Easter 6
+ Divine Service 3 +
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Our Faith in Action!
Ready, Set, Go:
Loving
RESURRECTION LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCMS)
“A Caring Christian Church Experiencing and Sharing the Love of Jesus”
Pastor Patrick O’Neal
[email protected]
38 Wayah Street
PO Box 2215, Franklin, NC 28744
Phone/Fax 828.524.5996
Office Hours 8:00-12:00
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Appointments Preferred & Closed Friday
[email protected]
www.rlcinfranklinnc.org
www.facebook.com/rlclcms
GREAT BEGINNINGS LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL
Phone 828.369.2411
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The bulletin is formatted in 8x11 sheets and can be printed for you to follow along or you can assign a Leader and worship “around the table.” You will also see that the insert will now be on the first page, highlighting offering, prayer requests, birthdays and anniversaries.
The altar flowers are given to the glory of God by Eleanor Turnbach and in honor of all mothers.
SUPPORT CARENET! For the month of May we are collecting bar soap, toothpaste, and bathroom tissue. Donations can be dropped off at church Sunday mornings or anytime during the week when the church office is open. Thank you everyone for your support.
The pre-recorded services will end the last Sunday in May. Live recorded services will be available beginning June 6 and will be available after noon on Sundays.
Ladies Lunch June 10 from 12 noon till 1:00: The RLC small breakfast group has decided to meet for lunch
on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the Shelter in the Rec. Park. This is where the LWML had their Vespers service. Located by the tennis courts down below the Factory. Several of our "regulars" are going to be away in May so it was suggested that we move it to June since we are encouraging all the women of RLC to
participate. We suggest you bring a sandwich, stop and pick up some fast food, or it is ok if you don't eat lunch. We want the women to re-establish relationships after this 15 months of dealing with Covid-19. We socialize, eat, share prayer concerns and simply enjoy being together.
2021 FINANCIALS
Received (05.02.21): $3,254.00 Budget per week: $3,713.00
Received YTD: $55,368.00 Budget needed YTD: $66,834.00
CareNet Rec’d: 05.02.21): $660.00 CareNet YTD: $2,040.00
Attendance (05.02.21): 52
May Birthday’s May Anniversary’s
4 Neal Brown 18 Gloria Johnson 6 Rev. Barry & Jackie Conover
6 Abigail Golden 19 Karlene Runnion 11 Joey & Christina Nowak
7 Adam Fisher 21 Judy Jones 15 Dave & Judy Jones
8 Barbara Wilkens 23 Ray Hahn 23 Ryan & Sydney Balmer
8 Eleanor Turnbach 24 Janet Gill 23 Rev. Patrick & Sara O’Neal
11 Jaxson Nowak 25 Bonnie Hahn
17 Joey Nowak 29 Charlotte Childers
17 Carol Robinson
At any time if you have questions or concerns please contact any of our elders.
Find us online here: www.rlcfranklin.org and www.facebook.com/rlcfranklin
Musicians Serving: Kay Dunlap (Pianist for Prerecorded and Sunday Worship Services), Karlene Runnion (Voice for
Prerecorded and indoor services).
Members with Continuing Concerns: Karlene Runnion, Gail Harris, Pam Aubrey, Paul Lampl, Glen & Sue DuBridge, Fred Pupke, Ryan & Sydney Balmer & their family, Dave Guske, Ron Bleier, Dorothy Steffen, Janice Freitag, Dick Bryer, Ginny Bryer
Service Personnel: AWR2 Ryan Balmer (Navy), and AZ2 Sydney Balmer (Navy), GySgt Adam Halstead, (USMC- Son of Chad & Susan Halstead)
Family and Friends with Continuing Concerns: Jessica S. Phillips (Susan Phillips daughter), Chad Halstead (Susan’s husband), Carl Smith, Jr. (Martha Smith’s son), Steve Salmonsohn (friend of Barbara Jockers), Russell Abbott, (friend of Susan Phillips), Tom Fuller (Bobby Scherb’s husband), Pastor Josue & members of Grace Lutheran Church, Leogane, Haiti, Melissa Hall, (Sydney Balmer’s grandmother), Tom Ritter (friend of Dave Jones), Amy Seeds (sister of Charlotte Childers), Kathy Everett, Annette Day (Karlene Runnion’s sister)
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Prelude Music and Announcements Greeting and Processional
A This is the Day the Lord has made. C Let us rejoice and be glad in it!
Opening Hymn LSB #700 “Love Divine, All Love Excelling”
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Invocation and Confession
P In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit.
C Amen.
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. 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. (Kneel/Sit/Stand. There will be a moment of Silence.) 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.
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.
C Amen.
Kyrie and Gloria in Excelsis
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Salutation and Prayer of the Day P The Lord be with You. C And Also with you.
P Let us pray (Moment of Silence) O God, the giver of all that is good, by Your holy inspiration grant that we may think those things that are right and by Your merciful guiding accomplish them; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
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The First Reading: Acts 10:34-48
Gentiles Hear the Good News
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all), you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear, not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
The Holy Spirit Falls on the Gentiles
While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.
