WELCOME TO WORSHIP! May 22, 2016 8:00 am Traditional Worship A Minister of Christ Speaks the Truth of the Trinity! We are grateful God led you to join us today! We pray that you are blessed, strengthened, and uplifted by your time of worship with us. Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. ~ 2 Peter 1:2 For information on nursery, cry room and other needs during worship, please see the back of the The service is printed out and available on the screens. If you d like music to follow along during the hymns, please use the red Christian Worship Hymnal, found in the pew holders. May God renew and lift you up as you worship today! THE SERVICE OF THE WORD This service offers the congregation a form of worship that focuses on the proclamation of God s Word. Believers respond to this divine gift with prayer, praise, and thanksgiving. Opening Hymn Holy, Holy, Holy CW #195 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee; Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity! Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore thee, Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea; Cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee, Who was and is and evermore shall be. Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide thee, Though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see, Only thou art holy; there is none beside thee, Perfect in pow r, in love, and purity. Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! All thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea. Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity! Text: Reginald Heber, 1783 1826, alt. 1
Invocation P: The grace of our Lord + Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you. C: And also with you. Confession of Sins P: We have come into the presence of God, who created us to love and serve him as his dear children. But we have disobeyed him and deserve only his wrath and punishment. Therefore, let us confess our sins to him and plead for his mercy. C: Merciful Father in heaven, I am altogether sinful from birth. In countless ways I have sinned against you and do not deserve to be called your child. But trusting in Jesus, my Savior, I pray: Have mercy on me according to your unfailing love. Cleanse me from my sin, and take away my guilt. P: God our heavenly Father, has forgiven all your sins. By the perfect life and innocent death of our Lord Jesus Christ, he has removed your guilt forever. You are his own dear child. May God give you strength to live according to his will. C: Amen. Prayer and Praise P: In the peace of forgiveness, let us praise the Lord. C: (sing) Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed are they who take refuge in him. Your Word, O Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens Your faithfulness continues for ever. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed are they who take refuge in him. 2
Prayer of the Day P: Let us pray. Almighty God and Father, dwelling in majesty and mystery, filling and renewing all creation by your eternal Spirit, and manifesting your saving grace through our Lord Jesus Christ: In mercy cleanse our hearts and lips that, free from doubt and fear, we may ever worship you, one true immortal God, with your Son and the Holy Spirit, living and reigning, now and forever. C: (sing) Amen. THE WORD First Lesson: Numbers 6:22 27 A common blessing to bring the presence, grace and peace of the Lord! 22 The LORD said to Moses, 23 Tell Aaron and his sons, This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them: 24 The LORD bless you and keep you; 25 the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace. 27 So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them. Psalm Of The Day: Psalm 150 CW page 122 Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God in his sanctuary;* praise him in his mighty heavens. Praise him for his acts of power;* praise him for his surpassing greatness. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,* praise him with the harp and lyre, praise him with tambourine and dancing,* praise him with strings and flute, praise him with the clash of cymbals,* praise him with resounding cymbals. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.* 3
Praise the LORD. Glory be to the Father and to the Son* and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,* is now, and will be forever. Amen. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Refrain Tune: Walter Pelz. From Seasonal Psalms. 1978 Augsburg Publishing House. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Augsburg Fortress. Second Lesson: Romans 5:1 5 The interworking of the Trinity develops us into hope filled followers. 5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Verse of the Day P: Alleluia. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory. Alleluia. (Isaiah 6:3b cf NIV) C: (sing) Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! These words are written that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Children s Message All the young children in attendance today are invited down to the front for a children s message. 4
Hymn of the Day Oh, That I Had a Thousand Voices CW #194: 1 4 Oh, that I had a thousand voices To praise my God with thousand tongues! My heart, which in the Lord rejoices, Would then proclaim in grateful songs To all, wherever I might be, What great things God has done for me. Dear Father, endless praise I render For soul and body, nobly joined; I praise you, Guardian kind and tender, For all the daily joys I find So richly spread on ev ry side And freely for my use supplied. I praise you, Savior, whose compassion Has brought you down to ransom me. Your pitying heart sought my salvation; You bore the cross triumphantly, Brought me from bondage full release, Made me your own, and gave me peace. Glory and praise, still onward reaching, Be yours, O Spirit of all grace, Whose holy pow r and faithful teaching Give me among your saints a place. Whatever good by me is done Is worked by grace divine alone. MESSAGE: A Minister Of Christ Speaks The Truth Of The Trinity Pastor Geiger, preaching Sermon Text: John 16:12 15 12 I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you. 5
