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Thursday, August 19, 2021

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Glimpses of Glendale
Glendale Lutheran Church Newsletter
August 19, 2021
Last Thursday, we got to see the Baker family. They are missionaries in Mongolia who we have supported for years. It was truly a joy to be with David, the dad, Rachel, the mom, Julia, age 18, Timothy, age 17, Daniel age 14, and Esther, age 11. It was so encouraging to see and hear how God is working half way across the world in their church and how faith is working in their household.

We had about 20 people from our church for a potluck and a couple of other families who are friends. We sat down to a potluck when it got dark really fast and the wind started to whip up. It was that night. I looked into the church parking lot and it looked like tornado winds. I thought I was going to see a witch riding a bike chasing a little dog. The doors started to fly open by themselves. We locked them down and the power went out. We got candles for the potluck as well as the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting downstairs. Of course, missionaries are by nature improvisational. They shared their story without powerpoint or pictures.

They live in the capital city of Mongolia in an apartment but they travel all over the country. A new highway will allow them to move more freely. Their plan is to relocate on the western side which is more rural with fewer churches. Only .2% of the country is Christian with the vast majority being Muslim. A thousand years ago there were more Christians but they got wiped out. Turns out that the Bakers have discovered Christian traditions in the Mongolian culture that they use to proclaim the Gospel. Sheep’s head is a special feast there. When they prepare the meal, a cross is cut into the lamb’s forehead. The Bakers ask their hosts if they know the meaning behind the tradition and no one does. They explain Jesus’ work on the cross that their ancestors believed in. If you are interested in learning more about their life and ministry, read the “Missions” bulletin board in the hallway. We are blessed to support their church and family. I hope Jesus is proclaimed in your family as it is in theirs.
Daily Bible Reading
Church Picnic - Save the Date!

GLC will have our annual Church Picnic on Sunday, September 12. Worship will be at 9:15 in the sanctuary, followed by lunch and fellowship outside on the patio. More details to come in the weeks ahead!
Position Available

Gene Smith is looking for a weekday companion for his wife, Cindy, who has dementia. This would be a paid position and would be for five hours a day, Monday through Friday. If interested, please contact Pastor Scott.
Rummage Sale Organizer

Interested in heading up the GLC rummage sale? Please contact Pastor Scott.
Financial Update
Next Sunday's Bible Readings
Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9; Ephesians 6:10-20; Mark 7:14-23
Worship Leaders
This Sunday - 8/22
Lector: Ryan Barnett
Communion: Steve Phelps
Greeters: Greg & Karen Frimel
S/V: Ken Clark
Ushers: Gerry Lucas, John Steele, Mike Toney
Children's Message: Tim Cosby
Next Sunday - 8/29
Lector: Julie Atwood-Wise
Communion: Derek Don
Greeters: John & Miriam Lee
S/V: Mike Toney
Ushers: Lauren Don, Judy George, Beverly Dixson
Children's Message: Pastor Scott
The Word Within the Word

Worship Bulletin


Welcome to Glendale Lutheran!

Pastor Scott Jonas would love to talk to you. You can contact him via cell 805-345-6658 or email scottjonas314@gmail.com.
Deacon List…If you need to talk to a fellow believer, email or call Pastor Scott or one of these deacons: Cathie Albers (cathleenalbers@charter.net), Joel Hempel (jhempel411@gmail.com), Marcia Hempel (mshempel11@att.net), Bob Jacobson (rjacobson@hy-c.com), or Tony Petzoldt (tonypetzoldt@sbcglobal.net).
 
We need more worship volunteers. If you can help with ushering, greeting, reading, communion or audio visual, please contact the church office or sign up on the kiosk.
The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
9:15am
Prelude – God of Grace
 
Greeting and Welcome
 
Lighting of the Candles
 
Hymn of Invocation – Faith and Truth and Life Bestowing (LSB 584)
 
Faith and truth and life bestowing,
Open now the Scriptures, Lord,
Seed to life eternal sowing,
Scattered on the wind abroad.
Let not hearts, Your Word receiving,
Like a barren field be found,
Choked with thorns and unbelieving,
Shallow earth or stony ground.
 
May the Spirit’s pow’r unceasing
Bring to life the hidden grain,
Daily in our hearts increasing,
Bearing fruit that shall remain.
So in Scripture, song, and story,
Savior, may Your voice be heard.
Till our eyes behold Your glory
Give us ears to hear Your Word.
 
