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St John’s Ev. Lutheran Church and School475 E. Herbert Ave. Salt Lake City, Utah 84110Web Address: Pastor Hank Malone 385-234-1931 HYPERLINK "mailto:rev.dr.hankmalone@" rev.dr.hankmalone@Zoom Phone Worship Service Sunday 10 AM 1(888) 788-0099 meeting ID 83738568539 Personal ID #We have moved to Zoom and have established an 800 number for those who wish to use their phone to connect and not be charged long distance. The invitation link can also be used if you have a Wi-Fi connection. This will put us on one network and allows us to stay together, without trying to manipulate and coordinate two systems and equipment. The Zoom computer connection or 800 number is a way for you to have our service available to you and your family and friends even if they or you are out of town or state. 1(888)788-0099 is the free 800 phone number for connection. For Sunday worship the meeting ID is 83738568539, no personal ID is required. Just hit the # sign when asked for personal ID. If you have a smart phone you can enter with video connection or not. If you are connecting for another meeting such as the Wednesday Bible Study meeting you will need ID meeting number 84718425459. If you do not get in please call 385-234-1931 and I will try to help you with that.The easiest way to come on Zoom by computer is to have an invitation email with a link. You will need to send your email address to me or Susan, so we can send out an invitation with a link to our meeting on zoom. For all who have received this notice by email, we have it. If you notice someone missing from the email addresses in your email or want to invite someone you know, either forward this to them so they can join us in worship or send an email to Susan Roberts or Pastor Hank so we can include them in our ongoing email invitations if they desire. We are privileged and commanded by God and for our own good to worship Him. Worship is the highest art form and good work that humans can do before God. It brings us into God’s presence to confess sins and receive forgiveness as well as all His blessings for life now and in eternity maintaining eternal fellowship with God. Worship is not an entertainment activity, one where we sit back and watch, but it requires your active participation. Because of the second to second and a half lag-time between you and the source of the music or leading voice, unison participation requires us to mute our mic or cover the mouth piece as a congregation. One lead voice will be heard responding with which you are also to speak and sing out loud with as you can really participate. Our joyful noise is certainly heard by our Lord, but it is distracting to our worship concentration when we all join in as reoccurring echo that is all out of phase. Remember, worship is not worship unless you are involved in the worship acts, so don’t just watch, -- join in, listen and participate, but do not add to the confusion.You will have opportunity to speak to and greet each other both before and after worship. The actual worship will start at 10 AM, but we will establish our meeting for you to connect as early as 9:45 AM. You will be connected to the waiting room and brought in by the host or co-host ASAP. Your wait time will be very short. Please join us; this will end up a good worship experience for you and without you we will be missing you.In these times of isolation and danger we give thanks to our God who tells us, “I will never leave you or forsake you.” We may not be able to understand the why, but we know that God is in our midst working to sustain us and turn this evil to our good. His Word is never broken; His promises are sure! His love for us assures us of victory over all that which would destroy body and soul. We are with Him, and He continues to gift us with life, body, soul, family, friends, and our church family. We have much to be thankful for. Because of the resurrection of our Lord, we need never fear our future. We can do all things through Him who strengthens and loves us. We have Joy and Peace in Jesus Christ! Pastor Hank24 rd. Sunday After Pentecost November 15, 2020 2rd Last Sunday of the Church Year10 AM By phone 1(888) 788-0099 Meeting ID 83738568539 for Personal ID use “ # ”If you have problems getting on, please call Pastor Hank at 385-234-1931.Divine Service Setting 1 / Service of the WordGREETING: INVOCATION: P: In the Name of the Father and of the (+) Son and of the Holy Spirit.C: Amen!P:With You there is forgiveness, O Lord; C:therefore You are feared.Opening Hymn: LSB 732 “All Depends on Our Possessing” All depends on our possessing God’s abundant grace and blessing, Though all earthly wealth depart. They who trust with faith unshaken By their God are not forsaken And will keep a dauntless heart.He who to this day has fed me And to many joys had led me Is and ever shall be mine. He who ever gently schools me, He who daily guides and rules me Will remain my help divine.Many spend their lives in fretting Over trifles and in getting Things that have no solid ground. I shall strive to win a treasure That will bring me lasting pleasure And that now is seldom found.When with sorrow I am stricken, Hope anew my heart will quicken; All my longing shall be stilled.To His loving kindness tender Soul and body I surrender, For on God alone I build.Well He knows what best