St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Alliance, Ohio
Sunday, March 26, 2023
9:30 AM
PRELUDE O Sacred Head, Now Wounded Hassler
Kathy Sloan/ Nancy Stavely
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 Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow #327 v. 1,3,4
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: Ezekiel 37:1-14
1The hand of
the Lord came upon me,
and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and
set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2He led me all around
them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. 3He said to me, “Mortal,
can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” 4Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these
bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause
breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6I will lay sinews on
you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put
breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
7So I prophesied as I had
been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling,
and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8I looked, and there were
sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but
there was no breath in them. 9Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath,
prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds,
O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” 10I prophesied as he
commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their
feet, a vast multitude.
11Then he said to me,
“Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are
dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’ 12Therefore prophesy, and
say to them, Thus says the Lord God:
I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my
people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13And you shall know that
I am the Lord, when I open
your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. 14I will put my spirit
within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you
shall know that I, the Lord,
have spoken and will act, says the Lord.”
The Word of the Lord. Thanks Be to God.
Psalm: Psalm 130
1Out | of the depths I
cry to | you, O Lord;
2O Lord, | hear my voice! Let
your ears be attentive to the voice of my | supplication.
3If you were to keep
watch | over sins, O Lord, | who could stand?
4Yet with you | is forgiveness, in
order that you | may be feared.
5I wait for you, O Lord; | my soul waits; in
your word | is my hope.
6My soul waits for the
Lord more than those who keep watch | for the morning,
more than those who keep watch | for the morning.
7O Israel, wait for
the Lord, for with the Lord there is | steadfast love;
with the Lord there is
plen- | teous redemption.
8For the Lord shall | redeem Israel
from | all their sins.
Second Reading: Romans 8:6-11
6To set the
mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and
peace. 7For 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, 8and those who are in the flesh cannot please
God.
9But 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. 10But if Christ is in you,
though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of
righteousness. 11If the
Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised
Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his
Spirit that dwells in you.
The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Gospel: John 11:1-45
The Holy Gospel according to Saint John the 11th
chapter. Glory to you O Lord.
1Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 5Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, 6after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
7Then after this he said
to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 8The disciples said to
him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going
there again?” 9Jesus
answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the
day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. 10But those who walk at
night stumble, because the light is not in them.” 11After saying this, he
told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to
awaken him.” 12The
disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right.” 13Jesus, however, had been
speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to
sleep. 14Then Jesus
told them plainly, “Lazarus is
dead. 15For your sake I am glad
I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” 16Thomas, who was called
the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with
him.”
17When Jesus arrived, he
found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18Now Bethany was near
Jerusalem, some two miles away, 19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary
to console them about their brother. 20When Martha heard that Jesus was coming,
she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. 21Martha said to Jesus,
“Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22But even now I know that
God will give you whatever you ask of him.” 23Jesus said to her, “Your
brother will rise again.” 24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise
again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25Jesus said to her, “I am
the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die,
will live, 26and everyone
who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27She said to him, “Yes,
Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into
the world.”
28When she had said this,
she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, “The Teacher
is here and is calling for you.” 29And when she heard it, she got up quickly and
went to him. 30Now Jesus
had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had
met him. 31The Jews who
were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out.
They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep
there. 32When Mary came
where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if
you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33When Jesus saw her
weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed
in spirit and deeply moved. 34He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to
him, “Lord, come and see.” 35Jesus began to weep. 36So the Jews said, “See
how he loved him!” 37But some of
them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this
man from dying?”
38Then Jesus, again
greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying
against it. 39Jesus said,
“Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord,
already there is a stench because he has been dead four days.” 40Jesus said to her, “Did
I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” 41So they took away the
stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you for having heard
me. 42I knew that you always
hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that
they may believe that you sent me.” 43When he had said this, he cried with a
loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound
with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them,
“Unbind him, and let him go.”
45Many of the Jews
therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him
The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
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
SPECIAL MUSIC Give Me Jesus Chancel Choir
GREAT Thanksgiving
PROPER PREFACE
SANCTUS
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 My Faith Looks Up to Thee #759
PRAYER
BLESSING
HYMN Eternal Lord of Love, Behold Your Church #321 v. 1,3
DISMISSAL
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