GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN
Missouri Synod

SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
May 17, 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
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

Confession and Absolution LSB 151

Entrance Hymn “He Is Arisen! Glorious Word” LSB 488

Kyrie LSB 152-3

Hymn of Praise “This is the Feast” LSB155

Salutation and Collect (see insert for Collect) LSB 156

First Reading (see insert) Acts 10: 34-48

Gradual (see insert)

Epistle Reading (see insert) I John 5: 1-8

Alleluia and Verse LSB 156

Gospel Reading (see insert) John 15: 9-17

Hymn “God Loved the World So That He Gave” LSB 571

Sermon “Greater Love” John 15: 9-17
Pastor Clint K. Poppe

Nicene Creed LSB 158

Prayer of the Church
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

Hymn During Offering “Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice”
LSB 556

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
“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” LSB 700
“At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing” LSB 633
“The Death of Jesus Christ, Our Lord” LSB 634
“This Joyful Eastertide” LSB 482
“Make Songs of Joy” LSB 484
“Jesus Lives! The Victory’s Won” LSB 490

General Dismissal LSB 164

Post-Communion Canticle “Thank the Lord” LSB 164

Post-Communion Collect LSB 166

Benediction LSB 166

Closing Hymn “Abide With Me” LSB 878, vs. 1, 5, 6

Announcements & Postlude

MATINS/LSB 219 (10:30 am)

Welcome and Prayer

Opening Hymn “Dearest Jesus, We Are Here” LSB 592

Order of Holy Baptism LSB 268
(We follow the Order of Holy Baptism found on page 268ff. in the front of the hymnal. At the appropriate place in the service the children will be asked to bring their bottles of water forward to an elder to be poured into the baptismal font. During this process the congregation will sing the baptism hymn, “See This Wonder in the Making” LSB 593. The children are invited to remain up front to witness the baptism.)

Versicles LSB 219

Ascription of Praise LSB 219

Psalmody
Antiphon LSB 220

Venite LSB 220-1

Introit (see insert) LSB 221

Office Hymn “God Loved the World So That He Gave”
LSB 571

Readings
First Reading (see insert) Acts 10: 34-48

Epistle Reading (see insert) I John 5: 1-8

Gospel Reading (see insert) John 15: 9-17

Responsory for Easter LSB 222

Sermon “Greater Love” John 15: 9-17
Pastor Clint K. Poppe

Offering

Hymn During Offering “Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice”
LSB 556

General Prayer
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.
Benediction LSB 228
C: Amen.

Closing Hymn “Abide With Me” LSB 878, vs. 1, 5, 6

Announcements

Postlude