NORMANDALE LUTHERAN CHURCH February 17, 2019 Epiphany VI Holy Communion 8:45 & 10:45am
WELCOME TO NORMANDALE WE RE GLAD YOU RE HERE! Normandale Lutheran Church is a community of believers who love, learn, worship, and serve as we walk in relationship with Jesus Christ and others. We hope you find a place of welcome, a place of worship, a place for you. We d love to help you find your way here at Normandale! Please sign the Connect pad in the pew so we can reach out to you! LOOKING TO GET CONNECTED? Jenny Bock, Director of Connections jbock@normluth.org www.normluth.org facebook.com/normluth 952.929.1697 SUNDAY AT NORMANDALE NURSERY CARE is available every Sunday morning from 8:30 to 12:00noon and every Wednesday night from 5:30 to 8:00pm for children between the ages of 6 months 4 years. The Nursery is located on the main level, down the hallway on the north end of the building. Please use this opportunity for your children to meet some new friends at Normandale! NOISY OFFERING Children are invited to cheerfully bring their Noisy Offering to the front during the Doxology. This offering will help the children of Huch Uy Runa. Huch Uy Runa is a school providing physical, spiritual, emotional, academic, and trade education to street children of Cusco, Peru. Sunday School Mission Peru hopes to raise $5,000 this year. Noisy Offering will be collected every Sunday throughout the school year. JOIN US FOR COFFEE & FELLOWSHIP in the Fireside Room after worship. LIVESTREAM AT NLC for those who are away or unable to attend, it provides an option for participation in the regular worship life of our congregation. It can be found on the NLC website at www.normluth.org/live-stream-nlc. WORSHIP IN THE CHAPEL 5:00 PM In this chapel worship, Normandale offers a 40-minute service of song, word, prayer, and communion. With schedules becoming even busier than thought possible, we hope this service becomes an option for families who are unable to be at worship Sunday mornings. *Those who are able, please stand.
WORSHIP LEADERS PREACHING & CELEBRANT.......................................Pastor Paul Pettersen LITURGIST...........................................................Ian McConnell ACOLYTES................................... Madeline Howard, Amelia Johnson (8:45am) Lissi Reid, Mari Reid (10:45am) DEACONS...........Niles Bisping, Jenny Emery-Bock, Randy Gullickson, Pam Werley (8:45am) Karen Himle, Karnie Moesenthin, Mary Quist-Newins, Ruth Schmoll (10:45am) CANTORS......................... Boys/Girls Choirs (8:45am) Chuck Humphrey (10:45am) LECTORS........................... Celeste Eckstein (8:45am) Cameron James (10:45am) USHERS...............................Laaksonen Team (8:45am) Feyder Team (10:45am) CHOIRS...................................Boys & Girls Choir Normandale Bells (8:45am) Normandale Choir Normandale Bells (10:45am) DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN S CHOIRS.....................................Ruth Oliphant DIRECTOR OF WORSHIP AND MUSIC....................................David Clarke ORGANIST.......................................................... John Ferguson
WORSHIP WITH US PRELUDE How Firm A Foundation (ELW 796) arr. Alan Lohr Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty! (ELW 413) arr. Michael Heiman WORDS OF WELCOME CALL TO WORSHIP Noel: Puer Nobis Jean-Francois Dandrieu *CONFESSION & FORGIVENESS GATHERING Blessed be the holy Trinity, one God, who creates us and forms us, who redeems us and calls us, who unites us and sends us. AMEN. Gathered in God s presence, let us confess our sin. Silence for reflection and self-examination. Mighty and loving God, we confess that we are captive to sin and cannot free ourselves. We seek our own way. We divide the body of Christ. In your mercy, cleanse us and heal us. Let the words of our mouths, the thoughts of our hearts, and everything that we do be filled with faith, hope, and love. Amen. Hear the voice of Jesus: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me to proclaim release to the captives. In the name of Jesus Christ, I proclaim to you that your sins are forgiven and you are released. The joy of the Lord is your strength, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit are yours forever. AMEN. *ENTRANCE HYMN We Know That Christ Is Raised No. 449 *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. (1)
*KYRIE (2)
