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PRINTABLE PDF FOR SATURDAY APRIL 20,
5 PM Service
WSAPRIL20-5.PDF
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2024
Fourth Sunday of Easter / Communion – 5:00 pm
PRE-SERVICE MUSIC
GREETINGS and PRAYER
A SONG: LSB 467 vs. 1, 2, 5, 6 Awake My Heart with Gladness
(Please rise)
THE INVOCATION and OPENING VERSES
Pastor: Let us make our beginning in the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit.
People: Amen.
Pastor: O LORD, our Lord,
People: how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
Pastor: I will praise You, O LORD, with all my heart!
People: I will tell of all Your wonders!
Pastor: I will be glad and rejoice in You:
People: I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High!
Pastor: I will sing to the LORD
People: For He has been good to me.
Pastor: I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord;
People: Apart from you I have no good thing.”
Pastor: As for the saints who are in the land,
People: They are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight.
Pastor: The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods.
People: I will not pour out their libations of blood or take up their names on my lips.
Pastor: I will praise the LORD who counsels me;
People: Even at night my heart instructs me.
Pastor: I have set the LORD always before me.
People: Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Pastor: The LORD is my light and my salvation,
People: Whom shall I fear?
Pastor: The LORD is the stronghold of my life,
People: Of whom shall I be afraid?
Pastor: Let your face shine on Your servant;
People: Save me in Your unfailing love.
Pastor: May Your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD’
People: Even as we put our hope in You.
ALL: Praise the Lord!
SONG OF RESPONSE: LSB 804 (vv.1, 2, 6) O Worship the King
THE SALUTATION & COLLECT
Pastor: The Lord be with you.
People: And with your spirit.
Pastor: Let us pray:
ALL: Almighty God, merciful Father, since You have wakened from death the Shepherd of Your sheep, grant us Your Holy Spirit that when we hear the voice of our Shepherd we may know Him who calls us each by name and follow where He leads; through the same 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)
THE FIRST READING: ACTS 4:1-12
1The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people. 2 They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. 3 They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day. 4 But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand. 5 The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem. 6 Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and others of the high priest’s family. 7 They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11 Jesus is “‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ 12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
THE SECOND READING: 1 JOHN 3:16-24
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
(Please rise)
The GOSPEL SONG: LSB 487 vs. 1, 4, 5 Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain
THE GOSPEL READING: JOHN 10:11-18
Pastor: The Gospel according to St. John, the tenth chapter.
People: Glory to you, O Lord.
(Please be seated)
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
Pastor: This is the Gospel of the Lord.
People: Praise to You, O Christ.
THE MESSAGE: Pastor Bruce Kischnick
THE OFFERTORY: LSB 478 vs. 1, 3 The Day of Resurrection
THE PRAYERS OF THE CHURCH
THE PREPARATION FOR THE SACRAMENT
Pastor: The Lord is with His people; Now may He be with you.
People: The Lord is with His servant; may He be with you, too.
Pastor: Let us make confession one to another and before our Gracious God:
Do you believe that Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior?
People: Yes, I do so believe.
Pastor: Do you confess that you are a sinner who has broken the Lord’s commands in thought, word, and deed; deserve only His punishment;
and are in need of His forgiveness?
People: Yes, I confess that I am an unworthy sinner and I throw myself upon the mercy of God through His Son, Jesus Christ.
Pastor: Do you believe that your sins have been forgiven for Jesus sake?
People: Yes, I believe that for the sake of my savior, Jesus Christ, my sins are forgiven, and I will stand before my God declared to be righteous in His name.
THE ABSOLUTION:
Pastor: 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 +Son and of the Holy Spirit.
People: Amen.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
THE CONSECRATION:
Pastor: The Lord be with you.
People: And also, with you.
THE DISTRIBUTION
HYMNS: LSB 456 Were You There
LSB 461 vs. 1-4, 8 I Know That My Redeemer Lives
LSB 526 You Are the Way; through You Alone
THE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
All: We give you thanks, Almighty God, that You have refreshed us with this great gift, and we ask You by Your great mercy to strengthen us by it that we may love one another and serve You faithfully, through Your son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
THE BENEDICTION
Pastor: Bless we the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
Pastor: Now the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. The Lord look upon you with His favor and + give you His peace.
People: Amen.
CLOSING SONG: LSB 527 vs. 1, 2, 4, O Savior, Precious Savior
SILENT PRAYER and ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ + + All Praise to the Triune God + + +
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PRINTABLE PDF FOR APRIL 21,
Sunday Service: 8 AM
WSAPRIL21.PDF
CONFESSIONAL SUNDAY
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
April 21, 2024 / No Communion
CHIMES / PRELUDE / LIGHTING of CANDLES
GREETINGS & PRAYERS
Pastor: He is risen!
People: He is risen indeed!
(Please Rise)
OPENING HYMN: LSB 467 vs. 1, 2, 5, 6 Awake, My Heart, with Gladness
INVOCATION:
Pastor: We make our beginning in the name of the Father…
People: Whom we confess to be our Maker and Defender.
Pastor: In the name of the Son…
People: Whom we confess to be our Savior and Redeemer.
Pastor: And in the name of the Holy Spirit…
People: Whom we confess to be our Holy Fire and Sanctifier.
ALL: Amen.
Pastor: Jesus said, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you,
People: and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Pastor: …If you confess with your mouth ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
People: you will be saved.”
Pastor: As the Scripture says,
People: “Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame.”
Pastor: Come and listen, all you who fear God;
People: let me tell you what He has done for me.
Pastor: Glory be to the Father and to the Son
People: and to the Holy Spirit;
Pastor: As it was in the beginning,
People: is now, and will be forever. Amen.
