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Thursday, September 16, 2021

Weekly Newsletter

Glimpses of Glendale
Glendale Lutheran Church Newsletter
September 16, 2021
Glendale Lutheran is an older congregation but this is not unique to our congregation. This week I saw a graph of the average age of religious traditions. Here are some of the numbers
Our denomination is the oldest church body in America. The situation we are experiencing is common throughout our church body. It comes with being among the oldest denominations. The good news is that we have a lot of experience and wisdom in the LCMS. The bad news is that our kids and grandkids have not stayed in our church body. Although that is a blessing for those other church bodies, especially if those ex-Lutherans are using the doctrine of their youth to influence their new churches.

The lesson is that we need to continue to pass on the faith to the next generations. Yesterday, Gwendoline Boehme and myself joined the Concordia Kirkwood confirmation classes. I taught the eighth graders and led Gwendoline’s 6th grade small group. You also have the opportunity to pass on the faith. Use your opportunities as a parent, grandparent, uncle, aunt and friend to influence the faith of young people. We will soon begin a visioning process at Glendale Lutheran and drawing and keeping young families is one of my priorities. The Cosbys begin teaching Sunday School this Sunday. Tim and Janet Leet lead Children’s messages. What can you do to help keep us young?
Daily Bible Reading
Church Picnic Wrap-Up

What a beautiful day we had for our church picnic! Gorgeous sunshine, great food, and good fellowship was enjoyed by all 60 or so people who attended. Thank you to everyone who helped before, during, and after to ensure the day was a success!
Deacons

If you need to talk to a fellow believe, email or 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).
Offerings vs. Budget Update
Women's Tuesday Bible Study

Women’s Tuesday Bible Study has started up again at 9:15 am. Whether you’ve grown up hearing Bible stories or you’re exploring Scripture for the first time we hope you’ll join us as we discover the “Seamless” thread connecting the people, places & promises of the Bible.
Leadership Council Nominations

The Leadership Council is accepting nominations for the Council to consider to replace Council members whose terms are expiring in October. This year there are two members whose terms will be coming to an end. Please let anyone on Leadership Council, the Elders, or Pastor Scott know if there is anyone you would like to nominate who you believe would make a good leader for our Congregation. The Leadership Council will review those nominations at its September meeting and provide recommendations in advance of our October 2021 Voters’ Meeting.
Next Sunday's Bible Readings
Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29; James 5:1-20; Mark 9:38-50
Worship Leaders
This Sunday - 9/19
Lector: Ryan Barnett
Communion: John Steele
Greeters: Terry & Jennifer Buchholz
S/V: Jerry Nicolaus
Ushers: Becci Sasser, Lisa Grossenheider, Terry Buchholz
Children's Message: Tim Cosby
This Sunday - 9/26
Lector: Janet Leet
Communion: Steve Phelps
Greeters: Derek & Laurel Don
S/V: Ken Clark
Ushers: Gerry Lucas, John Steele, Mike Toney
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.
Men’s Bible Study meets Mondays at 7:30am. Pastor Scott leads.
 
Women’s Tuesday Morning Bible Study has started up again for the fall. Join us Tuesday mornings at 9:15.
 
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). 
The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
9:15am
Prelude – As The Deer
 
Greeting and Welcome
 
Lighting of the Candles
 
Hymn of Invocation – Crown Him With Many Crowns (LSB 525)
 
Crown Him with many crowns,
The Lamb upon His throne;
Hark how the heav’nly anthem drowns
All music but its own.
Awake, my soul, and sing
Of Him who died for thee,
And hail Him as thy matchless king
Through all eternity.
 
Crown Him the Lord of love.
Behold His hands and side,
Rich wounds, yet visible above,
In beauty glorified.
No angels in the sky
Can fully bear that sight,
But downward bend their wond’ring eyes
At mysteries so bright.
 
Crown Him the Lord of life,
Who triumphed o’er the grave
And rose victorious in the strife
For those He came to save.
His glories now we sing,
Who died and rose on high,
Who died eternal life to bring
And lives that death may die.

