St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Alliance, Ohio
Sunday, March 12, 2023
9:30 AM
PRELUDE Kuortane Hobby
CONFESSION AND
FORGIVENESS
Blessed be the holy
Trinity, + one God, who brings us safely through the sea, who gives us water
from the rock, who leads us into the land of milk and honey.
Amen.
Silence is kept for
reflection.
Holy God, holy and
mighty, holy and immortal,
have mercy on us.
For self-centered living, and for failing to walk with humility and gentleness:
Holy God, holy and
mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy on us.
For longing to have what is not ours, and for hearts that are not at rest with ourselves:
Holy God, holy and
mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy on us.
For misuse of human relationships, and for unwillingness to see the image of God in others:
Holy God, holy and
mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy on us.
For jealousies that divide families and nations, and for rivalries that create strife and warfare:
Holy God, holy and mighty,
holy and immortal, have mercy on us.
For reluctance in sharing the gifts of God, and for carelessness with the fruits of creation:
Holy God, holy and
mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy on us.
For hurtful words that condemn, and for angry deeds that harm:
Holy God, holy and
mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy on us.
For idleness in witnessing to Jesus Christ, and for squandering the gifts of love and grace:
Holy God, holy and
mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy on us.
Accomplish in us, O God, the work of your salvation,
that we may show forth
your glory in the world.
By the cross and passion of your Son, our Savior,
bring us with all your
saints to the joy of his resurrection.
In the mercy of almighty God, our Lord Jesus Christ was given to die for us, and for his sake, God forgives us all our sin. As a call and ordained minister of the church of Christ and by his authority, I therefore declare to you the entire forgiveness of all your sins, in the name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
HYMN Come to Me, All Pilgrims Thirsty #777 v. 1-4
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.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
CHIldren’s Sermon
First Reading: Exodus
17:1-7
1From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of
the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded.
They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2The
people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to
them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” 3But the people
thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said,
“Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock
with thirst?” 4So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people?
They are almost ready to stone me.” 5The Lord said to Moses, “Go on ahead of
the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand
the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6I will be
standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water
will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight
of the elders of Israel. 7He called the place Massah and
Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
Psalm: Psalm 95
1Come, let us sing | to
the Lord; let us shout for
joy to the rock of | our salvation.
2Let us come before God’s presence | with
thanksgiving and raise a loud shout to
the | Lord with
psalms.
3For you, Lord, | are
a great God, and a great ruler above all gods.
4In your hand are the caverns | of the
earth; the heights of the hills are | also yours.
5The sea is yours, | for you made it,
and your hands have molded | the dry land.
6Come, let us worship | and bow down, let us
kneel before the | Lord our
maker.
7For the Lord is
our God, and we are the people of God’s pasture and the sheep | of
God’s hand. Oh, that today you
would | hear God’s voice!
8“Harden | not your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah | in the desert.
9There your ancestors | tested me, they
put me to the test, though they had | seen my works.
10Forty years I loathed that generation, saying, ‘The heart of
this people goes astray; they do
not | know my ways.’
11Indeed I swore | in my anger, ‘They
shall never come | to my rest.’ ”
Second Reading: Romans
5:1-11
1Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have
obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of
sharing the glory of God. 3And not only that, but we also boast
in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4and
endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5and
hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
6For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for
the ungodly. 7Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous
person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to
die. 8But God proves his love for us in that while we still
were sinners Christ died for us. 9Much more surely then, now
that we have been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the
wrath of God. 10For if while we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been
reconciled, will we be saved by his life. 11But more than that,
we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received reconciliation.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Gospel: John 4:5-42
5[Jesus] came to a Samaritan city called Sychar,
near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.6Jacob’s
well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well.
It was about noon.
7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give
me a drink.” 8(His disciples had gone to the city to buy
food.) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a
Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in
common with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the
gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would
have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11The
woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you
get that living water? 12Are you greater than our ancestor
Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from
it?” 13Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water
will be thirsty again, 14but those who drink of the water that
I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become
in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” 15The
woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or
have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 17The
woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in
saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18for you have had five husbands,
and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is
true!” 19The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a
prophet. 20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you
say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21Jesus
said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the
Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You worship
what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the
Jews. 23But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks
such as these to worship him. 24God is spirit, and those who
worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25The woman said
to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes,
he will proclaim all things to us.” 26Jesus said to her, “I am
he, the one who is speaking to you.”
27Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was
speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you
speaking with her?” 28Then the woman left her water jar and
went back to the city. She said to the people, 29“Come and see
a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can
he?” 30They left the city and were on their way to him.
31Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat
something.” 32But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you
do not know about.” 33So the disciples said to one another,
“Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” 34Jesus said
to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his
work. 35Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the
harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for
harvesting. 36The reaper is already receiving wages and is
gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice
together. 37For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and
another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap that for which you did not
labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the
woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40So
when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he
stayed there two days. 41And many more believed because of his
word. 42They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of
what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know
that this is truly the Savior of the world.”
SERMON
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
GREAT Thanksgiving
PROPER PREFACE
SANCTUS
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 Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross #335
PRAYER
DISMISSAL
POSTLUDE Postlude in f minor Blake
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