THE THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (AUGUST 30, 2009)

Liturgical Color: Green

CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION
Hymn of Invocation: 876 O Blessed, Holy Trinity LSB 876
Invocation LSB 151
Exhortation LSB 151
Confession of Sins LSB 151
Absolution LSB 151

SERVICE OF THE WORD
Introit Introit for The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Ps. 51:7, 10–12; antiphon: Ps. 51:2
Kyrie LSB 152
Hymn of Praise Gloria in Excelsis LSB 154
Salutation and Collect of the Day Collect for The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Old Testament Reading Deuteronomy 4:1–2, 6–9
Epistle Ephesians 6:10–20
Common Alleluia and Verse LSB 156
Holy Gospel Mark 7:14–23

Hymn of the Day: 566 By Grace I'm Saved LSB 566
Sermon
Apostles' Creed

Prayer of the Church
Offering
Offertory LSB 159
Lord's Prayer
Benediction (Aaronic)
Hymn: 587 I Know My Faith Is Founded LSB 587

Acolyte Schedule 2009-2010

September

• 6 Hannah Watt Jacy Eklund
• 12 Alex Brown Dorian Peterson
• 20 Devon Peterson Danielle Riley
• 27 Kessler Thomas Jay Wolfe

October

• 4 Cali Foglesong Alexandra Bird
• 11 Reagan Brown Samantha Reed
• 18 Joshua Reed Ashtyn Riley
• 25 Jacy Eklund Madison Peterson

November

• 1 Dorian Peterson Hannah Watt
• 8 Danielle Riley Alex Brown
• 15 Jay Wolfe Devon Peterson
• 22 Alexandra Bird Kessler Thomas
• 26 Thanksgiving Samantha Reed Cali Foglesong
• 29 Ashtyn Riley Reagan Brown

December

• 2 Advent Midweek Madison Peterson Joshua Reed
• 6 Hannah Watt Jacy Eklund
• 9 Advent Midweek Alex Brown Dorian Peterson
• 13 Devon Peterson Danielle Riley
• 16 Advent Midweek Kessler Thomas Jay Wolfe
• 20 Cali Foglesong Alexandra Bird
• 27 Reagan Brown Samantha Reed

January

• 3 Joshua Reed Ashtyn Riley
• 10 Jacy Eklund Madison Peterson
• 17 Dorian Peterson Hannah Watt
• 24 Danielle Riley Alex Brown
• 31 Jay Wolfe Devon Peterson

Date Students

February

• 7 Alexandra Bird Kessler Thomas
• 14 Sammantha Reed Cali FogleSong
• 21 Ashtyn Riley Reagan Brown
• 24 Lenten Midweek Madison Peterson Joshua Reed
• 28 Hannah Watt Jacy Eklund

March

• 3 Lenten Midweek Alex Brown Dorian Peterson
• 7 Devon Peterson Danielle Riley
• 10 Lenten Midweek Kessler Thomas Jay Wolfe
• 14 Cali Foglesong Alexandra Bird
• 17 Lenten Midweek Reagan Brown Samantha Reed
• 21 Joshua Reed Ashtyn Riley
• 24 Lenten Midweek Jacy Eklund Madison Peterson
• 28 Dorian Peterson Hannah Watt

April

• 1 Maunday Thurs Danielle Riley Alex Brown
• 2 Good Friday Jay Wolfe Devon Peterson
• 4 Sunrise Alexandra Bird Kessler Thomas
• 4 Easter Samantha Reed Cali Foglesong
• 11 Ashtyn Riley Reagan Brown
• 18 Madison Peterson Joshua Reed
• 25 Hannah Watt Jacy Eklund

May

• 2 Alex Brown Dorian Peterson
• 9 Devon Peterson Danielle Riley
• 16 Confirmation Kessler Thomas Jay Wolfe
• 23 Cali Foglesong Alexandra Bird
• 30 Reagan Brown Samantha Reed

Pastor Watt's Sermons

August

• 1, Wedding Sermon for Eric and Beth - Ephesians 5:22-33
• 2, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost - Exodus 16:2-15
• 9, Tenth Sunday after Pentecost - John 6:41-51
• 16, Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost - Joshua 24:1-18
• 23, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost - Mark 7:1-14

July

• 5, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost - 2 Cor 12:1-10
• 12, Fifth Sunday after Pentecost - Psalm 34:9-14
• 19, Sixth Sunday after Pentecost - Ephesians 2:11-22

