Welcome to worship at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church!
PRELUDE Heavenly Light Schubert
* CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS
All may make the sign of the cross, the sign
that is marked at baptism, as the presiding minister begins.
Blessed be the holy Trinity, + one God, who sends the word with angels, who is made flesh among all peoples, and who breathes peace on all the earth.
Amen.
In Christ, we are bold to name our sin and cry out for peace.
Silence is kept for reflection.
Holy God,
we confess our sin
before you.
We replace compassion
with competition.
We seek what is mighty
while ignoring the meek.
We are quick to anger
but slow to forgive.
We have not put on love
in harmony with you.
Wrap us in the grace of your
powerful Word.
Swaddle our hearts with
your peace,
that all we do, in word
or deed,
may reflect your love
born among us.
Amen.
I bring you good news of great joy for all people: God has come among us in the child born of Mary, Christ the Lord. + In Christ your sins are forgiven and you are clothed in peace. Amen.
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.
HYMN OF PRAISE Rise, Shine, You People! #665 v.1
PRAYER OF THE DAY
Children's message
4Now the word of the LORD came to me
saying, 5"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you; I
appointed you a prophet to the nations." 6Then I said,
"Ah, Lord GOD! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a
boy." 7But the LORD said to me,
"Do
not say, 'I am only a boy';
for
you shall go to all to whom I send you,
and
you shall speak whatever I command you.
8Do not be afraid of
them,
for
I am with you to deliver you,
says
the LORD."
9Then the LORD put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, "Now I have put my words in your mouth. 10See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
PSALM: Psalm 71:1-6
1In you, O LORD, have I | taken refuge;
let
me never be | put to shame.
2In your righteousness,
deliver me and | set me free;
incline
your ear to | me and save me.
3Be my strong rock, a castle to |
keep me safe;
you
are my crag | and my stronghold.
4Deliver me, my God, from
the hand | of the wicked,
from
the clutches of the evildoer and | the oppressor. R
5For you are my hope, | O Lord
GOD,
my
confidence since | I was young.
6I have been sustained by
you ever since I was born;
from my mother's womb you have | been
my strength;
my
praise shall be al- | ways of you.
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SECOND READING: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4Love
is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5or
rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it
does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7It bears
all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love
never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues,
they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9For we
know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10but when the
complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11When I was a
child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child;
when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12For now we
see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in
part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13And
now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is
love.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
GOSPEL: Luke 4:21-30
21Then [Jesus] began to say to [all in the synagogue in Nazareth,] "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." 22All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, "Is not this Joseph's son?" 23He said to them, "Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, 'Doctor, cure yourself!' And you will say, 'Do here also in your hometown the things that we have heard you did at Capernaum.'" 24And he said, "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet's hometown. 25But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; 26yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 27There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian." 28When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. 29They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. 30But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.
The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
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
AND 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
DISTRIBUTION
OF COMMUNION
HYMN There is no distribution hymn
POST
COMMUNION PROCLAMATION
POST
COMMUNION PRAYER
BLESSING
HYMN
Go, My Children, With My blessing #543
DISMISSAL
POSTLUDE Light of the World Ritter
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