A Service of Praise and Thanksgiving

Remembering the Life and Ministry of

The Rev. Dr. Ronald Raymond Feuerhahn

The Chapel of St. Timothy and St. TitusConcordia Seminary

St. Louis, MO

March 17, 20152:30 P.M.

+ IN NOMINE JESU +

THE PRELUDE

Stand and turn to face the baptismal font.THE INVOCATION AND REMEMBRANCE OF BAPTISM

P: In the name of the Father and of the >1 Son and of the HolySpirit.

C: Amen.

P: In Holy Baptism Ronald was clothed with the robe of Christs righteousnessthat covered all his sin. St. Paul says, Do you not know that all of us who havebeen baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?C: We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in orderthat, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we toomight walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with Him in a deathlike His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His.

THE ENTRANCE HYMN LSB 578Thy Strong Word

THE KYRIE

P: Lord, have mercy upon us.C: Christ, have mercy upon us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.

THE PRAYER OF THE DAY

P: The Lord be with you.C: And also with you.

P: Let us pray...O God of grace and mercy, we give thanks for your loving-kindness to Ronaldand to all your servants who, having finished their course in faith, now rest fromtheir labors. Grant that we also may be faithful unto death and receive thecrown of eternal life; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives andreigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C: Amen.

SitTHE OLD TESTAMENT READING Numbers 21:4-9

THE PSALM

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THE EPISTLE READING Ephesians 2: l-l0

StandTHE GOSPEL READING John 3:14-21

SitTHE HYMN OF THE DAY LSB 708

Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart

THE SERMON Text: John 3:14-21

StandTHE APOSTLES CREED

P: God has made us His people through our Baptism into Christ. Living together inmust and hope, we confess our faith.

C: I believe in God, the Father Almighty,maker of heaven and earth.

And in Jesus Christ, His 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 into hell.The third day He rose again from the dead.He ascended into heavenand sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,the holy Christian Church,

the communion of saints,the forgiveness of sins,the resurrection of the body,and the life everlasting. Amen.

THE PRAYERS

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Let us pray to the Lord, our God and Father, who raised Jesus from the dead.

Almighty God, you have knit your chosen people together into one communion,in the mystical body of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Give to your wholechurch in heaven and on earth your light and your peace. Lord, in your mercy,

: hear our prayer.

Grant that all who have been baptized into Christs death and resurrection maydie to sin and rise to newness of life and so pass with Him through the gate ofdeath and the grave to our joyful resurrection. Lord, in your mercy,

: hear our prayer.

Grant that all who have been nourished by the holy body and blood of Your Sonmay be raised to immortality and incorruption to be seated with Him at Yourheavenly banquet. Lord, in Your mercy,

: hear our prayer.

Give to the family of Ronald and to all who mourn comfort in their grief and asure confidence in Your loving care that, casting all their sorrow on You, theymay know the consolation of Your love. Lord, in Your mercy,

: hear our prayer.

Give courage and faith to the bereaved, that within the communion of YourChurch they may have strength to meet the days ahead in the assurance of aholy and certain hope and in the joyful expectation of eternal life with thosethey love who have departed in the faith. Lord, in Your mercy,

: hear our prayer.

. Help us, we pray, in the midst of things we cannot understand, to believe andfind comfort in the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, theresurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Lord, in Your mercy,

: hear our prayer.

P: Receive our thanks for Ronald and for all the blessings You bestowed on him inthis earthly life. Bring us at last to our heavenly home that with him we may seeYou face to face in the joys of paradise. Lord, in Your mercy,

C: hear our prayer.

P: God of all grace, you sent your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, to bring life andimmortality to light. We give you thanks that by His death He destroyed thepower of death and by His resurrection He opened the kingdom of heaven to allbelievers. Strengthen us in the confidence that because He lives we shall livealso and that neither death nor life nor things present nor things to come will beable to separate us from Your love, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord, wholives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C: Amen.

P: Taught by our Lord and trusting in His promises, we are bold to pray:C: 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.

SitCHORAL HYMN Children of the Heavenly Father

THE COMMENDATION OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED

The Rev. Dr. Jeffrey KlohaProvost, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.

The Rev. Dr. Ray MirlyPresident, Missouri District, The Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod

The Rev. Bart DayInterim Chief Mission Officer and Executive Director of the Office of NationalMission, The Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod

StandTHE NUNC DIMITTISP: "I am the resurrection and the life," says the Lord. "He who believes in Me will

live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die."

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watch with Christ and asleep we may rest in peace.

: "I am the resurrection and the life," says the Lord. "He who believes in Me willlive, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die."

