The First Sunday in Lent

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

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goodshepherdels.org

202 North Kenwood Blvd. Pastor Christian WalzIndianola, Iowa 50125 Cell Phone: 507-217-6158Phone: 515-962-0351 Email: cwalz@blc.edu Office Hours: Tues-Fri 9-12pm........................Please call anytime to (Hours subject to change) set up an appointment

February 21, 2021 Lent 1

Welcome to WorshipThanks for worshipping with us today! Please put your name in our visitor register at the entrance. If you desire a visit with the pastor please let him know or call his phone number to set up an appointment.

Service Theme for This MorningThe call to sinners in Lent is a serious call to struggle. While we throw out and leave behind the trivial outward Roman type practices of Lent, let’s not throw out repentance in the process. Let’s not replace the trivial externals with something even worse: assurances that we are so forgiven that we need not bother anymore with repentance.

The Order of Holy Communion Page 15

The Opening Hymn No. 144“Jesus, Grant that Balm and Healing”

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The Confession of Sins and Absolution Please Rise

The Introit

All:  (♫) He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him, I will deliver him `and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him `My Salvation. He that dwells in the secret place `of the Most Hight Shall abide under the shadow of `the Almighty.

Gloria PatriAll: (♫) Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

The Kyrie Page 17

The Salutation Page 19

The Collect for the Day.Lord our strength, the battle of good and evil rages within and around us, and our ancient foe tempts us with his deceits and empty promises. Keep us steadfast in your Word, and when we fall, raise us up again and restore us through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. (♫) Amen.

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The Small Catechism 6th Petition of the Lord’s Prayer page 8

The Old Testament Lesson Genesis 22:1-18

Some time later God tested Abraham. He called to him, “Abraham!” Abraham answered, “I am here.” God said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains there, the one to which I direct you.” Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, along with Isaac his son. Abraham split the wood for the burnt offering. Then he set out to go to the place that God had told him about.  On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go on over there. We will worship, and then we will come back to you.”  Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and loaded it on Isaac his son. He took the firepot and the knife in his hand. The two of them went on together. Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father?” He said, “I am here, my son.” He said, “Here are the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” Abraham said, “God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them went on together.  They came to the place that God had told him about. Abraham built the altar there. He arranged the wood, tied up Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.  Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. The Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” Abraham said, “I am here.” He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy. Do not do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” Abraham looked around and saw that behind him there was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.  Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord Will Provide.” So it is said to this day, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.” The Angel of

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the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven  and said, “I have sworn by myself, declares the Lord, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,  I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your descendants greatly, like the stars of the sky and like the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the city gates of their enemies.  In your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”

The Gradual

ALL: (♫) It is written: ` “Worship the Lord your God, and `serve him only.”

The Epistle Romans 8:31-39

What then will we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?  Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also graciously give us all things along with him? Who will bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies!  Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus, who died and, more than that, was raised to life, is the one who is at God’s right hand and who is also interceding for us!  What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  Just as it is written: For your sake we are being put to death all day long. We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither

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angels nor rulers, neither things present nor things to come, nor powerful forces,  neither height nor depth, nor anything else in creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Gospel Mark 1:12-15Congr: (♫)Glory be to Thee, O Lord! The Spirit immediately sent Jesus out into the wilderness.  He was in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels were serving him. After John was put in prison, Jesus went to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God. “The time is fulfilled,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near! Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

Pastor: Here ends the GospelCongr: (♫)Praise be to Thee, O Christ!

The Nicene Creed Page 22

The Chief Hymn No. 262“A Mighty Fortress is Our God”

The Sermon Psalm 16Guard me, O God, for I take refuge in you. I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord. I have no good apart from you.” The holy ones who are in the land are glorious. All my delight is in them. Those who chase after another god will increase their sorrows. I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood. I will not take up their names on my lips. Lord, you are the cup that has been given to me. You have secured an allotment for me. The property lines chosen for me fall in pleasant places. Yes, a delightful inheritance is mine. I will bless the Lord, who guides me. Even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me.

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Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices. Even my flesh will dwell securely because you will not abandon my life to the grave. You will not let your favored one see decay. You have made known to me the path of life, fullness of joy in your presence, pleasures at your right hand forever.

The Offertory- Create in Me Page 12

The Prayer of the Church

The Sacrament of the AltarGood Shepherd practices "closed communion." Closed communion is the Biblical Practice of admitting to communion only those members of the congregation who are in good standing (who confess sin, seek to turn away from it, and trust in Jesus for forgiveness) and those who are completely united with the congregation in faith and understanding.Closed communion protects those who do not understand the danger of communing without self-examination or without recognizing the presence of the Lord's body and blood with the bread and wine. Therefore, we invite all members in good standing of an ELS or WELS congregation to join in Holy Communion with us, and we ask that all others please refrain and speak to the Pastor. Thank you for respecting our Biblical practice.

The Preface Page 24The Sanctus Page 26The Lord's Prayer Page 27The Words of InstitutionThe Pax DominiThe Agnus Dei Page 28The Distribution

The Distribution Hymn No. 315“I Come, O Savior, to Thy Table”

The Nunc Dimittis Page 29The Thanksgiving

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The SalutationThe Benediction

The Closing Hymn No. 292 v.1-4“Lord Jesus Christ, with Us Abide”

Serving This Week- February 21, 2021Preacher Pastor WalzOrganist Karen BeckerPostlude Naomi NeelyUshers Bob Goodrich & Aaron NeelyAcolyte Colton BeckerCleaners Loren and Linda Meyer

Serving Next Week- February 28, 2021Preacher Pastor WalzOrganist Karen WinkelmannPostlude Abagail NeelyUshers Mark Selby & Andrew SelbyAcolyte Michael NeelyCleaners Loren and Linda Meyer

News and Notes

Sunday 2/21 9:00am Divine Service with communion10:00am Family Bible Class in Sanctuary

Wednesday 2/24 7:00pm Lent Vespers ServiceSunday 2/28 9:00am Divine Service

10:00am Family Bible Class in Sanctuary

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