to grant me; All the longing hopes that haunt me, Joy and sorrow, have their day. I shall doubt His wisdom never, As God wills, so be it ever, I commit to Him my way.If my days on earth He lengthen, God my weary soul will strengthen; All my trust in Him I place. Earthly wealth is not abiding, Like a stream away is gliding; Safe I anchor in His grace.LSB 805 “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow”Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below, praise Him above, ye heav’n ly host: Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen!CONFESSION OF SINSP: If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.C: but if we confess our sins, God, Who is faithful and just, will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.P: Let us then, confess our sins to God our Father.C: Most merciful God, we confess that we are by nature sinful and unclean. We have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and by what we have left undone. We have not loved You with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We justly deserve Your present and eternal punishment. For the sake of Your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. Forgive us, renew us, and lead us, so that we may delight in Your will and walk in Your ways to the glory of Your holy Name. Amen.P: Almighty God in His mercy has given His Son to die for you 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!PSALM/INTROIT (Ps. 143:1,6-7,9,11; Antiphon Ps. 130:4) P:With You is forgiveness O Lord; C:therefore you are feared.P: O Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy;C: in Your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.P: I spread out my hands to You; C: my soul thirsts for You like a parched land.P: Answer me quickly, O Lord;C: my spirit faints with longing.P: Do not hide Your face from meC:or I will be like those who go down to the pit.P: Rescue me from my enemies, O LordC: for I hide myself in You.P: For Your Name’s sake, O Lord, preserve my life;C:in Your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.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:With You there is forgiveness, O Lord;C:therefore You are feared.KYRIE:P: In peace. Let us pray to the Lord.C: Lord, have mercy.P: For the peace from above and for our salvation. Let us pray to the Lord.C: Lord have mercy.P: For the peace of the whole world, for the well-being of the Church of God, & the unity of all, Let us pray to the Lord.C: Lord have mercy.P: For this holy house & for all who offer here their worship & praise. Let us pray to the Lord.C: Lord, have mercy.P: Help, save, comfort, and defend us, gracious Lord.C: Amen.HYMN OF PRAISE LSB 809 “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” Refrain: Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy Faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see;All I have needed Thy hand hath provided; Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father; There is no shadow or turning with Thee. Thou changest not: Thy compassions, they fail not; As thou has been, Thou forever wilt be. (refrain)Summer and winter and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above, Join with all nature in manifold witness To Thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love. (refrain)3. Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide; Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside! (refrain)SALUTATION and COLLECT of the day:P: The Lord be with you.C: And also with you.P: Let us pray Almighty and ever-living God, since You have given exceedingly great and precious promises to those who believe, grant us so perfectly and without all doubt to believe in Your Son Jesus Christ that our faith in Your sight may never be reproved; through our Savior, Jesus Christ, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.C: AMEN.FIRST READING: Isaiah 51:9-169Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not You Who cut Rahab in pieces, Who pierced the dragon? 10 Was it not You Who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, Who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? 11And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 12 I, I am He Who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, 13and have forgotten the LORD your Maker Who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor? 14 He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the pit, neither shall his bread be lacking. I am the LORD your God. Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar--the Lord of Hosts is His Name. 16 And I have put My words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, ‘You are My people.”P: This is the Word of the Lord!C: Thanks be to God!GRADUAL: (Rev:7:14; Ps.84:5)These are they who have come out of the great tribulation;They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.Blessed are those whose strength is in You,Who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.SECOND READING: Col.1:9-149 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 11May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14 in Whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.P: This is the Word of the Lord.C: Thanks be to God.ALLELUIA AND VERSE: (John 6:68) C: Alleluia. Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Alleluia, alleluia. P:Alleluia. Alleluia. Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man. Alleluia (Luke 21:36) HOLY GOSPEL Matt.9:18-26 P: The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew the 9 th chapter.C: Glory to You, O Lord. 18While He was saying these things to them, behold, a ruler come in and knelt before Him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she will live. 19And Jesus rose and followed him with His disciples. 20And behold a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His garment, 21for she said to herself, “If I only touch His garment, I will be made well.” 22Jesus turned, and seeing her He said, “Take heart, daughter, your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well. 23 And when Jesus came to the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion, 24He said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at Him. 25 But when the crowd had been put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose. 26And the report of this went through all that district.P: This is the Gospel of the Lord.C: Praise to You, O Christ.APOSTLES’ CREEDP: Let us now confess our faith in the words of the 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.Sermon Hymn LSB 722 “Lord, Take My Hand and Lead Me”Lord, take my hand and lead me Upon life’s way; Direct, protect, and feed me From day to day.Without Your grace and favor I go a-stray; So take my hand O Savior, and lead the way.Lord, when the tempest rages, I need not fear. For You, the Rock of Ages, Are always near.Close by Your side abiding, I fear no foe, For when Your hand is guiding, In peace I go.Lord, when the shadows lengthen And night has come, I know that You will strengthen My steps toward home. Then nothing can impede me, O blessed Friend; So take my hand and lead me Unto the end.Sermon “Trusted Friend in a High Place?” LSB 718 “Jesus, Lead Thou On”Jesus, lead Thou on Till our rest is won; And although the way be cheerless, We will follow calm and fearless. Guide us by Thy hand To our fatherland.If the way be drear, If the foe be near. Let not faithless fears o’er take us; Let not faith and hope forsake us; For through many a woe To our home we go.When we seek relief From a long –felt grief, When temptations come alluring, Make us patient and enduring. Show us that bright shore Where we weep no more.Jesus, lead Thou on Till our rest is won. Heav’nly leader, still direct us, Still support, console, protect us, Till we safely stand In our fatherland.PRAYER OF THE CHURCH:(after each petition ending in Lord in your mercy-- the congregational response is ):C: Hear our prayer. LORD’S PRAYER: (In Unison)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.Offering Hymn: LSB 783 “Take My Life and Let It Be”Take my life and let it be Consecrated Lord, to TheeTake my moments and my days, Let them flow in ceaseless praise.4. Take my silver and my gold, Not a mite would I with – hold;Take my intellect and use Ev’ry pow’r as Thou shalt choose.5. Take my will and make it Thine; It shall be no longer mine;Take my heat, it is Thine own, It shall be Thy royal throne.6. Take my love, my Lord, I pour At Thy feet its treasure store;Take myself, and I will be Ever, only, all for Thee.OFFERING: (As you are privileged, do contribute to our ministry by sending your offering in support of God’s ministry at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 475 East Herbert Ave., Salt Lake City, UT 84111) In the House of the Lord, the Offering is taken for the partnership with God in His ministry in our community and through this congregation. To participate, you will need to send it to the address above. OFFERTORY: All: What shall I render to the Lord for all His benefits to me? I will offer the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call on the Name of the Lord.I will take the cup of salvation, and will call on the Name of the Lord.I will pay my vows to the Lord now in the presence of all His people,In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem.BENEDICTIONP: The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and (+) give you peace.C: AMEN. CLOSING HYMN LSB 918 “Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer” Guide me, O Thou great Redeemer, Pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but Thou art mighty; Hold me with Thy pow’rful hand. Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, Feed me till I want no more; Feed me till I want no more.2. Open now the crystal fountain Whence the healing stream doth flow; Let the fiery, cloudy pillar Lead me all my journey through. Strong deliverer, strong deliverer, Be Thou still my strength and shield; Be Thou still my strength and shield.3. When I tread the verge of Jordan, Bid my anxious fears subside; Death of death and hell’s destruction, Land me safe on Canaan’s side. Songs of praises, songs of praises I will ever give to Thee; I will ever give to TheeANNOUNCEMENTS:Wednesday Bible Study of the Book of Revelation is on zoom at 10 AM. Chapter 20 continues. Completed lessons are on the church website for download. Call me at 385-234-1931 if you desire a link to the Zoom Bible Study. We would love to have you join.Please keep in your prayers: Robert Schiavo, Sharyn Oliver, Louise Merritt, Bob Malinsky, Dorothy Erickson, Joan Schrank, Lola Stopper, Irma Keil, Maurine Rathje, and Irmgard Ristau. ................
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