TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHOffering a Changeless Christ for a Changing World

 

292 Elwood Avenue, Hawthorne, New York 10532Church Office: (914) 769-2546 Fax: (914) 769-5326

Email: trinityhawthorne292@gmail.comWeb: trinityhawthorne.org

 

Rev. Dr. David Elseroad, PastorCell: (917) 757-4749

The Ministers: All the MembersTRINITY PRESCHOOL

Phone: (914)773-1108 Web: trinity-preschool.comEmail: trinitypreschool292@gmail.com

THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOSTJune 28, 2020 10:15 a.m. WELCOME: In the love of the Lord Jesus- -the Way, the Truth and the Life- -we welcome you to today’s worship both here in the church sanctuary and at home through livestream. Please let us know you are joining us (in the remarks section of the live stream). A special greeting to our guests and visitors near and far. Join us again soon!

THE ALTAR FLOWERS last week were given to the glory of God by June and Bob Lapple in loving memory of their daughter, Dawn.

THE ALTAR FLOWERS this week are given to the glory of God by Peter Orlando in loving memory of his wife, RoseMary.

THE ETERNAL LIGHT is given to the glory of God in loving memory of Dave Stevens by Joan Minozzi. 

BIRTHDAYS: Susan Hickey (Wed), Ryan Eddington (Thurs)

PRAYERS: MEMBERS—Meron Austin, Fran Bass, Paul Brenzel, Renate Delau, Janet DiLeo, Erna Krueger, Bob McKechnie, Bob Ort, June Ortiz, Ed Schreiner, Lillian Schrank, Robert Trimpe, Sr.FRIENDS—Jillian Austin, Meron Austin’s granddaughter; Leslie Baniks, Art Hickey’s cousin; Peter Brenzel, Paul Brenzel’s brother; Cynthia Bellmann Clune, friend of June Ortiz; Mary Cronin, friend of Fran Bass; Edwin Joseph Cwiek; Meron Austin’s , great-grandson; Debbie and Doug, friends of Danette and Chris Granger; Elisha, Belinda and Pastor Elseroad’s granddaughter; John Grasso, II, John is the father of one of our preschool students; Joey and Johnny Imbrogno, Joan Minozzi’s grandsons; Steve and Jack MacNicholl; Benjamin Pin, Ute Hunting’s mailman’s 2 1/2 year old grandson with Leukemia; Jim Reynolds, Muriel Stegmann’s brother; Dong Songco, Belinda Elseroad’s brother; Louis Vasques, friend of Fran Bass; Sarah Webbermaas, Ute Hunting’s niece; Linda Williams, Trinity’s mail lady, Raquel Zarin, friend of Gia and Jack YatesIN THE SERVICE—1Lt. Eric Dolan, US Army Reserves, grandson of June and Bob Lapple; Sgt. Robert Entenmann II, brother of Christine DiLeo

AND FOR ALL THOSE IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY INCLUDING ALL FIRST RESPONDERS IN THIS COVID-19 PANDEMIC. GOD BLESS THEM ALL!

 GET CONNECTED!Follow the weekly worship service on your cell phone, tablet or laptop at…Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/trinitylutheranhawthorne -  or – YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz0ILbglJ4c9autkUBfiG2g -  or - Dial up on your phone (audio only): 1-717-275-8940; access code 1684038

 As we are limited to ten people in the church sanctuary, we ask that most of you worship with us at home. 

PLEASE NOTE: Ed Schreiner has moved up to Rhinebeck, NY to be closer to his daughter Susan Lamberton. Mailing Address: Thompson House, Northern Dutchess Hospital, Beekman Unit, 6511 Spring Brook Ave, Rhinebeck, NY 12572: Phone 845-871-3887. He really appreciates your calls and letters.

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SERVICE OF PRAYER AND PREACHINGJune 28, 2020

[Bookmark LSB, page 260, Psalm 119]

PRELUDE

RINGING OF THE BELL

WELCOME+ WE GATHER +

OPENING HYMN: "WE HAVE COME INTO HIS HOUSE" Sing God's Praises, pg 151 We have come into His house and gathered in His name to worship Him.

We have come into His house and gathered in His name to worship Him.We have come into His house and gathered in His name to worship Christ, the Lord.Worship Him, Christ, the Lord.

2 So forget about yourself and concentrate on Him and worship Him.So forget about yourself and concentrate on Him and worship Him.So forget about yourself and concentrate on Him and worship Christ, the Lord.Worship Him, Christ, the Lord.

