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The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – August 25 & 28, 2024

ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH – LCMS

700 Main St.  P.O. Box 220   Clyman, WI  53016  

Rev. Daniel L. Bohn & Church 1(920) 341-2025

315 Meadow Park Drive   Horicon, WI  53032 – shepherdatzion@gmail.com

Worship Times: Sundays – 8:30am & Wednesdays – 7:00pm

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Watch Live on Sunday @ 8:30am: YouTube – zionclyman

Music –  Dee Dee Wille      Elder –  Dave Stuebe / Wed: Ralph Kohlhoff

Bulletin Announcements: Email: zionclyman@gmail.com

Congregation Information: Neal Kohlhoff Email: neal.kohlhoff50@gmail.com

Altar Guild for August:  Nancy Kohlhoff                                  Thank you.

Guests.  Welcome to Zion.  We are glad to have you with us.  Please sign our guestbook located in the Narthex.  About Holy Communion:  We welcome to the Lord’s Table all who have repented of their sins and seek to amend their sinful life; all who believe that Jesus is truly present in, with, and under the bread and the wine; and all who believe that through the words “given and shed for you” forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation are given.  If this is your confession and you are a member of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, then come with a thankful heart and join us.   If you are a visitor and would like to commune, please talk with Pastor Dan before the service.  To help in preparing to receive Holy Communion open the front cover of the Burgundy hymnal or turn to pages 329 & 330.  Gluten free wafers are available, please talk with an Elder or Pastor before the service if you would appreciate them.

 AS WE GATHER – Each week we gather as brothers and sisters to worship our Heavenly Father and His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.  Our Father wants our worship to be from the heart which must be open to His Word of law as He reminds us of our sin and need to repent, and then He reminds us of what His Son has done for us so that He can forgive us.  Our time of worship is His time to come to us and refresh us, and our time to give Him all praise and glory for the daily grace and love He has given.  If our worship is just words we have memorized, then WE HAVE closed our hearts to His love.  WE HAVE made it mere lip service and not an opening of our hearts to Him.

Ringing of the Bell and Welcome

Hymn  “Alleluia! Let Praises Ring”          LSB 822

Invocation – In the name of the Father and of the X Son and of the Holy Spirit.      Amen.

Opening Sentences – O Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells!   

Confession and Absolution – Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.   If You, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?  But with You there is forgiveness; therefore You are feared.   Since we are gathered to hear God’s Word, call upon Him in prayer and praise, and receive the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ in the fellowship of this altar, let us first consider our unworthiness and confess before God and one another that we have sinned in thought, word, and deed, and that we cannot free ourselves from our sinful condition.  Together as His people let us take refuge in the infinite mercy of God, our heavenly Father, seeking His grace for the sake of Christ, and saying: God be merciful to me, a sinner.       All: Almighty God, have mercy upon us, forgive us our sins, and lead us to everlasting life in Jesus Christ Your Son, our Lord.  Amen.     Almighty God, merciful Father, in Holy Baptism You declared us to be Your children and gathered us into Your one, holy church, in which You daily and richly forgive us our sins and grant us new life through Your Spirit.  Be in our midst, enliven our faith, and graciously receive our prayer and praise; through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.  Amen      Almighty God in His mercy has given His Son to die for you and for His sake forgives you all your sins.  As a called and ordained servant of Christ, and by His authority, I therefore forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the X Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen

Hymn of Praise –   Gloria in Excelsis  LSB 204

Prayer of the Day – Almighty and merciful God, defend Your Church from all false teaching and error that Your faithful people may confess You to be the only true God.  Through Your Holy Spirit help us to worship You not with our lips, but with our hearts rejoicing in Your good gifts of life and salvation; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.   Amen.

Old Testament Reading  Isaiah 29:11-19 –   For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll.  And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say to him, “Read this, please,” he will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.”  Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” he will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”  The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.  Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.  Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.”  Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us?  Who will know?”  You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!  Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”?  Can the pot say of the potter, “He knows nothing”? In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?  In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.  Once more the humble will rejoice in the Lord ; the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Epistle or New Testament Reading Ephesians 5:22-33 –   Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.  Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.  In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies.  He who loves his wife loves himself.  After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church– for we are members of his body.  “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”  This is a profound mystery–but I am talking about Christ and the church.  However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Gradual and Verse – Fear the Lord, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing!    Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.  Alleluia. Your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart. Alleluia.

