Prelude – Come, All Christians, Be Committed
Greeting and Welcome
Lighting of the Candles
Hymn of Invocation – All Glory, Laud, and Honor (LSB 442)
Refrain: All glory, laud, and honor
To You, Redeemer, King,
To whom the lips of children
Made sweet hosannas ring.
You are the King of Israel
And David’s royal Son,
Now in the Lord’s name coming,
Our King and Blessèd One. Refrain
The company of angels
Is praising You on high,
And we with all creation
In chorus make reply. Refrain
The multitude of pilgrims
With palms before You went;
Our praise and prayer and anthems
Before You we present. Refrain
To You before Your passion
They sang their hymns of praise;
To You, now high exalted,
Our melody we raise. Refrain
+ Preparation +
Invocation
P: In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit.
C: Amen.
Confession and Absolution – Psalm 34:1–8
P: I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
C: My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.
P: We confess to You, Lord.
C: Our mouths have not always praised You through our words, and we have boasted in things other than You. Help us humbly hear and be glad, that we may taste and see that the Lord is good.
P: Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together!
C: I sought the Lord, and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
P: We confess to You, Lord.
C: We have sought after other things than You and have let our fears impede our faith. Give us hearts centered on You, that we may taste and see that the Lord is good.
P: Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.
C: This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
P: We confess to You, Lord.
C: Our thoughts, words, and actions have not been faithful, and we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. Hear us and save us from our troubles, that we may taste and see that the Lord is good.
P: The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and delivers them.
C: Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
P: Almighty God in His mercy has given His Son to die for you and for His sake forgives you all your 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.
C: Amen.
+ Word +
Introit
P: You open your hand;
you satisfy the desire of every living thing.
C: Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!
Blessèd is the man who takes refuge in him!
P: Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,
for those who fear him have no lack!
C: The young lions suffer want and hunger;
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
All: 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
P: You open your hand;
you satisfy the desire of every living thing.
Salutation and Prayer of the Day
P: The Lord be with you.
C: And also with you.
P: Let us pray. Gracious Father, Your blessed Son came down from heaven to be the true bread that gives life to the world. Grant that Christ, the bread of life, may live in us and we in Him, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
C: Amen.
First Reading – 1 Kings 19:1–8
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.” And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again. And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.” And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.
P: This is the Word of the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
Epistle – 1 Corinthians 12:1–11
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
P: This is the Word of the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
Holy Gospel – John 6:35-51
P: The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the sixth chapter.
C: Glory to You, O Lord.
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
P: This is the Gospel of the Lord.
C: Praise to You, O Christ.
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 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 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.
Children’s Hymn – God Loves Me Dearly (LSB 392)
God loves me dearly,
Grants me salvation,
God loves me dearly,
Loves even me. Refrain
Refrain: Therefore I’ll say again:
God loves me dearly,
God loves me dearly,
Loves even me.
Now I will praise You,
O Love Eternal;
Now I will praise You
All my life long. Refrain
Children’s Sermon – Janet Leet
Hymn of the Day – I Am Forever Who I Am
Though mountains slide into the sea,
And waters rush where fields should be,
Though monuments and nations fall,
Your holy city stands through all.
When nothing seems to stay the same,
You teach us your eternal name. Refrain
Refrain: I am forever who I am. Above you, beneath you,
Around you and within you. Be still and know that I am God.
Each generation looks for truth,
And doubt can trouble age or youth.
If other gods would take your place
Remember us with love and grace.
Reclaim us if we go astray;
You are the Truth, the Life, the Way. Refrain
Some days seem long, though life is brief,
And death is waiting like a thief.
When vision fades and dreams go dry,
We will on unseen things rely.
Our stories take up but a page,
But yours goes on from age to age. Refrain
Sermon
Offertory – Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee
