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DIVINE SERVICE IV

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost July 15, 2018

Ringing of the Bell

Solo: “Do Not Be Afraid” ..................................... Rev. Kevin Vogts

Refrain: Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you,

I have called you by your name, you are Mine.

When you walk through the waters I’ll be with you,

You will never sink beneath the waves. Refrain

When the fire is burning all around you,

You will never be consumed by the flames. Refrain

When the fear of loneliness is looming,

Then remember I am at your side. Refrain

When you dwell in the exile of the stranger,

Remember you are precious sin My eyes. Refrain

You are Mine, O My child, I am your Father,

And I love you with a perfect love. Refrain

Words and Music by Gerald Markland, Based on Isaiah 43:1-4

Hymn: “Blessed Jesus, at Your Word” ............................. Hymn 904

Confession and Absolution ................................................. Page 203

Introit (Spoken Responsively—Psalm 119:81, 169-176):

P My soul faints with longing for Your salvation, but I have put

my hope in Your Word.

C May my cry come before You, O LORD; give me

understanding according to Your Word.

P May my supplication come before You; deliver me according

to Your promise.

C May my lips overflow with praise, for You teach me Your

decrees.

P May my tongue sing of Your Word, for all Your commands are

righteous.

C May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen

Your precepts.

P I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.

C Let me live that I may praise You, and may Your laws

sustain me.

P I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek Your servant, for I have

not forgotten Your commands.

C Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy

Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be

forever. Amen.

P My soul faints with longing for Your salvation, but I have put

my hope in Your Word.

Kyrie and Gloria in Excelsis ............................................... 04

Salutation and Collect of the Day (Prayed in Unison):

C Blessed Lord, You have caused all Holy Scriptures to be

written for our learning. Grant that we may so hear them,

read, mark, learn, and take them to heart that, by patience

and comfort of Your holy Word, we may embrace and ever

hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life; through Jesus

Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You

and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Old Testament Reading........................................ Jeremiah 23:16-32 In contrast to the lies of the false prophets, the true Word of God is

symbolized by three figures of speech: grain, because it spiritually feeds

and nourishes, unlike the false prophecies which are only straw; fire,

because it sears away all pretense and hypocrisy; and a hammer,

because it smashes all false teachings with the divine truth.

This is what the LORD Almighty says:

“Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you;

they fill you with false hopes.

They speak visions from their own minds,

not from the mouth of the LORD.

They keep saying to those who despise Me,

‘The LORD says: You will have peace.’

And to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts

they say, ‘No harm will come to you.’

But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD

to see or to hear His Word?

Who has listened and heard His Word?

See, the storm of the LORD

will burst out in wrath,

a whirlwind swirling down

on the heads of the wicked.

The anger of the LORD will not turn back

until He fully accomplishes

the purposes of His heart.

In days to come

you will understand it clearly.

I did not send these prophets,

yet they have run with their message;

I did not speak to them,

yet they have prophesied.

But if they had stood in My council,

they would have proclaimed My words to

My people

and would have turned them from their evil ways

and from their evil deeds.

“Am I only a God nearby,”

declares the LORD,

“and not a God far away?

Can anyone hide in secret places

so that I cannot see him?”

declares the LORD.

“Do not I fill heaven and earth?”

declares the LORD.

“I have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in My name. They

say, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’ How long will this continue in the hearts of

these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds? They

think the dreams they tell one another will make My people forget My name,

just as their fathers forgot My name through Baal worship. Let the prophet who

has a dream tell his dream, but let the one who has My Word speak it faithfully.

For what has straw to do with grain?” declares the LORD. “Is not My Word like

fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?

“Therefore,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from

one another words supposedly from Me. Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against

the prophets who wag their own tongues and yet declare, ‘The LORD declares.’

Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares the LORD.

“They tell them and lead My people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not

send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least,” declares the

LORD.

After the reading:

P This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

Gradual (Spoken Responsively—John 8:31-32, 2 Timothy 3:16-17):

P If you continue in My Word, you are truly My disciples, and

you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

C All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is useful

for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in

righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly

equipped for every good work.

Epistle Reading ..................................................... Ephesians 1:3-14 Today we begin a series of eight Epistle Readings from

Ephesians. Paul introduces his letter by recounting the blessings

we have received through the Father (verse 3), the Son (verses

4-13a), and the Holy Spirit (verses 13b-14). The cause of our

predestination and salvation—and indeed every blessing we

receive—is found “in Christ,” since His meritorious act of

redemption is the sole reason for the bestowal of divine blessing.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed

us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For He chose

us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight.

In love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in

accordance with His pleasure and will—to the praise of His glorious grace,

which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have redemption

through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of

God’s grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And He

made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure,

which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have

reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together

under one head, even Christ.

In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan

of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will, in

order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of His

glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the Word of truth,

the Gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in Him with a

seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance

until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of His

glory.

After the reading:

P This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

Alleluia and Verse (Please Stand) ........................................ Page 205

Before the reading:

P The Holy Gospel according to St. ______ , the ______ chapter.

C Glory to You, O Lord.

Holy Gospel .............................................................. Mark 12:18-27 The Sadducees denied all supernatural occurrences including

resurrection. Their question on resurrection, therefore, was not to elicit

information but to find a way to make Jesus look foolish by presenting an

extreme hypothetical case. Jesus responds that although there will be no

marriage in the resurrection, there certainly will be a resurrection.

Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him with a

question. “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies

and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and have

children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first one married

and died without leaving any children. The second one married the widow, but

he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. In fact, none of the

seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. At the resurrection

whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”

Jesus replied, “Is not this the reason you are in error, because you do not

know the Scriptures or the power of God? When the dead rise, they will neither

marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. Now

about the dead rising—have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account of

the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and

the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are

badly mistaken!”

After the reading:

P This is the Gospel of the Lord.

C Praise to You, O Christ.

Apostles’ Creed .................................................................. Page 206

Hymn: “Faith and Truth and Life Bestowing” .................Hymn 584

Sermon: “Know the Truth” ....................................... Mark 12:18-27

Hymn: “God’s Word Is Our Great Heritage” .................. Hymn 582

Offering

Prayer of the Church (Prayed Responsively):

P Let us pray for the people of God in Christ Jesus, and for all

people according to their needs. . . Almighty God and Father,

we thank You for all Your goodness and tender mercies,

especially for the gift of Your dear Son, through whom You

have revealed to us Your love and grace.

C Plant your Word in our hearts, that we may cling to it in

faith and bear much fruit to Your glory.

P In peace, let us pray to the Lord.

C Lord, have mercy.

P Strengthen and defend Your Church on earth, that by your

Word and Sacraments faith may grow and love toward all

increase. Guide and protect [ __________ and] all who spread

abroad the light of Your truth throughout the world.

C Let the light of Your Word shine continually in us, that we

may glorify You in our hearts and lives.


C Lord, have mercy.

P Guide and bless all in authority, especially the President and

Congress of the United States, the Governor and legislators of

this State, and all who sit as judges in our land.

C Give them wisdom and sound judgment, that justice may

prevail and wickedness be hindered, and we may live in

righteousness and peace.


C Lord, have mercy.

P We commend to Your care [ __________ and] all who are in

trouble, want, sickness or any other adversity, especially those

who are suffering for Your name and Your truth.

C Be with them and comfort them by Your Holy Spirit, that

in all their afflictions they may trust in Your fatherly love,

and by Your grace may rejoice in Your gracious and

speedy deliverance.


C Lord, have mercy.

P Let Your blessing rest Your people. Watch over all who travel,

and care for all whose labor is difficult or dangerous, especially

those in our nation’s defensive forces, and all who serve to

protect us.

C Bless us in our daily callings, as we endeavor to do Your

will, with the assurance that our work is pleasing in Your

sight.


C Lord, have mercy.

Additional Petitions Each Concluding:

P In peace, let us pray to the Lord. C Lord, have mercy.

P And finally, in some moments of quietness, we hold before

You in silent prayer the longings and hopes of our own hearts,

and those who have asked us to remember them in our prayers:

(Moment of Silent Prayer). In peace, let us pray to the Lord.

C Lord, have mercy.

P Heavenly Father, protect our bodies and souls from all harm

and danger; support us in our last hour with Your mercy; and

finally admit us into Your eternal joy, to love and serve You in

the blessed company of Your saints and angels forevermore.

C In You we trust, and rejoice in Your salvation!

