5th Sunday after Epiphany February 8, 2026
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 112:1-9 (pg. 603)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 157
“Rejoice, the Lord Is King!”
*Confession of Sins ……………….……….……………....... pg. 2
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Isaiah 58:3-9a (pg.
734)
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 (pg. 1132)
*The Gospel: Matthew 5:13-20 (pg. 962)
*Response to the Gospel …………………………………..… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed .……………...... pg. 4
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
Special Music - Dakota Jubilee
Sermon: John 11 – “A Call to Freedom”
THE CLOSING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 482
“Out of My Bondage, Sorrow, and Night”
*The Lord’s Prayer ………………………………………….. pg. 5
*The Benediction ………………………………..…………... pg. 5
*Three-fold Amen ………………………………...…………. pg. 5
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning, especially our guests and visitors. May our Father’s mercy in Jesus assure you of the forgiveness of all your sins. If you have not established your church home in our area, we are anxious to share with you all the blessings which God gives us through His Word. We ask that you please sign our guest book, and we hope that you return to worship with us again soon.
Announcements
Monthly hymn #157: "Rejoice, the Lord
Is King!"
Memory verse: Psalm 118:24
“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad
in it.”
Prayer Partners - There is a signup sheet in the basement. If you are willing to be a prayer partner with one of our youth signup or talk with Bailey Fink or Pastor Czymbor for more information.
Thank you to Dakota Jubilee for sharing their music talents and time with us this morning. God bless their service to our community.
Thrivent Members – Remember to direct your 2025 Choice Dollars by March 31, 2026
Lenten Season starts February 18th with our Ash Wednesday service at 7:30 p.m.
This week’s activities:
10th – Tues. – Quilting Workday, 1:00 p.m.
11th – Wed. – WMF Meeting, 7:00 p.m. Leader & Hostess -
Joyce
14th – Sat. – Men’s Bible
Study, 8:00 a.m.
15th – Sun. –
Worship – John 12, 9:00 am,
Sunday School 10:00 am
~ Muffin Sunday, Ladies K – V
CHURCH CLEANING: Feb 9 – 15 Dee Fink & Donna Picek
Usher’s for Sunday, Feb 15th : Travis Fink & Trent Wright
*Call to Worship: Psalm 112:1-9
112 Praise the Lord!
Blessed is the man who
fears the Lord,
who greatly delights in his commandments!
2 His offspring will be mighty
in the land;
the generation of the upright will be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches are in his house,
and his righteousness endures forever.
4 Light
dawns in the darkness for the upright;
he is gracious,
merciful, and righteous.
5 It
is well with the man who deals generously and lends;
who
conducts his affairs with justice.
6 For
the righteous will never be moved;
he will be remembered
forever.
7 He is not afraid
of bad news;
his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.
8 His heart is steady; he will not be
afraid,
until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.
9 He has distributed freely; he
has given to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever;
his horn is exalted in honor.
1st Reading:Isaiah 58:3-9a
3 ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it
not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge
of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own
pleasure,
and oppress all your workers.
4 Behold,
you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a
wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make
your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is
such the fast that I choose,
a day for a person to humble
himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to
spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the Lord?
6 “Is not this the fast that I
choose:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the
straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to
break every yoke?
7 Is it not to
share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor
into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
and
not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then
shall your light break forth like the dawn,
and your healing
shall spring up speedily;
your righteousness shall go before you;
the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:1-16
2 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man
imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
*The Gospel: Matthew 5:13-20
13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.