St. Stephen Lutheran Church of the East Bay & Central Liturgy — Page 15 in The Lutheran Hymnal Valley (A Congregation of the Church of the Lutheran Confession) HYMNS: 318 Before Thee, God, Who Knowest All www.ststephenclc.org 323 With Broken Heart And Contrite Sigh 652 I Lay My Sins On Jesus Worshiping Every Sunday in the East Bay at 9 a.m. at Grace Lutheran Church Text: Luke 18,9-14 1836 B St., Hayward, CA 94541-3140 Sermon Theme: When Being Up Is Down And Down Is Up 1. The Great Contrast – The Pharisee Versus The Tax st rd Worshiping in the Central Valley at 2 p.m. - 1 & 3 Sundays Collector of the Month 2. The Great Put Down st Atria Senior Living - Bayside Landing - 1 Floor Activity 3. The Great Reversal Room 3318 Brookside Rd., Stockton, CA 95219 : God is in His holy habitation; God sets the Pastor: Steven Karp solitary in families: the God of Israel is He Who 21290 Birch St. - Hayward, CA 94541-1538 gives strength and power to His people. Let God Phone: (510) 581-6637; e-mail: [email protected] arise, let His enemies be scattered: let them also that hate Him flee before Him. Glory be to the Father ... Organist: Elizabeth Karp

COLLECT: O Lord God, heavenly Father, we beseech ^^^ You so to guide and direct us by Your Holy Spirit, that we may not forget our sins and be filled with pride, but continue in daily repentance and renewal, seeking comfort only in the blessed knowledge that You will be merciful to us, forgive us our sins, and grant us eternal life; through Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, ever the One true God, world without Amen. The Eleventh Sunday After Trinity - 7 August 2016 end. A Service with Holy Communion (Visitors are asked to speak with the Pastor before Communing) Old Testament 2 Samuel 12,1-15 you king over Israel and it is I Who delivered you Then the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he from the hand of Saul. 8 I also gave you your came to him and said, “There were two men in one master’s house and your master’s wives into your city, the one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man care, and I gave you the House of Israel and Judah; had a great many flocks and herds. 3 But the poor and if that had been too little, I would have added to man had nothing except one little ewe lamb which you many more things like these! 9 Why have you he bought and nourished; and it grew up together despised the Word of the LORD by doing evil in His with him and his children. It would eat of his bread sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom, and was the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and like a daughter to him. 4 Now a traveler came to the have killed him with the sword of the sons of rich man, and he was unwilling to take from his Ammon. 10 Now therefore, the sword shall never own flock or his own herd, to prepare for the depart from your house, because you have despised wayfarer who had come to him; rather he took the Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man be your wife.’ 11 Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I who had come to him.” will raise up evil against you from your own 5 Then David’s anger burned greatly against household; I will even take your wives before your the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, eyes and give them to your companion, and he will surely the man who has done this deserves to die. 6 lie with your wives in broad daylight. 12 Indeed you He must make did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all restitution for the Israel, and under the sun.’” lamb fourfold, 13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned because he did this against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The thing and had no LORD also has taken away your sin; you shall not compassion.” die. 14 However, because by this deed you have 7 Nathan then given occasion to the enemies of the LORD to said to David, “You blaspheme, the child also that is born to you shall are the man! Thus surely die.” 15 So Nathan went to his house. says the LORD God of Israel, ‘It is I Who anointed 1 Corinthians 15,1-11 of God with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so Now I make known to you, brethren, the we preach and so you believed. which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 2 by which also God, incline Your ear and hear! you are saved, if you hold For we are not presenting our fast the word which I supplications before You on account of any preached to you, unless merits of our own, you believed in vain. 3 For But on account of Your great compassion. I delivered to you as of From the rising of the sun to its setting first importance what I The name of the LORD is to be praised. also received, that Christ The LORD is high above all the nations; died for our sins according His glory is above the heavens. to the Scriptures, 4 and that Who is like the LORD our God, He was buried, and that Who is enthroned on high, He was raised on the third Who humbles Himself to behold the things day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He that are in heaven and in the earth? appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. 