St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Alliance, Ohio
Sunday, November 12, 2023
9:30 AM
PRELUDE Wake, Awake, For Night is Flying P. Manz
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 Come, We That Love the Lord #625
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
Amos 5:18-24
18Alas for you
who desire the day of the Lord!
Why do you want the day of the Lord?
It is darkness, not light; 19as if someone
fled from a lion, and was met by a bear; or went into the house and rested a
hand against the wall, and was bitten by a snake. 20Is not the day of
the Lord darkness, not
light, and gloom with no brightness in it? 21I hate, I despise your festivals, and I
take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22Even though you offer me your burnt
offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the offerings of
well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon. 23Take away from me the
noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. 24But let justice roll down
like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
The Word of
the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Psalm 70
1Be pleased, O God, to deliver me; O Lord, make | haste to help me.
2Let those who seek my
life be put to shame | and confounded; let those
who take pleasure in my misfortune draw back and | be disgraced.
3Let those who say to me
“Aha!” and gloat | over me turn back because | of
their shame.
4Let all who seek you
rejoice and be | glad in you; let those who love your
salvation say forever, “Great | is the Lord!”
5But as for me, I am poor
and needy; come to me quickly, O God. You are
my
helper and my deliverer; O Lord, | do not tarry.
Second Reading: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
13We do not
want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so
that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14For since we believe that
Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him
those who have died. 15For this we
declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left
until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have
died. 16For the Lord
himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of
God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise
first. 17Then we who
are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to
meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever. 18Therefore encourage one
another with these words.
The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
[Jesus said to the disciples:] 1“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; 4but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept. 6But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ 7Then all those bridesmaids got up and trimmed their lamps. 8The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9But the wise replied, ‘No! there will not be enough for you and for us; you had better go to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’ 10And while they went to buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet; and the door was shut. 11Later the other bridesmaids came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ 12But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’ 13Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”
The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
SERMON
HYMN Soul, Adorn Yourself #488
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, SPECIAL MUSIC
communion prayer
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 Blessed Assurance #638
PRAYER, BLESSING
HYMN Soon and Very Soon #439
DISMISSAL
POSTLUDE Rejoice, Rejoice Believers P. Manz
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