GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN
Missouri Synod

FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY /SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE SUNDAY
January 31, 2010

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 FOUR/LSB 203
Welcome and Prayer

Opening Hymn “Son of God, Eternal Savior” LSB 842

Invocation, Confession and Absolution LSB 203

Introit (see insert) LSB 204

Kyrie LSB 204

Gloria in Excelsis LSB 204

Salutation and Collect (see insert for Collect) LSB 205

Old Testament Reading (see insert) Jeremiah 1: 4-10

Anthem “God Knew Your Name” Tammi Pfeiffer

Epistle Reading (see insert) I Corinthians 12: 31b - 13: 13

Alleluia and Verse LSB 205

Gospel Reading (see insert) Luke 4: 31-44

Nicene Creed LSB 206

Hymn “Take My Life and Let It Be” LSB 783

Sermon “His Hand” Jeremiah 1: 4-10;Job 12: 10
Pastor Lance D. Berndt
“ In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.”

Prayer of the Church LSB 207
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 207

Hymn During Offering “How Firm a Foundation” LSB 728

SERVICE OF THE SACRAMENT
Preface LSB 208

Sanctus LSB 208

Prayer of Thanksgiving LSB 209

Lords Prayer LSB 209

Words of Institution LSB 209

Pax Domini LSB 209

Agnus Dei LSB 210

Distribution Hymns
“ Voices Raised to You We Offer” LSB 795
“Jesus Loves Me” (see insert)
“Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” LSB 802
“Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness” LSB 563
“Lord, Whose Love Through Humble Service” LSB 848
“Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice” LSB 556

General Dismissal LSB 210

Nunc Dimittis LSB 211

Post-Communion Collect LSB 212

Benedicamus and Benediction LSB 212

Closing Hymn “Go My Children With My Blessing” LSB 922

Announcements

Postlude