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First Sunday after Epiphany— Baptism of Our Lord Bible Readings Isaiah 49:1-6, Mark 1:4-11, Romans 6:1-11 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Mark 1:4-11 4 John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5 The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him. They were baptized by him in the...

Nativity of Our Lord—Christmas Day Bible Readings Micah 5:2-5a, Galatians 4:4-7, John 1:1-8, 9-13, 14-18 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: John 1:1-18 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him everything was made, and without him not one thing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, a...

Nativity of Our Lord—Christmas Eve Bible Readings Romans 16:25-27, Luke 1:26-38, Worship Folder Pastor John MelkeSermon text: Luke 1:26-38 The Angel Gabriel Appears to the Virgin Mary 26 In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28...

Third Sunday in Advent Bible Readings Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 John 1:6-8, 19-28, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 16 Rejoice always. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In everything give thanks. For this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 19 Do not extinguish the Spirit. 20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt. 21 But test everything. Hol...

Second Sunday in Advent Bible Readings Isaiah 40:1-11 , Mark 1:1-8 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: 2 peter 3:8-14 8 My friends, here is one thing that you must remember. In the Lord God’s mind, one day and 1,000 years are the same. For him, 1,000 years is like a single day. 9 The Lord is not being slow to do what he has promised to do. Some people may think that he is being slow...

Advent Thursday Service Bible Readings Psalm 89, Luke 11:37-52 Worship Folder Pastor John MelkeSermon text: Revelation 3:7, Isaiah 22:22 Revelation 3:7 Letter to the Church in Philadelphia 7 To the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write: The Holy One, the one who is true, the one who has the key of David, the one who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one can open, says this: I...

First Sunday in Advent Bible Readings Isaiah 35:4-7 Mark 11:1-11 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the LORD Jesus Christ. I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge; even as the testimon...

Advent Thursday Service Bible Readings Luke 11:14-28, Isaiah 55:1-3 Worship Folder Pastor John MelkeSermon text: Isaiah 55:1-3 Come to the Water Hey, all of you who are thirsty, come to the water, even if you have no money! Come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 2 Why do you spend money on something that is not bread? Why do you waste your labor on something tha...

Last Sunday of the Church Year Bible Readings Daniel 7:9-13, Psalm 47, Matthew 25:31-46 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Instruction Concerning the Resurrection of the Dead at Christ’s Second Coming 13 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you do not grieve in the same way as the others, who have no hope...

Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Petencost Bible Readings Luke 10:25-37 Worship Folder Pastor Jame MattekSermon text: Luke 10:25-37 The Good Samaritan 25 Just then, an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 “What is written in the law?” he asked him. “What do you read there?” 27 He replied, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with...

Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Psalm 139, John 15:9-17, Ephesians 6:10-17 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Ephesians 6:10-17 The Armor of God 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can stand against the schemes of the Devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rul...

Reformation Bible Readings Daniel 6:10-12, 16-23, Romans 3:19-28, Matthew 10:16-23 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Psalm 46 The King’s Reign HeadingFor the choir director. By the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth. A song. The Earth Shaken 1 God is our refuge and strength, a helper who can always be found in times of trouble. 2 That is why we will not fear when the earth dissol...

Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Genesis 4:1-16, 2 John 1:1-6, Matthew 22:34-46 Worship Folder Pastor John MelkeSermon text: Genesis 4:1-16 The First Children: Cain and Abel 4 The man was intimate with Eve, his wife. She conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have gotten a man with the Lord.” 2 She also gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel tended sheep, but Cain worke...

Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Daniel 1:3-21 , Romans 13:1-7 , Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Matthew 22:15-22 Paying Taxes to Caesar 15 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted together how to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in a...

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Isaiah 25:6-9, Matthew 22:1-14 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Romans 1:16-17 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes—to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed by faith, for faith, just as it is written, “Th...

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Isaiah 5:1-7, Matthew 21:33-46, Philippians 3:12-21 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Matthew 21:33-46 The Parable of the Wicked Tenants 33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it out to some tenant farmers and went a...

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32, Philippians 2:1-11, Matthew 21:23-32 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Matthew 21:23-32 Jesus’ Authority Questioned 23 When Jesus went into the temple courts, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him while he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things?” and “Who gave...

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Jonah 3:10–4:11, Matthew 20:1–16, Romans 9:6–16 Worship Folder Pastor John MelkeSermon text: Jonah 3:10-4:11 10 When God saw their actions, that they had turned from their evil way, God relented from the disaster which he said he would bring on them, and he did not carry it out. The Lord Teaches Jonah a Lesson About Grace 4 But to Jonah all this se...

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Genesis 50:15–21 , Matthew 18:21-35 , Ephesians 4:29-5:2 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Matthew 18:21-35 An Unforgiving Servant 21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, when my brother sins against me, how many times must I forgive him? Should I forgive him as many as 7 times?” 22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, you must forgive...

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Ezekiel 33:7-11, Galations 2:14-16 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Matthew 18:15-20 When Someone Hurts You 15 “If your brother or sister in God’s family does something wrong, go and tell them what they did wrong. Do this when you are alone with them. If they listen to you, then you have helped them to be your brother or sister agai...

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Psalm 33 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Matthew 16:21-28 Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection 21 From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised again. 22 Peter took hi...

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Reading Exodus 34:5-10 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Matthew 16:13-20 Jesus Is the Christ 13 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” 14 They said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “Bu...

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Matthew 15:21-28 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Matthew 15:21-28 The Faith of a Canaanite Woman 21 Jesus left that place and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 There a Canaanite woman from that territory came and kept crying out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! A demon is severely tormenting my daughter!” 23 But h...

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Isaiah 55:1-5, Matthew 14:13-21, Romans 8:35-39 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Romans 8:35-39 35 What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 Just as it is written: For your sake we are being put to death all day long. We are considered as sheep...

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Bible Readings Psalm 136:7-9, Nehemiah 9:6 , Romans 1:18-20, Acts 4:23-32 Worship Folder Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and see who created these things. See who brings out their army in great number and calls them all by name. Because of his great strength and mighty power, not one of them is missing. The Holy Bible,...