Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost 10/9/22
EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
OCTOBER 9, 2022
ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN CHURCH, FALLS CHURCH, VA
8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
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THE ENTRANCE RITE
PRELUDE Your Hand, O Lord, in Days of Old Settings: P. Weber
WELCOME
ENTRANCE HYMN #846 (Stand) Your Hand, O Lord, in Days of Old
1 Your hand, O Lord, in days of old
Was strong to heal and save;
It triumphed over ills and death,
O’er darkness and the grave.
To You they came, the blind, the mute,
The palsied and the lame,
The lepers in their misery,
The sick with fevered frame.
2 Your touch then, Lord, brought life and health,
Gave speech and strength and sight;
And youth renewed and frenzy calmed
Revealed You, Lord of light.
And now, O Lord, be near to bless,
Almighty as before,
In crowded street, by beds of pain,
As by Gennes’ret’s shore.
3 O be our great deliv’rer still,
The Lord of life and death;
Restore and quicken, soothe and bless,
With Your life-giving breath.
To hands that work and eyes that see
Give wisdom’s healing pow’r
That whole and sick and weak and strong
May praise You evermore.
INVOCATION
In the name of the Father, and of the X Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS
God of all mercy and consolation, come to the aid of your people, turning us from our sin to live for you alone. Give us the power of your Holy Spirit that, attentive to your Word, we may confess our sins, receive your forgiveness, and grow into the fullness of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another.
Kneel. Silence is observed for reflection and self-examination.
Gracious God,
have mercy on us. In your compassion forgive us our sins, known and unknown, things done and left undone. Uphold us by your Spirit so that we may live and serve you in newness of life, to the honor and glory of your holy name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life.
Amen.
KYRIE (Stand)
For the peace from above and for our salvation, and for the peace of the whole world and the unity of all let us pray to the Lord:
Kyrie Eleison; Christe Eleison; Kyrie Eleison. (This means “Lord, have mercy.”)
For this holy house and for all who offer here their worship and praise, and for the well-being of the church of God in Christ let us pray to the Lord:
Kyrie Eleison; Christe Eleison; Kyrie Eleison.
Help, save, comfort and defend us, gracious Lord.
Kyrie Eleison; Christe Eleison; Kyrie Eleison.
HYMN OF PRAISE #950 Splendor and Honor
1 Splendor and honor, majesty and power
Are Yours, O Lord God, fount of ev’ry blessing,
For by Your bidding was the whole creation
Called into being.
2 Praised be the true Lamb, slain for our redemption,
By whose self-off’ring we are made God’s people:
A priestly kingdom, from all tongues and nations,
Called to God’s service.
3 To the Almighty, throned in heav’nly splendor,
And to the Savior, Christ our Lamb and Shepherd,
Be adoration, praise, and glory given,
Now and forever.
THE PRAYER OF THE DAY
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us pray. Almighty God,
You show mercy to Your people in all their troubles. Grant us always to recognize Your goodness, give thanks for Your compassion, and praise Your holy name; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
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THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
FIRST LESSON (Be seated) Ruth 1:1-19a
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food. So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. The Lord grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband!” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept. And they said to her, “No, we will return with you to your people.” But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands? Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons, would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me.” Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.
So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem.
This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
(8:00) PSALM 111 (Sung responsively)
(10:30) ANTHEM Jubilation Choir Seek Ye First K. Lafferty/Arr. D. Wagner
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and its righteousness,
And all these things will be added unto you;
Allelu, Alleluia!
Ask, and it shall be given unto you, seek, and ye shall find,
Knock, and the door shall be opened unto you;
Allelu, Alleluia!
SECOND LESSON 2 Timothy 2:1-13
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. The saying is trustworthy, for:
If we have died with him, we will also live with him;
if we endure, we will also reign with him;
if we deny him, he also will deny us;
if we are faithless, he remains faithful—
for he cannot deny himself.
This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
(10:30) CHILDREN’S SERMON
ALLELUIA VERSE (Stand)
Alleluia.
Lord, to whom shall we go?
You have the words of eternal life.
Alleluia, alleluia.
GOSPEL Luke 17:11-19
The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, the 17th chapter
Glory to You, O Lord.