+ Preparation +
 
Invocation
P:  In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit.
C:  Amen.
 
Opening Sentences
P:  O Lord, I love the habitation of Your house,
C:  and the place where Your glory dwells.
P:  Lord, restore the fortunes of Your people.
C:  Let all Your people rejoice and be glad!
P:  From generation to generation, You are our God.
C:  Your Word shall be heard among our children and our children’s children.
P:  Let us ever share the joys of Jesus.
C:  Let us spread His grace and love to all the nations.
 
Confession and Absolution
P:  Indeed, it is good to be here, worshiping the Lord and receiving His gifts for our forgiveness, life, and salvation. Yet, we must admit that there have been times when we have taken God for granted. There have been times when we have created our own religious, political, and social traditions and given those human-made traditions more attention than Jesus. Still, our heavenly Father invites us to come to Him and ask for forgiveness.
 
Silence for reflection.
 
P:  Heavenly Father,
C:  we confess that we have not always looked to You for all good. We have created idols for ourselves. We confess our sins of thought, word, and deed. Forgive us, Father, for these weak failures. Renew us and lead us, so that we follow You and look to You for all good, for the sake of Jesus. Amen.
P:  Almighty God in His mercy has given His Son to die and rise for You and because of Jesus forgives You all Your sins. 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.
C:  Amen. We are forgiven in Christ. He is our true inheritance forever. Amen.
 
+ Word +
 
Introit
P:  O Lord, I love the habitation of your house
        and the place where your glory dwells.
C:  Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity,
        and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
P:  Prove me, O Lord, and try me;  
       test my heart and my mind.   
C:  I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,
        proclaiming thanksgiving aloud, and telling all your wondrous deeds.
 
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:  O Lord, I love the habitation of your house
        and the place where your glory dwells.
 
Salutation and Prayer of the Day
P:  The Lord be with you.
C:  And also with you.
P:  Let us pray. Almighty and merciful God, defend Your Church from all false teaching and error that Your faithful people may confess You to be the only true God and rejoice in Your good gifts of life and salvation; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
C:  Amen.
 
First Reading – Isaiah 29:11–19
And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.” And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”
And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men, therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.”
Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark,and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?” You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?
Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest? In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see. The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

P:  This is the Word of the Lord.
C:  Thanks be to God.
 
Epistle 1 Corinthians 15:12-19
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
 
P:  This is the Word of the Lord.
C:  Thanks be to God.
 
Holy Gospel – Mark 7:1-13
P:  The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark, the seventh chapter.
C:  Glory to You, O Lord.
 
When the Pharisees gathered to [Jesus], with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban’ (that is, given to God)—then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

P:  This is the Gospel of the Lord.
C:  Praise to You, O Christ.
 
Children’s Hymn – Standin’ in the Need of Prayer (AGPS 220)
 
Not my brother, nor my sister, but it’s me, O Lord,
Standin’ in the need of prayer;
Not my brother, nor my sister, but it’s me, O Lord,
Standin’ in the need of prayer. Refrain
 
Refrain:  It’s me, it’s me, O Lord,
              Standin’ in the need of prayer;
              It’s me, it’s me, O Lord,
              Standin’ in the need of prayer.
 
Not my father, nor my mother, but it’s me, O Lord,
Standin’ in the need of prayer;
Not my father, nor my mother, but it’s me, O Lord,
Standin’ in the need of prayer. Refrain
 
Children’s Sermon – Tim Cosby
 
Hymn of the Day – Christ, the Life of All the Living (LSB 420)

Christ, the life of all the living,
Christ, the death of death, our foe,
Who, Thyself for me once giving
To the darkest depths of woe:
Through Thy suff’rings, death, and merit
I eternal life inherit.
Thousand, thousand thanks shall be,
Dearest Jesus, unto Thee.
 
Thou hast suffered great affliction
And hast borne it patiently,
Even death by crucifixion,
Fully to atone for me;
Thou didst choose to be tormented
That my doom should be prevented.
Thousand, thousand thanks shall be,
Dearest Jesus, unto Thee.

Then, for all that wrought my pardon,
For Thy sorrows deep and sore,
For Thine anguish in the Garden,
I will thank Thee evermore,
Thank Thee for Thy groaning, sighing,
For Thy bleeding and Thy dying,
For that last triumphant cry,
And shall praise Thee, Lord, on high.
 