3 Let us lift up holy hands and magnify His Name and worship Him.Let us lift up holy hands and magnify His Name and worship Him.Let us lift up holy hands and magnify His Name and worship Christ, the Lord.Worship Him, Christ, the Lord.

Text: Public domain UNIVERSAL MUSIC CORP & SOUND II

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AN UPDATE ABOUT OUR GRADUAL "RE-OPENING":  we've set July 5th as the Sunday of our formal re-opening following our pandemic "lockdown" allowing only ten people at most at worship. But in these Sundays leading up to July 5th, we are beginning several adjustments to our worship assemblies. Following New York State guidelines, we are now able to welcome 25% of our seating capacity; for Trinity, with 224 seats in the sanctuary,that means we are able to accomodate 56 people at worship.

Again, following guidelines---and as Christian people, demonstrating love and care for one another---we ask everyone to wear a mask, both on the church grounds and in the church building.  If you forget to bring a mask, we will have some available for your use.  Gloves, sanitizer and alcohol swipes will also be available.

OPENING VERSICLES: COMMON LSB 260L This is the day which the Lord has made;C let us rejoice and be glad in it.L From the rising of the sun to its setting,C the name of the Lord is to be praised. L Better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere;C I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.L Make me to know Your ways, O Lord.C Teach me Your paths.L Sanctify us in Your truth.C Your Word is truth. L From the rising of the sun to its setting,C the name of the Lord is to be praised. 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.

OLD TESTAMENT CANTICLE LSB 261C The Lord God is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.

With joy will you draw water from the wells of salvation.And you will say in that day:“Give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name,make known His deeds among the peoples,proclaim that His name is exalted.” The Lord God is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.Sing praises to the Lord, for He has done gloriously;let this be made known in all the earth.Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitants of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel. The Lord God is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. Glory be to the Father and to the Sonand to the Holy Spirit;as it was in the beginning,is now, and will be forever. Amen. The Lord God is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.

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READINGS FROM HOLY SCRIPTURE

OLD TESTAMENT READING: JEREMIAH 28:5-9L A reading from Jeremiah, the twenty-eighth chapter.

5Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD, 6and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD make the words that you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the LORD, and all the exiles. 7Yet hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people. 8The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms. 9As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the prophet.” L This is the Word of the Lord.C Thanks be to God.

PSALM 119:153-160 (spoken by half-verse)RESH153Look on my affliction and de- | liver me,*

for I do not for- | get your law.154Plead my cause and re- | deem me;*

give me life according to your | promise!155Salvation is far from the | wicked,*

for they do not seek your | statutes.156Great is your mercy, | O LORD;*

give me life according to your | just decrees.157Many are my persecutors and my adver- | saries,*

but I do not swerve from your testi- | monies.158I look at the faithless | with disgust,*

because they do not keep | your commands.159Consider how I love your | precepts!*

Give me life according to your | steadfast love.160The sum of your | word is truth,*

and every one of your just and righteous decrees endures for- | ever.

EPISTLE: ROMANS 7:1-131Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only

as long as he lives? 2Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. 3Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

4Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. 5For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.

7What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

13Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.

A This is the Word of the Lord.C Thanks be to God.

HOLY GOSPEL: MATTHEW 10:34-4234[Jesus said:] “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

35For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. 37Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

40“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. 41The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. 42And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”

A This is the Word of the Lord.C Thanks be to God.

RESPONSORY: COMMON LSB 263L Forever, O Lord, Your Word is firmly set in the heavens.C Lord, I love the habitation of Your house and the place where Your glory dwells.L Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it.

C Lord, I love the habitation of Your house and the place where Your glory dwells.L Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.C Lord, I love the habitation of Your house and the place where Your glory dwells.

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APOSTLES’ CREED LSB 263C I believe in God, the Father Almighty,

maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life T everlasting. Amen.

(Sit)SERMON HYMN: "HERALD SOUND THE NOTE OF JUDGMENT" LSB 511 (tune: 924)1 Herald, sound the note of judgment,

Warning us of right and wrong,Turning us from sin and sadness Till once more we sing the song. Refrain

ref Sound the trumpet!Tell the message:Christ, the Savior king, is come!

