Worship Notes

Sunday Worship

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Rest for the Weary

New Life Evangelical Lutheran Church Shoreview, Minnesota

July 19, 2020

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New Life

Evangelical Lutheran Church

W elcome! Guests, we’re so happy you are able to worship with us . We pray, especially during these difficult days, that you find peace and strength in the Lord and his Word. We look forward to any opportunity to serve your spiritual needs.

July 19, 2020 The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

Path for Worship: Service of the Word - Printed Hymns: 411, 336, 333

Today’s Worship

Jesus is the only rest for our sin-burdened souls. Leave your burdens here at the cross and return home free and clear.

About the Path for Worship

The Service of the Word is an updated version of liturgy that is largely based on the ancient rite of the Western Church. It espouses regular use of the Word and moves forward with the concept of interaction between Christ and his people. We focus on “Christ for us” with a joyous spirit of thanksgiving as we are led to the benefits of God’s Word.

Prayer Before Worship

Dear Jesus, thanks for your gracious invitation to come find rest in you. Help me always trust your love and forgiveness for my sins. Use me to comfort and encourage others too. Amen.

Sunday Schedule Contact Information

Worship 10:00 am Church Office 651-484-1169 Voters Meeting 11:00 am E-mail welsnewlife@msn.com Website www.newlifeshoreview.com Pastor Mark Cordes, Pastor Joel Gawrisch, Administrative Assistant Jill Holm The following item is printed under OneLicense.net #A-715373

Service of the Word Text ©1993 Northwestern Publishing House. All rights reserved.

Scripture Readings The Holy Bible: Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV) © 2019 The Wartburg Project. www.wartburgproject.org. All rights reserved. Available NPH (800-662-6022), Amazon, Kindle, LOGOS.

Psalm 145 Refrain Tune: Richard Proulx. © 1986 GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago, IL, www.giamusic.com. All rights reserved.

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Path for Worship

Gather ENTRANCE HYMN Red Hymnal #411 | What a Friend We Have in Jesus

Stand for the final stanza M: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God

and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you. C: And also with you.

Entrance Hymn This hymn was written by Joseph M. Scriven about 1855 while he was living near Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. He wrote and sent it to his mother in Ireland during a time when she was experiencing special sorrow, not intending that anyone else should see it. Later, when asked if he had written it, Scriven responded, “The Lord and I did it between us.”

Gather We gather together around the Means of Grace - the Gospel in Word and Sacrament.

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Confession of Sins M: We have come into the presence of God,

who created us to love and serve him as his dear children. But we have disobeyed him and deserve only his wrath and punishment. Therefore, let us confess our sins to him and plead for his mercy.

C: Merciful Father in heaven, I am altogether sinful from birth.

In countless ways I have sinned against you and do not deserve to be called your child. But trusting in Jesus, my Savior, I pray: Have mercy on me according to your unfailing love. Cleanse me from my sin, and take away my guilt.

M: God, our heavenly Father, has forgiven all your sins.

By the perfect life and innocent death of our Lord Jesus Christ, he has removed your guilt forever. You are his own dear child. May God give you strength to live according to his will.

C: Amen.

Prayer and Praise M: In the peace of forgiveness, let us praise the Lord. SONG OF PRAISE Oh, Taste and See Song of Praise

After hearing the announcement of forgiveness, there is every reason for relief, joy, and thanksgiving to warm the believer’s heart. Considering how good God is in Christ and how firm are the promises of his eternal Word, believers break out in words based on Psalm 34: Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!

Confession of Sins These are words acknowledging that we inherit sinfulness from our parents and have fallen short of God’s perfection ourselves. We refer to these conditions as original sin and actual sin, respectively. Yet Jesus’ perfect life lived for us and his innocent death in our place removes the guilt of sin forever.

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FIRST READING Exodus 33:12–23 (EHV)

Rest from terror of God’s holiness

Moses said to the Lord, “Look, you yourself have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ 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.’ 13So now if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your ways, so that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight. Consider that this nation is your people.” 14The Lord said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” 15Moses said to him, “If your Presence is not going to go with me, do not send us up from here. 16After all, how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it in this way: that you go with us, so that we are distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?”

