Welcome to worship at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church!
PRELUDE “”
CONFESSION AND FORGIVNESS
Blessed be the holy Trinity,+ one God,
whose compassion endures forever.
Amen.
Let us confess our sin to God.
Silence is kept for reflection.
Compassionate God,
we confess to you all our sins.
Our burden is heavy, and we cannot free
ourselves.
In your mercy, call us back to you.
Your yoke is easy and your burden is light.
Restore us to dwell in your peace.
In Christ’s name we pray,
Amen.
Jesus says, “Come to me,
all you who are weary
and are carrying heavy burdens,
and I will give you rest.”
In the name of God,
Father, + Son, and Holy Spirit,
your sins are forgiven.
Rest in God’s love.
Amen.
HYMN Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty #533
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 message
First Reading: Isaiah 55:10-13
10 For as the rain and the snow come down from
heaven
and do not return there until they have watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose
and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
12 For you shall go out in joy
and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall burst into song,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle,
and it shall be to the Lord for
a memorial,
for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Psalm: Psalm 65:[1-8]
9-13
[ 1 You are to be praised, O | God, in Zion;
to you shall vows | be fulfilled.
2 To you, the one | who
answers prayer,
to you all | flesh
shall come.
3 Our sins are strong- | er than we are,
but you blot out | our
transgressions.
4 Happy are they whom you choose and draw to your | courts to dwell there!
They will be satisfied by the beauty of your house, by the holiness | of your temple. R
5 Awesome things will you show us in your righteousness, O God
of | our salvation,
O hope of all the ends of the earth and of the oceans | far away.
6 You make firm the mountains | by your power;
you are girded a- | bout
with might.
7 You still the roaring | of the seas,
the roaring of their waves, and the clamor | of the peoples.
8 Those who dwell at the ends of the earth will tremble at
your | marvelous signs;
you make the dawn and the dusk to | sing for joy. R
] 9 You visit the earth and water it abundantly; you make it very
plenteous; the river of God is | full of water.
You prepare the grain, for so you provide | for the earth.
10 You drench the furrows and smooth | out the ridges;
with heavy rain you soften the ground and | bless its increase.
11 You crown the year | with your
goodness,
and your paths over- | flow with plenty.
12 May the fields of the wilderness be | rich for grazing,
and the hills be | clothed
with joy.
13 May the meadows cover themselves with flocks, and the valleys
cloak them- | selves with grain;
let them shout for | joy and sing. R
Second Reading: Romans
8:1-11
1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those
who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For God has done what
the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the just
requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the
flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live
according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those
who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the
Spirit. 6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the
Spirit is life and peace. 7 For this reason the mind that is set on the
flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed, it cannot, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please
God.
9 But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the
Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does
not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, then the body is dead
because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who
raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the
dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells
in you.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Gospel: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and
sat beside the sea. 2 Such great crowds gathered around him that he
got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. 3 And he told them many
things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some
seeds fell on a path, and the birds came and ate them up. 5 Other seeds fell on
rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly,
since they had no depth of soil. 6 But when the sun rose,
they were scorched, and since they had no root, they withered away. 7 Other seeds fell among
thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 8 Other seeds fell on good
soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some
thirty. 9 If you have ears, hear!”
18 “Hear, then, the parable of the sower. 19 When anyone hears the
word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches
away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path. 20 As for what was sown on
rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it
with joy, 21 yet such a person has no root but endures only
for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word,
that person immediately falls away. 22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the
one who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the lure of wealth choke
the word, and it yields nothing. 23 But as for what was sown
on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed
bears fruit and yields in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in
another thirty.”
SERMON
HYMN Almighty God, Your Word is Cast #516
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 THE PEOPLE, PEACE, OFFERING
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
HYMN Build Us Up, Lord #670
POST COMMUNION PROCLAMATION AND PRAYER
BLESSING
HYMN Congregation’s Choice
DISMISSAL
POSTLUDE “”
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