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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 Sermon 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 INTROIT: 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 Epistle 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. Gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also GRADUAL 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.