The Word God continues to speak to his people through his powerful Word. The Prayer of the Day, the readings, and the psalms or anthems are all chosen according to the Lectionary. The Lectionary is a listing of readings for each Sunday of the Church Year. The readings have been chosen to bless the gathered believers with balance, discipline, direction, and freshness. (Sermons on all three readings are available on our website in the Sermon Archives.)

The First Reading is typically taken from the Old Testament and occasionally from the Book of Acts. This reading often contains events or prophecy that find fulfillment in the Second and Gospel Lessons.

The Word PRAYER OF THE DAY M: Let us pray.

God of all power and might, you are the giver of all that is good. Help us love you with all our heart, strengthen us in true faith, provide us with all that we need, and keep us safe in your care; through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C: Amen. Be seated

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17The Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have said, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” 18Then Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” 19The Lord said, “I will make all my goodness pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord in your presence. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.” 20He said, “You cannot see my face, for no human may see me and live.” 21The Lord also said, “Look, there is a place next to me, where you shall stand on the rock. 22It will happen that, while my glory passes by, I will put you in a crevice in the rock. I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back. But my face will not be seen.” PSALM OF THE DAY Red Hymnal p. 119 | Psalm 145

Sing responsively by half verse.

Psalm Along with Old Testament believers we respond to God’s gracious promises in the word and song of the Psalms. The singing of the Psalm, while connecting believers of both the Old Testament and New Testament ages, also connects today’s readings.

Psalm 145 is a call to praise God and proclaim his righteous deeds to all the earth.

Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise;*

his greatness no one can fathom.

One generation will commend your works to another;*

they will tell of your mighty acts.

The LORD upholds all those who fall*

and lifts up all who are bowed down.

Refrain

The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time.*

You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing.

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SECOND LESSON Romans 7:15-25a (EHV)

Rest from guilt of sin and self.

For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not keep doing what I want. Instead, I do what I hate. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17But now it is no longer I who am doing it, but it is sin living in me. 18Indeed, I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my sinful flesh. The desire to do good is present with me, but I am not able to carry it out. 19So I fail to do the good I want to do. Instead, the evil I do not want to do, that is what I keep doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who am doing it, but it is sin living in me. 21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is present with me. 22I certainly delight in God’s law according to my inner self, 23but I see a different law at work in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of sin, which is present in my members. 24What a miserable wretch I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! Stand VERSE OF THE DAY Luke 11:28 (EHV)

Alleluia. “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

Alleluia.

Second Reading The Second Reading is from the New Testament letters of the apostles or the Revelation to St. John. It stresses Christian faith and Christian living as a response to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Verse of the Day The congregation stands for the Verse and the reading of the Gospel. (In the past soldiers put down their weapons and kings removed their crowns when the Gospel was read.)

The Verse of the Day is in reality a Gospel verse that serves as a prelude to the reading of the Gospel, as a reflector of the season of the Church Year, or as a bridge between the Second Reading and

The LORD is near to all who call on him,*

to all who call on him in truth.

He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;*

he hears their cry and saves them.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son*

and to the Holy Spirit,

as it was in the beginning,*

is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Refrain

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GOSPEL Matthew 11:25-30 (EHV)

Jesus gives the weary rest.

At that time, Jesus continued, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from clever and learned people and have revealed them to little children. 26Yes, Father, because this was pleasing to you. 27Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wants to reveal him. 28“Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” M: This is the Gospel of our Lord. C: Praise be to you, O Christ! Be seated HYMN OF THE DAY Red Hymnal #336 | Come, Unto Me Ye Weary

the Gospel. The Gospel Believers have come for this moment. Here Christ speaks in sharp rebuke of human sin and goes by way of perfect life, innocent death, and resurrection grace to procure salvation for the world. Hymn of the Day The Hymn of the Day is assigned to this day for its rich content and connection to the

William Chatterton Dix's contributions to modern hymnody are numerous. His fine Epiphany hymn, "As with gladness men of old,” and this hymn are examples. Dix wrote of this hymn: I was ill and depressed at the time, and it was almost to idle away the hours that I wrote the hymn. I was ill many weeks and felt weary and faint. The hymn expresses the languidness of body from which I was suffering. Soon after its composition I recovered, and I always look back to that hymn as the turning point in my illness.