6 After that He raises the poor from the dust. He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at And lifts the needy from the ash heap. one time, most of whom remain until now, but some Hallelujah! O Lord, deal with Your servant have fallen asleep; 7 then He appeared to James, according to Your mercy and teach me Your then to all the apostles; 8 and last of all, as to one statutes. untimely born, He appeared to me also. 9 For I am I am Your servant, give me understanding the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an that I may know Your testimonies. [sing: triple apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 Hallelujah] But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace The Holy Gospel Luke 18,9-14 Lessons for 14 August – The Twelfth Sunday After Response: Glory be to Thee, O Lord! Trinity And He [Jesus] also told this parable to certain Old Testament: Isaiah 29,17-24 ones who trusted in themselves that they were Epistle: 2 Corinthians 3,4-11 righteous, and viewed others with contempt: 10 The Holy Gospel: Mark 7,31-37 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Weekly Scripture Verse: God resists the proud but gives Pharisee and the other a tax-gatherer. 11 The grace to the humble. (1 Peter 5,5b) Pharisee stood and was praying thus to Today’s Gradual is based on selected verses from Daniel 9 himself, ‘God, I and Psalm 113. thank Thee that I am not like other Next Service in Stockton: Sunday, 21 August, at 2 p.m. people, swindlers, Bible Study. Hayward – Tuesday, 9 August, at 1:30 p.m. unjust, adulterers, Stockton, Tuesday, 25 August, 2 p.m. or even like this tax-gatherer. 12 I Call News. The Rev. Ed Starkey, pastor of Resurrection fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’ 13 Lutheran, Corpus Christi, TX, has returned the Call to Rock But the tax-gatherer, standing some distance away, of Ages Lutheran, Grand Rapids, MI. Pastor Earnest Bernet was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but has resigned from the pastorate of Zion Lutheran, Atlanta, GA, and; he and his family are moving back to Mineral was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to 14 Springs, TX. Carly Meyer has returned the call to St. Stephen me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to Lutheran, Mountain View, CA; the congregation has now his house justified rather than the other; for called Becky McKenney of Fort Atkinson, WI, as a third everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, but teacher. St. Stephen Lutheran Church, Mountain View, CA he who humbles himself shall be exalted.” [Scripture has called Kirsten Gullerud as principal. Faith Lutheran, passage are from the New American Standard Bible, © The Lockman Foundation, Markesan, WI, has called the Rev. Luke Bernthal, pastor of used by permission] Grace Lutheran, Valentine, NE, St. Paul’s Lutheran, White River and Peace Lutheran, Mission, SD. Mt. Zion, Madison Response: Praise be to Thee, O Christ! Heights, MI, has called the Rev. Delwyn Maas, pastor of Gift † † † of God Lutheran, Mapleton, ND. Ascension Lutheran, and 400 hymn tunes, not to mention various other works. Batavia, IL has called the Rev. Terrel Kesterson, pastor of St. Tunes of his which are in The Lutheran Hymnal are: 19, 23,140, Stephen Lutheran, Mountain View, CA. 208 and 547.

ILL. In your prayers, please remember Nancy and Roy St. Dominic, Founder of the Dominican Order (1170 – 6 Cameron; Jean Niblett; Marlene Clappier; Don August 1221 – however, his feast day is celebrated on 8 Luebkeman (who for now is at: Manor Care, 1975 August). Dominic was the founder of the Order of Friars Tice Valley Blvd., Walnut Creek 94595; phone: (925) Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum = O.P.). He was a native of 465-6003; Don’s nephew, Leigh; Sue (the Karps’ Calaruega in Old Castile, Spain, probably from the ancient neighbor who is undergoing chemotherapy), Don family of the Guzman. He began his studies at Palencia at the Drews; Richard Hocker; Ruth Scheuermann; Pr. Doug age of 14. During a famine in 1191 he is said to have sold all Priestap (Florida); Pr. Steven Karp; Mary Ryan (of Eau Claire, his possessions, including his books, WI); Deena; Peter; Kaylee Ude. in order to help the poor. In 1199 he became a canon of Osma, his native Handout – Higher Things Reflections: Trinity 11-16 – 7 diocese, where Martin de Bazan, August To 17 September 2016 Bishop of Osma, had established a strict discipline among his canons, Me ditatio ns – the September-November issue has arrived following the rule of St. Augustine. and will be distributed after today’s service in Stockton and Dominic soon became head of this in Hayward on 14 August. community, where he remained until, in 1203, he went with Bishop Diego Thanks to Timothy Blank and Jim Niblett who worked on on a preaching tour against the the Karp’s house last Saturday. Albigensian heretics in Languedoc (France). In 1206 they opened an institute for women in danger of the heresy at Melchior Vulpius, Hymn-Writer and Composer (either Prouille, within Albigensian territory, and attached to it a ca. 1560 or ca 1570-7 August 1615). Vulpius was probably number of missionary friars. Two years later, after the murder born at Wasungen in Thuringia and died in Weimar, where he of the Papal legate Peter of Castelnau, Pope Innocent III had been the municipal Cantor and teacher at the Latin started a crusade against the Albigensians, and during the School. He and his brother Latinized the family name from seven years of war that ensued, Dominic labored to win the Fuchs (“Fox”) to Vulpius (“Fox”). In his day, he was one of