Church of the Lutheran Confession 12145 W. Edgerton Avenue Hales Corners, Wisconsin 53130 414-427-9337 http://www.messiahhalescorners.com Michael Eichstadt, Pastor Phone: 414-427-9303 Ted Quade, Principal Phone: 262-522-9824 Amy Mielke, Teacher Phone: 414-587-5553 March 4, 2018 Lent 3 Good morning! We appreciate your joining our worship family, and we invite you to sign our guest book. If you are looking for an altar at which to commune, please speak to the pastor beforehand. He will be happy to provide you with the information you would want and need. Sunday family worship: 8:00 and 10:45 A.M. Choir: 9:10. Sunday school: 9:30. Bible class: 9:45 A.M. Today's Worship For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life (Rom. 6:23). Greeting and prayer: Invocation: P: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. P: O Lord, throughout these forty days C: You prayed and kept the fast; P: Inspire repentance for our sin, C: and free us from our past. Amen. 10
FINANCES: Last Week To Date Budgetary Offerings: $7,536.00 $201,005.00 Sunday School: $7.60 Budgetary Needs: $6,314.00 $202,453.00 Over/(Under) Budget: $1,222.00 ($1,448.00) Missions: $45.00 $2,235.00 MDF: $80.00 $2,144.00 Mission Helper Fund: $510.00 Undesignated: $30.00 Attendance last Sunday: 84,41. Lent: 41. Daily Bible Readings: LORD, 3/4 Num 16:1-18:32 3/5 Num 19:1-21:35 3/6 Num 22: 1-24:25 3/7 Num 25:1-26:65 3/8 Num 27:1-29:40 3/9 Num 30:1-31:54 3/10 Num 32:1-33:56 Church cleaning: March 10-16: Church: J. Gerbitz, D/E Mueller. School: T/B/N/C Blue. March ushers: 1st: M. Whiting, E. Weaver. 2nd: T. Blue, B. Blue. Lent (7th,14th,21st): BJ Nelson, J. Albrecht. Maundy Thursday (29th): J. Serba, D. Starr. Good Friday (30th): T. Garvens, M. Garvens. Hymns and liturgical settings under copyright are used by permission through Concordia Publishing House, License #000013843, Onelicense.net, #A-720270, or Creative Worship for the Lutheran Parish, Series B, Part 1 2017 CPH. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptures quoted are from the New King James Version of the Holy Bible, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. 11 If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, Remember Me! O Lord, who could stand? (Ps. 130:3)
Announcements Hymn 342 (red hymnal): Chief of Sinners Though I Be Welcome! Having completed a course in Christian instruction, Mani Hamid has expressed his agreement with our teachings and has requested membership in the congregation. We welcome him as a new communicant member of the Messiah family. Remember in prayer Elaine Bernthal remains hospitalized at St. Luke s. It is hoped that she will be released on Tuesday. Tour Choir concert The Immanuel Lutheran College Tour Choir will present a concert here on Friday, March 16, at 7 p.m. Overnight housing for the choir members is needed. The signup sheet is on the cupboard doors. Also, check the signup sheet for food items needed for Friday supper, as well as for light refreshments after the concert. It is always an exciting blessing to host the choir, hear the gospel in song, and meet some of the young people from across the CLC. What a great opportunity, too, to invite friends, coworkers, etc. to join us for the evening! There are posters below the mailboxes. Take as many as you like to put up in your local library, supermarket, or wherever public announcements are allowed. Photos to share? We are gathering photos from the past 25 years of Messiah School to be used for the anniversary celebration. If you have any photos you would like to submit, please contact Jim or Lisa Lisak. CLC call news Mr. Brian Fox has been called to serve as principal and teacher at St. John s, Clarkston, WA. Young Adults The next meeting of the Young Adults will be tomorrow, March 5th, at 7 p.m. at the Mielke home. We will have a devotion followed by a topical study entitled "Tattoos - Still Taboo?" Please contact Steve Mielke at (414)841-4685 with any questions. Lenten Worship Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Looking Ahead DTuesday: 11:00 A.M: Brenwood service. 6:30 P.M: Bd. of Education. DWednesday: 7:00 P.M: Lenten service. DNext Sunday: 12:15 P.M: Public school confirmation. DMarch 15th: 6:30 P.M: Church Council. DMarch 16th: 7:00 P.M: ILC Tour Choir concert. Return From Exile: Mount Moriah to Mount Zion Pastor Matt Ude Camp time CLC Youth Camp registration is coming up! You will be able to register online March 25 at 3:00pm CST. Camp this year will be held at Camp JIM in Pillager, MN. The cost will be $175/camper and campers entering grades 6-12 are eligible. You can check out our Facebook page for more updates. Confession and Absolution: P: Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another. C: I confess to God Almighty, before the whole company of heaven and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned in thought, word, and deed by my fault, by my own fault, by my own most grievous fault; wherefore I pray to God Almighty to have mercy on me, forgive me all my sins, and bring me to everlasting life. Amen. P: God is gracious and merciful. Through Jesus death and resurrection, He has conquered sin, death, and the devil. He has covered us with Jesus own perfect righteousness. 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. P: The peace of the Lord be with you. C: And also with you. 9 2
