Pentecost 3
June 29, 2014
10 am Holy Communion Service
Grace Evangelical Lutheran
Welcome to worship at
Grace!
Welcome
to long-time Lutherans, Christians from every tradition, and people new to
faith.
Welcome to all who have no church home, want to follow Christ, have
doubts, or do
not believe. Welcome to new visitors and old friends. Welcome to
people of every age and
size, color and culture, every sexual orientation and
gender identity, socio-economic status,
marital status, ability and challenge. Welcome
to believers and questioners, and to
questioning believers. This is a place
where you are welcome to celebrate and sorrow,
rejoice and recover. This is a place where lives are made new.
Special
Welcome to Newcomers
Welcome to our small community of
faith. While we are small in numbers, we
have big hearts and a desire to grow. In
order to help you follow along, we have included all the materials you need for
worship in this bulletin.
Please join us for worship any Sunday at
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Megan Rohrer at pastor@gracesf.com.
Prelude: Prelude:
"Ayre" Georg Philipp Telemann
Greeting:
Water is poured into the baptismal font.
P The Grace of Jesus Christ, the love of God
and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
C And also
with you.
Prayer of
the Day:
God, you are with us even when everything in our
lives falls apart. Help us to find your
comfort in our deepest pain and to support each other until we see the day when
your justice triumphs over everything that is painful.
Welcome
First Reading: Genesis 22:1-14
After these events, God tested
Abraham.38 “Abraham!” God called. “Here I am,” Abraham replied. 2 “Take your
son,” God said, “Your only child Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of
Moriah, “Seeing.” Offer him there as a burnt offering, on a mountain I will
point out to you.” 3 Rising early the next morning, Abraham saddled a donkey
and took along two workers and his son Isaac. Abraham chopped wood for the burnt
offering, and started on the journey to the place God showed them. 4 On the
third day, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 Then Abraham
said to the workers, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over
there; we will worship and come back to you.” 6 Abraham took wood for the burnt
offering and gave it to Isaac to carry. In his own hands he carried the fire
and the knife. Then the two of them went on alone. 7 Isaac said, “Father!” “Here
I am, my child,” Abraham replied. “Here are the fire and the wood, but where is
the lamb for the burnt offering?” 8 Abraham answered, “My child, God will
provide the lamb for the burnt offering.” Then the two of them went on
together.
9 When they arrived at the place God
had pointed out, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged wood on it. Then he
tied up his son Isaac and put him on the altar on top of the wood. 10 Abraham
stretched out his hand and seized the knife to kill the child. 11 But the angel
of God called to him from heaven: “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he replied.
12 “Do not raise your hand against the boy!” the angel said. “Do not do the
least thing to him. I know now how deeply you revere God, since you did not
refuse me your son, your only child.” 13 Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram
caught by its horns in a bush. He went and took the ram, and offered it up as a
burnt offering instead of his child. 14 Abraham called the place “God
Provides,” and so it is said to this day: “On this mountain God the most high
provides.”
L Word of hope, word of life. Thanks
be to God
Psalm 13
(read responsively)
1 How long, God most high?
will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How
long must I wrestle with my anguish, and wallow in despair all day long? How
long will my enemy win over me?
3 Look at me! Answer me, God most high, my God!
Give light to my eyes, lest
I sleep the sleep of death, 4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed,” lest my
foes rejoice when I fall.
5 I trust in your love; my heart rejoices in the
deliverance you bring.
6 I’ll sing to you, God
most high, for being so good to me.
Second Reading: Romans 6:12-23
12 So don’t let sin rule your mortal
body and make you obey its lusts; 13 don’t offer the members of your body to
sin as weapons of injustice any more. Rather, offer yourselves to God as people
alive from the dead, and your bodies to God as weapons for justice. 14 Sin no
longer has power over you, for you are now under grace, not under the Law. 15
Where does all this lead? Just because we are not under the Law but under
grace, are we free to sin? By no means! 16 You must realize that when you offer
yourselves to someone else in obedience, you are bound to obey that person,
whether you subject yourself to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience,
which leads to justice.
17 Thanks be to God, that though
once you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that rule of
teaching imparted to you; 18 freed from your sin, you became forever committed
to justice. 19 I use the following example from human affairs because of your
weak human nature. Just as you used to enslave your bodies to impurity and
licentiousness for their degradation, now make them stewards of justice for
their sanctification. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you felt no need to work
for justice. 21 What benefit did you enjoy from these things that you are now ashamed
of, all of which lead to death? 22 But now that you are freed from sin and have
offered yourselves to God in obedience, your benefit is that you are being made
holy; your outcome is eternal life. 23 The wages of sin is death, but the gift
of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Savior.
L Word of hope, word of life. Thanks
be to God
Anthem: Meditation on
Hymntune: Slane - "Be Thou My Vision"
Words: Eleanor H. Hull Music arr. Daniel Pinkston
1.) Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught
be all else to me, save that thou art: Thou my best thought both by day and by
night, Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.
2.) Be
thou my wisdom, and thou my true word; I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord.
Thou my soul's shelter, and thou my high tower, Raise
thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.