June

• 21, Third Sunday after Pentecost - Mark 4:35-41
• 28, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost - Mark 5:21-44

May

• 3rd, Fourth Sunday in Easter, Good Shepherd Sunday, and Confirmation - John 10:11-18
• 10th, Fifth Sunday in Easter - John 15:1-8
• 17th, Sixth Sunday in Easter - John 15:9-17
• 24th, Seventh Sunday in Easter - Psalm 1 
• 31st, The Festival of Pentecost - Psalm 139:1-12

April

• 9th, Holy Thursday (Text Only) - Luke 22:7-20.
• 10th, Good Friday - Devotion
• 12th, Festival of the Resurrection, Sunrise - Job 19:25-26 
• 12th, Festival of the Resurrection, 10am - Psalm 118:14-24
• 19th, Second Sunday in Easter - John 20:19-31 
• 26th, Third Sunday in Easter - Luke 24:36-49

March

• 1st, First Sunday during Lent - Genesis 22:1-18
• 8th, Second Sunday during Lent - Romans 5:1-5
• 11th, Wednesday Lenten Service - Jonah 1:1-17
• 15th, Third Sunday during Lent - 1 Corinthians 1:18-25
• 18th, Weekday Lenten Service - Jonah 2
• 22nd, Fourth Sunday during Lent - Numbers 21:4-9
• 29th, Fifth Sunday during Lent - Hebrews 5:7-9

February

• 1st, Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany - Mark 1:21-28
• 8th, Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany - Mark 1:29-39
• 15th, Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany - Mark 1:40-45
• 25th, The Transfiguration of Our Lord - Mark 9:2-9

January

• 4th, Epiphany of Our Lord - Matthew 2:1
• 11th, The Baptism of Our Lord - Mark 1:4-11
• 18th, The Confession of St. Peter - Mark 8:27-36
• 25th, Third Sunday after the Epiphany - Jonah 3

December

• 3rd, First Advent Vespers Service (Wed) - Genesis 3:9-15
• 7th, Second Sunday of Advent - Isaiah 40:1-11
• 10th, Second Advent Vespers Service (Wed) - Isaiah 2:1-5
• 11th, Funeral of Louise - John 14:1-6
• 14th, Third Sunday of Advent - Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11
• 24th, Christmas Eve - Luke 2:1-20
• 25th, Festival of the Incarnation of Our Lord - Luke 2:1-20
• 28th, First Sunday after Christmas - Luke 2:29-32
• 31st, New Year's Eve - Numbers 6:22-27

November

• 16th, 27th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 25:14-30
• 9th, 26th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 25:1-13
• 2nd, All Saints Day - Matthew 5:1-12
• 23rd, Last Sunday of the Church Year - Matthew 25:31-46
• 26th, Thanksgiving Evening - Luke 17:11-19
• 30th, First Sunday of Advent - Isaiah 63:16b-17; 64:1-8

October

• 26th, Festival of the Reformation - Romans 3:19-28
• 19th, 23rd Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 22:15-22
• 12th, 22nd Sunday after Pentecost - Isaiah 25:6-9
• 5th, 21st Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 21:33-45

September

• 28th, 20th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 21:28-32
• 21st, 19th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 20:1-16
• 14th, 18th Sunday after Pentecost - Genesis 50:15-20

THE TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (AUGUST 23, 2009)

Liturgical Color: Green

CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION

Hymn of Invocation: 644 The Church's One Foundation LSB 644
Invocation LSB 203
Exhortation LSB 203
Confession of Sins LSB 203
Absolution LSB 203

SERVICE OF THE WORD

Introit Introit for The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Ps. 26:1–2, 6–7; antiphon: Ps. 26:8
Kyrie LSB 204
Gloria in Excelsis LSB 204
Salutation and Collect of the Day Collect for The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

Old Testament Reading Isaiah 29:11–19
Epistle Ephesians 5:22–33
Alleluia LSB 205
Verse LSB 205
Alleluia LSB 205
Holy Gospel Mark 7:1–13

Nicene Creed
Hymn of the Day: 865 Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain LSB 865
Sermon
Prayer of the Church
Offering
SERVICE OF THE SACRAMENT

Preface LSB 208
Sanctus LSB 208
Prayer of Thanksgiving Prayer of Thanksgiving for The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Lord's Prayer
The Words of Our Lord
Pax Domini LSB 209
Agnus Dei LSB 210
Distribution

Distribution Hymn: 576 My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less LSB 576
Distribution Hymn: 589 Speak, O Lord, Your Servant Listens LSB 589

Nunc Dimittis LSB 211
Post-Communion Collect
Benedicamus and Benediction

Hymn: 582 God's Word Is Our Great Heritage LSB 582

Michael Spencer - The Internet Monk; Worship Toolbox.