2 Herald, sound the note of gladness; Tell the news that Christ is here;Make a pathway through the desert For the one who brings God near. Refrain

3 Herald, sound the note of pardon— Those repenting are forgiv’n;God receives His wayward children, And to them new life is giv’n. Refrain

4 Herald, sound the note of triumph; Christ has come to share our life,Bringing God’s own love and power, Granting vict’ry in our strife. Refrain

Text: © 1977 Moir A. J. Waters. Used by permission: CPH Limited Promotional License no. 119000000

SERMON: "NOT PEACE, BUT A SWORD" - - MATTHEW 10:34-42

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CHURCH FAMILY TIME: TODAY'S ANNOUNCEMENTS

RITE OF FRIENDSHIP

OFFERING

OFFERTORY: "LET'S JUST PRAISE THE LORD" Sing God's Praises, pg 91 Let's just praise the Lord, praise the Lord

Let's just lift our hearts to heaven and praise the Lord!Let's just praise the Lord, praise the LordLet's just lift our hearts to heaven and praise the Lord!

2 Let's just praise the Lord, praise the LordLet's just lift our hands to heaven and praise the Lord!Let's just praise the Lord, praise the LordLet's just lift our hands to heaven and praise the Lord!

3 Let's just praise the Lord, praise the LordLet's just lift our voice to heaven and praise the Lord!Let's just praise the Lord, praise the LordLet's just lift our voice to heaven and praise the Lord!

Text: Public domain

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PRAYERL In peace let us pray to the Lord:C Lord, have mercy.L For the gift of divine peace and of pardon, with all our heart and with all our mind, let us pray to the Lord:C Lord, have mercy.L For the holy Christian Church, here and scattered throughout the world, and for the proclamation of the Gospel and

the calling of all to faith, let us pray to the Lord:C Lord, have mercy.L For this nation, for our cities and communities, and for the common welfare of us all, let us pray to the Lord:C Lord, have mercy.L For seasonable weather and for the fruitfulness of the earth, let us pray to the Lord:C Lord, have mercy.L For those who labor, for those whose work is difficult or dangerous, and for all who travel, let us pray to the Lord:C Lord, have mercy.L For all those in need, for the hungry and homeless, for the widowed and orphaned, and for all those in prison, let us

pray to the Lord:C Lord, have mercy.L For the sick and dying and for all those who care for them, let us pray to the Lord:C Lord, have mercy.L For . . . [additional bids for prayer may be inserted here] . . . let us pray to the Lord:C Lord, have mercy.L Finally, for these and for all our needs of body and soul, let us pray to the Lord:C Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. LORD’S PRAYEROur 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.

NEW TESTAMENT CANTICLE LSB 266C Christ has been raised from the dead! Alleluia. Alleluia.

Christ our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed.Raised from the dead, He will never die again.Death has no more dominion over Him. Christ has been raised from the dead! Alleluia. Alleluia. Dying, Christ dies to sin, once for all.Living, He lives to God.Count yourselves as dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Christ has been raised from the dead! Alleluia. Alleluia.

BENEDICAMUS LSB 267L Let us bless the Lord.C Thanks be to God.

BENEDICTION LSB 267L The almighty and merciful Lord, the Father, the T Son, and the Holy Spirit, bless and preserve us.C Amen.

RECESSIONAL HYMN: "LET US EVER WALK WITH JESUS LSB 6851 Let us ever walk with Jesus,

Follow His example pure,Through a world that would deceive us And to sin our spirits lure.Onward in His footsteps treading, Pilgrims here, our home above, Full of faith and hope and love,Let us do the Father’s bidding. Faithful Lord, with me abide; I shall follow where You guide.

2 Let us suffer here with Jesus And with patience bear our cross.Joy will follow all our sadness; Where He is, there is no loss.Though today we sow no laughter, We shall reap celestial joy; All discomforts that annoyShall give way to mirth hereafter. Jesus, here I share Your woe; Help me there Your joy to know.

3 Let us gladly die with Jesus. Since by death He conquered death,He will free us from destruction, Give to us immortal breath.Let us mortify all passion That would lead us into sin; And the grave that shuts us inShall but prove the gate to heaven. Jesus, here with You I die, There to live with You on high.

4 Let us also live with Jesus. He has risen from the dead

That to life we may awaken. Jesus, You are now our head.We are Your own living members; Where You live, there we shall be In Your presence constantly,Living there with You forever. Jesus, let me faithful be, Life eternal grant to me.

Text: © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Used by permission: CPH Limited Promotional License no. 119000000

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