On the way to Jerusalem [Jesus] was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to You, O Christ.
SERMON (Be seated)
Grace, mercy and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus. Amen. Dear friends in Christ:
Today’s Gospel reading is probably familiar to you. We read it regularly at Thanksgiving Day services and it’s often invoked when we wish to urge the virtue of thankfulness. The call for us to be thankful is powerfully illustrated here and hard to miss.
In light of last Sunday’s Gospel reading, which came from the verses just before today’s, this reading may also seem somewhat ironic. In those verses, Jesus called us to do our work without feeling a need to be thanked.
But of course the two teachings are not contradictory. The difference is that giving thanks is a good thing, while needing thanks is not. Simple as that.
Having said that, today’s reading also addresses subjects beyond that of thankfulness. To discover these, I would like us to begin by examining some of the particular words used in the story. After that we can draw out some messages of the text, and I’ll conclude with one particular application.
One word which catches our eye in this reading is the word master. The lepers call Jesus “master,” and this is interesting because normally only Jesus’ disciples use this name for him. The name implies respect and also familiarity. These poor lepers, isolated and cast out because of their awful and contagious skin disease, would not have known Jesus personally. But they must have heard about him from someone. Since they call him master, it seems they had probably heard about him from one of Jesus’ disciples. And that means that a disciple of Jesus was somehow in contact with them. Perhaps one of the disciples had a family member among the lepers. Or perhaps one felt a special calling to minister to those with that specific illness.
Next, we see that the lepers cry out for mercy. Some translations will use the word pity instead of mercy. Pity is also an acceptable translation of the Greek eleison, and one that gets to the feeling of sympathy which was no doubt desired. The word mercy often has an implication of forgiveness being extended in the face of sin. Perhaps the lepers were under the impression, as many sick people in those days were, that their illness had been caused by some sin of theirs. Or, maybe they were just acknowledging that sin was behind their illness in a general sense – as evidence of this world’s broken state. More likely, however, they were simply crying out for action on the part of Jesus. Pity was fine; but action would mean help.
When the lepers are healed, Jesus says to them: “go show yourselves to the priests.” Priests were normally needed to sign off on one’s cleanliness before re-entering society (see Leviticus 14), so perhaps that’s why Jesus gave the command. The cleansed lepers would also need to offer the prescribed sacrifices as a sign of their thanks to God, and these would be given to the priest.
Still, it seems that Jesus’ command served other purposes as well. Perhaps Jesus, even more, wanted the priests to hear about the healing. And perhaps he was giving a sign about his new work being incorporated into the people’s existing laws and traditions.
Of those ten lepers who were healed, one of them returned to Jesus. And here I’d like us to examine the word return. Not only was the word used by the Gospel writer to describe this one man’s coming back to Jesus, but Jesus also uses the word himself when addressing him. He says: “Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”
In the Old Testament, “returning” was a word commonly used to indicate repentance and faith. The most famous use was by the prophet Joel in words that we regularly hear on Ash Wednesday. Joel quotes God as saying: “Yet even now, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Joel himself then adds: “Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love.”
One man returned to Jesus. And this man was a Samaritan. Lest we pass by this detail without noting its importance, Jesus, too, remarks upon the man’s national identity, saying that he was a foreigner. And here Jesus uses a different word than the commonly found “ethne,” which means Gentile. The word he uses was famous for being inscribed on the Jerusalem temple. There it sternly said: “No one from a foreign nation may enter.”
This foreigner returned and “praised God with a loud voice.” He gave glory to God, just like one was to do in the temple, and just like the angels did at Jesus’ birth when they sang “glory to God in the highest, and peace to his people on earth,” and just like the woman did back in chapter thirteen after being healed of the disability she endured for eighteen years.
Finally, Jesus refers to the one who was healed as being saved. We translate his words as being: “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well,” but that last part is literally “saved you.” Healing is a salvation from the burden of injury and illness, but it is more than that too. It is also a sign of the greater salvation given to our souls. Earlier in the Gospel, lepers were “cleansed” and “cured” by Jesus. This man was saved. And that’s because he had returned to Jesus, giving voice to his faith through his thanks.
Having dug into a number of the words found in this reading, let’s now do some thinking about its messages.
