Pentecost
19A
October 19, 2014
10 am Holy Communion Service
Grace Evangelical Lutheran
Today’s Worship
Participants:
Pastor: Rev. Megan
Rohrer
Music Director: Dorothy
Clazie
Assisting Minister: Earl
Reader: Sally Ann
Welcome to worship at
Grace!
Welcome to long-time Lutherans, Christians from every tradition, and
people new to faith. Welcome to all who have no church home, want to follow
Christ, have doubts, or do not believe. Welcome to new visitors and old
friends. Welcome to people of every age and size, color and culture, every
sexual orientation and gender identity, socio-economic status, marital status,
ability and challenge. Welcome to believers and questioners, and to questioning
believers. This is a place where you are welcome to celebrate and sorrow,
rejoice and recover. This is a place
where lives are made new.
Special
Welcome to Newcomers
Welcome to our small community of
faith. While we are small in numbers, we
have big hearts and a desire to grow. In
order to help you follow along, we have included all the materials you need for
worship in this bulletin.
Please join us for worship any Sunday at
10am that you are able. If you cannot
join us in person, you can also join us online via live stream or by watching
the archives of our worship and Bible Study that Doesn’t Suck anytime during
the week at our website (www.gracesf.com), or on our mobile phone app, Bible Study that Doesn’t Suck, is
available on Google Play and ITunes.
If you have any questions about the service
or about Grace, you can fill out the form in pew to let our pastor know you’d
like to chat. Or you can contact Pastor
Megan Rohrer at pastor@gracesf.com.
Prelude: "Jesus,
the Very Thought of Thee" Hymntune:
St. Agnes arr. Eleanor Whitsett
Greeting: Water is poured into the baptismal font.
The
Grace of Jesus Christ, the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be
with you all. C And
also with you.
Opening Hymn:
Welcome
Prayer of
the Day:
Creating God, thank you for knitting us in our
mother’s womb, for loving us just as we are and for giving us your last
name. Help us to live and love like we
are all a part of one big holy family.
Amen.
First Reading: Exodus 33:12-23
12Moses
said to the Lord, “See, you have said to me, ‘Bring up
this people’; but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you
have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’ 13Now
if I have found favor in your sight, show me your ways, so that I may know you
and find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.” 14He
said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” 15And
he said to him, “If your presence will not go, do not carry us up from here. 16For
how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people,
unless you go with us? In this way, we shall be distinct, I and your people,
from every people on the face of the earth.” 17The Lord
said to Moses, “I will do the very thing that you have asked; for you have
found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” 18Moses said,
“Show me your glory, I pray.” 19And he said, “I will make all my
goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you the name, ‘The Lord’; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and
will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20But,” he said, “you
cannot see my face; for no one shall see me and live.” 21And the Lord continued, “See, there is a place by me where you shall
stand on the rock; 22and while my glory passes by I will put you in
a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; 23then
I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be
seen.”
L Word of hope, word of life. Thanks
be to God
Psalm 99 (read responsively)
1The God most high is king; let the peoples tremble! He sits
enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake! 2The Lord is
great in Zion;
he is exalted over all the peoples. 3Let them praise your great and
awesome name. Holy is God!
4Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established equity; you have
executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
5Extol
the Lord our God; worship at his footstool. Holy is
God! 6Moses and Aaron were
among God’s priests, Samuel also was among those who called on his name. They
cried to the God most high, and God answered them. 7He spoke to them in the pillar of
cloud; they kept his decrees, and the statutes that he gave them.
8O Lord our God, you answered them; you were a
forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
9Extol
the God most high, our God, and worship at God’s holy
mountain; for the God most high is holy.
Second Reading:
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God
the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
2We
always give thanks to God for all of you and mention you in our prayers, constantly
3remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor
of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 4For we
know, brothers and sisters beloved by God, that he has chosen you, 5because
our message of the gospel came to you not in word only, but also in power and
in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of
persons we proved to be among you for your sake.
6And
you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for in spite of persecution you
received the word with joy inspired by the Holy Spirit, 7so that you
became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8For
the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you not only in Macedonia and
Achaia, but in every place your faith in God has become known, so that we have
no need to speak about it. 9For the people of those regions report
about us what kind of welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from
idols, to serve a living and true God, 10and to wait for his Son
from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath
that is coming.
L Word of hope, word of life. Thanks
be to God
Special
Music: "We're
a Fellowship of Believers" Jay
Althaus Grace Choir
Gospel Reading: Matthew 22:15-22
15Then
the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. 16So
they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher,
we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with
truth, and show deference to no one; for you do not regard people with
partiality. 17Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay
taxes to the emperor, or not?” 18But Jesus, aware of their malice,
said, “Why are you putting me to the test, you hypocrites? 19Show me
the coin used for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. 20Then
he said to them, “Whose head is this, and whose title?” 21They
answered, “The emperor’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to the emperor
the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” 22When
they heard this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.
The gospel of the Lord. Praise
to you, O Christ.
Sermon: Silence for reflection follows the sermon. The assembly stands to proclaim the word of
God in song.
Hymn of the
Day: Verses 1-3
Prayers of Intercession
A During this season of Pentecost, we pray that
the Holy Spirit will bring understanding, inspiration and health to the church,
the world and all people in their need. A brief silence.
Creating
God, help us repair broken relationships, to clean up our messes and debts and
to ask for help when we need it. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
Parent
God, bless all who are parents, the family and staff of the Grace Infant
Care Center
and all who have created families. Help
us to become better at loving and receiving love from others. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
God,
guide our civic leaders and enable them to be good stewards of public trust,
resources and properties. Be with our
bishops Elizabeth and Mark, our pastor Megan and all the staff and leaders of
our congregation. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
We
give thanks for all who work in healing and caring professions. Support doctors, nurses, partners, parents
and friends who love and support others.
Provide healing and hope for those whose minds, bodies or spirits are in
need of care. Help us to live as fully
as we can as we await the day all pain and suffering will end. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
For
whom and what else do the people of Grace pray?
(Please offer - silently or aloud- petitions
to God. End spoken petitions with “God
in your mercy.”)
P
Our prayers rise like incense and are held by a loving God who yearns for us to
be our best. May we sleep well, worry
less, and live convinced that God is on our side. Amen.
Peace
The presiding minister and the assembly greet each
other in the peace of the risen Christ.
P The peace of Christ be with you always. C
And also with you.
The people may greet one another with the sign of
Christ’s peace, and may say, “Peace be with you” or similar words. Then, the assembly is seated.
Offering
An offering is gathered for
the mission of the church, including the care of those in need.
Offertory: Psalm
96 - "Sing to the Lord a New Song" Dvorak Jean Wilson, soprano
Offering
Prayer:
After the offering is
gathered, the assembly stands.
A Let us
pray. God, bless all that we have to offer. May our financial support
match the generosity of our lives. Help
us to be good stewards of our financial and emotional investments. Amen.
Communion:
P It is indeed right, our duty
and our joy, that we should at all times and in all places give thanks and
praise . . . we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
