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Thursday, May 4, 2023

Worship Bulletin


Welcome to Glendale Lutheran!


Pastor Scott is in the office Mondays and Wednesdays.

 

On Sunday, June 4, we will be honoring Janet Leet as she retires from teaching with a brunch following worship. Sign up on the kiosk to bring something and join us in celebrating Janet for her 50+ years in ministry! There will also be a celebration and reception at Concordia Kirkwood in the afternoon. Please see Glimpses for more details.

The Fifth Sunday of Easter

May 7, 2023

Sunday 9:15am

Prelude

 

Greeting and Welcome

 

Lighting of the Candles

 

Hymn of Invocation – The Church’s One Foundation (LSB 644, verses 1-2, 5)

 

The Church’s one foundation

Is Jesus Christ, her Lord;

She is His new creation

By water and the Word.

From heav’n He came and sought her

To be His holy bride;

With His own blood He bought her,

And for her life He died.

 

Elect from ev’ry nation,

Yet one o’er all the earth;

Her charter of salvation:

One Lord, one faith, one birth.

One holy name she blesses,

Partakes one holy food,

And to one hope she presses

With ev’ry grace endued.

 

Yet she on earth has union

With God, the Three in One,

And mystic sweet communion

With those whose rest is won.

O blessèd heav’nly chorus!

Lord, save us by Your grace

That we, like saints before us,

May see You face to face.

 

+ Preparation +

 

Invocation

P: In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen.

 

Opening Sentences

P: Alleluia! Christ is risen!

C: He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

P: Christ is our cornerstone;

C: on Him alone we build.

P: In Him we are a newborn, chosen, priestly people.

C: We are called to proclaim His excellencies to the world.

 

Confession and Absolution

P: Though Christ is our cornerstone and has changed our identity to be His chosen people, we often build upon things other than Jesus. Still, our heavenly Father is merciful, and He invites us to draw near to His throne in confidence to ask for forgiveness.

 

Silence for reflection.

 

P: Heavenly Father,

C: though we are Your chosen people, we have acted in accordance with the world rather than Your Word. Forgive us, renew us, and restore as Your newborn, chosen, priestly people, on account of Jesus. Amen.

P: Though Jesus Christ was rejected and killed, God raised Him from the dead, and for His sake 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. We are a newborn, chosen, priestly people.

 

+ Word +

 

Salutation and Collect of the Day

P: The Lord be with you.

C: And also with you.

P: Let us pray. Lord Jesus Christ, You are the cornerstone and foundation upon which Your Church is built. Tear down all that we have built that was built apart from You, and bind us upon Yourself, our Rock and our Redeemer, for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C: Amen.

 

A Ministry of Deacons – Joel Hempel

 

First Reading – Acts 6:1–9

Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.

 

P: This is the Word of the Lord.

C: Thanks be to God.

 

Epistle 1 Peter 2:2–10

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

 

P: This is the Word of the Lord.

C: Thanks be to God.

 

Holy Gospel John 14:1-14

P: The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the fourteenth chapter.

C: Glory to You, O Lord.

 

[Jesus said:] “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

 

P: This is the Gospel of the Lord.

C: Praise to You, O Christ.

 

Apostles' Creed

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.

 

And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.

 

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life + everlasting. Amen.

 

Children’s Hymn – We Are the Church (AGPS 252)

 

Refrain:  I am the church! You are the church!

             We are the church together!

             All who follow Jesus all around the world!

             Yes, we’re the church together!

 

The church is not a building,

The church is not a steeple,

The church is not a resting place,

The church is a people! Refrain

 

We’re many kinds of people,

With many kinds of faces,

All colors and all ages too

From all times and places. Refrain

 

Children’s Message – Stephanie Chapa


Hymn of the Day – Built on the Rock (LSB 645, verses 1, 3)

 

Built on the Rock the Church shall stand

Even when steeples are falling.

Crumbled have spires in ev’ry land;

Bells still are chiming and calling,

Calling the young and old to rest,

But above all the souls distressed,

Longing for rest everlasting.

 

We are God’s house of living stones,

Built for His own habitation.

He through baptismal grace us owns

Heirs of His wondrous salvation.

Were we but two His name to tell,

Yet He would deign with us to dwell

With all His grace and His favor.

 

Sermon – “Living the Life of Resurrection: Being Church”

 

Prayers

 

+ Celebrating birthdays this week: 8 – Greg Frimel, Will Schumacher, Rich Faeth; 10 – Tim DeFosset; 12 – Gil Canania; 13 – Paul Barbercheck

+ Wedding anniversaries: 10 – Tony & Vicky Petzoldt

 

Special Celebrations and Needs:

+ Church family members: Mark Schultz, recovering from radiation; Sylvia Bach, recovering from shoulder replacement surgery; Ken Kight, battling cancer; Ed Nelson, home from the hospital; Pat Price, recovering from surgery; Pastor Scott, recovering from a stroke

+ Friends of our congregation: Bill Lubben, recovering from a stroke; family and friends of Diane Lordi, friend of the Barberchecks, upon her death; family and friends of Mary Jo LaDu, friend of Sandy Barbercheck, upon her sudden death; Fred Lohmeyer, after a fall; Rebecca, daughter-in-law of Mary Guion, undergoing treatment for lymphoma

+ Those who are homebound or in nursing facilities: Twylah Atwood, Mary Aufderheide, Jules Bush, Frank & Sharon Gaal, Mary Guion, Jerry & Jane Keathley, Rosemary Orloff, Judy Thielker, Shirley Williams

Offering
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Offertory

 

+ 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 places give thanks to You, holy Lord, almighty Father, everlasting God. 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 power and might

Heaven and earth are full of your glory

Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord

Hosanna in the highest


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.

 

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.”


Pax Domini

P: The peace of the Lord be with you always.

C: And also with you.

 

Distribution

 

Distribution Hymn – At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing (LSB 633, 1-2, 5-7)

 

At the Lamb’s high feast we sing

Praise to our victorious King,

Who has washed us in the tide

Flowing from His piercèd side.

Alleluia!

 

Praise we Him, whose love divine

Gives His sacred blood for wine,

Gives His body for the feast—

Christ the victim, Christ the priest.

Alleluia!

 

Mighty Victim from the sky,

Hell’s fierce pow’rs beneath You lie;

You have conquered in the fight,

You have brought us life and light.

Alleluia!

 

Now no more can death appall,

Now no more the grave enthrall;

You have opened paradise,

And Your saints in You shall rise.

Alleluia!


Easter triumph, Easter joy!

This alone can sin destroy;

From sin’s pow’r, Lord, set us free,

Newborn souls in You to be.

Alleluia!

 

Blessing

 

Post-Communion Collect                                                                        

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 – Built on the Rock (LSB 645, verse 5)

 

Grant, then, O God, Your will be done,

That, when the church bells are ringing,

Many in saving faith may come

Where Christ His message is bringing:

“I know My own; My own know Me.

You, not the world, My face shall see.

My peace I leave with you. Amen.”


Postlude

 

+ WORSHIP LEADERS +

Preacher/Celebrant/Liturgist – Pastor Scott

Organist/Pianist – Jim Thielker

Lector – Tim Cosby

Communion – Derek Don

Sound/Video – Ken Clark

Ushers – Terry Buchholz, Jonathan Chapa, Ron Froesel, Steve Phelps

Greeters – Paul & Sandy Barbercheck

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.