As already noted, we certainly ought to hear its encouragement toward thankfulness. Expressing thanks to others is not just a way to be polite and not just about having good manners. Giving thanks is a way of acknowledging another’s efforts, and a reminder to one’s self of the gratitude that should be felt.
Perhaps this message from the scriptures will remind you, today, of someone you ought to thank. Certainly it should remind you to give thanks to God.
Our relationship with God, however, is to be defined by more than just our thankfulness. As the story makes clear, we are called to return to him and to give him glory.
Returning involves both giving our attention and turning towards his ways. It is a repenting of our sins. It is an acknowledgement of his authority. It is a heeding of his commands.
Giving glory is also more than just giving thanks. Giving glory means putting our heart into it. The healed leper in today’s story gave glory “with a loud voice.” What do we do? We can sing loudly in church, and that’s fine. The church encourages this. We do! But giving glory is much more. Giving glory is more along the lines of the message stated on one of our youth group t-shirts – the one that says: “faith lived out loud.”
That phrase, by the way, doesn’t mean that we get in people’s faces – although being up front and direct are always good things. Rather, it means that we live in accordance with what we believe and that we’re not afraid to show it either. It means having the attitude of St. Paul, who said to the Romans “I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (1:16).
In addition, this giving glory to God will involve our witnessing of the faith to others. “Go and show yourselves to the priests,” said Jesus to the lepers. And as we noted, this command of Jesus seems to be more than just a command to follow the Old Testament Law. It is certainly a call to witness as well.
And to what are we to witness? To the healing power of God that is found in Jesus. Note that Jesus equates giving thanks to God with giving thanks to him. “Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” he said. Giving praise to God and giving thanks to Jesus are the same thing.
In relating this story of Jesus and the ten lepers, the scripture gives us more than just an encouragement to be thankful for the good we experience. It also gives us a pattern for our lives. We, too, are to return to Jesus and give glory to God. We are to return by regularly listening to Jesus and repenting of our sin. And we are to give glory by receiving God’s salvation with thanksgiving.
This pattern will strengthen, sustain and heal us. And here I would remind you of one more meaning-filled word from our reading today – the word for giving thanks. That word is eucharisto, from where we get our word Eucharist. When we celebrate the Eucharist by receiving Christ’s body and blood for the forgiveness of our sins, we are being assured of our salvation, strengthened in our faith and healed in the ways that we most the need. The pattern of weekly gathering around the Eucharist will heal us more than any other means.
And by the way, the healing Jesus brings is not just an individual healing. It is a healing of community also. Those lepers Jesus healed were enabled to return to their homes, their families and their friends. They were able to re-connect with society and live in community with others, as neighbors.
This healing is emphasized by another part of the story as well. By making the most faith-filled leper a Samaritan, Jesus shows his desire to heal the wounds between nations too. Jesus teaches Israelites to respect Samaritans and insiders to welcome foreigners. This message, given by Jesus’ lifting up of that Samaritan leper, must not be missed. It is one of the scripture’s most powerful messages and one that our world needs to hear continually.
One final application to share – this one from Dr. Dale Meyer. In a journal article he wrote some years ago, Dr. Meyer said that this text can remind us to be both spiritual and religious.
Sometimes we need a reminder to be more spiritual. We’re like the nine lepers who did not give Jesus thanks because we’re blindly following our old religious ways and can’t see new movements of the Spirit. Sometimes we concentrate so much on the traditions and actions of religion that we can’t see the spiritual needs around or within us.
At other times we need a reminder of the importance of the religious life. Many people today think a person can be spiritual without being religious. Like the ten lepers they may cry out to Jesus for help and maybe even call him “master” – thinking they have a closeness with him because they know his name. But where is their thanks? True thanks is shown in giving glory. It’s shown in honoring God’s teachings and respecting the ways those teachings get passed on. When people drop the practice of religion, one gets the impression that their spirituality is really only a looking for handouts.
Today’s text is an action text, calling us to give praise to God through Jesus Christ. We do this through a spiritual life that recognizes and receives our healing with thanksgiving. And we do this through the ongoing practices of faith.
“Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well,” said Jesus. When we trust Jesus, we are well in the Lord! And for this we give him thanks.
In the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen.
