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A Righteous Branch from David – The LORD Our Righteousness! Jeremiah 33

First Sunday in Advent, December 1, 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 – shepherdatzion@gmail.com

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

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Music – Dee Dee Wille      Elder Sunday & Wednesday – Greg Schwartz

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

Altar Guild for December:  Nancy Basol                      Thank you.

 Guests.  Welcome to Zion.  We are happy to have you worship 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 Though a full month remains before we turn our calendars to 2025, today we are celebrating a “happy new year” in the life of the church.  The Advent season begins a new church year, and is a time of preparation, as the Latin “Adventus” means an arrival or coming of someone. More than preparing for the coming of just anyone, we prepare our hearts once again for our Savior. As we get hearts and minds ready for the Christmas crescendo to come celebrating Christ’s humble birth, we also remain prepared in this season and always, as He has promised to come again.

Ringing of the Bell and Welcome

 The Lighting of the Advent Wreath – Each week in Advent, we light a candle as we prepare for the arrival of the Savior.  In a world of darkness, a light shines.     Jesus Christ is the light of the world.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.   The first Advent candle is known as the prophecy candle or the candle of hope.  We hear again the first promise and prophesy made by God after the fall into sin: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”  The Father kept His Word.    The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.  Guided by the light of hope, we respond with the psalmist: “Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and our shield.  For our heart is glad in Him, because we trust in His holy name.  Let Your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in You.”

Hymn **vs1-4** “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”    LSB 357

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

Confession and Absolution – As we begin the Advent season, our time of preparation for the coming of our Savior, we also prepare ourselves to come before Him in humility and repentance.     All:  Merciful Father, our Lord and King, we are sinful people.  We inherited the legacy of original sin from our first parents, Adam and Eve, making us sinful and unclean by nature.  In our daily lives we have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed.  We deserve Your eternal punishment.  Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we repent of our sins and humbly ask Your grace and forgiveness in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.  By the renewing work of the Holy Spirit, lead us to change what is sinful in our lives that each day we may grow in righteousness and godly living to the glory of Your holy name.  Amen     God is gracious and forgiving.  He has shown His merciful power in ways that renew, restore, and heal us.  To those who come to Him with repentant and humbled hearts, our heavenly Father promises forgiveness, life, and salvation in His Son.  As a called and ordained servant of His Son, our Lord and Savior, and by His authority, I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the X Son and of the Holy Spirit.    Amen.

Kyrie – In peace let us pray to the Lord.   Lord, have mercy.   For the Peace from above and for our salvation.  For the peace of the whole world, for the well-being of the Church of God, and for the unity of all let us pray to the Lord.  Lord, have mercy.     For this holy house and for all who offer here their worship and praise let us pray to the Lord.         Lord, have mercy.  Help, save, comfort, and defend us, gracious Lord.   Amen

Hymn of Praise – This is the Feast  LSB 155

Psalm of the Day – Psalm 89, antiphon Zechariah 9:9 –  Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation.  Who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?   Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord?   Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.    Blessed are the people who walk in the light of your face O Lord, who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted.  Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever.  Amen.
Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation.

Collect of the Day –   Stir up Your power, O Lord, and come, that by Your protection we may be rescued from the threatening perils of our sins and saved by Your mighty deliverance; 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 – Jeremiah 33:14-16    –  ‘The days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah.  “‘In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David’s line; he will do what is just and right in the land.   In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety.  This is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteous Savior.’

Epistle or New Testament Reading – 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 –   How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you?  Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith.  Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you.  May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.  May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.

Gradual –  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion.  Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem.  Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation.      Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord for He is our Lord, our Righteousness!

Gospel Reading  Luke 19:28-40 –   The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, the nineteenth chapter.  Glory to you, O Lord.     After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.  As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.   If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it.’”  Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them.  As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying the colt?”  They replied, “The Lord needs it.”  They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it.  As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.  When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”  “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”  Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”  “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”   This is the Gospel of the Lord.   Praise to You, O Christ.

