LOVE FOR GOD'S GLORY First Sunday after Pentecost - The Holy Trinity June 7, 2020 REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH | Tucson, Arizona SEASON OF PENTECOST The focus of our attention during the three great festivals of the church - Christmas, Easter and Pentecost - is the life of Christ. With his ascension into heaven and his sending of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, the focus of our lessons and services makes a decided turn. From now until Advent, the focus of our worship services assumes we believe in Christ, and therefore now focuses on the life of the Christian. FIRST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST - THE HOLY TRINITY Jesus prayed, “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (John 17:3). Today the Christian Church honors the true God, who reveals himself to us as a Triune God. Triune comes from the Latin Tri (three) and unus (one). God is triune because he is three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but only one God. Common to the lessons on Trinity Sunday are the interoperation of all three persons of the godhead. It was all three persons of the Trinity who were involved in the work of creation. While Jesus provides salvation through his death and resurrection, it was the Father who sent him into the world, and the Holy Spirit who persuades us to believe in him through the Word. We baptize in the name of all three persons of the Trinity, and we are also blessed (grace, love and fellowship) by all three persons of the Trinity. It is true that we speak frequently and glowingly about the work of Jesus. Yet it is the collective work of all three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - who deserve our praise! God bless your worship of the only true God. OFFERING If you are here in person, you may place your offering in the one of the plates located in the entryway. To give an offering electronically, visit redeemertucson.com/offering and click the “giving” button or you may mail your regular offering to Redeemer Lutheran Church 8845 N Silverbell Rd Tucson, 85743. SERVING IN WORSHIP Presiding Minister Pastor Adam Mueller Organist/Pianist Leah Clark Cantor Michael Peek Ushers 8:00am: Charlie Weinstein 10:45am: Brian & Tanner Rozon, Mark Lange Media Technicians 8:00am: Leigh Webster; 10:45 – Volunteer needed Flowers The flowers on the altar were given to the Glory of God by Martin & Pam Hansen in celebration of their 46th wedding anniversary. Artwork by Ian M. Welch. © 2020 Ian M. Welch.All2 Rights Reserved. [paramentics.com] † ORDER OF SERVICE † Greeting and welcome. OPENING HYMN Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty | 195 Please stand. 3 INVOCATION1 M: In the name of the Father and of the Son ✠ and of the Holy Spirit. C: Amen. CONFESSION OF SINS M: Dear friends, let us approach God with a true heart and confess our sins, asking him in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to forgive us. C: Lord of life, I confess that I am by nature dead in sin. For faithless worrying and selfish pride, For sins of habit and sins of choice, For the evil I have done and the good I have failed to do, You should cast me away from your presence forever. O Lord, I am sorry for my sins. Forgive me, for Jesus’ sake. ABSOLUTION2 M: Christ was born. Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. In his great mercy, God made us alive in Christ even when we were dead in our sins. Hear the word of Christ through his called servant: I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son ✠ and of the Holy Spirit. C: Amen. 1The name of the triune God and the sign of the cross remind worshipers of their baptisms. 2 The use of the keys is that special power and right which Christ gave to his church on earth: to forgive the sins of penitent sinners” [The Small Catechism, First: What is the use of the keys?]. See John 20:21-23. 4 LORD, HAVE MERCY Kyrie3 Mark 10:47 M: In peace, let us pray to the Lord. For the well-being of all people everywhere, that they may receive from you all they need to sustain body and life, hear our prayer, O Lord. C: Lord, have mercy. M: For the spread of your life-giving gospel throughout the world, that all who are lost in sin may be brought to faith in you, hear our prayer, O Christ. C: Christ, have mercy. M: For patience and perseverance in this life, that we may not lose the hope of heaven as we await your return, hear our prayer, O Lord. C: Lord, have mercy. M: Lord of life, live in us that we may live for you. C: Amen. 3 Kyrie is the Greek word for Lord. The expression “Lord, have mercy” is one of the oldest worship responses in the Christian church. 5 GLORY BE TO GOD Gloria in Excelsis4 Luke 2:14 The Word SALUTATION5 M: The Lord be with you. C: And also with you. 4 Christians praise God by proclaiming the great things he has done to accomplish our rescue from sin. “Glory to God in the Highest” has been a Christian song of worship since the fourth century. 5 This greeting has deep roots in Christian worship and marks the beginning of the Word section and the Sacrament section the service. 6 PRAYER OF THE DAY M: Let us pray. Almighty God and Father, dwelling in majesty and mystery, filling and renewing all creation by your eternal Spirit, and manifesting your saving grace through our Lord Jesus Christ: in mercy cleanse our hearts and lips that, free from doubt and fear, we may ever worship you, one true immortal God, with your Son and the Holy Spirit, living and reigning, now and forever. C: Amen. Please be seated. FIRST READING Genesis 1:1-2:3 The triune God created the world. 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. 6 And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. 14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the 7 night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. 24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.