Our Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church &
Preschool
Rev. Troy Slater, Pastor
802 E. Trapp Street •
Herington, KS 67449 • 785-258-3122
www.ourredeemerherington.org
The Fifteenth Sunday after
Pentecost
September 5, 2010
About This Morning’s Scripture Readings:
(Christ Jesus Has Paid the Cost of Discipleship for
You)
A
disciple of Jesus Christ will “carry his cross” (Luke 14:27) and follow
the Lord through death into life.
Discipleship is costly because it crucifies the old man with “everything
he has” (Luke 14:33), in order to raise up the new man in Christ. The disciple disavows “his father and
mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life”
(Luke 14:26), in deference to Christ.
That way of the cross is
impossible, except that Christ Jesus has already paid the cost. His cross is set before you as “life and
prosperity, death and destruction” (Deut. 30:15). Taking up His cross is to
“choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love
the LORD your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him” (Deut.
30:19–20). To live that life in Christ
is also to bear His cross in love, “so that any favor you do will be
spontaneous and not forced” (Philemon 14).
The Order of the Holy Communion
Lutheran
Service Book p. 184
† In
Nomine Jesu †
Organ Prelude; Lighting of the candles; Ringing of
the Chimes
† THE
PREPARATION †
The Opening Hymn: LSB
#809 - “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”
The congregation is invited to please stand as able.
The Invocation
P: In the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19-20)
C: Amen.
The Confession
of Sins
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.
(Adapted from Hebrews 10:22)
P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
C: Who made heaven and earth. (Psalm 124:8)
P: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto
the Lord.
C: And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. (Psalm 32:5b)
P: O almighty God, merciful Father, ...
A: … 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.
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 + Son and of the Holy Spirit.
(John
20:19-23)
C: Amen.
† THE SERVICE
OF THE WORD †
The Introit: Psalm
119:27-32 (NIV)
P: O LORD, let me understand the teaching of Your precepts;
then I will meditate on Your wonders.
C: My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me
according to Your word.
P: Keep me from deceitful ways; be gracious to
me through Your law.
C: I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my
heart on Your laws.
P: I hold fast to Your statutes, O LORD; do not let me be put to shame.
C: I run in the path of Your commands, for You
have set my heart free.
Gloria Patri
A: (Sung) Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the
Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world
without end. Amen.
The Kyrie
A: (Sung) Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy
upon us. (Adapt. from
Mark 10:47)
The Gloria in
Excelsis
C: (Sung) Glory be to God on high: And on earth peace, good
will toward men. We praise Thee, we
bless Thee, we worship Thee, we glorify Thee, we give thanks to Thee, for Thy
great glory. O Lord God, heav’nly King,
God the Father Almighty. O Lord, the
only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,
That takest away the sin of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sin of the world,
receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at
the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us. For Thou only art holy; Thou only art the
Lord. Thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father. Amen. (Adapted from
Luke 2:14; John 1:29)
The Salutation and
Collect for the Day
P: The Lord be with you. (Adapted from 2 Timothy 4:22)
C: (Sung) And with thy spirit.
P: Let us pray …
O merciful Lord, You
did not spare Your
only Son but delivered Him up for us
all. Grant us courage and strength to take up the cross and follow Him,
who
lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
C: (Sung) Amen.
The congregation may be seated.
Catechism Reading
P: As the
head of the family should teach it in a simple way to his household: Who receives this sacrament worthily?
C: Fasting
and bodily preparation are certainly fine outward training. But that person is truly worthy and well prepared who has faith in these
words: “Given and shed for you for the remission of sins.” But anyone who does not believe these words
or doubts them is unworthy and unprepared, for the words “for you” require all
hearts to believe.
Old Testament
Reading: Deuteronomy 30:15-20 (NIV)
See, I set before you today life and prosperity,
death and destruction. For I
command you today to love the LORD
your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then
you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient,
and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare
to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are
crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses
against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and
curses. Now choose life, so that you and
your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to
him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in
the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
P: This is the Word of the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
Epistle Reading:
Philemon (NIV)
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our
brother,
To
Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker, to Apphia our sister, to Archippus
our fellow soldier and to the church that meets in your home:
Grace to
you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I always
thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, for I hear about your faith in
the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints. I pray that you may be active in sharing your
faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have
in Christ. Your love has given me great
joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the
saints.
