School Reed Lessing, Senior Pastor Shawn Davis, Missional Pastor Don Sandmann, Assisting Pastor Stephanie Maxson, Music Director Tommy Moll, Youth Director Grant Sorenson and Martin Hill, Seminary Fieldworkers Tammy Bruns, Executive Director (260) 432-2033 www.stmfw.org 7