SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD MOTHER’S DAY MAY 13, 2018, 11:15AM PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH · SAGINAW, MI † † †

PRESERVICE MUSIC Open Up the Heavens

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK Love never fails. — 1 Corinthians 13:8a

COME INTO HIS PRESENCE WITH SINGING

Trust in You Letting go of every single dream I lay each one down at Your feet Every moment of my wondering Never changes what You see

I've tried to win this war I confess My hands are weary I need Your rest Mighty warrior King of the fight No matter what I face You're by my side

CHORUS: When You don't move the mountains I'm needing You to move When You don't part the waters I wish I could walk through When You don't give the answers As I cry out to You I will trust I will trust I will trust in You

Truth is You know what tomorrow brings There's not a day ahead You have not seen So in all things be my life and breath I want what You want Lord and nothing less

You are my strength and comfort You are my steady hand You are my firm foundation The Rock on which I stand Your ways are always higher Your plans are always good There's not a place where I'll go You've not already stood

Touch the Sky What fortune lies beyond the stars Those dazzling heights too vast to climb I got so high to fall so far But I found heaven as love swept low

CHORUS: My heart beating my soul breathing I found my life when I laid it down Upward falling spirit soaring I touch the sky when my knees hit the ground

What treasure waits within Your scars This gift of freedom gold can't buy I bought the world and sold my heart You traded heaven to have me again

Find me here at Your feet again Ev'rything I am reaching out I surrender Come sweep me up in Your love again And my soul will dance on the wings of forever Upward falling spirit soaring I touch the sky when my knees hit the ground

PRAYER SCRIPTURE READINGS

1 Corinthians 13:1-7, 13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom 2 all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

John 17:20-26 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

NICENE CREED

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE

TITHES & OFFERINGS The Ascension

3 MESSAGE “God is Fluent in Love” Rev. Matthew Hauser

THE PRAYERS

THE LORD’S PRAYER Our 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.

CONFESSION & ABSOLUTION

WORDS OF INSTITUTION

DISTRIBUTION OF THE LORD’S SUPPER Grace to Grace If love endured that ancient cross How precious is my Saviour's blood The beauty of heaven wrapped in my shame The image of love upon death's frame

If having my heart was worth the pain What joy could You see beyond the grave If love found my soul worth dying for

How wonderful How glorious My Saviour's scars Victorious My chains are gone My debt is paid From death to life And grace to grace

If heaven now owns that vacant tomb How great is the hope that lives in You The passion that tore through hell like a rose 4 The promise that rolled back death and its stone

If freedom is worth the life You raised Where is my sin, where is my shame If love paid it all to have my heart

When I see that cross I see freedom When I see that grave I'll see Jesus And from death to life I will sing Your praise In the wonder of Your grace

Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) All these pieces Broken and scattered In mercy gathered Mended and whole Empty handed But not forsaken I've been set free I've been set free

Amazing grace How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me Oh I once was lost But now I am found Was blind but now I see

CHORUS: Oh I can see You now Oh I can see the love in Your eyes Laying Yourself down Raising up the broken to life

You take our failure You take our weakness You set Your treasure In jars of clay So take this heart Lord I'll be Your vessel The world to see Your life in me

5 THE BLESSING

SENDING SONG Open Up the Heavens We've waited for this day We're gathered in Your Name Calling out to You Your glory like a fire awakening desire Will burn our hearts with truth

You're the reason we're here You're the reason we're singing

CHORUS: Open up the heavens we want to see You Open up the floodgates a mighty river Flowing from Your heart Filling every part of our praise

Your presence in this place Your glory on our face We're looking to the sky Descending like a cloud You're standing with us now Lord unveil our eyes

Show us show us Your glory Show us show us Your power Show us show us Your glory Lord

We thank the following for assisting in today’s worship:

Elder: John Koltvedt Projection: A’Nia Stauffer Greeter: Linda Richards Usher Captain: Brian Hensler Acolyte: Maddy O’Laughlin Altar: Sue Browning Communion Assistant: Keith Trent Communion Prayer: Ron Schmidt Video Live Streaming: Tyler Gross SBC Youth Volunteers: Karyngton Castillo & Lauren Gunn Welcome Center: Lynne O’Laughlin

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