Worship Folder - December 14, 2008
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN
Missouri Synod
THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT
December 14, 2008
Pastor Clint K. Poppe * Pastor Lance D. Berndt
3825 Wildbriar Ln., Lincoln, NE 68516
Church Office: 423-7639 * FAX: 423-0984
E-mail: info@goodshepherdlincoln.org
Website: www.goodshepherdllincoln.org
Good Shepherd School & Preschool: 423-7677
Tune in Sundays KFOR 1240 AM at 10:30 am
STATEMENT OF COMMUNION PRACTICE
The Lord’s Supper is celebrated in this congregation in the confession and glad confidence that, as He says, our Lord gives into our mouths not only bread and wine but His very body and blood to eat and to drink for the forgiveness of sins and to strengthen our union with Him and with one another. Our Lord invites to His table those who trust His words, repent of all sin, and set aside any refusal to forgive and love as He forgives and loves us, that they may show forth His death until He comes.
Because those who eat and drink our Lord’s body and blood unworthily do so to their great harm and because Holy Communion is a confession of the faith confessed at this altar, any who are not yet instructed, in doubt, or who hold a confession differing from that of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, and are unable to receive the Sacrament are invited to meditate on God’s Word in the distribution hymns and pray for the day when divisions will have ceased. If you have any questions regarding our practice, please review the “Fellowship in the Lord’s Supper” brochure or visit with Pastor Poppe, Pastor Berndt, or one of the elders before the service.
DIVINE SERVICE - SETTING ONE/LSB 151
Welcome and Prayer
Opening Hymn “Light of Light, O Sole-Begotten” LSB 914
Confession and Absolution LSB 151
Introit (see insert)
Kyrie LSB 152
Hymn of Praise (omitted during Advent)
Salutation and Collect (see insert for Collect) LSB 156
Old Testament Reading (see insert) Isaiah 61: 1-4, 8-11
Anthem “Advent Hymn” Good Shepherd Adult Choir
Epistle Reading (see insert) I Thessalonians 5: 16-24
Alleluia and Verse
Gospel Reading (see insert) John 1: 6-8, 19-28
Hymn “Arise, O Christian People” LSB 354
Sermon “Good News to the Poor” Isaiah 61: 1-4, 8-11
Pastor Clint K. Poppe
Apostles’ Creed (8 am) LSB 159
Nicene Creed (10:30 am) LSB 158
Prayer of the Church LSB 159
P: Let us pray for the whole people of God in Christ Jesus and for all people according to their needs . . .
(At the end of each petition, the pastor will say . . . “Lord, in Your mercy,” and the congregation will add . . . ‘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.
C: Amen.
Offering
Hymn During Offering “Savior of the Nations, Come” LSB 332
Offertory “What Shall I Render to the Lord?” LSB 159-160
*The 8 am service concludes with the Lord’s Prayer, Closing Prayer, Benediction, and Closing Hymn.
SERVICE OF THE SACRAMENT - 10:30 am
Preface LSB 160
Proper Preface LSB 161
Sanctus LSB 161
Prayer of Thanksgiving LSB 161
Lord’s Prayer LSB 162
Words of Institution LSB 162
Pax Domini LSB 163
Agnus Dei LSB 163
Distribution Hymns
“Hark the Glad Sound” LSB 349
“Christ Sits at God’s Right Hand” LSB 564
“Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness” LSB 563
“Lord of All Nations, Grant Me Grace” LSB 844
“On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry” LSB 344
“Soul, Adorn Yourself With Gladness” LSB 636
General Dismissal LSB 164
Post-Communion Canticle “Nunc Dimittis” LSB 165
Post-Communion Collect LSB 166
Benediction LSB 166
Closing Hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” LSB 357,vs. 1, 7
Announcements
Postlude
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