A This is the Word of the Lord. C Thanks be to God.
Congregational song with Deb Johnson
“Silver and Gold have I none” (clap-clap) “But such as I have give I thee” (clap-clap) “In the name of Jesus Christ” (clap-clap) “Of Nazareth, rise up and walk” (clap-clap)
Refrain
“He went running” (run in place) “Leaping” (Leap if one can!)
“And praising God” (Hands flutter above head)
“Running” (run), “Leaping” (Leap) “and praising God” (clap-clap) “In the name of Jesus Christ” (clap-clap)
“of Nazareth – rise up and walk” (clap-clap)
The Epistle Reading: 1 John 5:1-8
Overcoming the World
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Testimony Concerning the Son of God
This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.
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Alleluia
The Holy Gospel: John 15:9–17
P The Holy Gospel according to Saint John, the Fifteenth Chapter.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
P This is the Gospel of our Lord
Apostles’ Creed
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Hymn of the Day LSB #556 “Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice”
5 God said to His belovèd Son: “It’s time to have compassion. Then go, bright jewel of My crown, And bring to all salvation. From sin and sorrow set them free;
Slay bitter death for them that they May live with You forever.”
6 The Son obeyed His Father’s will, Was born of virgin mother; And God’s good pleasure to fulfill, He came to be my brother. His royal pow’r disguised He bore;
A servant’s form, like mine, He wore To lead the devil captive.
7 To me He said: “Stay close to Me, I am your rock and castle. Your ransom I Myself will be; For you I strive and wrestle. For I am yours, and you are Mine,
And where I am you may remain; The foe shall not divide us.
8 “Though he will shed My precious blood, Me of My life bereaving, All this I suffer for your good; Be steadfast and believing.
Life will from death the vict’ry win;
My innocence shall bear your sin, And you are blest forever.
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9 “Now to My Father I depart, From earth to heav’n ascending, And, heav’nly wisdom to impart, The Holy Spirit sending; In trouble He will comfort you
And teach you always to be true And into truth shall guide you.
10 “What I on earth have done and taught Guide all your life and teaching; So shall the kingdom’s work be wrought And honored in your preaching. But watch lest foes with base alloy
The heav’nly treasure should destroy; This final word I leave you.”
Text and tune: Public domain
Sermon
Prayer of the Church
Let us pray to our God who does not remove His steadfast love from us or reject our prayers for His whole Church and for all people according to their needs.
For all who come and hear God’s Word, that they would rightly fear God and learn what He has done for their souls, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For the work of our missionaries, that in every nation there would be people who fear God, do what is right and, believing in Jesus, receive forgiveness of sins through His name, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy. For our mothers, that with thanksgiving we may honor them aright as Christ honored and obeyed His mother while here on earth; for all women with child, that God would give them safe delivery; and for all women who long to have children but cannot, that they may find their consolation in Christ and His unfailing love,
let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For our nation’s leaders, that God would cause them to serve wisely for our good in accord with His revealed order; though we do not always know what the Master is doing by the authorities He gives, that we would make ample use of the freedom Jesus has given in His name to ask the Father for everything as friends and fellow sons, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For all who are in sorrow or need, sickness or adversity, [especially _____________,] that they would receive from God all His good gifts of healing for the body, grace to bear the cross, and finally a blessed end and the gift of eternal life in His kingdom, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For all who come to the Holy Supper, that having received the testimony of God in the water of Baptism, they may also receive it in the body and blood of Jesus and so overcome the world by faith in Him,
let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
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Offertory “Create in Me”
Service of the Sacrament
Preface and Sanctus
P The Lord be with you.
C And also with you.
P Lift up your hearts.
C We lift them to the Lord.
P Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
C It is right to give Him thanks and praise.
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Lord’s Prayer
P Lord, remember us in Your kingdom and teach us to pray:
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.
Words of Institution and Peace of the 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.”
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Agnus Dei
Distribution and Dismissal
P The body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ strengthen and preserve you in body and soul to life everlasting. Depart (+) in peace.
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Nunc Dimittis
Post-Communion Collect and Benediction
P O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, C and His mercy endures forever.
P Let us pray. O God the Father, the fountain and source of all goodness, who in loving-kindness sent Your only-begotten Son into the flesh, we thank You that for His sake You have given us pardon and peace in this Sacrament, and we ask You not to forsake Your children but always to rule our hearts and minds by Your Holy Spirit that we may be enabled constantly to serve You; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
C Amen.
P The Lord be with you. C And with your spirit. P Let us bless the Lord. C Thanks be to God.
P The Lord Bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord look upon you with favor and (+) give you peace.
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Closing Hymn LSB #829 “Christ the Eternal Lord”
Text: © 1999 Hope Publishing Co. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110004230 Tune: Public domain
Recessional and Sending
A Go in peace, serve the Lord
