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TIME AFTER PENTECOST August 29, 2021 10:45 AM Worship in the Park Holy Communion First Lutheran Church, Kearney, NE 0 GATHERING SONGS Sound Offering WELCOME GREETING ONE ANOTHER We greet one another in the name of the Lord using words such as, “Peace be with you.” WORSHIP SONGS “Courageous” We were made to be courageous, we were made to lead the way. We could be the generation that fin’lly breaks the chains. We were made to be courageous, we were made to be courageous. We were warriors on the frontlines, standing unafraid, but now we’re watchers on the sidelines while our fami’lies slip away. Where are you, men of courage? You were made for so much more. Let the pounding of our hearts cry, “We will serve the Lord.” We were made to be courageous, and we’re taking back the fight. We were made to be courageous, and it starts with us tonight. The only way we’ll ever stand is on our knees with lifted hands. Make us courageous. Lord, make us courageous. This is our resolution, our answer to the call. We will love our wives and children, we refuse to let them fall. We will reignite the passion that we buried deep inside. May the watchers become warriors, let the men of God arise. We were made to be courageous, and we’re taking back the fight. We were made to be courageous, and it starts with us tonight. The only way we’ll ever stand is on our knees with lifted hands. Make us courageous. Lord, make us courageous. 1 Seek justice, love mercy, walk humbly with your God. Seek justice, love mercy, walk humbly with your God. In the war of the mind I will make may stand, in the battle of the heart, and the battle of the hands. In the war of the mind I will make my stand, in the battle of the heart, in the battle of the hands. We were made to be courageous, and we’re taking back the fight. We were made to be courageous, and it starts with us tonight. The only way we’ll ever stand is on our knees with lifted hands. Make us courageous. Lord, make us courageous. Words and Music: Matthew West and Mark Hall © 2011 Songs of Soutside Independent Music Pub., External Combustion Music, Songs for Delaney, Sparrow Song, and My Refuge music. Admin. Songs of Soutside Independent Music Pub., Admin EMICMG Pub All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission of CCLI #1093735 “Build Your Kingdom Here” Come set Your rule, and reign in our hearts again. Increase in us, we pray. Unveil why we’re made. Come set our hearts ablaze with hope, like wildfire in our very souls; Holy Spirit, come, invade us now. We are Your Church; we need Your pow’r in us. We seek Your kingdom first. We hunger and we thirst; refuse to waste our lives, for You’re our joy and prize. To see the captives hearts released; the hurt, the sick, the poor at peace. We lay down our lives for heaven’s cause. We are Your Church; we pray, revive this earth. 2 Build Your kingdom here. Let the darkness fear. Show Your mighty hand. Heal our streets and land. Set Your church on fire. Win this nation back. Change the atmosphere. Build Your kingdom here, we pray! Unleash Your kingdom’s pow’r, reaching the near and far. No force of hell can stop Your beauty, changing hearts. You made us for much more than this; awake the kingdom seed in us. Fill us with the strength and love of Christ. We are Your Church; we are the hope on earth. Build Your kingdom here. Let the darkness fear. Show Your mighty hand. Heal our streets and land. Set Your church on fire. Win this nation back. Change the atmosphere. Build Your kingdom here, we pray! Build Your kingdom here. Let the darkness fear. Show Your mighty hand. Heal our streets and land. Set Your church on fire. Win this nation back. Change the atmosphere. Build Your kingdom here, we pray! Text and Music: Rend Collective Experiment © 2012 Thanyou Music (adm. Worldwide at EMICMG Pub.) All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission of CCLI #1093735 3 PRAYER OF THE DAY L: Let us pray, O God our strength, without you we are weak and wayward creatures. Protect us from all dangers that attack us from the outside, and cleanse us from all evil that arises from within ourselves, that we may be preserved through your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. C: Amen ENGAGING THE WORD A Reading from James the First Chapter L: 17Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. 18In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 19You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20for your anger does not produce God's righteousness. 21Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls. 22But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. 23For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; 24for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. 25But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act — they will be blessed in their doing. 26If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is 4 worthless. 27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. (James 1:17-27) L: Word of God. Word of Life. C: Thanks be to God. GOSPEL P: A Reading from St. Mark the Seventh Chapter C: Glory to you, O Lord P: 1Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) 5So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" 6He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; 7in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.' 8You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition." 9Then he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition! 10For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; 5 and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.' 11But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, 'Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban' (that is, an offering to God) — 12then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother, 13thus making void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this." 14Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile." 17When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18He said to them, "Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile, 19since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20And he said, "It is what comes out of a person that defiles. 21For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, 22adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. 23All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person." (Mark 7:1-23) P: This is the Gospel of the Lord. C: Praise to you O Christ. CHILDREN’S MESSAGE AND “NOISY” OFFERING “Noisy Offering” will be going to Care Portal MESSAGE Pastor Elisabeth Himmelman 6 WORSHIP SONG “Lord, Let My Heart Be Good Soil” Lord, let my heart be good soil, open to the seed of your word. Lord, let my heart be good soil, where love can grow and peace is understood. When my heart is hard, break the stone away. When my heart is cold, warm it with the day. When my heart is lost, lead me on your way. Lord, let my heart, Lord, let my heart, Lord, let my heart be good soil. Text and Music: Handt Hanson, b.