First Lutheran Church Pentecost 4
PO Box 153 - 240 Elm Street West June 16, 2024
Amery, WI 715-268-7135 www.flcamery.org
Our mission is to know Jesus and to make Jesus known. Jn. 17
PO Box 153 - 240 Elm Street West June 16, 2024
Amery, WI 715-268-7135 www.flcamery.org
Our mission is to know Jesus and to make Jesus known. Jn. 17
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS
HYMN: Just As I Am………………………………………….Red 592
PSALM 92:1-4, 11-14 It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to tell of your loving-kindness early in the morning and of your faithfulness in the night; on all the instruments, and to the melody of the harp. For you have made me glad by your acts, O LORD; and I shout for joy because of the works of your hands. The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, and shall spread abroad like a cedar of Lebanon. Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God; they shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be green and succulent; that they may show how upright the LORD is, my rock, in whom there is no fault.
GREETING
HYMN: Joyful, Joyful………………………….Red 836
PRAYER: O God, you are the tree of life, offering shelter to all the world. Graft us into yourself and nurture our growth, that we may bear your truth and love to those in need, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, whom with you and the Holy Spirit we worship and praise, one God, now and forever. Amen
WOMEN SING FOR FATHER’S DAY: Children of the Heavenly Father
Ezekiel 17:22-24 Thus says the LORD GOD: I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of a cedar; I will set it out. I will break off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs; I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it, in order that it may produce boughs and bear fruit, and become a noble cedar. Under it every kind of bird will live; in the shade of its branches will nest winged creatures of every kind. All the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD. I bring low the high tree, I make high the low tree; I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. I the LORD have spoken; I will accomplish it.
2 Corinthians 5:6-10, (11-13), 14-17 So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord -- for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive recompense for what has been done in the body, whether good or evil. Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade others; but we ourselves are well known to God, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences. We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast in outward appearance and not in the heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died. And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them. From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!
HYMN: This is My Father’s World………………………Red 824
GOSPEL: Mark 4:26-34 Jesus also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come." He also said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
APOSTLES’ CREED
SERMON by Lou Williamson
OFFERING
PRAYERS
LORD’S PRAYER
BLESSING Be strengthened with the power of God, the love of Christ, and the help of the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen
HYMN: On Eagle’s Wings……………………………….Red 787
Go in peace. Serve the Lord, as you love all people.
Thanks be to God!
CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS
HYMN: Just As I Am………………………………………….Red 592
PSALM 92:1-4, 11-14 It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to tell of your loving-kindness early in the morning and of your faithfulness in the night; on all the instruments, and to the melody of the harp. For you have made me glad by your acts, O LORD; and I shout for joy because of the works of your hands. The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, and shall spread abroad like a cedar of Lebanon. Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God; they shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be green and succulent; that they may show how upright the LORD is, my rock, in whom there is no fault.
GREETING
HYMN: Joyful, Joyful………………………….Red 836
PRAYER: O God, you are the tree of life, offering shelter to all the world. Graft us into yourself and nurture our growth, that we may bear your truth and love to those in need, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, whom with you and the Holy Spirit we worship and praise, one God, now and forever. Amen
WOMEN SING FOR FATHER’S DAY: Children of the Heavenly Father
Ezekiel 17:22-24 Thus says the LORD GOD: I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of a cedar; I will set it out. I will break off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs; I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it, in order that it may produce boughs and bear fruit, and become a noble cedar. Under it every kind of bird will live; in the shade of its branches will nest winged creatures of every kind. All the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD. I bring low the high tree, I make high the low tree; I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. I the LORD have spoken; I will accomplish it.
2 Corinthians 5:6-10, (11-13), 14-17 So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord -- for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive recompense for what has been done in the body, whether good or evil. Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade others; but we ourselves are well known to God, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences. We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast in outward appearance and not in the heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died. And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them. From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!
HYMN: This is My Father’s World………………………Red 824
GOSPEL: Mark 4:26-34 Jesus also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come." He also said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
APOSTLES’ CREED
SERMON by Lou Williamson
OFFERING
PRAYERS
LORD’S PRAYER
BLESSING Be strengthened with the power of God, the love of Christ, and the help of the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen
HYMN: On Eagle’s Wings……………………………….Red 787
Go in peace. Serve the Lord, as you love all people.
Thanks be to God!
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