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day’s Gospel. The Message is the Word of God, proclaiming the living voice of the Gospel to God’s redeemed people. The preacher is the appointed representative who illuminates the Scripture for the congregation and applies it to our contemporary situation. He is neither lecturer nor entertainer, but a link through whom the Holy Spirit brings law and gospel to bear upon the hearts and minds of the worshipers and enlivens their faith and life. Statement of Faith Public confession is faith’s response to God’s saving Word.

The Creed is a summary and profession of the Christian faith.

The Apostles’ Creed is so-named, not because it was written by the apostles, but rather that it summarizes their Bible-centered teachings. It continues to be broadly confessed in Christian churches throughout the

MESSAGE Matthew 11:25-30 (EHV)

“I Will Give You Rest” Rest revealed. Rest received.

APOSTLES’ CREED Statement of Faith I believe in God, the Father Almighty,

maker of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,

who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.

He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven

and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty. From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,

the Holy Christian Church - the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

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PRAYER OF THE CHURCH M: Lord God, our maker and preserver, we praise and thank you for all that you give us

day after day. C: We are not worthy of all the mercies you show us. M: You have given us your precious Word to nourish our souls and to protect us from the

temptations of the devil, the world, and our sinful nature. C: We thank you for those who teach and preach your saving truth at this place and

everywhere. Grant them a rich measure of patience, wisdom, and love. M: Heavenly Father, we pray that you shield us from every kind of danger: sudden

catastrophe, terrors of crime, and the pain of disease. Watch over those who travel by land, sea, and air. Keep our loved ones from whatever perils may threaten them.

C: Heal those who are sick, cheer those who are sad, calm those who are distressed,

and comfort all who are old and infirm. M: Bless our land, our people, and those who hold offices of high trust. Keep our

government and schools upright and strong for the advancement of good citizenship and useful vocations, that we may enjoy your gifts of peace, security, and well-being.

C: Grant your blessing to every nation on earth. Where there are wars, may there be

peace. Where there is hatred, let it be healed. Where there is poverty, danger, or disaster, come with your almighty power to help and restore.

Special prayers and intercessions may follow. M: Hear us, Lord, as we bring you our private petitions. Silent prayer. M: We bring these requests before you in the name of Jesus our Lord, and ask you to

hear us. Take all that we have, our bodies and minds, our time and skills, our ministries and offerings, and use them to your glory.

C: We give ourselves to you that we may serve you in whatever way is pleasing in your

sight. Amen.

world. The Prayer of the Church is spoken in response to our Lord’s invitation to pray for all people and in all circumstances. Often spoken responsively, it reflects and gives voice to the individual thoughts, requests and deep, unexpressed needs of God’s people ascending to his throne of mercy.

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LORD’S PRAYER 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 forever. Amen. Be seated OFFERING God has so richly blessed us in every way. Christ’s love empowers us to respond so that we can “...be generous in every way, which produces thanksgiving to God.” (2 Corinthians 9:11 EHV) Offerings may be placed in the plate as you leave this morning. As you continue to make use of E-giving, “snail mail” (to Financial Secretary Roger Flashinski) and drop-off at church to support our collective ministry at New Life, you are encouraged to give generously to those in need. Be confident of this: “He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 1:6 EHV)

Stand

Go in Peace PRAYER

M: O Lord God, our heavenly Father, pour out the Holy Spirit on your faithful people. Keep us strong in your grace and truth, protect and comfort us in all temptation, and bestow on us your saving peace, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C: Amen.

Lord’s Prayer The Lord’s Prayer was given by our Savior to his Church in response to the disciples’ request to be taught to pray. See Matthew 6:9-13.

The conclusion to the prayer, also known as the Doxology, was a common conclusion to ancient prayers. Offering Moved by God’s love in Christ, we offer him our first and best gifts, purely out of

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Closing Hymn The overall theme of this hymn is drawn from the petition of the two disciples at Emmaus (Luke 24:29) The Lutheran author Josua Stegmann designated it as a hymn to be sung after the “Prayer for the Preservation of the Doctrine, and of the Church of God.”

BLESSING M: Brothers and sisters, go in peace. Live in harmony with one another.

Serve the Lord with gladness.

The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord look on you with favor and give you peace.

C: Amen. CLOSING HYMN Red Hymnal #333 | Abide, O Dearest Jesus

thanks to him. Blessing The blessing of Aaron has been spoken over God’s people for over 3,500 years. The Lord said, “So they will put my name on [them], and I will bless them” (Numbers 6:27).