Saturday (Contemporary Worship) 5:00p Sunday (Traditional Worship) 8:00a & 10:45a Adult Bible Studies and Sunday School 9:30a The Bridge 11:00a
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 THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER April 15, 2018 Theme of the Day: Our focus today is on God s gift of access. That s what the Day of Atonement is all about access to God s mercy, power, forgiveness and forever love! PRESERVICE WELCOME INVOCATION AND CALL TO WORSHIP [From selected verses in Hebrews 10:19 23] 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 Alleluia! Jesus Is Risen 474 (stanzas 1 3) CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION P: Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, C: Too real to hide, and too deep to undo. P: Forgive what our lips tremble to name, C: What our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. P: Set us free from a past that we cannot change. C: Open to us a future in which we can be changed. P: Give us confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus. (Hebrews 10:19) C: And grant us grace to grow more and more into Christ s likeness and image. [You are invited to silently reflect on the fact that though our sin is great, Christ s love is greater.] 2
P: The God of love and power forgives you and raises you up to new life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Paul puts it this way in Romans 5:1 2, Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. Christ is risen! All: He is risen, indeed! Alleluia! HYMN Alleluia! Jesus Is Risen 474 (stanzas 4 5) PRAYER OF THE CHURCH P: The Lord be with you. C: And also with you. P: Let us pray: Heavenly Father, we are thankful that, in spite of our sin, you keep giving us access to the Most Holy Place by the Most Holy Name through the blood of Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. All: Amen. CHILDREN S MESSAGE EIGHTH GRADE CONFIRMATION TESTIMONY 8:00a Rachel Hensley, whose confirmation verses are 1 Peter 4:8 10 CHILDREN S CHURCH 10:45a Led by Elizabeth Ruch Children are excused following the Children s Message for supervised Children s Church in the Conference Room. They will return during the offering. TODAY S SCRIPTURE LESSONS ARE ABOUT GOD S GIFT OF ACCESS OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Leviticus 16:1 4, 11 17 EPISTLE LESSON Romans 5:1 5 ANTHEM 8:00a I ll Have a New Life Men s Choir 10:45a Just As I Am Adult Choir GOSPEL LESSON Luke 24:13 35 3
APOSTLES CREED 8:00a PAGE 159 NICENE CREED 10:45a PAGE 158 SERMON [Please see the insert for the sermon notes.] HYMN Just As I Am 570 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 The Strife is O er Karen Manges PRAYERS OF THE CHURCH [Based on Romans 5:2] P: Let us pray for the whole Christian Church, that our Lord God would defend her against all the assaults and temptations of the adversary and keep her perpetually on the true foundation, Jesus Christ: Holy God, Holy and Mighty Father, we thank and praise you that through Jesus, C: We have gained access. P: Protect your Church from the temptation to compromise the message of salvation, as well as from the temptation to remain silent, that your pure Word, passionately proclaimed and guided by the Holy Spirit, may be an occasion for all people to know that through Jesus, C: We have gained access by faith. P: Let us pray for all the ministers of the Word, for all vocations in the church, and for all the people of God, that with our lips and our lives we declare that, C: We have gained access by faith into this grace. P: Let us pray for our catechumens in the sixth, seventh and eighth grade, that our Lord God would open their hearts and the door of his mercy that they may be mindful of their Baptism and evermore be found in Christ Jesus, our Lord, though whom C: We have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. 4
+ Additional Prayers + P: These prayers, and those we silently place before you, we place before you, O God, because, All: We have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus. (Hebrews 10:19) P: Finally, let us pray for all those things for which our Lord would have us ask, saying: All: Our Father, who art in heaven The 8:00a service concludes on page 7 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 Christ is Risen, Christ Is Living (Hymn of the Month) 479 Christ Has Arisen, Alleluia 466 At the Lamb s High Feast We Sing 633 The Day of Resurrection 478 This Joyful Eastertide 482 6
POST COMMUNION (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 Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing 475 Silent Prayer: Father, thank you forever, for this promise in Hebrews 10:19, Therefore, brothers, we have confidence (confidence!) to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus. 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