COLLECT:
Pastor: Let us pray together…
All: Almighty God, merciful Father, since You have wakened from death the Shepherd of Your sheep, grant us Your Holy Spirit that when we hear the voice of our Shepherd we may know Him who calls us each by name and follow where He leads; through the same 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)
HYMN of PRAISE: LSB 818 In You Is Gladness
FIRST LESSON: ACTS 4:1-12
1The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people. 2 They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. 3 They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day. 4 But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand. 5 The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem. 6 Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and others of the high priest’s family. 7 They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11 Jesus is “‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ 12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God.
SECOND LESSON: 1 JOHN 3:16-24
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL HYMN: LSB 487 vs. 1, 4, 5 Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain
The HOLY GOSPEL: JOHN 10:11-18
Pastor: The Holy Gospel according to St. John the 10th chapter.
People: Glory to You, O Lord.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
Pastor: In many and various ways God spoke to His people of old by the prophets,
People: But now, in these last days, God has spoken to us by His Son.
THE LITTLE SENTENCE: PASTOR KISCHNICK
Please be seated)
THE BIDDING HYMN: Come, Oh, Come, O Quickening Spirit vs. 1, 4 (see screens)
(from Lutheran Worship p. 165)
CONFESSIONAL STATEMENTS and INSTRUCTION
8:00 Service
KNOX MOELLER – TEN COMMANDMENTS
BREENA JOHNSON – APOSTLES’ CREED
MADELYN SELKING – BAPTISM
ASA SWEARINGEN – LORD’S SUPPER
HEIDI KORNER – LORD’S SUPPER
10:30 Service
AMELIA ENLOW – TEN COMMANDMENTS
KELLEN SISSON – APOSTLES’ CREED
LANDON NIERMAN – LORD’S PRAYER
MAGGIE NICHOLS – BAPTISM
LUKAS REISENBICHLER – THE KEYS and CONFESSION
PRAYER of THANKSGIVING
OFFERTORY: LSB 478 vs. 1 & 3 The Day of Resurrection
THE PRAYERS
The LORD’S PRAYER
The BENEDICTION
CLOSING HYMN: LSB 527 vs. 1, 2, 4 O Savior, Precious Savior
SILENT PRAYER & ANNOUNCEMENTS
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PRINTABLE PDF FOR APRIL 21,
Sunday Service: 10:30 AM
WSAPRIL21.PDF
CONFESSIONAL SUNDAY
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
April 21, 2024 / No Communion
CHIMES / PRELUDE / LIGHTING of CANDLES
GREETINGS & PRAYERS
Pastor: He is risen!
People: He is risen indeed!
(Please Rise)
OPENING HYMN: LSB 467 vs. 1, 2, 5, 6 Awake, My Heart, with Gladness
INVOCATION:
Pastor: We make our beginning in the name of the Father…
People: Whom we confess to be our Maker and Defender.
Pastor: In the name of the Son…
People: Whom we confess to be our Savior and Redeemer.
Pastor: And in the name of the Holy Spirit…
People: Whom we confess to be our Holy Fire and Sanctifier.
ALL: Amen.
Pastor: Jesus said, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you,
People: and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Pastor: …If you confess with your mouth ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
People: you will be saved.”
Pastor: As the Scripture says,
People: “Anyone who trusts in Him will never be put to shame.”
Pastor: Come and listen, all you who fear God;
People: let me tell you what He has done for me.
Pastor: Glory be to the Father and to the Son
People: and to the Holy Spirit;
Pastor: As it was in the beginning,
People: is now, and will be forever. Amen.
COLLECT:
Pastor: Let us pray together…
All: Almighty God, merciful Father, since You have wakened from death the Shepherd of Your sheep, grant us Your Holy Spirit that when we hear the voice of our Shepherd we may know Him who calls us each by name and follow where He leads; through the same 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)
HYMN of PRAISE: LSB 818 In You Is Gladness
FIRST LESSON: ACTS 4:1-12
1The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people. 2 They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. 3 They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day. 4 But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand. 5 The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem. 6 Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and others of the high priest’s family. 7 They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11 Jesus is “‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ 12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God.
SECOND LESSON: 1 JOHN 3:16-24
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL HYMN: LSB 487 vs. 1, 4, 5 Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain
The HOLY GOSPEL: JOHN 10:11-18
Pastor: The Holy Gospel according to St. John the 10th chapter.
People: Glory to You, O Lord.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
Pastor: In many and various ways God spoke to His people of old by the prophets,
People: But now, in these last days, God has spoken to us by His Son.
THE LITTLE SENTENCE: PASTOR KISCHNICK
Please be seated)
THE BIDDING HYMN: Come, Oh, Come, O Quickening Spirit vs. 1, 4 (see screens)
(from Lutheran Worship p. 165)
CONFESSIONAL STATEMENTS and INSTRUCTION
8:00 Service
KNOX MOELLER – TEN COMMANDMENTS
BREENA JOHNSON – APOSTLES’ CREED
MADELYN SELKING – BAPTISM
ASA SWEARINGEN – LORD’S SUPPER
HEIDI KORNER – LORD’S SUPPER
10:30 Service
AMELIA ENLOW – TEN COMMANDMENTS
KELLEN SISSON – APOSTLES’ CREED
LANDON NIERMAN – LORD’S PRAYER
MAGGIE NICHOLS – BAPTISM
LUKAS REISENBICHLER – THE KEYS and CONFESSION
PRAYER of THANKSGIVING
OFFERTORY: LSB 478 vs. 1 & 3 The Day of Resurrection
THE PRAYERS
The LORD’S PRAYER
The BENEDICTION
CLOSING HYMN: LSB 527 vs. 1, 2, 4 O Savior, Precious Savior
SILENT PRAYER & ANNOUNCEMENTS