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Early Service Order of Worship

As We Gather Paul is talking to himself in today’s Epistle, for although

he knows what’s right, he finds it virtually impossible to do. That’s

because he (and all of us) have this sickness called sin, for which we

ourselves have no antidote. Worse, it keeps producing evil symptoms in

our thoughts, words, and deeds. As a result, we are both sick in spirit and

tired from struggling. Zechariah foresaw the solution; we can see his

prophecy fulfilled as Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, there to

die for us and rise victorious. In the Gospel, our Lord thanks our heavenly

Father for revealing to us that He is indeed the One we need to

overcome our sickness of sin. Indeed, thanks to our Savior, as David

penned in the psalm, that when people call out to Him, God hears their

cry and saves them.

Prelude Be Still, My Soul Robert J. Powell

Confession and Absolution

Please stand as you are able

The sign of the cross may be made by all in remembrance of their Baptism.

Invocation LSB 184

P In the name of the Father and of the T Son and of the Holy Spirit.

C Amen.

Opening Sentences Zechariah 9:9

P Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!

C Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!

P Behold, your king is coming to you;

C righteous and having salvation is He.

Please be seated

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Meditation Lift Every Voice and Sing J. Rosamond Johnson

Craig Amendt, tenor LSB 964

Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring,

Ring with the harmonies of liberty.

Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies,

Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us;

Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;

Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,

Let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod

Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;

Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet

Come to the place for which our parents sighed?

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered;

We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered

Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last

Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,

Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;

Thou who hast by Thy might led us into the light,

Keep us forever in the path, we pray,

Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee;

Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;

Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand,

True to our God, true to our native land.


Exhortation Hebrews 10:22; Psalm 124:8; Psalm 32:5 LSB 184

P Beloved in the Lord! Let us draw near with a true heart and confess

our sins unto God our Father, beseeching Him in the name of our

Lord Jesus Christ to grant us forgiveness.

P Our help is in the name of the Lord,

C who made heaven and earth.

P I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord,

C and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.

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Please kneel as you are able

Silence for reflection on God's Word and for self-examination.

Confession of Sins LSB 184

P O almighty God, merciful Father,

C I, a poor, miserable sinner, confess unto You all my sins and

iniquities with which I have ever offended You and justly

deserved Your temporal and eternal punishment. But I am

heartily sorry for them and sincerely repent of them, and I pray

You of Your boundless mercy and for the sake of the holy,

innocent, bitter sufferings and death of Your beloved Son, Jesus

Christ, to be gracious and merciful to me, a poor, sinful being.

Absolution [John 20:19–23] LSB 185

P Upon this your confession, I, by virtue of my office, as a called and

ordained servant of the Word, announce the grace of God unto all

of you, and in the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ

I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the T

Son and of the Holy Spirit.

C Amen.


Service of the Word

Introit Psalm 91:2, 9-10; antiphon: v. 1

P He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the

shadow of the Almighty.

C I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in

whom I trust.”

P Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place—the Most

High, who is my refuge—

C no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near

your tent.

C Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit;

as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

P He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the

shadow of the Almighty.

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Kyrie Lord, Have Mercy Franz Schubert

Craig Amendt, tenor

Lord, have mercy.

Christ, have mercy.

Lord, have mercy.

Gloria in Excelsis Glory to God Franz Schubert

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of goodwill.

We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you,

We give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King.

O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, only begotten Son,

Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,

You take away the sins of the world have mercy on us;

You take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer;

You are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.

For you only are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord,

You alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit,

In the glory of God the Father. Amen

Salutation and Collect of the Day

P The Lord be with you.

C And with your spirit.

P Let us pray together:

C Gracious God, our heavenly Father, Your mercy attends us all

our days. Be our strength and support amid the wearisome

changes of this world, and at life’s end grant us Your promised

rest and the full joys of Your salvation; through Jesus Christ,

Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the

Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Please be seated

First Reading Zechariah 9:9-12 9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of

Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having

salvation is He, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of

a donkey. 10I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from

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Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and He shall speak peace

to the nations; His rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the

ends of the earth. 11As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant

with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. 12Return to

your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to

you double.

P This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

Epistle Romans 7:14-25a 14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15I

do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very

thing I hate. 16Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18For I know

that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do

what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19For I do not do the good I want,

but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not

want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21So I find it to be

a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22For I delight in the

law of God, in my inner being, 23but I see in my members another law waging

war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that

dwells in my members. 24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this

body of death? 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

P This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.


Alleluia and Verse Matthew 11:28

P Alleluia. Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden,

C And I will give you rest. Alleluia

Holy Gospel Matthew 11:25-30

P The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, the eleventh chapter.

C Glory to You, O Lord.