HYMN OF THE DAY #587 (Stand) I Know My Faith Is Founded
1 When peace, like a river, attendeth my way;
When sorrows, like sea billows, roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul. Refrain
Refrain
It is well (It is well)
with my soul, (with my soul),
It is well, it is well with my soul.
2 Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate
And hath shed His own blood for my soul. Refrain
3 He lives—oh, the bliss of this glorious thought;
My sin, not in part, but the whole,
Is nailed to His cross, and I bear it no more.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! Refrain
4 And, Lord, haste the day when our faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
The trumpet shall sound and the Lord shall desend;
Even so it is well with my soul. Refrain
APOSTLES’ CREED Hymnal, back cover
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.
OFFERING
Offerings support the church’s mission work – both here and through our many partners. Offerings may be placed in the box at the sanctuary entrance or sent to the church through our website or the mail. Fellowship Cards help us welcome new people and track participation. Please fill one out and place it in the offering box following the service.
PRAYERS OF THE CHURCH
In peace, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For the Holy Spirit, that we would be taught constantly to pray, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us,” and to trust that Christ has cleansed us by His blood, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For the baptized in Christ who no longer offer their thanks, that our ever-faithful God would grant them penitent hearts so that they might obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For all servants of Christ, that God would bless them in their callings, preserve them from useless entanglements, fortify them in faithfulness when they must suffer, and remind them always that His Word is not bound, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For our families, remembering especially today adult children who care for their parents, that God would sustain them in wisdom and compassion; and for those parents to accept needed assistance with a humble spirit, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For an end to war and violence; for those who defend us against our enemies; for those who preserve order against the threat of terror; and for those who sit in judgment over evildoers, that justice and peace may prevail among us and that we may work together for the common good, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For those in need of help; for those on our prayer list – Victoria, Geraine, Ann, Sophia, Dolly, Melissa, Gloria, Norma, Trudy, Mary Ann, June, Peter, Wendy, Ron, Tawni, Reaghann, James, and Linda; and for all whom we name in our hearts at this time… that the Lord would hear our prayers and deliver them from all troubles and fears, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For all who partake of the Lord’s Supper this day, that Christ would visit them with His body and blood, cleansing them from the leprosy of sin and filling their mouths with thanks and praise, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
Merciful Lord, grant that we may with grateful hearts receive all these things according to Your merciful will. Lead us to respond with voices of praise and thanksgiving and lives of holiness and righteousness, displaying in outward form the faith that lives in our hearts. Give us faith that works in love, hope that does not disappoint, compassion that does not fail, and confidence in Your mercy that does not waver, that we may live in Your faith and fear all our days and at length fall asleep in the arms of Your mercy and in everlasting peace; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
OFFERTORY #955 (Stand) Let the Vineyards Be Fruitful
Let the vineyards be fruitful, Lord,
And fill to the brim our cup of blessing.
Gather a harvest from the seeds that were sown,
That we may be fed with the bread of life.
Gather the hopes and the dreams of all;
Unite them with the prayers we offer now.
Grace our table with Your presence, and give us
A foretaste of the feast to come.
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SERVICE OF THE SACRAMENT
PREFACE
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give Him thanks and praise.
It is truly good, right and salutary that we should at all times and in all places give thanks to you, hold 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 #961
Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Sabaoth;
heav’n and earth are full of Your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessèd, blessèd, blessèd is He
who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Blessed are you, Lord of heaven and earth. In mercy for our fallen world you gave your only Son, that all those who believe in him should not perish but have eternal life. We give thanks to you for the salvation you have prepared for us through Jesus Christ. Send now your Holy Spirit into our hearts, that we may receive our Lord with a living faith as he comes to us in his holy supper.
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
THE 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.
WORDS OF OUR LORD
PAX DOMINI
The peace of the Lord be with you always.
Amen.
AGNUS DEI — I #962
Lamb of God, You take away the sin of the world;
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, You take away the sin of the world;
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, You take away the sin of the world;
grant us Your peace,
grant us Your peace,
grant us Your peace.
THE COMMUNION (Be seated)
The Communion Assistant will come forward to receive first, then those from the pulpit side – by order of pew, front to back. Communicants will come up the center aisle and return via the side aisle. When all from the pulpit side have communed, the baptismal font side will commune in the same manner. We ask that the wine be consumed away from the tray table. Empty cups should be dropped into the receptacles.