Therefore,
although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do,
yet I appeal to you on the basis of love. I then, as Paul—an old man and now also
a prisoner of Christ Jesus—I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my
son while I was in chains. Formerly he
was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
I am sending him—who is my very heart—back to you.
I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place
in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel. But I did not want to do anything without
your consent, so that any favor you do will be spontaneous and not forced. Perhaps the reason he was separated from you
for a little while was that you might have him back for good—no longer as a
slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you,
both as a man and as a brother in the Lord.
So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as
you would welcome me. If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge
it to me. I, Paul, am writing this with
my own hand. I will pay it back—not to
mention that you owe me your very self.
I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit from you in the Lord;
refresh my heart in Christ. Confident of
your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.
And one thing more: Prepare a guest
room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in
answer to your prayers.
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings.
And so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow workers.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your
spirit.
P: This is the Word of the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
The congregation is invited to please stand as able.
The Alleluia Verse:
Galatians 6:14 (NIV)
P: Alleluia. May I never boast except in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to
the world. Alleluia.
C: (Sung) Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia!
The Holy Gospel:
Luke 14:25-35 (NIV)
P: The Holy Gospel is written in the
fourteenth chapter of St. Luke, beginning with the
twenty-fifth verse.
C: (Sung) Glory be to Thee, O Lord!
Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and
turning to them he said: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father
and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own
life—he cannot be my disciple. And
anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the
cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? For if he lays the foundation and is not able
to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, saying, ‘This fellow
began to build and was not able to finish.’
“Or suppose a king is about to go to war against
another king. Will he not first sit down
and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming
against him with twenty thousand? If he
is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off
and will ask for terms of peace. In the
same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my
disciple.
“Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how
can it be made salty again? It is fit
neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out.
“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
P: Here ends the Gospel.
C: (Sung) Praise be to Thee, O Christ!
The 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… of the
world to come. Amen.
The congregation may be seated.
Hymn of the Day: LSB #783 - “Take My Life and Let
It Be”
The Sermon - “It’s Everything” based
on Luke 14:25-35
The Offertory:
LSB pp. 192-193
C: (Sung) Create in me a clean heart, O God, and
renew a right spirit within me. Cast me
not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation; and
uphold me with Thy free spirit. Amen. (Psalm 51:10-12)
Our Tithes and Offerings Are Received (To
help us minister to your needs, please complete an attendance card from the pew
rack and pass it to the center aisle where the ushers will collect them.)
Presentation of
Bibles and Catechisms to Our Third Graders
A Hymn: LSB #865 - “Lord, Help Us Ever
to Retain”
The congregation is invited to please stand as able.
The General Prayer:
Pastor will conclude each petition of the General Prayer
with the words, “Lord, in Your mercy”
The congregation is invited to respond with: “Hear our prayer.”
† THE SERVICE OF
HOLY COMMUNION †
To Our Guests
We welcome you to this worship service!
It is a sad consequence of the division in Christianity that we cannot
extend to all a general invitation to receive the Lord’s Supper. Lutherans believe, because the Bible
declares, that in the Lord’s Supper we are given the very Body and Blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and that we are bound together as
the body of Christ in the confession of the one faith this congregation
confesses at the Lord’s Table. Reception
of Holy Communion at this time by Christians who are not one in faith with us
would imply a oneness which does not exist and for which we must all pray.
Therefore, because the Bible declares it is important for all to know what
the Lord gives us in His Supper and that we be one in faith at the table of our
Lord, we kindly ask guests who are not members of another Lutheran Church -
Missouri Synod (LCMS) congregation to please abstain from receiving Holy
Communion this morning. Instead, during
Holy Communion, you are invited to join the congregation in meditating on God’s
Word and singing the hymns.
If you wish, Pastor Slater will be pleased to speak with you about our LCMS
communion practice and about preparing for a future, informed participation in
the blessings and fellowship of the Sacrament with us.