Sermon
 
Offertory – Meditation in F
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Prayer of the Church
 
+ Celebrating birthdays this week: 23 – Jane Keathley; 24 – Mary Aufderheide, Josh Boehme, Terry Buchholz, Patrick Toney; 25 – Pam Bert, Jennifer Buchholz; 27 – Steve Phelps, Anna Rawlings, Hank Schlichter
+ Wedding anniversaries: 26 – Joel & Marcia Hempel; 27 – Robert & Krissa Lubben, Jerry & Beth Nicolaus
 
Special Celebrations and Needs:
+ Church family members: Prayer of thanksgiving and celebration for Jane and Gerald Keathley upon their 67th wedding anniversary, Jane’s 89th birthday, and 59 years of membership at Glendale Lutheran Church; Mary Bush, undergoing hip replacement surgery; Jim Raterman, grieving the death of his wife, Karen; Daniel DeFosset, in the hospital with Guillain-Barre Syndrome
 
+ Friends of our congregation: Cheryl, friend of the Brugere family, recovering from surgery following a riding lawn mower accident; Penny Jonas, mother of Pastor Scott, in the hospital; the mother of Miriam Lee, now in hospice
 
+ Those who are homebound or in nursing facilities: Fred & Mary Aufderheide, Mary Guion, Anne Hammann, Ruth Wussler

+ Sacrament +
 
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.
P:  It is truly good, right, and salutary that we should at all times and in all it is truly good, right, and salutary 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 on this day overcame death and the grave and by His glorious resurrection opened to us the way of everlasting life. Therefore with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnify Your glorious name, evermore praising You and saying:

Sanctus
Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Sabaoth adored;
Heav'n and earth with full acclaim shout the glory of Your name.
Sing hosanna in the highest, sing hosanna to the Lord;
Truly blest is He who comes in the name of the Lord!

Prayer of Thanksgiving 
P:  Blessed are You, Lord of heaven and earth, for You have had mercy on those whom You created and sent Your only-begotten Son into our flesh to bear our sin and be our Savior. With repentant joy we receive the salvation accomplished for us by the all-availing sacrifice of His body and His blood on the cross.

Gathered in the name and the remembrance of Jesus, we beg You, O Lord, to forgive, renew, and strengthen us with Your Word and Spirit. Grant us faithfully to eat His body and drink His blood as He bids us do in His own testament. Gather us together, we pray, from the ends of the earth to celebrate with all the faithful the marriage feast of the Lamb in His kingdom, which has no end. Graciously receive our prayers; deliver and preserve us. To You alone, O Father, be all glory, honor, and worship, with the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
 
The Words of Our Lord
P:  Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night when He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to the disciples and said: “Take, eat; this is My + body, which is given for you. This do in remembrance of Me.”
     In the same way also He took the cup after supper, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying: “Drink of it, all of you; this cup is the new testament in My + blood, which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
 
Proclamation of Christ
P:  As often as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
C:  Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
P:  O Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, in giving us Your body and blood to eat and to drink, You lead us to remember and confess Your holy cross and passion, Your blessed death, Your rest in the tomb, Your resurrection from the dead, Your ascension into heaven, and Your coming for the final judgment. So remember us in Your kingdom and teach us to pray:
 
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.
 
Pax Domini
P:  The peace of the Lord be with you always.
C:  Amen.

Distribution
 
Blessing
 
Post-Communion Thanksgiving
P:  Let us pray. We give thanks to You, almighty God, that You have refreshed us through this salutary gift, and we implore You that of Your mercy You would strengthen us through the same in faith toward You and fervent love toward one another; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
C:  Amen.
 
Benediction
P:  The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord look upon you with favor and + give you peace.
C:  Amen.
 
Closing Hymn – Amazing Grace (LSB 744)

Amazing grace—how sweet the sound—
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind but now I see!
 
The Lord has promised good to me,
His Word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.
 
Through many dangers, toils, and snares
I have already come;
His grace has brought me safe thus far,
His grace will lead me home.
 
Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail
And mortal life shall cease,
Amazing grace shall then prevail
In heaven’s joy and peace.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.
 
Postlude – Toccatina
Acknowledgments
Unless otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.