Faith Lutheran Church
is a community of believers in Christ, whose purpose is to share
God’s love and forgiveness
through worship, education, support and service.
Our Vision: Sharing
God’s Word, Showing God’s Love, Serving God’s World
Pastor:
Jim Rasmus Office – 775-9411 Cell - 973-0010 email:
pjrasmus@tds.net
We
Prepare to Worship
Prelude - Peggy Madson
Call
to Worship “Lord Jesus
Think on Me” Bell Choir
Bells
Sharing
God’s Word
*
Processional Hymn “My Song Is
Love Unknown” LBW #94
Welcome
and Announcements ~ Temple Talk
Kaye and Tiffany Jandrey
* The Confession &
Forgiveness and Apostolic Greeting
Pages 77 & 78
*
Prayer of the Day
Eternal
God, your kingdom has
broken into our troubled world through the life, death,
and
resurrection of your Son. Help us to hear your word and obey
it, and bring your
saving love to fruition in our lives,
through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who
lives and reigns with
you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Children’s
Sermon
First
Lesson:Isaiah 55:1-9 (The Message)
Buy Without Money
1-5 "Hey there! All who are
thirsty,
come to the water!
Are you penniless?
Come
anyway—buy and eat!
Come, buy your drinks, buy wine and milk.
Buy
without money—everything's free!
Why do you spend your money on junk
food,
your hard-earned cash on cotton candy?
Listen to me,
listen well: Eat only the best,
fill yourself with only the
finest.
Pay attention, come close now,
listen carefully to my
life-giving, life-nourishing words.
I'm making a lasting covenant
commitment with you,
the same that I made with David: sure,
solid, enduring love.
I set him up as a witness to the nations,
made
him a prince and leader of the nations,
And now I'm doing it to you:
You'll summon nations you've never heard of,
and nations
who've never heard of you
will come running to you
Because of
me, your God,
because The Holy of Israel has honored you."
6-7Seek God while he's here to
be found,
pray to him while he's close at hand.
Let the wicked
abandon their way of life
and the evil their way of thinking.
Let
them come back to God, who is merciful,
come back to our God,
who is lavish with forgiveness.
8-11"I don't think the way you think.
The
way you work isn't the way I work."
God's Decree.
"For
as the sky soars high above earth,
so the way I work surpasses
the way you work,
and the way I think is beyond the way you
think.
Just as rain and snow descend from the skies
and don't
go back until they've watered the earth,
Doing their work of making
things grow and blossom,
producing seed for farmers and food for
the hungry,
So will the words that come out of my mouth
not
come back empty-handed.
They'll do the work I sent them to do,
they'll
complete the assignment I gave them.
Anthem
“Worthy Is Christ”
Bell Choir
Second
Lesson:1 Corinthians 10:1-13 (The Message)
1-5Remember
our history, friends, and be warned. All our ancestors were led by the
providential Cloud and
taken miraculously through the Sea. They went
through the waters, in a baptism like ours, as Moses led them
from
enslaving death to salvation life. They all ate and drank identical food
and drink, meals provided daily by God.
They drank from the Rock, God's
fountain for them that stayed with them wherever they were. And the
Rock was
Christ. But just experiencing God's wonder and grace didn't
seem to mean much—most of them were defeated by
temptation during the
hard times in the desert, and God was not pleased.
6-10The same thing could happen
to us. We must be on guard so that we never get
caught up in wanting
our own way as they did. And we must not turn our religion i
nto a circus
as they did—"First the people partied, then they threw a dance." We
must
not be sexually promiscuous—they paid for that, remember, with
23,000 deaths in one
day! We must never try to get Christ to serve us
instead of us serving him; they
tried it, and God launched an epidemic
of poisonous snakes. We must be careful not
to stir up discontent;
discontent destroyed them.
11-12These are all warning markers—danger!—in
our history books, written down
so that we don't repeat their mistakes.
Our positions in the story are parallel—they
at the beginning, we at the
end—and we are just as capable of messing it up as they
were. Don't be
so naive and self-confident. You're not exempt. You could fall flat on
your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence; it's
useless.
Cultivate God-confidence.
13No test or temptation that comes your way is
beyond the course of what others
have had to face. All you need to
remember is that God will never let you down;
he'll never let you be
pushed past your limit; he'll always be there to help you come
through
it.