*HYMN OF PRAISE This Is the Feast Pages 149-150 *PRAYER OF THE DAY God of good news to the poor, recalibrate our souls, so that we might never look and never look down upon anyone. Teach us your ways of reversal, that through us you will lift up the poor and hungry, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. AMEN. WORD FIRST READING Jeremiah 17:5-10 Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord. They shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. They shall be like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream. It shall not fear when heat comes, and its leaves shall stay green; in the year of drought it is not anxious, and it does not cease to bear fruit. The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse who can understand it? I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings. The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. PSALM 1 (sung responsively with cantor congregational responses in bold) They are like trees planted by streams of water. (Ps. 1:3) Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked, nor lingered in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seats of the scornful! Their delight is in the law of the Lord, and they meditate on God s teaching day and night. They are like trees planted by streams of water, bearing fruit in due season, with leaves that do not wither; everything they do shall prosper. It is not so with the wicked; they are like chaff which the wind blows away. Therefore the wicked shall not stand upright when judgment comes, nor the sinner in the council of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall be destroyed. (3)
*GOSPEL ACCLAMATION The holy gospel according to St. Luke, the sixth chapter, SPOKEN RESPONSE: Glory to You, O Lord. *GOSPEL Luke 6:17-26 After choosing his twelve apostles, Jesus teaches a crowd of followers about the nature and demands of discipleship. He begins his great sermon with surprising statements about who is truly blessed in the eyes of God. [Jesus] came down with [the twelve] and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them. Then he looked up at his disciples and said: Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets. But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets. The gospel of the Lord. SPOKEN RESPONSE: Praise to You, O Christ. (4)
SERMON No Code for Helping *APOSTLES 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. *SHARING OF THE PEACE OFFERING To give securely via text message, text your gift amount to 952-260-5601 and follow the prompts. To give via mobile app, download the app, ShelbyNEXT Giving. Select NLC (55436). To give via debit or credit card, visit the giving kiosk located at the Welcome Center or give online at normluth.org/give. For detailed instructions, including setting up a recurring gift, visit normluth. org/give. MUSIC AT OFFERING (8:45am) Tree Song Ken Medema (10:45am) Do Not Be Afraid Phillip Stopford *OFFERTORY RESPONSE NOISY OFFERING Praise God a God from bove ye whom all bless ings flow. heav' nly host; Praise Fath Praise God, all crea er, tures Son, and Ho ly Ghost. here be A low; Praise men. Children are invited to cheerfully bring their Noisy Offering to the front during the Doxology. This offering will help the children of Huch Uy Runa in Cusco, Peru. (5)
HOLY COMMUNION *PRAYER God of all creation, all you have made is good, and your love endures forever. You bring forth bread from the earth and fruit from the vine. Nourish us with these gifts, that we might be for the world signs of your gracious presence in Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. AMEN. *GREAT THANKSGIVING It is indeed right, our duty and our joy, that we should at all times and in all places give thanks and praise... we praise your name and join their unending hymn: (6)
*SANCTUS *WORDS OF INSTITUTION In the night in which he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, and gave thanks; broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying: Take and eat; this is my body, given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me. Again, after supper, he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it for all to drink, saying: This cup is the new covenant in my blood, shed for you and for all people for the forgiveness of sin. Do this for the remembrance of me. *LORD S PRAYER Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen. (7)
AGNUS DEI MUSIC AT DISTRIBUTION Jesus Calls Us; o er the Tumult No. 696 Canticle of the Turning No. 723 *POST COMMUNION BLESSING SENDING *HYMN Let All Things Now Living No. 881 *BLESSING A men, A men, A men. DISMISSAL Response: Thanks be to God. POSTLUDE Grand Choir on French Noels Cesar Franck (8)