heretics back to the Church, often in danger of his life, but the most important and prolific Lutheran composers of with comparatively little success. When in 1214 the castle of hymn tunes in Germany, having written nearly 200 motets Casseneuil was put at his disposal by Count Simon IV of Montfot, Dominic’s plan to found a special order for the Aryan” Protestant Church; he was an active member of the conversion of the Albigensians took shape. Several volunteers Confessing Church Movement. For doctrinal reasons, he joined him, and in 1215 these were recognized by the Bishop broke with those who wrote the Barmen Declaration (1934), of Toulouse, and a few months later approved by the pope since it espoused a false ecumenism. In 1933 he was on condition that they would follow one of the established appointed professor of church history at the University of rules. In 1216 Dominic went to Rome, where he obtained the Erlangen. After the War, he opposed the establishment of the formal sanction of Pope Honorius III by two bulls granting Evangelical Church of Germany because it allowed for several privileges to the order. differing and mutually exclusive confessions; he joined the Dominic’s subsequent years were spent in ceaseless Lutheran Free Church. In 1948 he journeys all over Italy, to Spain (1218), and to Paris (1219), accepted the Call to teach at Immanuel establishing friaries and organizing the order. In 1220 he Lutheran Seminary in North Adelaide, South attended the first General Chapter at Bologna. A year later he Australia, where he remained until his set out to preach against the pagans in Hungary, but fell ill accidental death. He was active in the and had to return to Bologna, where he died. efforts to unite the Lutheran Churches of Though the austere Spaniard is a less popular figure Australia on the basis of doctrinal unity, than his contemporary, St. Francis of Assisi, he was a man of which came about in 1966. He was a heroic sanctity, ever zealous to win souls from error by the strong defender of orthodox, Confessional preaching of pure doctrine. His humility – he refused a . He maintained a world-wide bishopric three times – was as great as his courage and his correspondence with many churches and individuals, capacity as a ruler and organizer. He is traditionary, but especially to encourage fidelity to the Word of God and the wrongly, held to have instituted the Rosary. (From: The Oxford Lutheran Confessions. He was active in promoting Australian Dictionary of the Christian Church) Roman Catholic – Lutheran dialogue, but without sacrificing doctrinal integrity. He died in an accidental fire in his home Hermann Sasse, Theologian (17 July 1895 – 9 August in North Adelaide; he was survived by his wife and three 1976). Sasse was born in Sonnewalde, Germany. He began children. He was a prolific writer. Before moving to Australia, his studies at the University of Berlin, but interrupted them he was a contributor to the monumental Theological Dictionary to serve in the Germany army on the Western Front during of the New Testament, edited by Gerhard Kittel. Probably his World War I. After the war he completed his studies and was most well-known work is: This Is My Body: ’s Contention ordained in 1920; in 1923 he earned an M.A. from Hartford for the Real Presence in the Lord’s Supper. Seminary in Connecticut and then returned to Berlin. He was one of the earliest German theologians to speak out against Lawrence of Rome, Archdeacon and Martyr (ca. 225-10 Nazism and steadfastly resisted the establishment of an “All- August 258). Lawrence is thought to have been born in the Aragon region of Spain when it was still a Roman province. Paul Speratus, Hymn Writer, Reformer, Bishop (13 His parents were Christians. Apparently he was educated by December 1481-12 August 1551). He was born in Swabia, the person who would later become Pope Sixtus II. Sixtus entered the University of Freiburg in 1503 and also studied in took Lawrence with him to Rome, and after becoming pope Paris and Vienna, eventually earning doctorates in Theology, in 257, appointed Lawrence as Philosophy, and Jurisprudence. Archdeacon of six other deacons. He was ordained to the Shortly before Sixtus became pope, priesthood in 1506. His reputation the Emperor Valarian issued his first as a poet earned for him a title of edict of persecution against Christians. nobility. In 1519, he became In August 258, Valarian sharpened his interested in the and edict and decreed that all bishops, in 1520 was one of the first priests, and deacons be immediately priests to marry. In 1523 he was put to death. Sixtus and several other imprisoned by the Bishop of deacons were martyred on 6 August, Olmütz for a period of 12 weeks, probably by beheading. After the and even threatened with death by death of Sixtus, the prefect of Rome fire. While in prison, he wrote one demanded that Lawrence turn over of the most meaningful and popular Lutheran hymns, the church’s treasury. Lawrence asked “Salvation Unto Us Has Come” (TLH 377). The Emperor for time, and then used that time to liquidate all of the Charles V ordered that he be released from prison on the church’s property and give it to the poor. When the prefect condition he leave Moravia. Speratus then went to asked for his money, Lawrence showed him the poor and to work with Luther. He translated Luther’s Formula Missae said that these were the