P All this we pray through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who

lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now

and forever.

C Amen.

Hymn: “Lord Jesus Christ, with Us Abide”......................Hymn 585

Lord’s Prayer, Closing Collect, Benedicamus, and Benediction:

P Trusting in the promises of God, let us pray with confidence to

our heavenly Father, as His dear Son has taught us:

C 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.

P O Lord, God of truth, Your Word is a lamp to our feet and a

light for our path. Give us an increase of faith, hope, and love,

that trusting the testimony of Scripture concerning You we may

ever hold fast to Him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life,

and thus by Your grace receive the gift of eternal salvation;

through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns

with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C Amen.

P Let us bless the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

P The Lord bless you and keep you.

The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you.

The Lord look upon you with favor and T give you peace.

C Amen.

Hymn: “Oh, That the Lord Would Guide My Ways” .......Hymn 707

Everyone Is Invited to Stay for Coffee Hour in the Overflow

WELCOME TO TRINITY! We’re

glad you’re here to worship the Lord.

We pray this worship hour is a blessing

for you and invite you to please come

again soon. If you are a visitor please

sign the Guest Register in the entry and

introduce yourself to the Pastor.

Trinity Lutheran Church 34868 Block Road Paola s KS 66071

www.trinitylutheranblock.org

[email protected]

(913) 849-3344 (Church Office)

Pastor Kevin Vogts

[email protected]

913-849-3711 (Study) 913-594-9865 (Mobile)

Jack and Cathy Carlos Missionaries in Guinea, West Africa

Birthdays

Sunday Karen Kaiser

Monday David Johns Debbie Oberheide

Brittannie Ritch

Tuesday Ann Davis

Wednesday Keith Prothe Madison Snider

Thursday Clint Kettler Cathy Tesar

Janet England Annabelle Ducey

Friday Mallory Tharp Norma Peckman

Saturday Dan Hieber Chance Mueller

Anniversaries

7/15 Adam and Lorri Jenson 23 years

7/18 Paul and Karen Brack 37 years

We remember in our prayers:

Vernon Prothe, Don Prothe, Sherri Webb, Hazel Prothe, Grant Haley,

members and relatives serving in the armed forces including Jake

Crome, Jeremy Howard, Zac Howard, Aaron Prothe, and Travis

Peckman.

TODAY’S WORSHIP — The Lord Brings His People from

Death to Life by the Preaching of His Word. The Lord Jesus

causes fear and trembling and division among His enemies because

His Word is “like fire … and like a hammer that breaks the rock in

pieces” (Jeremiah 23:29). His Law puts us all to death, whereas

only His Gospel can bring us to life. He has fulfilled that Word for

us by His cross and in His resurrection from the dead. Christians

therefore live as “sons of God, being children of the resurrection”

(Luke 20:36), for the Lord our God “is not God of the dead, but of

the living” (Mark 12:27). “Those who say there is no resurrection”

(Mark 12:18) neither know the Scriptures nor the power of God,

but the baptized faithful know “that the dead are raised” (Mark

12:25). For Christ is the destruction of death itself and “before the

foundation of the world,” and even now by faith, “the God and

Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” has blessed us in Christ “with

every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 1:3-4).

Through Baptism into Christ, you also “were sealed with the

promised Holy Spirit,” for life and salvation (Ephesians 1:13).

TREASURER’S REPORT July 15, 2018

Checking Account Balance July 7, 2018 $ (536.29)

Income: Deposit $ 4,885.00

Thrivent $ 472.00

Expenses: Checking $ (453.72)

Balance July 14, 2018 $ 5,439.57

Investment Acct Balance July 7, 2018 $ 264,842.58

Balance July 14, 2018 $ 264,842.58

Attendance

Worship Attendance July 8, 2018 75

PRAYER BEFORE WORSHIP — Almighty God, we thank

You for planting in us the seed of Your Word. By Your Holy Spirit

help us receive it with joy, live according to it, and grow in the

grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ;

who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God,

now and forever. Amen.

NEXT WEEK’S SERMON — Next week’s message will be

“Thy Kingdom Come?” based on John 6:15. Sermons by Pastor

Vogts are available in both printed and audio form on our church web

site, www.trinitylcms.org/sermons, as podcasts in the iTunes store

under “Kevin Vogts,” online at www.kevinvogts.podbean.com, or

for mobile devices at www.kevinvogts.podbean.com/mobile.

