Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity

GLORY OF CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

4040 Hwy 101 No. Plymouth, MN 55446

Church Office – 763-478-6031 Pastor Preus Cell – 763-438-2375

Pastor Fehrmann Cell – 612-940-1927

Pastor – Rev. Klemet Preus

Assistant Pastors for Missions: Rev. John Fehrmann

Visitation Pastor: Rev. Dean Weibel

Organist: Carla Claussen, Zelda Malo, Maddie Marshall & Sarah Miller

Adult Choir Director: Carla Claussen

Bell Choir Director: Brenda Richards

Music Coordinator: Zelda Malo

Children’s Bell Choir Director: Ellie Leimer

www.gloryofchrist.org

October 22-23, 2011

Welcome all in the name of Jesus, especially those who are worshiping for the first time with us. Please sign our guest book (make sure to indicate if you would like the Pastor to visit) and pick up a white visitor packet located under the visitor guest book in the Narthex and accept our invitation to worship with us again. Who should commune at the Altar of Glory of Christ Lutheran Church? According to the Scriptures and the Confessional statements of the church only those should commune who “have been examined and absolved” by the pastor. If you wish to commune for the first time at Glory of Christ please talk to the pastor before doing so. Holy Communion is the most intimate expression of Christian fellowship and it is important to the members of Glory of Christ Lutheran Church that all who commune have a common understanding and commitment to the Gospel teachings of the Bible. Altar Flower Chart: The cost of the flowers is $30 per Sunday and you will be able to take your flowers home with you after services. Please clearly label your payment for flowers so it gets applied correctly. Janice Hartness is our flower coordinator. If you have any special requests please contact her at 763-355-5427 by the Wednesday prior. Fred and Lois Parduhn gave Altar flowers this morning in celebration of their wedding anniversary. God Bless them on this special occasion! Sunday Schedule: Divine Service at 9:00 am followed by Bible class and Sunday school at 10:20. Saturday night services at 5:00 pm. Wednesday morning 10:00 am Bible Class: We will continue the book of Exodus. 2011/2012 Acolyte and Crucifer: The signup sheet is now available in the Narthex. Please sign up today. SAVE THE DATE: Silent Auction, Saturday, April 28, 2012 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. Remember in our Prayers: Diane Grothem (mother of Kelly Dorweiler), Ken Schweigher (step father of Becky Johnson), DaniJo Johnson (niece of Roger and Jana Hargreaves), Christopher Esget, Camryn Handberg (niece of Becky Johnson), Nathan Rudeen, Arlin Hitchcock, Idena Hagen, Loren Myhre (Julie Anderson’s father), Tom Haar (uncle of Lisa Paradis), Eldon Reinke (brother of LeRoy Reinke), Jane Eichstadt (friend of Brenda Richards), Sarah Miller, Kelly Klukken (niece of Donna Niemi), Al Heeren (Andrea Heeren’s father in law), Harold Burmeister (father of Charlotte Smith), Eddie Walter, Romona Hjelle (sister of Pauline Hemingway), June Bulau, Nancy Wagner (aunt of Jay Petersen), Cecil Arnold (brother of Ellie Leimer), and Sean Breininger. 24th Annual Lutheran Free Conference – “What Does this Mean – The 2010 Synodical Restructuring?” Saturday, October 29, 2011 from 9:30 – 3:00 pm at Redeemer Lutheran Church, St. Cloud MN. You can pick up more information on the table in the Narthex. Chili Cook-off is scheduled for Sunday, October 30th at 5:30 pm. Please sign up in the Narthex.

Hollywood and Christianity – “Three weeks of Movie Clips and Bible Verses”. November 6, 13, & 20th, 7:00-8:30 pm. Please pick up a couple of announcement sheets and give them to your friends and neighbors. They are located on the table in the Narthex. GoC Book Selection : Christ's Church: Her Biblical Roots, Her Dramatic History, Her Saving Presence, Her Glorious Future Bo Giertz (Author), Hans Andr (Translator) Meeting: November 5th, 8:00 am Dunn Brothers, On Vicksburg Ln just south of Highway 55 near Lowe's. This is the third Giertz book we have been privileged to read and discuss. Don’t miss this gem. On the Narthex Table for $23.00 Ladies Coffee: Please join the ladies of Glory of Christ for coffee on Saturday, October 29th from 9-11 at the Lund’s in Plymouth. The meeting room upstairs. Private Confession and Absolution: Saturday’s at 4:00-4:45 pm on & 29th, November 5, 12, & 19th, December 17th or by appointment. Quarterly Statements are now available on the shelf by the youth bulletin board and bookshelf. Serving this morning: Coffee: Pauline Hemingway and Kaylene Steig Acolyte: Austin Corey Elders: Garry McCreary & Bruce Paradis Ushers: Hal Braun & Mark Swenson Altar Guild: Susan Karius & Kevin Skau Offering Counters: Chad & Denae Kuenzel Bread Baker: Eunice McBroom Bread Deliverer: Ruth Decker ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Serving next week: (October 30th) Coffee: Eddie and Arta Walter Acolyte: Crucifer: Elders: Garry McCreary & Bruce Paradis Ushers: Tim Beach Altar Guild: Jan Diemand & Beth Schoolman Offering Counters: Jeremy and Jill Eickhoff Bread Baker: Cheryl McCreary Bread Deliverer: Carl Hartness � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �

Last Week’s Attendance: Sunday 9:00 AM – 189 Saturday Night 9 TOTAL 198 Bible Class 109

At Glory of Christ the pastor typically makes announcements after the service. So the service just starts at the appropriate time without a

specific welcome. (The welcome actually occurs in the service itself when the pastor says “The Lord be with you” and the congregation

responds.) To follow the service you should turn to the page indicated at the top of your bulletin insert. This week the page is 167. Usually

we simply work through the service interrupting the process for the singing of hymns, certain prayers and the scripture readings. The prayers

are usually printed in the service folder as are the Scripture readings. Hymns are found in the latter half of the Service book. If you are having

trouble following the service you can ask someone nearby and they will help you. You can also comfort yourself with the knowledge that

almost everyone has a little trouble following the service the first time through. It gets easier.

Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Divine Service, Setting Two (page 167)

October 23, 2011

Entrance Hymn #549 – “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name” Confession and Absolution – page 167

SERVICE OF THE WORD (page 168)

Introit

Give peace, O Lord, to those who | wait for you,*

and let your prophets be proven | faithful.

Hear the prayer of your | servants,*

according to the blessing of Aaron upon your | people.

I was glad when they | said to me,*

“Let us go to the house | of the LORD!”

Pray for the peace of Je- | rusalem!*

May they be secure who | love you!

For my brothers and com- | panions’ sake*

I will say, “Peace be with- | in you!”

For the sake of the house of the | LORD our God,*

I will | seek your good.

Glory be to the Father and | to the Son*

and to the Holy | Spirit;

as it was in the be- | ginning,*

is now, and will be forever. | Amen.

Give peace, O Lord, to those who | wait for you,*

and let your prophets be proven | faithful.

Hear the prayer of your | servants,*

according to the blessing of Aaron upon your | people.

Kyrie – page 168 Hymn of Praise: “Gloria in Excelsis” – page 170

Collect:

O God, because without You we are not able to please You, mercifully grant that Your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

The Old Testament Reading: Deuteronomy 10:12–21 12“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good? 14Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. 15Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. 16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. 17For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. 18He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. 19Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 20You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear. 21He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.”

Epistle Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:1–9 1Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, 2To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints

together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ

Jesus, 5that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— 6even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— 7so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Holy Gospel: Matthew 22:34–46

34When the Pharisees heard that [Jesus] had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” 41Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 42saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” 43He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,

44 “‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet’?

45 If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” 46And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.

The Sermon Hymn #564 – “Christ Sits at God’s Right Hand”

The Sermon

Apostles’ Creed – page 175

Prayers of the Church

Offering - "Thee Will I Love, My Strength, My Tower” - Soloist

SERVICE OF THE SACRAMENT (page 177)

The Distribution Hymns:

Hymn #642 – “O Living Bread from Heaven”

Hymn #537 – “Beautiful Savior”

Hymn #680 – “Thine the Amen, Thine the Praise”

Individual Prayer for after Communion: (It is suggested that you pray this in your pew after returning from the altar.) 0 my God, I am a sinner, and yet I am not a sinner. Alone and apart from Christ, I am a sinner. But in my Lord Jesus Christ and with him, I am no sinner. I firmly believe that he has destroyed all, my sins with his precious blood, The sign of this is that I am baptized, cleansed by God’s word, and declared absolved and freed from all my sins. In the sacrament of the true body and blood of my Lord Jesus Christ I have received as a sure sign of grace the forgiveness of sins. This he has won and accomplished for me by the shedding of his precious blood. For this I thank him in eternity. Amen. Martin Luther

Post – Communion Canticle – “Thank the Lord” – page 181

BENEDICTION – page 183

The Closing Hymn #805 – “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”

Thank you to Donna Olson for singing this morning.