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P: Go in peace! Serve the Lord! C: Thanks be to God. Mark Berlin, Jason Bauer, Pastor Susan Snyder, Organist HYMN “Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)” P.O. Box 184, U.S. 31 at Rogers Road, Interlochen, Michigan 49643 Verse 1 Amazing grace how sweet the sound 231-276-6372 Church www.redeemerofinterlochen.com That saved a wretch like me • School & Adult Bible Study —9:00am • Sunday Service —10:30am I once was lost but now I'm found Was blind but now I see

Verse 2 The Lord has promised good to me, His Word my hope secures; He will my shield and portion be As long as life endures.

Chorus My chains are gone I've been set free My God my Savior has ransomed me And like a flood His mercy rains Unending love amazing grace

Verse 3 Through many dangers, toils, and snares I have already come; His grace has brought me safe thus far, His grace will lead me home.

Chorus My chains are gone I've been set free My God my Savior has ransomed me And like a flood His mercy rains Unending love amazing grace

Verse 4 The earth shall soon dissolve like snow The sun forbear to shine But God who called me here below Will be forever mine

Chorus My chains are gone I've been set free My God my Savior has ransomed me And like a flood His mercy rains Unending love amazing grace

Chorus My chains are gone I've been set free My God my Savior has ransomed me And like a flood His mercy rains Unending love amazing grace Unending love amazing grace

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P: Make us to be good soil so that the seed of Your Word planted in us THIRD SUNDAY AFTER — 6 may grow, flourish, and bear the good fruit You desire. Bless the work of Like a Grain of Mustard Seed June 13, 2021 all , missionaries, and church workers who serve us in Your name that their ministry to us bear good fruit. Lord, in Your mercy, AS WE GATHER C: hear our prayer.

Though much is made of the smallness of the mustard seed, the focus of Jesus is P: Give to our president, Congress, and all leaders the wisdom to govern on outcome—the plant that becomes large enough to give nest and shade to all according to Your Word and commands that they prove worthy of the the birds of the air. The kingdom of God seems small and even irrelevant in the trust we have placed in them. Bring the nations to peace, and equip us face of large problems, challenges, and problems of this mortal life, and yet it is to be good and responsible citizens. Lord, in Your mercy, the kingdom of God that is great. God gives to us the forgiveness that makes a C: hear our prayer. clear conscience, the life that is stronger than death, and the joy that is greater P: Give wisdom and discernment to Your people, that we not give in to than every joy this world can deliver. In this way, the small seed makes for a great temptation nor grow weary of trusting Your Word and serving in willing plant, large enough for us to find refuge and a home in its shade. How the obedience to Your commands, but delight in fulfilling our baptismal kingdom of God grows may seem part of the mystery, but we know that it is a seed planted in the good soil and fed and nourished by God’s grace to the day calling wherever we are. Lord, in Your mercy, when the harvest delivers us into His presence forevermore. C: hear our prayer. P: Bless the married that they be faithful, bless the single that they be PREPARATION chaste and enjoy the company and support of Christian friends, and bless the aged and infirm that they know the loving care of family in HYMN “Just As I Am” their time of need. Lord, in Your mercy, C: hear our prayer. Verse 1 Just as I am without one plea P: Bless those who teach Your Word, and bless our Sunday School and But that Thy blood was shed for me catechism classes and everywhere people gather to teach and learn Your And that Thou bidst me come to Thee Word, that the Holy Spirit guide our study, strengthen our faith, and direct O I come I come us in making the good confession before the world. Lord, in Your mercy, C: hear our prayer. Verse 2 Just as I am and waiting not P: Give relief to the suffering, healing to the sick, peace to the troubled, and To rid my soul of one dark blot comfort to those who grieve, [especially . . ., and those we name in our To Thee whose blood can cleanse each spot hearts . . . ], and bless them with patience and endurance until You deliver O Lamb of God I come I come them from their trials. Lord, in Your mercy, Chorus I come broken to be mended C: hear our prayer. I come wounded to be healed P: Help us to be good stewards of Your creation, to share what You have I come desperate to be rescued supplied with those in need, and to support the work of Your Church in I come empty to be filled her mission here and throughout the world. Lord, in Your mercy, I come guilty to be pardoned C: hear our prayer. By the the Lamb P: All things are Yours, heavenly Father, and You have promised to supply And I'm welcomed with open arms praise God them to us as we need and when we need them. Help us to pray with Just as I am confident hearts, trusting that You will provide for us all things needful and deliver us from all things harmful, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Verse 3 Just as I am I would be lost C: Amen. But mercy and grace my freedom bought P: As our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to pray: And now to glory in Your cross O Lamb of God I come I come LORD’S PRAYER Matthew 6:9–13

Chorus I come broken to be mended C: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, I come wounded to be healed Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; I come desperate to be rescued give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses I come empty to be filled as we forgive those who trespass against us; I come guilty to be pardoned and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. By the blood of Christ the Lamb For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory And I'm welcomed with open arms praise God forever and ever. Amen. Just as I am Praise God Just as I am Numbers 6:24–26

CCLI Song # 5635850 P: The Lord bless you and keep you. Charlotte Elliott | David Moffitt | Sue C. Smith | Travis Cottrell | William Batchelder Bradbury © 2009 CCTB Music (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.) The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. First Hand Revelation Music (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.) The Lord look upon you with favor and † give you peace. Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.) For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com C: Amen. CCLI License # 1013095 “In Christ Alone” INVOCATION

Verse 1 In Christ alone my hope is found P: In the name of the Father and of the † Son and of the Holy Spirit. He is my light my strength my song C: Amen. This Cornerstone this solid Ground Firm through the fiercest drought and storm CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION Psalm 1:5–6

What heights of love what depths of peace P: Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in When fears are stilled when strivings cease the congregation of the righteous; My Comforter my All in All C: for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of Here in the love of Christ I stand the wicked will perish.