Prayer: P: O God, the Law no longer condemns, for Christ came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets. Grant that by faith we would live as Your people with Your Law as our guide; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Words of Institution: Distribution hymns 371, 307 (red hymnal): The Lord s Prayer: Epistle lesson: 1 Corinthians 1:22-25.There is nothing wiser or stronger than the message of Christ crucified. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Nunc Dimittis: O Lord, now let Your servant Depart in heav nly peace, For I have seen the glory Of Your redeeming grace: A light to lead the Gentiles Unto Your holy hill, The glory of Your people, Your chosen Israel. All glory to the Father, All glory to the Son, All glory to the Spirit, Forever Three-in-One; For as in the beginning, Is now, shall ever be, God s triune name resounding Through all eternity. Gospel lesson: John 2:13-22.Where we fail in keeping God s Law, Jesus was zealous in our behalf. Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, and poured out the changers money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, Take these things away! Do not make My Father s house a house of merchandise! Then His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up. So the Jews answered and said to Him, What sign do You show to us, since You do these things? Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then the Jews said, It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days? But He was speaking of the temple of His body. Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said. Benediction P: The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. Hymn 416 (red hymnal): Oh, That the Lord Would Guide Me Ways 3 8
P: The Lord be with you. C: And also with you. P: Lift up your hearts. C: We lift them up to the Lord. The Service of the Sacrament P: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. C: It is right to give Him thanks and praise. P: It is truly good, right, and beneficial that we should at all times and in all places give thanks to You, holy Lord, almighty Father, everlasting God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who has fulfilled all righteousness for us and taken our punishment so we might have forgiveness and salvation. Therefore with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnify Your glorious name, evermore praising You and saying: The Nicene Creed: 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, very God of very 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 for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried. And the third day He rose again according to 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 149 (red hymnal): Come to Calvary s Holy Mountain Sermon: Exodus 20:1-17 And God spoke all these words, saying: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you. You shall not murder. 7 4
You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor s house; you shall not covet your neighbor s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor s. Prayer of the Church (Minute of silence for personal prayer and reflection) P: In peace let us pray to the Lord: P: For the peace from above and for our salvation, let us pray to the Lord: You Shall... I. An impossible demand. II. A blessed reality. P: For this house of the Lord and for all who offer here their worship and praise, let us pray to the Lord: P: For our parents, pastors and teachers, and all who serve in government, that they may be strengthened and supported in their work, let us pray to the Lord: P: For those who are sick, those who grieve, and those overwhelmed by the burdens of life, that they may be uplifted in body and spirit, assured of the love of Christ, let us pray to the Lord: P: For those who come to the Lord s altar, that they may be refreshed and encouraged in their Christian walk by Jesus body and blood, let us pray to the Lord: P: For favorable weather, for an abundance of the fruits of the earth, and for peaceful times, let us pray to the Lord: P: For our deliverance from trouble, danger, and need, let us pray to the Lord: P: We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Hymn 295 (red hymnal): The Law of God is Good and Wise Offering 5 6