church’s treasure. The prefect was into German; he also assisted Luther in the preparation of the not amused and order Lawrence killed. Tradition has it that , the Acht-Liederbuch of 1524. From Lawrence was burnt to death atop a gridiron (hence, 1524-29 he served as the court chaplain in Königsberg, East Lawrence is always shown holding a gridiron. Lawrence is Prussia. In 1530 he became the Bishop of Pomerania and one of the most widely venerated saints in the Roman lived in Marienweder. Because of his tireless energy, Catholic Church (hint: San Lorenzo is named after him, as is visitation, promotion of church order, and promotion of the St. Lawrence River). Since he hid many of the documents Lutheran hymnody East Prussia remained sound. During the of the early church, the Roman Church appointed him patron 18th and 19th centuries his great hymn, “Salvation Unto Us saint of archivists and librarians. He is one of the patrons of has Come” was thought to be too dogmatic, but today it is Rome. highly regarded, as it is included in all current American Lutheran hymnals. (In part based on information in The Handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal and The Encyclopedia of the lady with the lamp,” because she carried a lamp as she made Lutheran Church) her rounds at night. When she returned to England, she was hailed as a Florence Nightingale, Founder of Modern Nursing hero. The Nightingale Fund was established for the training (1820-13 August 1910). Nightingale was the younger of two of nurses, and this helped establish the Nightingale Training daughters of an upperclass, wealthy English family and was School at St. Thomas Hospital in London in 1860. In 1859, born in Florence, Italy. She received a classical education on she wrote, Notes On Nursing, which subsequently served as a her father’s estate and became fluent in German, French, and training manual for nurses. She influenced the Union Italian. Much to her parents’ dismay, by age sixteen she government’s ideas on field hospitals in the American Civil wanted to become a nurse, but nursing was looked down War and they actively sought her advice. upon as menial labor. In 1844, From 1857 on, Nightingale suffered from ill-health – she moved to Germany and depression and also brucellosis. She remained active up until enrolled as a nursing student in about the last decade of her life, when her health deteriorated Pastor Fliedner’s deaconess even more. school in Kaiserwerth. By the From an early age, she was interested in mathematics early 1850s she was practicing as and particularly statistics. She used various statistical methods, a nurse in London and helped including pie charts, to show how disease spreads, and these reduce the deaths from a cholera graphic representations assisted civil servants implement epidemic by instituting hygienic reforms. She became the first woman member of the improved hygiene procedure. Royal Statistical Society. In 1853 the Crimean War In addition to the obvious impact she had on broke out. She persuaded Sidney reforming hospitals, she also had a tremendous impact on Herbert, who was a friend and public health by emphasizing hygiene, public sanitation, good also Secretary of War, to send her and 38 female volunteers nutrition, and the like. whom she had trained to the Crimea. She arrived near In 1883, she was awarded the Royal Red Cross by Istanbul in 1854 to work in the main British hospital – at this Queen Victoria. In 1904, she was appointed a Lady Grace of time, ten times more soldiers died from infection and poor the Order of St. John. In 1908, she became the first woman hospital conditions than from direct action. Even though awarded the Order of Merit. some modern critics like to minimize Nightingale’s work, Although her mother was a Unitarian and Nightingale there is no doubt that her sanitary improvements sharply was at times was seemingly associated with Unitarianism, she reduced the death toll; she also publicized the poor was a life-long member of the Church of England and conditions that solders had to endure. She was known as “the expressed a strong personal devotion to Christ, although she held some unorthodox views; for example, a mild Holy Communion universalism and acceptance of Eastern religions. Concerning Holy Communion, we believe, teach and confess that: a. in, with, and under the bread Jesus gives us His true Body;

b. in, with, and under the wine Jesus gives us His true Blood; c. whoever receives Holy Communion, receives it either for salvation or for judgment; d. whoever believes the words, “given and shed for you...”, receives the Body and Blood of Christ for salvation; e. whoever does not believe the words, “given and shed for you...”, receives the Body and Blood of Christ to judgment; f. out of a pastoral concern for your soul, we ask that visitors speak with the pastor before receiving Holy Communion. We practice Close Communion. We welcome those to the Lord’s Supper who are baptized and confirmed members in good standing of our congregation and sister congregations within the Church of the Lutheran Confession. This reflects the practice of the ancient and apostolic church which opened the Lord’s Table only to those who had been baptized and publicly confessed doctrinal agreement with all that Christ had commanded. If you are a visitor and would like to learn more about what we teach, please speak with Pastor Karp.