Verse 2 In Christ alone who took on flesh Silence for self-examination. Fullness of God in helpless babe This gift of love and righteousness P: Holy and gracious God, Scorned by the ones He came to save C: I confess that I have sinned against You, in thought, word, Till on that cross as Jesus died and deed, by what I have done, and by what I have not done. The wrath of God was satisfied Some of my sin I know—the thoughts and words and deeds For every sin on Him was laid of which I am ashamed—but some is known only to You. In Here in the death of Christ I live the name of Jesus Christ, my Savior, I ask forgiveness and pray You to deliver and restore me by Your mercy. Amen. Verse 3 There in the ground His body lay P: Almighty God, our heavenly Father, has had mercy upon us and given Light of the world by darkness slain to us His only Son to suffer and die for our salvation. As a called and Then bursting forth in glorious Day ordained servant of Christ and by His authority, I therefore forgive you Up from the grave He rose again all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy And as He stands in victory Spirit. May the Lord, who has begun this good work in us, bring it to Sin's curse has lost its grip on me completion in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. For I am His and He is mine C: Amen. Bought with the precious blood of Christ WORD Verse 4 No guilt in life no fear in death This is the power of Christ in me PSALM Psalm 1:1–6 From life's first cry to final breath Jesus commands my destiny P: Blessèd is the man No power of hell no scheme of man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, Can ever pluck me from His hand C: nor stands in the way of sinners, Till He returns or calls me home nor sits in the seat of scoffers; Here in the power of Christ I'll stand P: but his delight is in the law of the Lord, C: and on his law he meditates day and night. CCLI Song # 3350395 Keith Getty | Stuart Townend © 2001 Thankyou Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing) P: He is like a tree For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com CCLI License # 1013095 planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. Pastor Jason Bauer C: In all that he does, he prospers. P: The wicked are not so, “The Heat of the Curse and the Refreshing promise" C: but are like chaff that the wind drives away. P: Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, PRAYER OF THE CHURCH C: nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

P: Let us pray for the whole people of God in Christ Jesus and for all people as P: for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, C: but the way of the wicked will perish. they have need.

Give patience to Your Church, to her ministers, and to all of us, Your people, All: Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, that we trust in Your Word and promise when eyes do not see Your hand at as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen. work; and when hearts are tempted to anxiety and fear, grant that we know SALUTATION the fullness of Your peace. Lord, in Your mercy, C: hear our prayer. P: The Lord be with you. C: And also with you.

PRAYER OF THE DAY because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15and he died for all, that those who live might no longer P: Let us pray. live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. Blessed Lord, since You have caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for 16From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. our learning, grant that we may so hear them, read, mark, learn, and Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard inwardly digest them that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed him thus no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new hope of everlasting life; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. C: Amen. P: This is the Word of the Lord. C: Thanks be to God. READING Ezekiel 17:22–24 (The Lord promises to plant a sprig and make it grow, VERSE 2 Peter 3:18a that it may be a noble tree and bear good fruit.) . 22Thus says the Lord God: “I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top Grow in the grace and knowledge of of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty Alleluia. mountain. 23On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And HOLY Mark 4:26–34 under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches (The kingdom of God is like a seed.) birds of every sort will nest. 24And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low P: The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark, the fourth chapter. tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am C: Glory to You, O Lord.

the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.” 26[Jesus] said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 27He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed P: This is the Word of the Lord. sprouts and grows; he knows not how. 28The earth produces by itself, C: Thanks be to God. first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has 2 Corinthians 5:1–17 come.” 30And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of (We walk by faith and not by sight.) God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31 1 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, We know that if the tent, which is our earthly home, is 32 destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows hands, eternal in the heavens. 2For in this tent we groan, longing up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large 3 branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we 33 4 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we 34 groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that able to hear it. He did not speak to them without a parable, but we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be privately to his own disciples he explained everything. 5 swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is P: This is the Gospel of the Lord. God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. C: Praise to You, O Christ. 6So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are 7 at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by CREED Apostles Creed faith, not by sight. 8Yes, we are of good courage, and we would 9 rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So C: I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 10For we all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, the body, whether good or evil. was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. 11Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But The third day He rose again from the dead. what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. conscience. 12We are not commending ourselves to you again but From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.

giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about the of , the forgiveness of sins, what is in the heart. 13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we 14 the resurrection of the body, and the life † everlasting. Amen. are in our right mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us,