Crown Him the Lord of heav’n,
Enthroned in worlds above,
Crown Him the king to whom is giv’n
The wondrous name of Love.
Crown Him with many crowns
As thrones before Him fall;
Crown Him, ye kings, with many crowns,
For He is king of all.

+ Preparation +
 
Invocation
P:  In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit.
C:  Amen.
 
Confession and Absolution
P:  In today’s Epistle, James urges, “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” Let us go to God, echoing David’s words in Psalm 54, appointed for today.
P:  O God, save me, by Your name,
C:  and vindicate me by Your might.
P:  O God, hear my prayer;
C:  give ear to the words of my mouth.
P:  James’ words in today’s Epistle guide our confession. Gracious God,
C:  we confess that as we have desired friendship with the world, we forget that it would mean enmity with God. We confess that our passions are at war within us. We have had bitter jealousy and selfish ambition inside us. In all humility, we come to You, holy Lord, seeking Your peace to calm the war within us.
P:  God has not given up on you! He yearns jealously over the spirit that He has made to dwell in us. Indeed, He gives more grace. James writes, “A harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace,” and in His death and resurrection, Jesus gave us His righteousness and established peace between us and God. 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.
 
+ Word +
 
Introit
P:  Delight yourself in the Lord,
        and he will give you the desires of your heart.           
C:  Commit your way to the Lord;
        trust in him, and he will act.
P:  He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
        and your justice as the noonday.        
C:  Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;
        fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who  carries out evil devices!
 
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:  Delight yourself in the Lord,
        and he will give you the desires of your heart.           
 
Salutation and Prayer of the Day
P:  The Lord be with you.
C:  And also with you.
P:  Let us pray. O God, whose strength is made perfect in weakness, grant us humility and childlike faith that we may please You in both will and deed; 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 – Proverbs 15:1-12
A soft answer turns away wrath,
  but a harsh word stirs up anger.
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,
  but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
The eyes of the Lord are in every place,
  keeping watch on the evil and the good.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
  but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
A fool despises his father’s instruction,
  but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
In the house of the righteous there is much treasure,
  but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.
The lips of the wise spread knowledge;
  not so the hearts of fools.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
  but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
  but he loves him who pursues righteousness.
There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way;
  whoever hates reproof will die.
Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord;
  how much more the hearts of the children of man!
A scoffer does not like to be reproved;
  he will not go to the wise.
 
P:  This is the Word of the Lord.
C:  Thanks be to God.
 
Epistle James 3:13—4:10
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
 
P:  This is the Word of the Lord.
C:  Thanks be to God.

Holy Gospel – Mark 9:30-37
P:  The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark, the ninth chapter.
C:  Glory to You, O Lord.
[The disciples] went on from there and passed through Galilee. And [Jesus] did not want anyone to know, for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.” But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

P:  This is the Gospel of the Lord.
C:  Praise to You, O Christ.
 
Apostles' Creed
C:  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 – Father Welcomes (AGPS 95)
 
Refrain: Father welcomes all His children
             To His fam’ly through His Son,
             Father giving His salvation,
             Life forever has been won.
 
Little children, come to me,
For My kingdom is of these.
Life and love I have to give,
Mercy for your sin. Refrain
 
Children’s Sermon – Tim Cosby
 
Hymn of the Day – Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice (LSB 556)
 
Dear Christians, one and all, rejoice,
With exultation springing,
And with united heart and voice
And holy rapture singing,
Proclaim the wonders God has done,
How His right arm the vict’ry won.
What price our ransom cost Him!
 
Fast bound in Satan’s chains I lay;
Death brooded darkly o’er me.
Sin was my torment night and day;
In sin my mother bore me.
But daily deeper still I fell;
My life became a living hell,
So firmly sin possessed me.
 
“Now to My Father I depart,
From earth to heav’n ascending,
And, heavn’ly wisdom to impart,
The Holy Spirit sending;
In trouble He will comfort you
And teach you always to be true
And into truth shall guide you.
 