Again, we welcome you and look forward to seeing you again!
The Preface and Proper Preface: LSB p. 194
The Sanctus: LSB p. 195
The Lord’s Prayer: LSB p. 196
The Words of Institution and Pax Domini: LSB p. 197
The Agnus Dei: LSB p. 198
The congregation
may be seated.
The Distribution
Distribution Hymns: LSB #425, #851, #685, #801
The congregation is invited to please stand as able.
The Nunc
Dimittis: LSB pp. 199-200
The Thanksgiving: LSB
pp. 200-201
The Salutation
and the Benedicamus: LSB pp. 201-202
The Benediction:
LSB p. 202
Please remain standing for Silent Prayer while the
candles are extinguished.
Announcements
† Soli Deo Gloria †
Stewardship of Our Talents
We give thanks
to God for those who serve as we worship:
Pastor...................................................................... Rev.
Troy Slater
Elder
for the Month:........................................... Mr.
Kenny Pigorsch
Organist:........................................................ Mrs.
Lori Moldenhauer
Acolytes:............................................... Nate
Backhus and Matt Roe
Greeters:..................................................... Gene
& Ruth Kickhaefer
Greeters
next Sunday:................................. Mark
& Barb Kickhaefer
Stewardship of Our Time
Worship attendance last Sunday: 92
Communion attendance last Sunday: 63
Sunday School attendance last Sunday: 56
Stewardship of Our Treasures
We gave thanks to God
with our offerings received last Sunday:
Home............................................................................. $1,277.00
Missions.............................................................................. $71.00
Together-In-Mission (Heiney).............................................. $60.00
Sunday School...................................................................... $6.00
Building Fund...................................................................... $25.00
Preschool............................................................................ $40.00
Other income received
last Sunday:
Preschool registration
fees.................................................. $100.00
Ice Cream Social proceeds (for Preschool) $857.25
Stewardship Thought
Since Philemon was indebted to Paul, he could have
ordered him to do the right thing and treat his runaway slave like a brother,
but Paul wanted Philemon to do the right thing from his own free will. Likewise, we are indebted to God for all the
blessings He has showered upon us; God could demand that we give freely of our
time, abilities and financial resources, but He loves cheerful givers!
Where does my “Mission
Offering” go?
For each dollar that is given this quarter (July - September) as a
designated “Mission” offering, the following is the approximate manner it will
be divided (per our 2010 congregational budget):
18 cents - Tuition assistance for a
Seminary student
18 cents
- Children’s Christian Concern Society
15 cents
- Kansas District Mission Commitment
12 cents
- Herington Elementary School
6
cents - Fort Wayne Seminary student food bank
31 cents
- TBD by Evangelism and Mission boards
Thank you for your continued support of our
congregation’s mission budget!
We include in our daily prayers:
Members who are home bound or in an extended care
facility:
Larry
Brockmeier; Helene Brunner; Velma Denver; Louise Gehrke; Bert Wendlandt; Lorene Will
Those with special needs:
Verda Fleming; Shirley and Jerry Vinyard; Ed
Riffel; Kenny Pigorsch
Military members, relatives & friends serving
in foreign lands:
the brother of Mitch Lyons
(deployed to Iraq)
Our
members celebrating Birthdays this week:
Adam Coup, 9/5; Madalynn
Millspaugh, 9/6; Weldon Deines, 9/7; Katey Staatz, 9/9; Nate Kickhaefer, 9/11
Our members celebrating Baptismal Anniversaries this week:
Gene
Kickhaefer, 9/6; Emma Kickhaefer, 9/10
Our members celebrating Wedding Anniversaries this week:
Cliff &
Gayle Clements, 9/8 (37 years)
This Week at Our
Redeemer (God Willing):
Sunday, September 5: The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
9:15 am Sunday School for All Ages
10:30 am Divine Service
Monday, September 6: Labor Day / Pastor’s Day Off
Tuesday, September 7:
8:30 am Three year-old Preschool
12:30 pm Four year-old Preschool
Wednesday, September 8:
12:30 pm Four
year-old Preschool
6:30 pm Tabitha
Society Guest Night/Salad Supper meeting
Thursday, September 9:
8:30 am Three
year-old Preschool
10:45 am Medicalodges
Service w/Holy Communion
12:30 pm Four
year-old Preschool
Saturday, September 11:
5:00 pm Thrivent
Chapter picnic at the Kansas District Retreat Center at Herington Lake
Sunday, September 12: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
9:15 am Sunday
School for All Ages
10:30 am Worship Service
10:30 am The Lutheran Hour on KJRL-FM (105.7)
5:00 pm Middle
School Catechism class
News & Notes
KJIL-FM (105.7) - Hear Lutheran Hour speaker Rev. Ken Klaus’ message next week
entitled, “Looking for the Lost” based on Luke 15:1-7. God wants you, but He wants you on His
terms. The divine Shepherd is looking
for His sheep but that search will not go on forever. Listen to
“The Lutheran Hour” every Sunday morning at 10:30 am on KJRL-FM (105.7). This good
news broadcast is sponsored in part by Our Redeemer. The Lutheran Hour also
airs on XM Radio 170 every Sunday at noon or anytime on the web at
www.lutheranhour.org.
