LENT 5 Mar 21, 2010
Immanuel Ev. Lutheran Church
Wisconsin Synod
Pastor Stephen Smith...682-1878 Sunday Service...9:30 a.m.
Church Telephone...682-4573 Sunday School/Bible Study...10:30 a.m.
Organists…………………..Miss Crystal Smith
WELCOME, VISITORS: We are glad you could be with us and we welcome you back any time. Please sign our guest register in the narthex/entry.
PRAYER: Eternal God and Father, help us to remember Jesus, who obeyed Your will and bore the cross for our salvation that through His anguish, pain and death we may receive forgiveness of sins and inherit eternal life. Amen.
HYMNS: 391, 127, 315, 114/113, 119 vs 2-3
ORDER OF SERVICE: the Common Service, p 15ff
THE WORD
FIRST LESSON: Isaiah 43:16-21
The powerful Lord, who delivered His people from slavery in Egypt and the slavery of sin, continues to offer a new life of blessings to His faithful people.
PSALM OF THE DAY: Psalm 73 on page 94
God is our stronghold and sure defense who will take us to eternal life when our life on this earth comes to an end.
SECOND LESSON: Philippians 3:8-14
Our greatest treasure is the gift of salvation, whereby we are made righteous before God. This treasure motivates and strengthens us in holy living as we strive to live the godly life to which we are called.
GOSPEL: Luke 20:9-19
God continued to offer salvation to the chosen nation of Israel. As they rejected the prophets of salvation, so they also reject and would soon kill the author of their salvation, God’s own Son.
THE SERMON: Philippians 3:8-14
THEME: Throw Out the Trash