Gospel Reading: Matthew 10:40-42
40
“Those who welcome you also welcome me, and those who welcome me welcome the
One who sent me. 41 “Those who welcome prophets just because they are prophets
will receive the reward reserved for the prophets themselves; those who welcome
holy people just because they are holy will receive the reward of the holy
ones. 42 “The truth is, whoever gives a cup of cold water to one of these lowly
ones just for being a disciple will not lack a reward.”
The gospel of the Lord. Praise
to you, O Christ.
Sermon
Silence for reflection
follows the sermon. The assembly stands
to proclaim the word of God in song.
Hymn of the Day: Verses 1-4
Prayers of Intercession
A During this season of Pentecost, we pray that
the Holy Spirit will bring understanding, inspiration and health to the church,
the world and all people in their need. A brief silence.
Creating
God, help us repair broken relationships, to clean up our messes and debts and
to ask for help when we need it. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
Parent
God, bless all who are parents, the family and staff of the Grace Infant Care Center and
all who have created families. Help us
to become better at loving and receiving love from others. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
God,
guide our civic leaders and enable them to be good stewards of public trust,
resources and properties. Be with our
bishops Elizabeth and Mark, our pastor Megan and all the staff and leaders of
our congregation. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
We
give thanks for all who work in healing and caring professions. Support doctors, nurses, partners, parents
and friends who love and support others.
Provide healing and hope for those whose minds, bodies or spirits are in
need of care. Help us to live as fully
as we can as we await the day all pain and suffering will end. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
For
whom and what else do the people of Grace pray?
(Please offer - silently or aloud- petitions
to God. End spoken petitions with “God
in your mercy.”)
P
Our prayers rise like incense and are held by a loving God who yearns for us to
be our best. May we sleep well, worry
less, and live convinced that God is on our side. Amen.
Peace
The presiding minister and the assembly greet each
other in the peace of the risen Christ.
P The peace of Christ be with you always. C
And also with you.
The people may greet one another with the sign of
Christ’s peace, and may say, “Peace be with you” or similar words. Then, the assembly is seated.
Offering
An offering is gathered for
the mission of the church, including the care of those in need.
Offertory: Offertory: "Sing a New Song to the
Lord" Edward
Broughton
Offering
Prayer:
After the offering is
gathered, the assembly stands.
A Let us
pray. God, bless all that we have to offer. May our financial support
match the generosity of our lives. Help
us to be good stewards of our financial and emotional investments. Amen.
Communion:
P It is indeed right, our duty and our joy,
that we should at all times and in all places give thanks and praise . . . we
praise your name and join their unending hymn:
P On the night in which he was betrayed, our
Lord Jesus took bread, and gave thanks; broke it, and gave it to his disciples,
saying: Take and eat; this is my body, given for you. Do this for the
remembrance of me.
Again, after supper, he took
the cup, gave thanks, and gave it for all to drink, saying: This cup is the new
covenant in my blood, shed for you and for all people for the forgiveness of
sin. Do this for the remembrance of me.
The Lord’s Prayer: (This version is from the New
Zealand Prayer Book)
Eternal Spirit,
Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be,
Father and Mother of us all,
Loving God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom
sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and testing, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love,
now and forever. Amen.
Eternal Spirit,
Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be,
Father and Mother of us all,
Loving God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom
sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and testing, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love,
now and forever. Amen.
Blessing
Announcements
Sending Hymn
Dismissal
A: Go in peace and serve our God.
C:
Thanks be to God.
Postlude: "Joyful,
Joyful, We Adore Thee" Hymntune: "Hymn to Joy" Ludwig van Beethoven
Scripture in
this service is adapted from The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian
Translation, by Priests for Equality.
2009, Sheed & Ward. Kindle Edition. The
traditional Lutheran liturgy is from Sundays and Seasons.com. Copyright 2014
Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg
Fortress Liturgies Annual License #28429. Hymns used with permission for
worship and podcast
under OneLicense.net #A-723548.
Announcements:
You can find more information and find archived
sermons and worship live streams at our website: www.gracesf.com or on our blog: www.sfgrace.blogspot.com
Upcoming Events and Dates:
·
Every Wednesday – June 11-September 24, 6:30-8pm – Summer Bible Movie Night: (@ St Paulus Lutheran 1541 Polk St) We will be
watching the 10 part Bible Series created by the History channel. You can come and join us or you can use our
study guide questions that are posted online and watch at home each week. The Bible series is available for streaming
on Netflix.
·
September 6 -
Beatles Mass, 7pm Eucharist
·
September 20 –
Neighborhood Block Party: I will work
with Sup. Katy Tang to see if we can get the street blocked off and invites
local business to come and join us. If
this isn’t possible, we’ll have a party in our fellowship hall for our
neighbors.
·
October 4 –
Night Ministry Fundraiser: We will
invite singing groups to come to grace to help us raise money for the Night Ministry.
·
November 8 –
Welcome Fundraiser: An event to raise
money to serve the homeless and hungry in our Sunset neighborhood.
·
November 27 –
Thanksgiving: A meal served for 300 individuals (mostly homeless or
seniors) by Welcome at St. Francis Lutheran Church.
·
December 4 –
18 - Holden Evening Prayer, 6:30pm: Each Thursday night in Advent.
·
December 6 –
Beatles Mass: An event to raise money
to serve the homeless and hungry in our Sunset neighborhood.
·
December 24 – Christmas Eve Service of Carols, 9:30pm
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