St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Alliance, Ohio
Sunday, October 8, 2023
9:30 AM
PRELUDE
Confession and Forgiveness
Blessed be God, the one
who forms us, ☩ Jesus who bears the cross,
the Spirit who makes our
joy complete.
Amen.
Let us bow before God in humility, confessing our sin.
Silence is kept for reflection.
Steadfast and faithful God,
you have revealed the ways of justice, yet we fail to follow you.
We are overwhelmed by the
world’s violence and suffering. We are afraid to risk what we have for the sake
of others. For the harm we have caused, known and unknown, forgive us. For the
unjust demands we place on others and your creation, forgive us. For the ways
we turn away from you and our neighbor, forgive us. Lead us back to you and set
us on the right path; in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior.
Amen.
Beloved in Christ, God’s justice stretches beyond all understanding. God’s compassion is beyond compare. In Jesus, God is always making a new way for us. In ☩ Christ, you are already and always forgiven.
Amen.
HYMN Gather Us In #532 v. 1,3
GREETING
The grace of our Lord, Jesus
Christ, the love of God, and communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
And also with you.
KYRIE
HYMN OF PRAISE
PRAYER OF THE DAY
CHIldren’s Sermon
1Let me sing
for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill. 2He dug it and
cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower
in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield
grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. 3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of
Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4What more was there to do for my vineyard that I
have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild
grapes? 5And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be
devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. 6I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and
thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7For the vineyard of
the Lord of hosts is the
house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his pleasant planting; he expected
justice, but saw bloodshed; righteousness, but heard a cry!
The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Psalm: Psalm 80:7-15
7Restore us, O | God of hosts; let
your face shine upon us, and we | shall be saved.
8You have brought a
vine | out of Egypt; you cast out the nations and | planted it.
9You cleared the | ground for it; it
took root and | filled the land.
10The mountains were
covered | by its shadow and the towering cedar trees | by its
boughs.
11You stretched out its
tendrils | to the sea and its branches | to the river.
12Why have you broken | down its wall, so
that all who pass by pluck off its
grapes?
13The wild boar of the
forest has | ravaged it, and the beasts of the field have | grazed upon it.
14Turn now, O | God of hosts,
look | down from heaven;
15behold and | tend this vine;
preserve what your right | hand has planted.
Second Reading: Philippians 3:4b-14
[Paul
writes:] 4bIf anyone
else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: 5circumcised on the eighth
day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born
of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to
righteousness under the law, blameless. 7Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to
regard as loss because of Christ. 8More than that, I regard everything as loss
because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I
have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order
that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness
of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ,
the righteousness from God based on faith. 10I want to know Christ and
the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming
like him in his death, 11if somehow I may attain the resurrection from
the dead. 12Not that I
have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to
make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13Beloved, I do not
consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what
lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the
goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.
The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Gospel: Matthew 21:33-46
The Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew the
21st chapter. Glory to you O Lord
[Jesus said
to the people:] 33“Listen to
another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence
around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to
tenants and went to another country. 34When the harvest time had come, he sent
his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 35But the tenants seized
his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36Again he sent other
slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. 37Finally he sent his son
to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38But when the tenants saw
the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and
get his inheritance.’ 39So they
seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40Now when the owner of the
vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41They said to him, “He
will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other
tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.” 42Jesus said to them, “Have
you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has
become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our
eyes’?
43Therefore I tell you, the
kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces
the fruits of the kingdom. 44The one who falls on this stone will be broken
to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.” 45When the chief priests
and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about
them. 46They wanted
to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a
prophet.
The Gospel
of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
SERMON
HYMN When I Survey the Wondrous Cross #803
APOSTLES CREED
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of
heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God's 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 to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the
forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and
the life everlasting. Amen
Prayers of Intercession, PEACE, OFFERING
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
DISTRIBUTION OF COMMUNION
HYMN I Received the Living
God #477
PRAYER,
BLESSING
HYMN Thine the Amen #826
DISMISSAL
POSTLUDE Trumpet Tune on “Duke Street” Thompson
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