Holy Gospel  Mark 7:1-13 –  The Holy Gospel according St. Mark, the Seventh chapter.       Glory to You, O Lord.         The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were “unclean,” that is, unwashed.  (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.  When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash.  And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles.)  So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with ‘unclean’ hands?”  He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “’These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.  They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’  You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.” And he said to them: “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!  For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’  But you say that if a man says to his father or mother: ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God), then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.  Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”     This is the Gospel of the Lord.   Praise to You, O Christ.

Hymn  “Let the Earth Now Praise the Lord”       LSB 352

Sermon

Apostles’ Creed –    I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.  And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

Prayers of the Church

We gather our Tithes and Offerings

Service of the Sacrament  

Preface   2 Timothy 4:22 –   It is truly good, right, and salutary that we should at all times and all places give thanks to You, Lord our God, for You have graciously blessed us through the Word incarnate, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who has come in the flesh and for our sake died on the cross and rose from the dead to put an end to death.  Rejoicing in our Baptism, which creates faith in our hearts and daily renews us, we laud and magnify Your holy name. With joy we join in the unending praise of the angels and archangels and all the company of heaven in singing.

Sanctus                                                                       LSB 208

Prayer of Thanksgiving –   O God the Father, the fountain and source of all goodness, who in loving-kindness sent Your only-begotten Son into the flesh, we thank You that for His sake You have given us pardon and peace in this Sacrament, and we ask You not to forsake Your children but always to rule our hearts and minds by Your Holy Spirit that we may be enabled constantly to serve You; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.

The Words of Our Lord – Consecration of the Elements

Proclamation of Christ  1 Corinthians 11:26; Revelation 22:20 –   As often as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.      Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. 

The Lord’s Prayer –    Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.       Amen.

Pax Domini – The peace of the Lord be with you always.    Amen.

Agnus Dei LSB 210

 Distribution Hymns:  “Baptismal Waters Cover Me”   LSB 616                          “All Christians Who Have Been Baptized”  LSB 596                                              “What Wondrous Love Is This”   LSB 543

Nunc Dimittis                                                            LSB 211

Closing Prayer –   O God the Father, the fountain and source of all goodness, who in loving-kindness sent Your only-begotten Son into the flesh, we thank You that for His sake You have given us pardon and peace in this Sacrament, and we ask You not to forsake Your children but always to rule our hearts and minds by Your Holy Spirit that we may be enabled constantly to serve You; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen

 Benediction

Dismissal – Go in the peace of the Risen and Triumphant Lord, and serve Him!   Thanks be to God.

Hymn “Jesus Loves Me”       LSB 588

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Announcements

YES IN CHRIST    Saying Yes With Our Treasures

 TODAY: HOT DOGS at Trinity Lutheran Church in Reeseville 11:30am – 2pm.
 September 5th : Quilters meet on Thursday September 5 th from 11am to 2pm.
 September 9th : The next Elder meeting is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 9th @ 6pm.
 September 10th : The “Chosen” Bible Study will start again on Sept. 10th in the sanctuary at 6pm. We will meet on EVERY Tuesday. Feel free to join us as all are welcome.
 September 12th : Serving Bread and Roses Thursday September 12 th .
 We are excited to announce…Sunday School will continue in the Fall. To enroll your children, please contact Erica Goehl.

BREAD and ROSES –  Zion is scheduled for Thursday, September 12^th and is looking for volunteers. Once again they have lost their place to distribute from, but they are planning on continuing to serve the Watertown people in some way.  Signup sheets will be out soon, and they will need the same number of people to help.  They have asked if anyone has ideas for a location which they can use in Watertown.  If you have any ideas please contact me or Beth and we will forward those ideas to them.

Happy Anniversary to –  Kyle & Kate B 8/26

Those to keep in your Prayers

Richard Marsh and his family as his cancer has spread.

Jayne Gierach as she recovers from her procedure done recently.