Printed copies of today’s message are also available from the ushers.

OUTDOOR WORSHIP PICTURES — Check out the pictures

from our Independence Day Outdoor Service & Potluck held

at our Shelter House on July 1, in our online photo gallery at

www.trinitylcms.org/photos. Thanks to Michelle Haley, Anna Vogts,

and Kevin Debrick for all the great photos! Mark your calendar for

our next outdoor service in the Shelter House, part of our annual

Blocktoberfest weekend, on Sunday, September 16 at 10:00am.

JULY TRINITY TRIBUNE — The July issue of our church

newsletter Trinity Tribune is being distributed after worship today,

in both regular and large print. Pastor Vogts’ article this month is a

thrilling excerpt from the report given by LCMS President

Matthew Harrison to last month’s Kansas District Convention,

about the phenomenal growth and success of our Synod’s

mission work around the work. Current and past issues are

also online on the church’s web site under the “Newsletter”

button, www.trinitylcms.org/newsletter. Pick up your copy of

Trinity Tribune today!

PICTORIAL DIRECTORY — Thank you to

those who have taken the opportunity to have

your picture taken

and update your contact information. However

we are still missing pictures and information

from many of our members. If you would like

to submit your own picture please do so by

August 1, 2018. If your photo is in digital

format, you can send by email to Kyle at

[email protected]. If photo is a hard copy

you can get to Kyle, Stacey Elkinton, Jan

Minden, or Phyllis Trickett. We will work with

you and your schedule to gather pictures and

updated information. Please help us

communicate this information to any member

with which you may have contact.

VOTERS ASSEMBLY TODAY — The quarterly

meeting of the Voters Assembly will be held

following worship today. The agenda will include

officer and committee reports, cemetery work,

update on Building Addition & Modernization

Project, DCE salary review, and possible

replacement of the Sanctuary HVAC units.

NURSING HOME SERVICES TODAY — You are invited to help Trinity provide nursing

home services at North Point and Medical Lodge

today. The simple services are approximately 20

minutes at each home. We begin at 1:30pm at

North Point and then go to Medical Lodge for

the second service. We have a “faithful few”

who help but could use your help too!

ROYALS GAME JULY 20 — Everyone is invited to join the Trinity

Youth for a Kansas City Royals game at

Kaufmann Stadium on Friday, July 20 at

7:15pm against the Minnesota Twins.

It will be Summer Fireworks &

Buck Night! The cost is $15 per ticket

(must reach 20 ticket minimum) and

parking is $12 if purchased in advance,

$15 cash at the gate. Sponsored by the

Trinity Youth for the whole congregation, family, friends—

everyone is invited! Let Youth Director Janette Reinke

know how many tickets and parking passes you need. You can

catch her after worship, or text her at 785-550-7771, or email

[email protected]. The deadline to order is today!

NEW PORTALS OF PRAYER — The new

quarterly issue of the devotional booklet Portals of

Prayer for July thru September is being passed out

this morning. Copies are available in standard size,

large print, and “digest” size (same size as Reader’s

Digest). A great way to keep close to the Lord!

BLOCKTOBERFEST VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES –

Many volunteers are needed and appreciated to make this year’s

Blocktoberfest possible. A Sign-Up Genius can be found at: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b45a8a829a6f49-blocktoberfest

COFFEE HOUR — Everyone is invited to stay

for Coffee Hour following worship today. Our

thanks to Karen & Greg Windler for hosting this

morning. Hosts are still needed for later in the

summer. There is a sign-up sheet on the table

with the snacks. Our Generations group provides

and prepares the coffee and juice, so those

signing up are only asked to provide some treat.

Thank you to all providing snacks!

COLOSSIANS BIBLE STUDY — You are

invited to join in Adult Bible Class for a study of

God’s Grace in Colossians. Though written

nearly 2,000 years ago, this Biblical book still

speaks to our lives today in a surprisingly fresh

and relevant way. One of the Apostle Paul’s

shorter letters, Colossians is especially rich with

descriptions of Christ, His work, and the blessings

He bestows on us. Join in Sundays at 9:00am

to learn more about God’s Grace in Colossians.

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