Sermon 
Offering
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Offertory – In Faith I Quiet Wait
 
Prayer of the Church
+ Celebrating birthdays this week: 19 – Frank Moret; 20 – Emma DeBord; 22 – Valerie Wehmueller; 23 – Gwen Peiper; 24 –Racheal Canania, Tori Williams; 25 – Sandy Faeth, Christian Schaefer
+ Wedding anniversaries: 22 – Tom Gubser & Julie McClanahan-Gubser; 25 – Doug & Debbie Bert
 
Special Celebrations and Needs:
+ Church family members: Andy Ortstadt, recovering from hernia surgery; Miriam Lee, upon the death of her mother, Laverne; Becci Lauber-Sasser, upon the birth of granddaughter Evelyn Grace; Rebecca Wehmueller, recovering from a horse riding accident
+ Friends of our congregation: Jonathan Chapa, husband of Stephanie, one of our CCLS-Glendale teachers, recovering from lung surgery; family and friends of first year seminary student Ken Oziah, upon his death from Covid
+ Those who are homebound or in nursing facilities: Fred & Mary Aufderheide, Mary Guion, Anne Hammann, Jerry & Jane Keathley, 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 praiseimH.
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, 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 pow’r 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.
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. His gracious victory has given us peace within, where there was conflict and war. With joy, we receive the salvation He won for us.
Gathered now in His name, we ask You to strengthen our faith to rely on Your Word and Spirit. Gather us together with all the faithful to celebrate the marriage feast of the Lamb in His kingdom, which has no end. To You alone, gracious God, we give glory now and forever.
C:  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.”
 
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
 
Distribution Hymn – Lord Jesus Christ, We Humbly Pray (LSB 623)
 
Lord Jesus Christ, we humbly pray
That we may feast on You today;
Beneath these forms of bread and wine
Enrich us with Your grace divine.
 
Give us, who share this wondrous food,
Your body broken and Your blood,
The grateful peace of sins forgiv’n,
The certain joys of heirs of heav’n.
 
By faith Your Word has made us bold
To seize the gift of love retold;
All that You are we here receive,
And all we are to You we give.
 
One bread, one cup, one body, we,
Rejoicing in our unity,
Proclaim Your love until You come
To bring Your scattered loved ones home.
 
Lord Jesus Christ, we humbly pray:
O keep us steadfast till that day
When each will be Your welcomed guest
In heaven’s high and holy feast.
 
Blessing
 
Post-Communion Thanksgiving
P:  Let us pray. O God the Father, the fountain and source of all goodness, who in loving-kindness sent Your only-begotten Son into the flesh, we thank You that for His sake You have given us pardon and peace in this Sacrament, and we ask You not to forsake Your children but always to rule our hearts and minds by Your Holy Spirit that we may be enabled constantly to serve You; 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 – Sent Forth by God’s Blessing (LSB 643)
 
Sent forth by God’s blessing, our true faith confessing,
The people of God from His dwelling take leave.
The Supper is ended. O now be extended
The fruits of this service in all who believe.
The seed of His teaching, receptive souls reaching,
Shall blossom in action for God and for all.
His grace did invite us, His love shall unite us
To work for God’s kingdom and answer His call.
 
With praise and thanksgiving to God ever-living,
The tasks of our ev’ryday life we will face.
Our faith ever sharing, in love ever caring,
Embracing His children of each tribe and race.
With Your feast You feed us, with Your light now lead us;
Unite us as one in this life that we share.
Then may all the living with praise and thanksgiving
Give honor to Christ and His name that we bear.
 
Postlude – Variations on “Hyfrydol”
 
+ + +
 
+ WORSHIP LEADERS +
Preacher/Celebrant/Liturgist – Pastor Scott
Organist/Pianist – Jim Thielker
Communion – John Steele
Sound/Video – Jerry Nicolaus
Lector – Ryan Barnett
Ushers – Becci Sasser, Lisa Grossenheider, Terry Buchholz
Greeters – Terry & Jennifer Buchholz
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.