*
Lenten Verse
Page 83
*
Gospel:Luke 13:1-9 (The Message)
Unless You Turn to God
1-5About that time some people
came up and told him about the Galileans Pilate had killed while they
were at
worship, mixing their blood with the blood of the sacrifices on
the altar. Jesus responded, "Do you think those
murdered Galileans were
worse sinners than all other Galileans? Not at all. Unless you turn to
God, you, too,
will die. And those eighteen in Jerusalem the other day,
the ones crushed and killed when the Tower of Siloam
collapsed and fell
on them, do you think they were worse citizens than all other
Jerusalemites? Not at all.
Unless you turn to God, you, too, will die."
6-7Then he told them a story:
"A man had an apple tree planted in his front yard.
He came to it
expecting to find apples, but there weren't any. He said to his
gardener,
'What's going on here? For three years now I've come to this
tree expecting apples
and not one apple have I found. Chop it down! Why
waste good ground with it any
longer?'
8-9"The gardener said, 'Let's give it another
year. I'll dig around it and fertilize,
and maybe it will produce next
year; if it doesn't, then chop it down.'"
Message“One
Year to Live” Pastor Jim Rasmus *
Hymn of the Day “Guide Me Ever,
Great
Redeemer” LBW #343
Showing
God’s Love
* The Apostles’ Creed
Page 85
*
The Prayers of the Church
Each
petition ends: “Lord
in your mercy” Please
respond: “Hear
our prayer”
Offering
~ Pass Pew Friendship
Pads
*
Offertory “Let the
Vineyards Be Fruitful”
Page 86
*
Offertory Prayer
Page 87
*
The Great Thanksgiving
Page 88
*
The Words of Institution and Lord’s Prayer
Pages 89-91
*
“Lamb of God”
Page 92
Distribution
Hymns: WOV
#779 LBW #327
LBW #200
*
The Blessing and “Thank The Lord”
Page 92
Serving
God’s World
*
Post-Communion Prayer, Silent Prayer & Benediction
Page 94
*
Recessional Hymn “Jesus, Refuge of
the Weary” LBW
#93
Bells
Dismissal
Page 95 Postlude
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Holy
Communion Invitation:
The Sacrament of Holy Communion is for all baptized persons
who
believe the risen Christ is truly present with us in His holy meal.
We share the Lord’s
Supper with children normally in the fifth
grade. Children of other churches who already
receive communion,
are encouraged to share in the Lord’s meal today. Younger
children are
encouraged to come for a pastoral blessing.
Serving
Us Today
8:00
A.M.
10:30 A.M.
Greeters/Ushers: Steve &
Ginny Schwoerer Greeters/Ushers: Ted & Greta Greif
Head Usher: Jerry Hoefner Head
Usher: Keith Schultz
Lector: Jill Backus Lector:
Martha Rasmus
Acolyte: Michiela Schwoerer or
Lauren Hoeppner Acolyte: Deion Williams or Parker Ulness
Communion Servers: Don
Schreiner Communion Server: Martha Rasmus
Kaye
Jandrey De Zibung
Last
Weekend -
February 28, 2010
Attendance:
Sunday: 8:00 = 134 10:30 = 89 Wednesday: 182
Offerings
to the Lord’s work: $5,390.03 ($6,557.00 needed per week to
meet budget)
Known
to have been hospitalized:
Ora Mae Valleskey at Holy Family.
Please
keep in your thoughts and prayers the following who are serving in
the military:
Richard
Araiza, Daniel and Chris Brandl, Kyle Christansen, Jordan Downey,
Corey Evenson,
Steven Hecker, Jamie Heyduk, Diane Hoyer, Amber
Kwasny, Casey Lampereur, Noah Lenz,
Ezdon Loritz, Sara Loritz,
Andrew Madson, Nick Nething, Darcie Steinberg,
Derek Thorson, Troy
Weidling. If there are others we should be remembering, please
inform
the church office.
We
pray that God’s gracious love and compassion surround
Linda Herzog and family on the
loss of her brother, Don Frisch this
past week.
Check
out the Sounds of Faith website
at http://soundsoffaith.weebly.com/index.html.
There is a link to purchase their new cd “Power of Love” as
well. They will be available in the
outer narthex today.
This week's bulletin
