GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN
Missouri Synod

FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT
December 20, 2009

Pastor Clint K. Poppe
Pastor Lance D. Berndt

3825 Wildbriar Lane, Lincoln, NE 68516
Church Office: 423-7639 * FAX: 423-0984
E-mail: info@goodshepherdlincoln.org
Website: www.goodshepherdlincoln.org
Good Shepherd School & Preschool: 423-7677
Tune in Sundays KFOR 1240 AM at 10:30 am

STATEMENT OF COMMUNION PRACTICE
The Lord’s Supper is celebrated in this congregation in the confession and glad confidence that, as He says, our Lord gives into our mouths not only bread and wine but His very body and blood to eat and to drink for the forgiveness of sins and to strengthen our union with Him and with one another. Our Lord invites to His table those who trust His words, repent of all sin, and set aside any refusal to forgive and love as He forgives and loves us, that they may show forth His death until He comes.

Because those who eat and drink our Lord’s body and blood unworthily do so to their great harm and because Holy Communion is a confession of the faith confessed at this altar, any who are not yet instructed, in doubt, or who hold a confession differing from that of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, and are unable to receive the Sacrament are invited to meditate on God’s Word in the distribution hymns and pray for the day when divisions will have ceased. If you have any questions regarding our practice, please review the “Fellowship in the Lord’s Supper” brochure or visit with Pastor Poppe, Pastor Berndt, or one of the elders before the service.
DIVINE SERVICE - SETTING ONE/LSB 151 (8 am)

Welcome and Prayer

Opening Hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”
LSB 357, vs. 1, 2

Invocation, Confession and Absolution LSB 151

Introit (see insert) LSB 152

Kyrie LSB 152-3

Hymn of Praise (omitted during Advent)

Salutation and Collect (see insert for Collect) LSB 156

Old Testament Reading (see insert) Micah 5: 2-5a

Gradual (see insert) LSB 156

Epistle Reading (see insert) Hebrews 10: 5-10

Alleluia and Verse LSB 156

Gospel Reading (see insert) Luke 1: 39-45

Hymn “Tell Out, My Soul, the Greatness of the Lord” LSB 935

Sermon “Blessed” Luke 1: 39-45
Pastor Clint K. Poppe

Nicene Creed LSB 158

Prayer of the Church LSB 159
P: Let us pray for the whole people of God in Christ Jesus and for all people according to their needs . . .

(At the end of each petition, the pastor will say . . . “Lord, in Your mercy,” and the congregation will add . . . “hear our prayer”.)

P: Into Your hands, O Lord, we commend all for whom we pray, trusting in Your mercy; through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
C: Amen.

Offering LSB 159

Hymn During Offering “Of the Father’s Love Begotten” LSB 384

Offertory “What Shall I Render to the Lord?” LSB 159-60

SERVICE OF THE SACRAMENT

Preface LSB 160

Proper Preface LSB 161
Sanctus LSB 161

Prayer of Thanksgiving LSB 161

Lord’s Prayer LSB 162

Words of Institution LSB 162

Pax Domini LSB 163

Agnus Dei LSB 163

Distribution Hymns
“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” LSB 357, vs. 3-7
“Savior of the Nations, Come” LSB 332
“Hark the Glad Sound” LSB 349
“My Soul Rejoices” LSB 933
“Come, Thou Precious Ransom, Come” LSB 350
“Thy Body, Given for Me, O Savior” LSB 619

General Dismissal LSB 164

Post-Communion Canticle “Nunc Dimittis” LSB 165

Post-Communion Collect and Benediction LSB 166

Closing Hymn “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” LSB 338

Announcements and Postlude
ORDER OF MATINS/LSB 219 (10:30 am)

Welcome and Prayer

Opening Hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”
LSB 357, vs. 1, 2

Versicles LSB 219

Ascription of Praise (for Advent) LSB 219

Psalmody
Antiphon LSB 220

Venite LSB 220-21

Introit (see insert) LSB 221

Office Hymn “Tell Out, My Soul, the Greatness of the Lord”
LSB 935

Readings
Old Testament (see insert) Micah 5: 2-5a

Epistle (see insert) Hebrews 10: 5-10

Gospel (see insert) Luke 1: 39-45

Common Responsory LSB 221
Sermon “Blessed” Luke 1: 39-45
Pastor Clint K. Poppe

Canticle “Benedictus” LSB 226-7

Offering

Hymn During Offering “Of the Father’s Love Begotten”
LSB 384

Kyrie LSB 227

Lord’s Prayer LSB 227

Collects LSB 227-8

Benedicamus LSB 228

Benediction LSB 228

Closing Hymn “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” LSB 338

Announcements

Postlude