THE BENEDICAMUS, BEN EDICTION, AND DISMISSAL

P: Let us bless the Lord.C: Thanks be to God.

P: The Lord bless you and keep you.The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you.The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and >I< give you peace.

C: Amen.

P: Let us go forth in peace,C: in the name of the Lord. Amen.

THE SENDING HYMN Stanza 4: Choir only LSB 585Lord Jesus Christ, with Us Abide

THE POSTLUDE

+ SOLI DEO GLORIA +

Memorial contributions may be made to the Ronald Feuerhahn StudentEndowment Fund (Concordia Seminary) or the American Parkinson Disease

Association St. Louis Chapter Patient Services.

LITURGIST

PREACHER

ORGANIST

CRUCIFER

CANTOR

MUSICIAN

PALLBEARERS

Mr. Harold FeuerhahnMr. Peter Throdahl

SERVANTS OF THE WORD

The Rev. David PelsuePastor, The Church of the ReformationLutheran

Affton, Missouri

The Rev. Dr. Scott BruzekSenior Pastor, St. John Lutheran Church

Wheaton, Illinois

The Rev. Henry GerikeKantor, The Church of the ReformationLutheran

Affton, Missouri

The Rev. Bill WredeDirector of Ministerial Recruitment and Admissions

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri

Mr. Mark Bliese

Mrs. Holly Eickmann

Dr. David Lotz (not present)Mr. Bobby Shuck (not present)Mr. Chris CampbellMr. Jeff Muskopf

AcknowledgmentsHoly Bible, English Standard Version, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles. a division of Good NewsPublishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Portions of the Funeral Liturgy, LSB Agenda. Used bypermission. LSB Liturgy License.NET, number 100010935. Nunc Ditnittis" Text: ICET; liturgical texts,alt; l978 Lutheran Book of Worship; Music: Carlos R. Messerli, alt. l978 Lutheran Book qfWorsh1]1. Usedby permission. LSB Hymn License.NET, number l000l 0935 and created by Lutheran Service Builder 2006Concordia Publishing House.

Ronald R. Feuerhahn

Ronald R. Feuerhalm was born on December 1, 1937, in CapeGirardeau, Missouri to Alvin and Alma Feuerhahn. Ron was baptizedat Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. He attended St. PaulsCollege in Concordia, Missouri for the first two years of college, andthen matriculated at Concordia Senior College in Ft. Wayne, Indiana,earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1959. Education towardthe pastoral ministry followed as he earned a Master of Divinity degreein 1963 from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Further study resulted in

a Master of Philosophy degree in 1980 from Cambridge University in England and the Doctorof Philosophy degree fiom the same institution in 1992.

Ron was ordained at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau in 1963 and wascalled to serve as a missionary in England and Wales, United Kingdom, within the EvangelicalLutheran Church of England (ELCE) until 1967. From 1964-70 he also serve as the pastor ofSt. Davids Lutheran Church in Cardiff, Wales. He was then called to Resurrection LutheranChurch Cambridge, England, where he served until 1977. In 1977 Westfield House, theseminary of the ELCE in Cambridge, called Ron as preceptor (headmaster and teacher) wherehe served until 1986. In that year his alma mater, Concordia Seminary, called him to its faculty,where he taught in the area of historical theology until his retirement in 2008, 22 years ofdistinguished teaching and scholarship in service to the church.

In addition to his teaching expertise in the area of modern church history, Ron servedas Seminary Archivist from 1999 until 2008. He served on numerous committees for the ELCEand the LCMS including the ELCE Board for Overseas Mission, the ELCE Lutheran FreeConference of Great Britain, the ELCE Executive Council, the LCMS Commission forDoctrinal Review, and the LCMS Commission on Worship. Finally, he served as the chair ofthe liturgy committee, one of the five committees tasked with preparing the 2006 LutheranService Book. He was the premier scholar on the theology and work of Hermann Sasse,publishing numerous articles and editing several collections of Sasses essays. As he did ineverything, Ron exercised this scholarship and leadership with competence, extensive historicalknowledge, pastoral insight, Christian humility, a keen sense of humor, and a preeminentchurchmanship and care for the people of God.

Ron married Carol (ne Throdahl) Feuerhalm on August 31, 1963. Their 51 years ofmarriage were blessed with three children: the late Philip Charles who died in infancy; KatluynSian (J efi) Muskopf, and Heather Gail (Chris) Campbell, and three grandchildren. Ron wasadmired by his family, colleagues, students, and friends for his humility, his collegiality, hislove for the ofiice of the ministry, the churchs liturgy, and the life of the church, and histeaching which always pointed to Christ Jesus. For the gifis of God in this servant of God, thechurch says: Amen! Glory be to God.