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Beginning Sunday,
June 6, 2010, Sunday School and Bible Class are held at 9:00 AM; Worship begins at 10:00 AM.
Holy Communion is celebrated
every other Sunday, pending availability of a Guest Pastor.
Sunday
Worship Services
"Blessed
are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." (Luke
11:28)
Worship:
10:00 A.M.
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format of our worship will alternate between blended, liturgical, and some
combination of both. The blended worship, is normally taken from the "Creative
Worship" series of Concordia Publishing House, the Publisher for The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.
Some hymns are from Lutheran Service Book; selected songs are taken from Celebration Hymnal and
various other denominations' hymnals. Scripture lessons may be
proclaimed by Spiritual Board members or lay readers.
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Holy Communion
In
keeping with His teaching that whoever takes the body and blood
"unworthily" (that is, in unbelief) receives it to his harm
rather than to his good, Jesus of Nazareth invites to the Sacrament all
who:
- believe they are a sinner, are repentant of their sin, and desire power
to live a more Godly life; and,
- confess that with the bread and the wine, they receive His true body and true
blood for the forgiveness of sin, power for the new life, and the gift of
eternal salvation.
Holy
Communion will tentatively be celebrated every other Sunday pending availability of guest Pastors.
PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP FOR THE
TENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST,
AUGUST 1ST, 2010
To be honest, the Church is not always and only
about heaven and the hereafter. Neither, however, should it
always and only be about what it takes to live our daily lives now.
It is both. Our life is to be directed and empowered from
"above" as we look forward to future glory so that we can rise above
earthly things and live lives now in joy and service to others.
The Old Testament sees the "vanity" of earthly strivings and the
Gospel agrees that the riches of this world avail nothing. St.
Paul dramatically shows the life of the baptized Christian as living
a truly new life now.
OLD TESTAMENT: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-26 (Vanity of
earthly gain)
2
Vanity of
vanities,
says the
Preacher,
vanity of
vanities!
All is
vanity.
The
Vanity of
Wisdom
12I
the Preacher
have been
king over
Israel in
Jerusalem.
13And
I applied my
heart to
seek and to
search out
by wisdom
all that is
done under
heaven. It
is an
unhappy
business
that God has
given to the
children of
man to be
busy with.
14I
have seen
everything
that is done
under the
sun, and
behold, all
is vanity
and a
striving
after wind.
The
Vanity
of
Toil
18I
hated
all
my
toil
in
which
I
toil
under
the
sun,
seeing
that
I
must
leave
it
to
the
man
who
will
come
after
me,
19and
who
knows
whether
he
will
be
wise
or a
fool?
Yet
he
will
be
master
of
all
for
which
I
toiled
and
used
my
wisdom
under
the
sun.
This
also
is
vanity.
20So
I
turned
about
and
gave
my
heart
up
to
despair
over
all
the
toil
of
my
labors
under
the
sun,
21because
sometimes
a
person
who
has
toiled
with
wisdom
and
knowledge
and
skill
must
leave
everything
to
be
enjoyed
by
someone
who
did
not
toil
for
it.
This
also
is
vanity
and
a
great
evil.
22What
has
a
man
from
all
the
toil
and
striving
of
heart
with
which
he
toils
beneath
the
sun?
23For
all
his
days
are
full
of
sorrow,
and
his
work
is a
vexation.
Even
in
the
night
his
heart
does
not
rest.
This
also
is
vanity.
24
There
is
nothing
better
for
a
person
than
that
he
should
eat
and
drink
and
find
enjoyment
in
his
toil.
This
also,
I
saw,
is
from
the
hand
of
God,
25for
apart
from
him
who
can
eat
or
who
can
have
enjoyment?
26For
to
the
one
who
pleases
him
God
has
given
wisdom
and
knowledge
and
joy,
but
to
the
sinner
he
has
given
the
business
of
gathering
and
collecting,
only
to
give
to
one
who
pleases
God.
This
also
is
vanity
and
a
striving
after
wind.
EPISTLE:
Colossians 3:1-11
(Putting on the new
self)
Put On the New Self
1 If then you have been
raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is,
seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are
on earth. 3For you have
died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4When Christ who is your
life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5 Put to death
therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion,
evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
6 On account of these the
wrath of God is coming. 7
In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.
8But now you must put them
all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your
mouth. 9 Do not lie to one
another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
10and have put on the new
self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its
creator. 11 Here there is
not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian,
slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
HOLY GOSPEL: Luke 12:13-21 (Parable of the rich fool)
The Parable of the Rich Fool
13 Someone in the crowd
said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with
me." 14But he said to him,
"Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over
you?" 15And he said
to them, "Take care, and be on your guard
against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the
abundance of his possessions."
16And he told them a
parable, saying, "The land of a rich man
produced plentifully, 17and
he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my
crops?' 18And
he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger
ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
19And I
will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years;
relax, eat, drink, be merry.'
20But
God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the
things you have prepared, whose will they be?'
21So is
the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."
Christ Lutheran Church at Easter, 2010
If you are unable to attend worship services, you may wish to hear sermons
and/or worship services at other LCMS Churches across the country.
www.lutherandevotionalcorner.info contains a compilation of those.
Background Music is "Praise the God of Resurrection" , presented by
the Christ Lutheran Church Choir, March 28, 2010
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