3rd Sunday in Lent March 23, 2025
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 85 (pg. 584)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------ # 522
“Grace Greater than Our Sin”
*Confession of Sins …………………….……………............ pg. 2
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Ezekiel 33:7-20 (pg. 856)
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 (pg. 1137)
*The Gospel: Luke 13:1-9 (pg. 1037)
*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
HYMN --------------------------------------------------------------- # 72
“What Wondrous Love Is This”
Sermon: Matthew 17 – “Highs and Lows”
THE CLOSING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 97
“I Know That My Redeemer Loves”
*The Lord’s Prayer ………………………………………….. pg. 5
*The Benediction ………………………………..…………... pg. 5
*Three-fold Amen ………………………………...…………. pg. 5
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
Announcements
Monthly hymn #522: "Grace Greater than
Our Sin"
Memory verse: Romans 15:4 “For
whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction,
that through endurance and through the encouragement of the
Scriptures we might have hope.”
Rolls will be served this morning in thankfulness for Ervin’s 80th Birthday.
FLY Practice following the Sunday School opening today.
Tonight at 7:00 p.m. at the First Reformed Church in Platte, Dakota Jubilee Home Concert will provide an evening of Christian and Patriotic music. A time of fellowship and goodies will follow! Everyone is welcome! A Free-will offering will be accepted.
Wednesday: Supper at 5:30 p.m., Lenten Service, 7:00 p.m. This week’s service will be led by Pastor Kevin Czymbor with the theme of “Minas”. Ladies with first names beginning in letters K -V are asked to bring bars/cookies for the fellowship time to follow the service.
St. Peter Lutheran Church, WMF, Presents: Answers in Genesis Conference. Come join St. Peter’s women group for a day full of fellowship and learning. April 5, 2025, Breakfast at 8:00 a.m., Conference 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Lunch also included. RSVP by March 29th to Courtney (605)770-8201 or Jaclyn at (701)331-2070 (Call or Text). Freewill donation accepted. Please bring a snack to share with the group.
This week’s activities:
26th – Wed. – Supper, 5:30 p.m. Lenten Service, 7:00 p.m.
31st – Sun. – Worship, 9:00 am (Matt. 18) Sunday School,
10 am
CHURCH CLEANING: Mar. 26 – 30 Justine Hartmann & Liz Weber
*Call to Worship: Psalm 85
85 Lord, you were favorable to your land;
you restored the fortunes of Jacob.
2 You forgave
the iniquity of your people;
you covered all their sin.
3 You withdrew all your
wrath;
you turned from your hot anger.
4 Restore us again, O God of our
salvation,
and put away your indignation toward us!
5 Will you be angry with us forever?
Will you prolong your anger to all generations?
6 Will you not revive us again,
that your
people may rejoice in you?
7 Show
us your steadfast love, O Lord,
and grant us your salvation.
8 Let me hear what God the Lord will
speak,
for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;
but let them not turn back to folly.
9 Surely
his salvation is near to those who fear him,
that glory may dwell
in our land.
10 Steadfast love and faithfulness
meet;
righteousness and peace kiss each other.
11 Faithfulness springs up from the ground,
and righteousness looks down from the sky.
12 Yes, the Lord will give what is good,
and our
land will yield its increase.
13 Righteousness
will go before him
and make his footsteps a way.
1st Reading: Ezekiel 33:7-20
7 “So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. 8 If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 9 But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.
10 “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: ‘Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we rot away because of them. How then can we live?’ 11 Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins. 13 Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die. 14 Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right, 15 if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 16 None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
17 “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just. 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it. 19 And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this. 20 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13
10 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” 8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 9 We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, 10 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. 12 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
*The Gospel: Luke 13:1-9
13 There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
6 And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. 7 And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ 8 And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. 9 Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”
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Mid-week Lenten Service
“The Parables of Jesus”
March 26, 2025
Theme: Minas
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Welcome & Announcements
Lenten Text: Matthew 26:69-27:10
69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” 70 But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.” 71 And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” 72 And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.” 73 After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.” 74 Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed. 75 And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.
27 When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. 2 And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.
3 Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, 4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” 5 And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. 6 But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.” 7 So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers. 8 Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. 9 Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, 10 and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.”
*Call to Worship: Psalm 2
2 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot
in vain?
2 The kings of the
earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast
away their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the
heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.
5 Then he will speak to them in
his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6 “As
for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”
7 I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the
nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of
iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”
10 Now therefore, O kings, be
wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11 Serve
the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the
Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for
his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in
him.
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………………………………………….………...…….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 611
“Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord”
*Confession of Sins ……………………………………………………………………………..................... pg. 2
*Kyrie …………………………………………………………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace ………………………………………………………………………...………..…… pg. 3
Scripture Lessons:
First Reading: Philippians 2:9-11
9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Second Reading: Revelation 19:11-15
11 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 12 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. 13 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. 14 And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. 15 From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
*The Gospel: Luke 19:11-27
11 As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. 12 He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. 13 Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’ 14 But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ 15 When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business. 16 The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’ 17 And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’ 18 And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made five minas.’ 19 And he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ 20 Then another came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief; 21 for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’ 22 He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? 23 Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’ 24 And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’ 25 And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’ 26 ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 27 But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.’”
*Response to the Gospel …………………………………………………………………………………..… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed ………………………………………………………………... pg. 4
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering: ½ to FLBC & ½ to Safe Place of Eastern South Dakota
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……………………………………………………..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 339
“Let Me Learn of Jesus”
Sermon Title: “Thy Kingdom Come” Pastor Kevin Czymbor
THE CLOSING HYMN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 433
“Jesus Is Calling”
*The Lord’s Prayer ………………………………………………………………………………………….. pg. 5
*The Benediction ………………………………………………………………………………..…………... pg. 5
*Three-fold Amen ………………………………………………………………………………...…………. pg. 5
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………………………………………………………….. # 390
Organ Postlude