Nicene Creed –  I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible.   And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried. And the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. And He will come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead, whose kingdom will have no end.  And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And I believe in one holy Christian and apostolic Church, I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, and I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life X of the world to come.    Amen.

Hymn **vs5-7**  “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”  LSB  357

Sermon

Prayers of the Church

We gather our Tithes and Offerings

Service of the Sacrament

Preface – The Lord be with you.    And also with you.    Lift up your hearts.  We lift them to the Lord.    Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.    It is right to give Him thanks and praise.

Sanctus                                                                                                 LSB 161

Prayer of Thanksgiving –  Blessed are You, Lord of heaven and earth, for You have had mercy on those whom You created and out of perfect love sent Your only-begotten Son into our flesh to bear our sin and be our Savior.  With repentant joy we receive the salvation accomplished for us by the all-availing sacrifice of His body and His blood on the cross.  We thank You for all the work of Your hands and for all the words You have spoken and kept, as You come to us still now with Your healing grace through Christ’s body and blood given and shed for us.  To You alone, O Father, be all glory, honor, and worship, with the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.

The Words of our Lord – Consecration of the Elements

Proclamation of Christ – As often as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.  Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.    All:  O Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, in giving us Your body and blood to eat and to drink, You lead us to remember and confess Your holy cross and passion, Your blessed death, Your rest in the tomb, Your resurrection from the dead, Your ascension into heaven, and Your coming for the final judgment. Remember us in Your kingdom and teach us to pray:

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 163

We Celebrate our Lord’s Supper

Distribution Hymns  “Lift Up Your Heads Ye Mighty Gates” LSB 341         “Come, Thou Precious Ransom Come”  LSB 350                                                  “Jesus Came, the Heavens Adoring”                LSB 353

Post Communion Canticle – Thank the Lord  p.164

Post Communion Collect – We give thanks to You, almighty God, that You have refreshed us through this salutary gift, and we implore You that of Your mercy You would strengthen us through the same in faith toward You and in fervent love toward one another; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen

Closing Sentences – The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.  The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

Benediction

Hymn “Once He Came in Blessing”  LSB 333

Announcements

YES IN CHRIST    Saying Yes With Our Treasures

Needed per week to make budget: $3177

Attendance/Communed: 11/20/2024 = 13/8   11/24/2024 = 43/35

Giving: 11/24/2024: Envelopes = $2853.15   Plate = $40

Calendar of Events:

• Wednesday December 4^th, 11^th, & 18^th: Advent Service at 7pm
• Thursday December 5^th: Quilting from 11am – 2pm
• Tuesday December 24^th: Christmas Eve Service at 7pm
• Wednesday December 25^th: Christmas Day Service at 8:30am

Happy Birthday:  Vickie B  12/3    Taylor F. 12/3    Helen K. 12/4   Cindy B. 12/8

Choir meets on Wednesday nights at 6pm in the Sanctuary.   We welcome everyone to join in the singing fun.

Handbell Choir will be starting in January.  All are invited.     Practices will be immediately following the Sunday service.

Advent theme this year will be:   “His Name Shall Be Called” – Wonderful Counselor. Mighty God. Everlasting Father. Prince of Peace. These titles from Isaiah 9 describe the Savior who is to come, Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God in human flesh. During our 3 Wednesday services we will encounter the person and work of Christ as it was foretold by the prophet Isaiah.    Services will begin on Wednesday December 4^th, 11^th, & 18^th at 7pm.

Christmas Eve Service: December 24^th at 7pm.

Christmas Day Service: December 25^th at 8:30am.

24^th ANNUAL CHRISTMAS COOKIE SALE   Immanuel Lutheran Church

     210 Lincoln Avenue, Reeseville, WI                  Saturday, December 14^th, 2024     11am – 1pm       $15 per box (3 Dozen in a box)

Also available…Homemade Caramel Corn $7 for a gallon bag.   Pre-orders ONLY so order early   Call 920-927-5734      Pickup in the Parish Hall

Special Prayers – We continue to keep in our prayers, all in our congregation who are recovering from surgery, going through testing and in need of God’s comfort, healing and strength.