Sunday, January 17, 2016
Pastor Matthew P. DeNoyer
(218) 722-4364
www.duluth-lutheran.com
[email protected]
Second Sunday after the Epiphany
Jesus comes as the invited guest to reveal the splendor of his glory.
As we behold his glory, we delight in our bridegroom. For he delights in us, bringing to us his righteous deliverance, the strength of
his Spirit, and the divine dimensions of his immeasurable love.
LITURGY: THE COMMON SERVICE
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OPENING HYMN: #573 Hark the Voice of Jesus Crying
INVOCATION
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CONFESSION OF SINS
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ABSOLUTION
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PRAYER & PRAISE
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PRAYER OF THE DAY: (IN UNISON)
Almighty God, you gave your one and only Son to be the light of the world.
Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and sacraments, may shine
with the radiance of Christ’s glory, that he may be known, worshiped, and
believed to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with
you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and forever.
Amen. (sung by congregation)
THE WORD OF GOD
OLD TESTAMENT LESSON:
EXODUS 7:14-24
Before Pharaoh, God changed water into blood: this was an act of divine judgment on an
unbelieving people. The power of God was meant to break open hearts of stone, or harden
them further. This, like all the plagues, occurred that Pharaoh might know the LORD.
How amazing to read this miracle of God’s judgment changing water to a stinking, undrinkable liquid, and then read the Gospel where the Son of God does just the opposite. In
a miracle of Grace, the Son of God takes water and makes it into the finest tasting wine.
PSALM OF THE DAY: PSALM 133-134
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GOSPEL LESSON:
JOHN 2:1-11
This account from the Gospel of John is not so much a stamp of approval on wedding celebrations as it is a display of glory by our bridegroom, Jesus the Christ. The Savior’s
meeting of an immediate need was a secondary benefit to the revelation of his glorious
power, his divine authority and the confirmation of his first disciples’ faith.
NICENE CREED
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HYMN: #80 Angels from the Realms of Glory
SERMON
EPHESIANS 3:14-21
“Never stop being Enamored by God’s Grace”
OFFERING
PRAYER OF THE CHURCH
LORD’S PRAYER
The Sacrament
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Our Lord Jesus has given us a holy supper in which we receive his true body and blood for
the forgiveness of sins and the strengthening of our faith. In this supper we celebrate the gift
of his redemption, we bear witness to the fellowship we share as confessors of the truth, and
we proclaim his death until he returns. Out of love for our Savior, we ask that if you are
visiting us for the first time that you would speak to either our pastor or one of our elders
before partaking of this sacred meal in order that we might first express our common faith
before joining in Common-union. Thank you.
Holy, Holy, Holy (Sanctus)
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Words of Institution
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O Christ, Lamb of God (Agnus Dei)
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Distribution Hymn Solo- "Gesu Bambino", Pietro A. Yon
#309 Draw Near and Take the Body
Song of Simeon
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Closing Prayer
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Blessing
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CLOSING HYMN: #537 Onward Christians Soldiers
WELCOME!
A warm welcome to all our guests and visitors. It’s our pleasure to serve you
with God’s Word. Available in the back of church are head phones for the
hard of hearing. Also, bathrooms are down the carpeted hallway to your right
as you leave church. If you would like to speak to our pastor please indicate
that on the friendship register at the entry of the church and we hope to see you
soon. Take care and may God bless your day and week!
with power through his Spirit in your inner
being, so that Christ may dwell in your
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's
hearts through faith. And I pray that you,
heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the peo- being rooted and established in love, may
ple go. Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he have power, together with all the saints, to
goes out to the water. Wait on the bank of
grasp how wide and long and high and
the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand deep is the love of Christ, and to know this
the staff that was changed into a
love that surpasses knowledge--that you may
snake. Then say to him, 'The LORD, the
be filled to the measure of all the fullness of
God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to
God. Now to him who is able to do immeasyou: Let my people go, so that they may
urably more than all we ask or imagine, acworship me in the desert. But until now you cording to his power that is at work within
have not listened. This is what the LORD
us, to him be glory in the church and in
says: By this you will know that I am the
Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for
LORD: With the staff that is in my hand I
ever and ever! Amen.
will strike the water of the Nile, and it will
be changed into blood. The fish in the Nile
will die, and the river will stink; the EgypJohn 2:1-11
tians will not be able to drink its water.'
On the third day a wedding took place at
" The LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron,
Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was
Take your staff and stretch out your
there, and Jesus and his disciples had also
hand over the waters of Egypt--over the
been invited to the wedding. When the wine
streams and canals, over the ponds and all
was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They
the reservoirs'--and they will turn to blood.
Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in have no more wine." "Dear woman, why do
the wooden buckets and stone jars." Moses you involve me?" Jesus replied."My
time has not yet come." His mother said to
and Aaron did just as the LORD had comthe servants, "Do whatever he tells
manded. He raised his staff in the presence
you." Nearby stood six stone water jars, the
of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the
kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washwater of the Nile, and all the water was
ing, each holding from twenty to thirty galchanged into blood. The fish in the Nile
lons. Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars
died, and the river smelled so bad that the
with water"; so they filled them to the
Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood
was everywhere in Egypt. But the Egyptian brim. Then he told them, "Now draw some
magicians did the same things by their secret out and take it to the master of the banquet." They did so, and the master of the
arts, and Pharaoh's heart became hard; he
would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as banquet tasted the water that had been
the LORD had said. Instead, he turned and turned into wine. He did not realize where it
had come from, though the servants who had
went into his palace, and did not take even
drawn the water knew. Then he called the
this to heart. And all the Egyptians dug
along the Nile to get drinking water, because bridegroom aside and said, "Everyone brings
out the choice wine first and then the cheapthey could not drink the water of the river.
er wine after the guests have had too much
Ephesians 3:14-21
to drink; but you have saved the best till
now." This, the first of his miraculous
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven signs, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee.
and on earth derives its name. I pray that out He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples
of his glorious riches he may strengthen you put their faith in him.
Exodus 7:14-24