Life Quote.
“We cannot rely on
worldly institutions to fight our battles for us. Christians have been called to be hope and light
to a fallen generation; so let’s speak god’s truth in love and care for the
most vulnerable in our churches and society.
May God bless your efforts to really make a difference!” Diane E. Schroeder, president of Lutherans For Life. This ‘Life Quote’ is from Lutherans For Life-www.lutheransforlife.org/1-888-364-LIFE.
Sunday School begins each Sunday at 9:15 am for children through
adults. The adult class is taking a look
at the next week’s Scripture readings for the day.
The Flowers on the Altar this morning are given to the glory of God
by Cliff and Gayle Clements in celebration of their thirty-seventh wedding
anniversary. Congratulations Cliff and
Gayle and thank you for the beautiful flowers!
The Plant located in the front of the sanctuary was given by Lucille Brockmeier and family
to the glory of God and in memory of Lucille’s late husband—Ed Brockmeier. Thank you Lucille and family for the plant
and may the peace of the Lord be with you.
Thank you to all who donated for, helped with, or
attended last weekend’s Ice Cream Social / Cookout to benefit our
preschool. Over $850 was raised to help
our preschool as we continue to share the good news of Jesus with the children
of our community! Preschool begins this
week so please keep our teachers—Mrs. Tamara Blake and Mrs. Gisela Mueller—in
your prayers as well as the children.
Thrivent
Chapter Annual Picnic. This Saturday, September 11th at 5:00 pm
at the Kansas District Retreat Center at Herington Lake will be the location
for the annual chapter picnic for our local Thrivent chapter. All Thrivent members and their families are
encouraged and invited to attend. Please
RSVP to Thrivent chapter president Helen Mitchell ASAP at 258-3185 if you will
be attending. If you are not a Thrivent
member but would like to learn more, please contact Helen or Pastor Slater.
A
Bereavement Support Group will be meeting on Monday evenings beginning Monday, September 20th at 7:00
in the Skilled Dining Room of the Herington Hospital. These free sessions will help you come to
terms with the loss and reality of life without your loved one. Time will be allowed for sharing personal
experiences. This Support Group is
sponsored by Home Health and Hospice of Dickinson County. For more information call 785-263-6630 or
785-258-3611.
WHERE
CHRISTIANITY MEETS CULTURE … Issues, Etc. is a
radio talk show hosted by LCMS Pastor Todd Wilken and produced by Lutheran
Public Radio. Topics include: Glenn Beck's "Restoring
Honor" Rally, Cohabitation, School Prayer, Pastoral Advice for College
Students & Their Parents and more. You can listen to what you want
when you want at www.issuesetc.org.
“If we
answer the call to discipleship, where will it lead us? What decisions and
partings will it demand? To answer this
question we shall have to go to Him, for only He knows the answer. Only Jesus Christ, who bids us follow Him,
knows the journey’s end. But we do know
that it will be a road of boundless mercy.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
from The Cost of Discipleship