25At that time Jesus declared, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,

that You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and

revealed them to little children; 26yes, Father, for such was Your gracious will. 27All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows the

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Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone

to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. 28Come to Me, all who labor and are

heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take My yoke upon you, and learn from

Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For

My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”

P This is the Gospel of the Lord.

C Praise to You, O Christ.

Please be seated

Children's Message

Sermon

Silence for reflection

Hymn Meditation I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say Amanda Husberg

I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Come unto Me and rest;

Lay down, thou weary one, lay down Thy head upon My breast.”

I came to Jesus, as I was, so weary, worn, and sad;

I found in Him a resting place, and He has made me glad.

I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Behold I freely give

The living water, thirsty one, stoop down and drink and live.”

I came to Jesus, and I drank of that life-giving stream;

My thirst was quenched, my soul revived, and now I live in Him.

I heard the voice of Jesus say, “I am this dark world’s light.

Look unto Me; thy morn shall rise and all thy days be bright.”

I came to Jesus, and I found in Him my star, my sun;

And in that light of life I’ll walk till traveling days are done.


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Nicene Creed

C I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and

earth and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God,

begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of

Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one

substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who

for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and

was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary and was

made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.

He suffered and was buried. And the third day He rose again

according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven and sits

at the right hand of the Father. And He will come again with

glory to judge both the living and the dead, whose kingdom will

have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who

proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and

the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the

prophets.

And I believe in one holy Christian and apostolic Church,

I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins,

and I look for the resurrection of the dead

and the life T of the world to come. Amen.

Please be seated

Prayer of the Church

After each petition:

P Lord in Your mercy.

C Hear our prayer.

P Into Your hands, O Lord, we commend all for whom we pray, trusting

in Your mercy; through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord who lives

and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

C Amen.

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Service of the Sacrament The Lord’s Supper is celebrated at this church in the confession that we receive not

just bread and wine but the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which we

eat and drink for the forgiveness of sins, life and salvation. Our Lord invites to His

table those who have faith in His words, repent of all sin, and set aside any refusal

to love and forgive as He loves and forgives us.

Holy Communion also signifies a unity of faith and belief with those who kneel at

this altar. Baptized Christians who share the confession of this Lutheran church are

welcome to be our guests at the Lord’s Table. If you are unsure what you believe or

have questions, we invite you to speak with the Elder on duty or the pastor before

the service. Grape juice is available in the center circle of the individual cup trays.

Preface


C And with your Spirit.

P Lift up your hearts.

C We lift them up unto the Lord.

P Let us give thanks unto the Lord, our God.

C It is good and right so to do.

P It is truly good, right, and salutary that we should at all times and in

all places give thanks to You, O Lord our God, king of all creation,

for You have had mercy on us and given Your only-begotten Son

that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

Grant that we may receive the bread and wine, that is, His body and

blood, as a gift, guarantee, and pledge of His salvation. Graciously

receive our prayers; deliver and preserve us. To You alone, O Father,

be all glory, honor, and worship, with the Son and the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and forever.

C Amen.

Sanctus Holy, Holy, Holy Franz Schubert

Craig Amendt, tenor

Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts.

Heaven and earth are full of your glory.

Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest.

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Lord’s Prayer Matthew 6:9–13 LSB 196

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.

The Words of Our Lord

P Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night when He was betrayed, took

bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to the

disciples and said: “Take, eat; this is My body, which is given for you.

This do in remembrance of Me.”

In the same way also He took the cup after supper, and when He had

given thanks, He gave it to them, saying: “Drink of it, all of you; this

cup is the new testament in My blood, which is shed for you for the

forgiveness of sins. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance

of Me.”

P The peace of the Lord be with you always.

C And also with you.

Please be seated

Agnus Dei Lamb of God Franz Schubert

Craig Amendt, tenor

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

Distribution for the Congregation


Thanksgiving

P O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good,

C and His mercy endureth forever.

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Post-Communion Collect

P Let us pray. We give thanks to You, almighty God, that You have

refreshed us through this salutary gift, and we implore You that of

Your mercy You would strengthen us through the same in faith

toward You and in fervent love toward one another; through Jesus

Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the

Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C Amen.

Salutation and Benedicamus


C And with your spirit.

P Let us bless the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

Benediction

P The Lord bless you and keep you.

The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you.

The Lord look upon you with favor and T give you peace.

C Amen.

Closing Hymn Be Still, My Soul LSB 752

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Tune and text: Public domain

P Go in peace, serve the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

Postlude God of Our Fathers Mark Thewes

Acknowledgments

Preacher & Liturgist: Rev. Scott Burmeister

Director of Christian Education: Suzanne Watt

Music Director & Organist: Jacob Drengler

Assistant Music Director: Craig Amendt

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible,

English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division

of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Created by Lutheran Service Builder © 2006 Concordia Publishing House.

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