Sunday, March 28, 2021 Hanover Lutheran Church 2949 Perryville Road, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 573-335-8583 Rev. Rod Benkendorf, Pastor Welcome! Welcome to Hanover Lutheran Church! What a blessing from the Almighty God that he calls us and allows us and desires us to be in worship together. We are pleased and thankful that you are here today to hear God’s Word and receive His Gifts. As Redeemed Children of God, it is our goal to fulfill the “Law of Christ” (1 Corinthians 9:21) which is to Love God and Love our neighbor (Matthew 22:37-40). Again, thank you for joining us in worshipping the One True God who sent His Son to suffer, die, and rise for us! If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us. Pastor Rod Benkendorf (314-704-8202) or the church office (573-335-8583). We invite you to join us in the Activity Center at 9:00am this morning as we continue to study the book of Galatians. Calendar Sunday 3/28 7:45 Communion PALM SUNDAY 9:00am SS/Bible Study 10:15am Communion with Confirmation/Baptism Tuesday 3/30 12:00pm Bulletin Announcement Deadline Wednesday 3/31 4:45pm Finance Board 5:00pm Handbells Thursday 4/1 11:00am & 6:00pm Communion MAUNDY THURSDAY Friday 4/2 11:00am & 6:00pm Worship GOOD FRIDAY Saturday 4/3 9:00am Pick Up Youth Meat Orders Sunday 4/4 6:30am Easter Sunrise Service with Communion 8:00am Pancake Breakfast 9:00am Bible Study/SS Activities 10:15am Communion **There will be no Wednesday 10:00am Bible Study during the Lenten Season Serving in Sunday School March Book “The Gardens of Easter” Teachers for March – Laura Meyr, Grace Keller, Wanda Aufdenberg, Donna Aufdenberg, Sara Heuer and Carol Roth Reader for March 28th -Clay Vangilder Palm Sunday March 28, 2021____ _Divine Service Setting Five, Page 213 ________7:45 & 10:15 am Prelude Lighting of the Candles Announcements Prayer for Worship Opening Hymn “All Glory, Laud, and Honor” 442 ref All glory, laud, and honor 3 The multitude of pilgrims To You, Redeemer, King, With palms before You went; To whom the lips of children Our praise and prayer and anthems Made sweet hosannas ring. Before You we present. Refrain 1 You are the King of Israel 4 To You before Your passion And David’s royal Son, They sang their hymns of praise; Now in the Lord’s name coming, To You, now high exalted, Our King and Blessèd One. Refrain Our melody we raise. Refrain 2 The company of angels 5 As You received their praises, Is praising You on high, Accept the prayers we bring, And we with all creation O Source of ev’ry blessing, In chorus make reply. Refrain Our good and gracious King. Refrain Text: Public domain Invocation P In the name of the Father and of the T Son and of the Holy Spirit. C Amen. P Beloved in the Lord! Let us draw near with a true heart and confess our sins unto God our Father, beseeching Him in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to grant us forgiveness. P Our help is in the name of the Lord, C who made heaven and earth. P I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, C and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Confession and Absolution P O almighty God, merciful Father, C I, a poor, miserable sinner, confess unto You all my sins and iniquities with which I have ever offended You and justly deserved Your temporal and eternal punishment. But I am heartily sorry for them and sincerely repent of them, and I pray You of Your boundless mercy and for the sake of the holy, innocent, bitter sufferings and death of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to be gracious and merciful to me, a poor, sinful being. P Upon this your confession, … of the Holy Spirit. C Amen. Psalm Psalm 118:19–29 P 19Open to me the gates of righteousness, C that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD. P 20This is the gate of the LORD; C the righteous shall enter through it. P 21I thank you that you have answered me C and have become my salvation. P 22The stone that the builders rejected C has become the cornerstone. P 23This is the LORD’s doing; C it is marvelous in our eyes. P 24This is the day that the LORD has made; C let us rejoice and be glad in it. P 25Save us, we pray, O LORD! C O LORD, we pray, give us success! P 26Blessèd is he who comes in the name of the LORD! C We bless you from the house of the LORD. P 27The LORD is God, C and he has made his light to shine upon us. P Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, C up to the horns of the altar! P 28You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; C you are my God; I will extol you. P 29Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; C for his steadfast love endures forever! C Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Salutation and Collect of the Day P The Lord be with you. C And also with you. P Let us pray. Almighty and everlasting God, You sent Your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, to take upon Himself our flesh and to suffer death upon the cross. Mercifully grant that we may follow the example of His great humility and patience and be made partakers of His resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. C Amen. Old Testament Reading Zechariah 9:9–12 9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. 11As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. 12Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double. P This is the Word of the Lord. C Thanks be to God. Gradual Hebrews 9:12a, c, 15a; Psalm 111:9a P [Christ] entered once for all into the holy places, by means of his own blood, C thus securing an eternal redemption. P Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, C so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance. P He sent redemption to his people; C he has commanded his covenant forever. Hand Bells (7:45am) “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” Epistle Philippians 2:5–11 5Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. P This is the Word of the Lord. C Thanks be to God. Holy Gospel John 12:12–19 P The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the twelfth chapter. C Glory to You, O Lord. 12The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” 14And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, 15“Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!” 16His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. 17The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 18The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. 19So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.” P This is the Gospel of the Lord. C Praise to You, O Christ. Rite of Confirmation (10:15am) LSB 272 Madilyn Grace Kirchhoff “She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future” Proverbs 31:25 Sermon Hymn “My Hope is Built on Nothing Less” 575 1 My hope is built on nothing less 3 His oath, His covenant and blood Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; Support me in the raging flood; No merit of my own I claim When ev’ry earthly prop gives way, But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.