Rev. Spencer has a nice article in his "Evangelical Liturgy" Series.  "The Toolbox" explores the necessary tools for "giving distinctive evangelical content, flavor and boundaries to the worship service."  Michael's perspective is distinctively "evangelical" and not everything fits our Lutheran perspective, he gives some nice thoughts to contemplate.  Here's his section on "the Hymnal."  (Emphasis mine)

2. The Hymnal. I know, here we go.

The hymnal is a crucially important evangelical worship resource. While it can be supplemented, it should never be replaced. The education of a congregation to use and appreciate the resources in a hymnal will be the single post ecumenically broad, historically deep and theologically enriching experience most church members will have. There is more diversity, tradition, theology, church history and content in a good hymnal than almost any single book that you can put in the hands of a congregation. The hymnal represents and captures the journey of the church throughout history, and joins the worshiping congregation to the church around the world and throughout all time.

We are nothing short of idiots for getting rid of them, and I choose that word carefully. Who in the world decided that we would throw out two thousands years of worship because it didn’t fit in with our current plan to sound like the secular music of the last 40 years? Good grief, what a demolition job this has been. I know a lot of young people “like” the new music, but we have a responsibility to those who came before us, not to prefer or like what they did as much as they did, but to use it with respect and honor for the value that is in it. Handing the entire musical and lyrical heritage of two millenia of Christianity over to a “worship leader” to be eradicated in favor of contemporary music only is insane.

As a child, I spent hours in the hymnal during church. I learned vast amounts. Had the pastors and worship leaders used the resources of the hymnal wisely, it would have been even more enriching for me.

I want to commend the Lutheran Service book for putting the complete hymnal and ALL corporate and individual worship resources together. Having that hymnal in your hands- a tactile experience- is a significant part of worship we’ve underestimated. Use new music. Have the band from time to time. Project away. But the church of the past 2000 years is in that hymanl. In fact, we need more historically and culturally diverse hymnals, not more music for evangelical white people.

Hymnals vary widely in every way. Choose carefully and be forgiving of the inevitable flaws. The current 2008 SBC hymnal is a project involving both book and projection resources coordinated together. This is surely the direction of the future and holds real promise for ending the ridiculous war on hymns that evangelicals have perpetrated. We ought to hang our heads that we have become a generation more concerned that our children know the latest Hillsongs’ piece- which is fine and good- but that they NOT know the top 100 hymns in Christian history! Just reading the lyrics of Christmas carols is a theological feast.

For many evangelicals, the hymnal is the closest thing to a book of common prayer and worship resources they will have. Hymnals should be chosen carefully so they can be used t include calls to worship, litanies, creeds, etc. Keep making great hymnals out there, somebody! We need them.

Look at Bob Kauflin. Look at Indelible Grace. Look at good, blended worship at Piper’s church and conferences. Get a grip evangelicals!

Rev. Scot Kinnaman's Lutheranism 101. Very nice blog post.

Hey folks, take the time to read Lutheranism 101 at Rev. Scot Kinnaman's blog "Blog My Soul."  This deserves a permanent link.

http://scotkinnaman.com/lutheranism-101/

What We Believe

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church - Statement of Beliefs

Updated (8/13/9)

We believe that the Holy Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, and the only source and norm for Christian doctrine and practice.

1. We believe that there is only one true God, who has revealed Himself in Three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
2. We believe that, by His innocent suffering and death on the cross in our place, Jesus Christ made full atonement for our sins.
3. We believe that Jesus rose from the dead on Easter morning, later ascended into heaven where He now lives and reigns to all eternity.
4. We believe that Jesus will return on the last day to judge the living and the dead and take all believers in Him to eternal life and glory.
5. We believe that God comes to us in His Church through chosen means of grace which are the Word of God (The Holy Scriptures) and the Sacraments of Baptism and The Lord's Supper (Holy Communion), and that through these means of grace He conveys to us His forgiveness.
6. We believe that we are saved only by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, which is a free gift of The Holy Spirit to us. We believe that Holy Baptism brings us into God's Kingdom and makes us members of the Body of Christ as we receive the Holy Spirit, who works faith in our hearts.
7. We believe that the Sacrament of Holy Communion is the true body and blood of Christ which is received with the bread and the wine (Real Presence). It is not a Symbolic eating and drinking. We believe that those who receive this Sacrament actually eat and drink the body and blood of our Lord and Savior shed for us on the cross. We celebrate "closed" communion and ask only those who are members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, or, are members of a church with which we are in Altar and Pulpit fellowship with would participate in the Sacrament. (See A Statement about the Lord's Supper)

