E M M A N U E L FORGIVING The Second Sunday in Lent February 25, 2018 8:15 a.m. Emmanuel Lutheran Church 4865 Wilmington Pike; Kettering, OH 45440 (937) 434-1798; www.emmanuellc.org
Classic Grace Communion THE SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT Thank you for honoring God with your presence this morning. Please be sure to complete a registration card and then place it in the offering plate mid-way in the service. Visitors: We are especially delighted that you are here today and we hope that your worship with us will be a blessing to you. PRELUDE Prelude and Fugue in F Major Terry Donat, Organist By J. S. Bach WELCOME GREETING ONE ANOTHER OPENING HYMN Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (LSB # 700 vv. 1, 2, 4,)
Public domain INVOCATION, CONFESSION, AND ABSOLUTION LSB 184 The sign of the cross may be made by all in remembrance of their Baptism. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Matthew 28:19b [18:20] Beloved in the Lord! Let us draw near with a true heart and confess our sins unto God our Father, beseeching Him in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ to grant us forgiveness. Our help is in the Name of the Lord, Hebrews 10:22 who made heaven and earth. Psalm 124:8 I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Psalm 32:5 Silence for reflection on God's Word and for self-examination. Almighty God, our maker and redeemer, we poor sinners confess unto You that we are by nature sinful and unclean and that we have sinned against You by thought, word, and deed. Wherefore we flee for refuge to Your infinite mercy, seeking and imploring Your grace for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ. O most merciful God, who has given Your only-begotten Son to die for us, have mercy upon us and for His sake grant us remission of all our sins; and by Your Holy Spirit increase in us true knowledge of You and of Your will and true obedience to Your Word, to the end that by Your grace we may come to everlasting life; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. DECLARATION OF GRACE LSB 185 Almighty God, our heavenly Father, has had mercy upon us and has given His only Son to die for us and for His sake forgives us all our sins. To those who believe on His Name He gives power to become the children of God and has promised them His Holy Spirit. He that believes and is baptized shall be saved. Grant this, Lord, unto us all. Mark 16:16; John 1:12 Amen.
KYRIE Mark 10:47 LSB 186 SALUTATION AND COLLECT OF THE DAY The Lord be with you. 2 Timothy 4:22 Let us pray. O God, You see that of ourselves we have no strength. By Your mighty power defend us from all adversities that may happen to the body and from all evil thoughts that may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Please be seated. OLD TESTAMENT Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 NIV When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless. I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers." Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. EPISTLE Romans 5:1-11, NIV Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. HYMN God Loves Me Dearly (LSB # 392 vs. 1) (The stanza is sung as children age 3 to grade 5 move to the altar area.)
CHILDREN'S MESSAGE Paul & Silas in Prison Seth Illich HYMN God Loves Me Dearly (LSB # 392 vs. 2) GOSPEL VERSE Luke 13:35 Public domain Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'" HOLY GOSPEL Mark 8:27-38 NIV The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark, the eighth chapter. Glory to You, O Lord. Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, "Who do people say I am?" They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets." "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ." Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him. He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. "Get behind me, Satan!" he said. "You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men." Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel
will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels." NICENE CREED This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to You, O Christ. I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; 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; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried. And the third day He rose again in accordance with the Scriptures and ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. And He will come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead, whose kingdom will have no end. And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And I believe in one holy Christian and apostolic Church, I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, and I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen. HYMN OF THE DAY Amazing Grace (LSB # 744 vv. 1-5)
Please be seated. MISSIONAL MOMENT 1991 Editorial Concordia. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License.NET, no. 100013783. Public domain. HOMILY The Red Letter Challenge: FORGIVING Pastor Mark Carlson Matthew 18:21-35 PRAYERS (See your bulletin insert for the prayers.) THE LORD 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 forever and ever. Amen. OFFERING Love Divine, All Loves Excelling Terry Donat, Organist By John Longhurst (Please place your completed Connection Card into the offering plate as it is passed to you.) Please stand OFFERTORY Create In Me A Clean Heart Psalm 51:10-12 LSB 192
SALUTATION LSB 201 The Lord be with you. 2 Timothy 4:22 BENEDICAMUS LSB 202 Bless we the Lord. Psalm 103:1 BENEDICTION Numbers 6:24-26 CLOSING HYMN God Of Grace and God Of Glory (LSB # 850 vv. 1, 3, 4)
Public domain. CONNECTING AT ELC DISMISSAL We hide God's Word in our hearts, that we might hold out the Word of Life. Matthew 28:19, " Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Matthew 28:19. God with us, with one another and with our neighbors to reach all with the Gospel! POSTLUDE Recessional in G Major Terry Donat, Organist By G. F. Handel Acknowledgments Used by permission. All rights reserved. Created by Lutheran Service Builder 2006 Concordia Publishing House
Emmanuel Lutheran Church 4865 Wilmington Pike; Kettering, OH 45440 937-434-1798; www.emmanuellc.org Emmanuel is a member of the Lutheran Church/Missouri Synod