Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Order of Worship

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Let us pray for the whole people of God in Christ Jesus, and for all people according to their needs.

Lord God, when we experience the famines of life—and indeed, the times of plenty—teach us to be content. Show us, as you did the apostle, the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, living in plenty or in want, health or infirmity, uproar or distress. Give us trust in you to be grateful for life and to do all you have called us to do through him who gives us strength. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

Father God, Dr. Luther taught us that we should fear, love, and trust in you above all things. So, we do not hold back this morning; we give you thanks with our whole hearts, declaring that we have exceedingly more to thank you for than all the rest in life. For you have caused your wondrous works of creation itself and are ushering us into a new creation through the redemption of your people. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

Strengthen us by your grace, that even when we suffer we would turn to the promises of your unbound word and have peace. Help us in every circumstance to remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, and that we too are guaranteed the gospel inheritance of resurrection. Give us boldness to proclaim your good news to our neighbor as we know we ought to do. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

Give us the faith of the Samaritan leper, that even when we are not feeling it, even when everything appears to be going wrong in life, we may respond to your word and command with faith. Heal us on the way and cause us to be thankful.

For those among us who feel that things are going wrong most every day, those whose days are lived with suffering or mourning, give them the courage and the grace to complete the course of their lives with thankful faith in the word of Christ Jesus until that Day. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.

Into your hands, O Lord, we commend all for whom we pray, trusting in your mercy — through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Teaching

Open or download this week's preview of the lessons. We send this to our homebound with a bulletin each week and thought you might like to have a copy as well. You may read it online or print it out. It includes prayers, brief teaching on each of the four lessons for Sunday, an overview, and an additional Word Search based on the Gospel Lesson. 

Vespers Tonight

Join us for Vespers this evening in the parsonage (across the street from the church) at 6:00. We will be singing, praying, and discussing the readings for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost: 1 Kings 19:8–21; Acts 5:34–42; and John 11:45–57.