The Book of Concord is the Lutheran Confession of Faith.

You can find a great copy of it at Concordia Publishing House.
Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions-A Readers Edition of the Book of Concord - 2nd edition

Luther's Catechisms are handbooks for the Christian faith and express the faith in simple terms.

See also Rev. Scot Kinnaman's blog "Blog My Soul."

Lutheranism 101

Trinity is a congregation of The Lutheran Church -Missouri Synod

What does the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Believe? Look here

THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (AUGUST 16, 2009)

Liturgical Color: Green

Opening Versicles LSB 219

PSALMODY

Venite LSB 220
Antiphon (Common) LSB 221
Psalm Psalm 34:12–22
Office Hymn: 696 O God, My Faithful God LSB 696

READINGSOld Testament Reading Proverbs 9:1–10
Epistle Ephesians 5:6–21
Holy Gospel John 6:51–69
Responsory Common LSB 221

Sermon

CANTICLETe Deum LSB 223

Offering

PRAYERKyrie LSB 227
Lord's Prayer
Collect of the DayCollect for Grace
Benedicamus LSB 228
Benediction LSB 234

Hymn: 697 Awake, O Sleeper, Rise from Death LSB 697

THE TENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (AUGUST 9, 2009)

Liturgical Color: Green

CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION

Hymn of Invocation: 905 Come, Thou Almighty King LSB 905
Invocation LSB 203
Confession of Sins LSB 203
Absolution LSB 203

SERVICE OF THE WORD

Introit Ps. 34:8–10; antiphon: Ps. 145:16
Kyrie LSB 204
Gloria in Excelsis LSB 204
Salutation and Collect of the Day

Old Testament 1 King 19:1-8
Epistle Ephesians 4:17—5:2
Alleluia and Verse
Holy Gospel John 6:35–51

Nicene Creed
Hymn of the Day Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor LSB 534
Sermon
Prayer of the Church
Offering

SERVICE OF THE SACRAMENT

Preface LSB 208
Sanctus LSB 208
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Lord's Prayer
The Words of Our Lord
Pax Domini LSB 209
Agnus Dei LSB 210
Distribution Hymn: 774 Feed Thy Children, God Most Holy LSB 774
Distribution Hymn: 637 Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord LSB 637
Distribution Hymn: 618 I Come, O Savior, to Thy Table LSB 618
Nunc Dimittis LSB 211
Post-Communion Collect
Benedicamus and Benediction
Hymn: 655 Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Your Word LSB 655

2009 Officers and Board Members

All officers and Board Members will be installed on Sunday, January 11, 2009.

President - Karl Peterson

Vice-President - Tom Braymen

Secretary – Becky Hagen

Treasurer - Mike Lang

Financial Sec. - Paul Kearney

Elders 
Kevin Kruse - Head Elder
Jim Nelson, Gene Cook, Byron Bilderback, Bill Magers, Chuck Bowman

Trustees
Phil Wardenburg - Chair
Jim Hagen Jay Bochart, Norm Schroeder, Troy Peterson

Preschool Board
Linda Schroeder - Chair
Anita Wardenburg - Co-Chair
Jim Nelson, Becky Hagen, Dena Chapman, Deb Clausen

Board of Education
Julie Lang - Chair
S.S. Supt.  - Carla Roghair
Waunita Watt - Youth
Randy Roghair, Pat Stream

Worship/Altar Comm
Janette Lang - Chair
(includes Altar Committee & Organists)

Board of Stewardship
TBA - Chairman
Randy Ehm, Dennis Brown, Steve Bradley

Board of Missions
TBA - Chairman
Carla Roghair, Deb Clausen, Cindy Nelson, Anita Wardenburg

Head Usher - Jim Kneedler

Updated August 4, 2009

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