First Immanuel Lutheran Ministries
5:00pm, 7:30 & 9:00am Worship - Cedarburg
AS WE GATHER isn't life filled with opportunities for distractions? Technology only enhances our problems, but the real problem is our focus. When we, like Jesus, see God's work as our sole focus, we will get rid of useless distractions and welcome the interruptions from God.
Locations & Times
First Immanuel Lutheran Church
W67N622 Evergreen Blvd, Cedarburg, WI 53012, USA
Saturday 5:00 PM
Sunday 7:30 AM
Sunday 9:00 AM
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https://www.tinyurl.com/FILDigitalConnectOPENING HYMN God Loved the World So That He Gave….LSB 571
1 God loved the world so that He gave
His only Son the lost to save,
That all who would in Him believe
Should everlasting life receive.
2 Christ Jesus is the ground of faith,
Who was made flesh and suffered death;
All then who trust in Him alone
Are built on this chief cornerstone.
P: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
C: Amen
WE CONFESS OUR SIN AND RECEIVE GOD’S FORGIVENESS:
P: We enter worship with many things on our hearts and minds. We feel the weight of decisions, tasks, plans. We fill our time with noise and business, and it ends up distracting our hearts, diverting our attention, dissuading our plans, and making our lives a disaster. What we have invited and allowed into our lives has interrupted our relationship with God and one another. However, we interrupt our patterns of selfishness to confess our sins.
(A time for silent confession)
P: Lord, hear our prayer for the sake of Jesus, Your Son, our Savior.
C: Lord God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
P: Because God is love, Jesus came to restore our relationship with the heavenly Father and re-center our focus on God’s will. God has interrupted our lives with grace and forgiveness. May this Good News change you as you stand forgiven and free in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
C: Amen!
THE PSALM FOR THE DAY………………………..Psalm 30:4-8, 11-12
P: Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,
C: and give thanks to his holy name.
P: For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime.
C: Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
P: As for me, I said in my prosperity,
C: I shall never be moved.
P: By your favor, O Lord,you made my mountain stand strong;
C: you hid your face; I was dismayed.
P: To you, O Lord, I cry,
C: and to the Lord I plead for mercy:
P: You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
C: you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
P: that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
C: O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
P: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit;
C: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
Lord God, heavenly Father, we have used any means possible to distract ourselves from the weight of sin and despair. But you have interrupted us with your grace. Give us the Holy Spirit, that we might focus our whole attention and spirit on the work You have put before us. We pray in the name of Jesus, our Savior.
C: Amen.
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary And was made man; And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried; And the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures; And ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father; And He will come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead; whose kingdom will have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Spirit, The Lord and giver of life, Who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the Prophets. And I believe one holy Christian and Apostolic Church, I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, and I look for the resurrection of the dead; and the life of the world to come. Amen.
3 God would not have the sinner die;
His Son with saving grace is nigh;
His Spirit in the Word declares
How we in Christ are heaven’s heirs.
4 Be of good cheer, for God’s own Son
Forgives all sins which you have done;
And, justified by Jesus’ blood,
Your Baptism grants the highest good.
SERMON NOTES:
Offering Opportunities
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https://www.givelify.com/givenow/1.0/OTY2/selectionPRAYERS OF THE CHURCH
LORD'S PRAYER
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.
BENEDICTION
5 If you are sick, if death is near,
This truth your troubled heart can cheer:
Christ Jesus saves your soul from death;
That is the firmest ground of faith.
6 Glory to God the Father, Son,
And Holy Spirit, Three in One!
To You, O blessèd Trinity,
Be praise now and eternally!
POSTLUDE SIYAHAMBA Organ and Conga drum duet
First Immanuel Lutheran Ministries Website
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