PRAYER (Stand)
DISTRIBUTION MUSIC I Know My Faith Is Founded Setting: J. Weber
NUNC DIMITTIS #937 (Stand)
1 Lord, bid Your servant go in peace,
Your word is now fulfilled.
These eyes have seen salvation’s dawn,
This child so long foretold.
2 This is the Savior of the world,
The Gentiles’ promised light,
God’s glory dwelling in our midst,
The joy of Israel.
3 With saints of old, with saints to come,
To You we lift our voice;
To Father, Son, and Spirit blest
Be honor, love, and praise.
PRAYER (Stand)
BENEDICTION
SENDING HYMN #790 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
1 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!
O my soul, praise Him, for He is your health and salvation!
Let all who hear
Now to His temple draw near,
Joining in glad adoration!
2 Praise to the Lord, who o’er all things is wondrously reigning
And, as on wings of an eagle, uplifting, sustaining.
Have you not seen
All that is needful has been
Sent by His gracious ordaining?
3 Praise to the Lord, who has fearfully, wondrously, made you,
Health has bestowed and, when heedlessly falling, has stayed you.
What need or grief
Ever has failed of relief?
Wings of His mercy did shade you.
4 Praise to the Lord, who will prosper your work and defend you;
Surely His goodness and mercy shall daily attend you.
Ponder anew
What the Almighty can do
As with His love He befriends you.
5 Praise to the Lord! O let all that is in me adore Him!
All that has life and breath, come now with praises before Him!
Let the Amen
Sound from His people again;
Gladly forever adore Him!
DISMISSAL
Go in peace. Serve the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
POSTLUDE Praise to the Lord, the Almighty Setting: H.F. Micheelsen
Those serving:
Sunday, October 9,
8:00 p.m.:
Greeter: Christine M. Bell
Comm. assist: Judy Koucky
Reader: Judy Koucky
10:30 a.m.:
Greeter: Jim Easterly
Comm. assist: Dan Buuck
Reader: Bill Muller
FLOWERS: By J. Zambone
FELLOWSHIP: Board of Property Management
Acknowledgments
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Created by Lutheran Service Builder © 2022 Concordia Publishing House.
Splendor and Honor Text: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944 Text: © 1990 Hope Publishing Co. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110005326 Tune: K. Lee Scott, 1950 Tune: © 1987 K. Lee Scott, admin. MorningStar Music Publishers. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110005326
Let the Vineyards Be Fruitful Text: John W. Arthur, 1922–80
Tune: Richard W. Hillert, 1923–2010 Text & Tune: © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110005326
Sanctus Text: Traditional; tr. International Consultation on English Texts, alt. Tune: Mark L. Bender, 1951 Text: © 1975 International Consultation on English Texts. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110005326 Tune: © 2006 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110005326
Agnus Dei — I Text: Traditional; tr. International Consultation on English Texts, alt. Tune: Paul D. Weber, 1949Text: © 1975 International Consultation on English Texts. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110005326 Tune: © 2001 Paul D. Weber. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110005326
Lord, Bid Your Servant Go in PeaceText (sts. 1–2): James Quinn, 1919–2010; (st. 3): Henry V. Gerike, 1948 Text (sts. 1–2): © 1969, 1989 OCP Publications; (st. 3): © 2006 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110005326 Tune: American Tune: Public domain
Your Hand, O Lord, in Days of Old Text: Edward H. Plumptre, 1821–91, alt. Tune: English; adapt. and harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872–1958, alt. Text & Tune: Public domain
Seek Ye First Text &Tune: Karen Lafferty, b. 1948 Text & Tune: © 1972 Cccm Music (ASCAP) Universal Music/Brentwood Benson Publications (ASCAP), admin. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com. Used by permission: OneLicense no. A-701491
When Peace, like a River Text: Horatio G. Spafford, 1828–88, alt. Tune: Philip P. Bliss, 1838–76 Text & Tune: Public domain
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty Text: Joachim Neander, 1650–80; tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1827–78, alt. Tune: Ander Theil Des Erneuerten Gesang-Buchs, 1665, Stralsund Text & Tune: Public domain