Hymn: We All Believe in One True God CW #270 We all believe in one true God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Ever present help in need, Praised by all the heav nly host, By whose mighty pow r alone All is made and wrought and done. We all believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God and Mary s Son, Who descended from his throne And for us salvation won, By whose cross and death are we Rescued from all misery. We all confess the Holy Ghost, Who from both fore er proceeds, Who upholds and comforts us In all trials, fears, and needs. Blessed, holy Trinity, Hear our praise eternally! Text: Tobias Clausnitzer, 1619 84; tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1827 78, alt. Thank offering Our financial offerings are another part of our worship life and a heartfelt expression of gratitude to the Lord who is the giver of all we have. If giving online is preferable, please use the yellow Give a Gift pew card to quickly navigate to our giving website. Welcome Guest Cards & Friendship Register Guests, please use the green Welcome Guests pew card to indicate how we may best serve you! All, please take a moment to fill out the friendship register so that we have a record of your visit with us today. Thank you! Prayer Cards Visitors and members, please feel free to use the blue Prayer pew card to share prayers on your heart. You may request to keep them private, or to have them shared with the congregation for encouragement. Prayer of the Church P: Triune God, you are the one eternal God, whose name we praise forever. We could not have known you, our only Savior, if you had not revealed yourself to us as Father, Son, and Spirit three persons, yet one God. Remove from us all unbelief, and grant us humble faith as we contemplate the high and holy mystery. Scatter all those who are wise in their own conceits, and give us a simple, childlike trust to worship you as Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity. 6
God our Father, whatever good is in us, whatever good things we have, and whatever good we do comes from you alone. In you we live and move and have our being. Open our eyes to see the gifts you shower down on us daily purely out of your own fatherly love and care. Lord Jesus our Savior, you came into our world to make the Father known to us; you joined yourself to us by taking on our humanity; you brought us back to God by shedding your blood. In love you walked the way of suffering and bore alone the wrath of God, the wrath that we by our sins deserved. Help us believe that all you did, all you suffered, and all you endured you did for us, to rescue us and set us free. In the bright new hope of your resurrection, teach us to offer our lives each day in praise to God and in love to our neighbor. Creator Spirit, you have opened our eyes by the bright light of your Word; you have burst through our deafness with the clear sound of your voice in the Scriptures; you have breathed into us new life by the power of the gospel. Through Word and sacrament, help us grow in understanding the breadth and depth and height of the love of God. Make us firm in our resolve to do battle with our sin. In every weakness be our strength, that we may show ourselves to be God s true children: faithful in prayer, constant in hope, and fervent in love. Special prayers and intercessions may follow. P: Hear us, Lord, as we bring you our private petitions. Silent prayer. P: O Holy Trinity, you are the God of glory, the God of grace, the God of comfort. From you and through you and to you are all things. We rejoice to call you Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and so to praise your holy name forever as we join to pray : Lord s Prayer All: 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. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are Yours now and forever. Amen. Hymn Alleluia! Let Praises Ring CW #241 7
Alleluia! Let praises ring! To God the Father let us bring Our songs of adoration. To him through everlasting days Be worship, honor, pow r, and praise Whose hand sustains creation. Singing, Ringing: Holy, holy, God is holy. Spread the story Of our God, the Lord of glory. Alleluia! Let praises ring! Unto the Lamb of God we sing, In whom we are elected. He bought the Church with his own blood; He cleansed her in that blessed flood And as his bride selected. Holy, Holy Is our union And communion. His befriending Gives us joy and peace unending. Alleluia! Let praises ring! Unto the Holy Ghost we sing For our regeneration. The saving faith in us he wrought And us unto the Bridegroom brought, Made us his chosen nation. Glory! Glory! Joy eternal, Bliss supernal; There is manna And an endless, glad hosanna. Alleluia! Let praises ring! Unto our triune God we sing; Blest be his name forever! With angel hosts let us adore And sing his praises more and more For all his grace and favor. Singing, Ringing: Holy, holy, God is holy. Spread the story Of our God the Lord of glory! Text: Geistreiches Gesangbuch, Darmstadt, 1698; tr. composite. Closing Prayer P: O Lord God, our heavenly Father, pour out the Holy Spirit on your faithful people. Keep us strong in your grace and truth, protect and comfort us in all temptation, and bestow on us your saving peace, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. C: (sing) Amen. Benediction P: Brothers and sisters, go in peace. Live in harmony with one another. Serve the Lord with gladness. 8
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord look on you with favor and give you peace. C: (sing) Amen. Amen. Amen. We thank you for worshipping with us today. We look forward to seeing you again soon! Serving us today as we worship and praise our Lord: Pastor Dave Tiarks, worship leader Pastor Mike Geiger, preaching Mary Huismann, organist All songs used in accordance with CCLI License 1570502/OneLicense A 709767 COMING UP! Thursday Midweek Worship May 26 th @ 6:30 pm (Traditional Service) MESSAGE: A Minister of Christ Challenges People to Grow in Faith! SUNDAY WORSHIP May 29 th @ 8:00 am (Traditional Service) @ 10:45 am (Contemporary Service) MESSAGE: A Minister Of Christ Challenges People To Grow In Faith! Ready... Set... GO! Let the Games begin! On June 5th, during Education Hour, the Summer Sunday School for Preschool Grades 8 will start their Olympic Themed session. The program, which includes Bible Study, Games, Crafts and more, is designed to introduce character traits to become... "Champions for Christ!" 9
If you would like to volunteer to help teach or be an aide, please email almont@mchsi.com or call 612 791 7927. Please join us for Vacation Bible School Monday Thursday, August 8/11 from 6 8:15pm. During this FREE event, children will HEAR the gospel, ACTIVELY USE their Bibles and KNOW what it means to give God the glory! Interested in being a teacher or aide? Please email almont@mchsi.com or call 612 791 7927 or sign up for the VBS group in the HUB! 10