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Salutation and Collect of the Day - Page 156 heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found
naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—
Blessed Lord, since You have caused all Holy Scriptures to be not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further
written for our learning, grant that we may so hear them, read, clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who
mark, learn, and inwardly digest them that we may embrace and has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the
ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life; through Jesus Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always of good courage. We know
Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for
Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we
would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So
First Reading - Ezekiel 17: 22-24 whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that
each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body,
Thus says the Lord God: “I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top
whether good or evil. Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we
of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its
persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is
young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and
known also to your conscience. We are not commending ourselves to
lofty mountain. On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it
you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be
may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And
able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not
under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches
about what is in the heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for
birds of every sort will nest. And all the trees of the field shall know
God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ
that I am the Lord; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low
controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all,
tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the
therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might
Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”
no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and
L: This is the word of the Lord.
was raised. From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to
C: Thanks be to God.
the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the
flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
Gradual - Page 156 he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has
L: Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
come.
C: and his greatness is unsearchable. L: This is the Word of the Lord.
L: On your wondrous works, I will meditate,
C: Thanks be to God.
C: and I will declare your greatness.
Alleluia - Page 156

Epistle Reading -2 Corinthians 5: 1-17
Holy Gospel - Mark 4: 26-34
For we know that if the tent, which is our earthly home, is destroyed,
And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed
we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal
on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed
in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our
sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, 4th Sunday After Pentecost
first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when June17, 2018
the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has
come.” Trinity Lutheran Church
And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or Akron, Colorado
what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, Rev. Scott Bieker - Vac. Pastor 970 571-7414
Pastor Bieker will be in Akron Thursdays 6-8pm
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garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air
can make nests in its shade.”
Lutheran Service Book
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were
Hymn 498 v. 1-3, Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest
able to hear it. He did not speak to them without a parable, but
privately to his own disciples he explained everything. Confession and Absolution - Page 151
L: This is the Gospel of the Lord. Introit
C: Praise to You, O Christ. L: It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O
Most High.
C: The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar
Hymn 498 v. 4 & 5, Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest
in Lebanon.
Sermon L: They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of
Apostles’ Creed - Page 159 our God.
Prayer of the Church - Page 159 C: They still bear fruit in old age;
L: they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the Lord is upright;
Offering C: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Offertory - Page 159 All: Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit;
Lord’s Prayer - Page 162-163 as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever.
Benediction - Page 166 Amen.
L: It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
Hymn - 924 Lord, Dismiss Us with Your Blessing
C: to sing praises to your name, O Most High.
Kyrie - Page 152
Hymn of Praise —Gloria in Excelsis - Page 154

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