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“Take courage! It is I!  Do not be afraid.”

 Tenth Sunday after Pentecost – July 28 & 31, 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 – Dave Stuebe  / Wed: Ralph Kohlhoff

Bulletin Announcements: Email: zionclyman@gmail.com

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

Altar Guild for July:  Pennie Huebner & Connie Kreitzman                  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 – In our Old Testament reading, God puts a rainbow in the sky, not as a symbol of pride in sin, but as His reminder that He will never again destroy the earth in His anger through a flood, and will be ever present to care for His children.  Paul prays for young in faith Christians, that their faith would be strengthened in the Holy Spirit and become one with other Christians.  Our Gospel reading of Jesus walking on the water, is a powerful reminder that our Lord is with us always, knows exactly what we are going through in life and comes to us, giving us all that we need to be triumphant.

Ringing of the Bell and Welcome

Hymn  “Great is Thy Faithfulness”          LSB 809

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

 Opening Sentences Psalm 136 – Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy!  Enter not into judgment with Your servant, for no one living is righteous before You.  Let me hear in the morning of Your steadfast love, for in You I trust.  Make me know the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul.  Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God!  Let Your Holy Spirit lead me on level ground!  The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.  The Lord is good to all, and His mercy is over all that He has made.  Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy!  Make me know the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul.  Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God! Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground!  The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.  The Lord is good to all, and His mercy is over all that He has made.

 Confession and Absolution – It is good and right that we should make confession of our sins.  Confession has two parts.  First, that we confess our sins, and second, that we receive absolution, that is, forgiveness, from the pastor as from God Himself, not doubting, but firmly believing that by it our sins are forgiven before God in heaven.  Humble yourselves, then, before God, confess your sins to Him, and implore His forgiveness.

All:  O almighty God, merciful Father, I, a troubled and penitent sinner, confess to You all my sins and iniquities with which I have ever offended You and justly deserve Your present and eternal punishment.  By nature I am a sinful creature. By thought, word, and deed I have continually transgressed Your law.  For the sake of the sufferings and death of Your Son, Jesus Christ, be gracious and merciful to me, a penitent and contrite being.  Forgive me all my sins and grant me the power of Your Holy Spirit that I may amend my sinful life.   God be gracious to you and strengthen your faith.  Amen.    As you believe, so let it be.  As a called and ordained servant Christ and by His authority, I therefore forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the  Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 Hymn of Praise – Gloria in Excelsis      LSB 204

 Prayer of the Day – Almighty and most merciful God, the protector of all who trust in You, strengthen our faith and give us courage to believe that in Your love You will rescue us from all adversities; 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  Genesis 9:8-17 –  Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth.  I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”  And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.  Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.  Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”  So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”

Epistle or New Testament Reading  Ephesians 3:14-21 –   For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.  I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.  And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.  Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!  Amen.

Verse – Alleluia.  Take heart; it is I.  Do not be afraid.  Alleluia.

Holy Gospel  Mark 6:45-56 –  The Holy Gospel according St. Mark the Sixth chapter.       Glory to You, O Lord.     Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.  After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray.  Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land.  He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them.  Shortly before dawn he went out to them, walking on the lake.  He was about to pass by them, but when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost.  They cried out, because they all saw him and were terrified.  Immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take courage! It is I.  Don’t be afraid.”  Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down.  They were completely amazed, for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.  When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and anchored there.  As soon as they got out of the boat, people recognized Jesus.  They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was.  And wherever he went—into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces.  They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.    This is the Gospel of the Lord.   Praise to You, O Christ.

Hymn  “Blest be the Tie That Binds”       LSB 649

Sermon

 Our Confession of Faith looking at the 2^nd article of the Apostles’ Creed

 We began our worship in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. We now confess our faith in the Second Person of the Holy Trinity.    All: I believe 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.     What does this mean?     I believe that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the virgin Mary, is my Lord, who has redeemed me, a lost and condemned person, purchased and won me from all sins, from death, and from the power of the devil; not with gold or silver, but with His holy, precious blood and with His innocent suffering and death, that I may be His own and live under Him in His kingdom and serve Him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and blessedness, just as He is risen from the dead, lives and reigns to all eternity.  This is most certainly true.

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 for our sake died on the cross and rose from the dead to put an end to death.  Confident of His compassion on us and rejoicing in the company of the saints on earth and those in heaven, we laud and magnify Your holy name by singing;

Sanctus                                                                       LSB 208

Prayer of Thanksgiving –   Blessed are You, O Lord our God, King of all creation, for You have had mercy on us and have showed Your gracious power to us through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord. We give You thanks that in His most Holy Supper You reveal Your sacred presence among us.  Grant that we may receive the blessings of forgiveness, life, and salvation that come to us in His body and blood as we gather at His command.   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: “Our Father Who from Heaven Above”             LSB 766   “O God, Forsake Me Not” LSB 731    “Rise, My Soul, to Watch and Pray” LSB 663

Nunc Dimittis                                                            LSB 211

Closing Prayer – Holy Father, we ask You now, by this blessed food and drink, to deliver Your Church from every evil, to teach it to love You perfectly, and make it truly one, even as this bread was made from many grains of wheat to become the carrier of the body of our Savior, Jesus Christ, and the wine was drawn from the fruitfulness of many grapes. Grant that we ever abide as branches of the Vine, Christ Himself, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.  Amen

 Benediction      Numbers 6:24–26 –  The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord look upon you with favor and X give you peace.   Amen.   

Hymn “Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart”  LSB 806

ANNOUNCEMENTS

YES IN CHRIST    Saying Yes With Our Treasures

• Sunday School will continue in the Fall of 2024. To enroll your children, please contact Erica Goehl.
• The “Chosen” Bible Study will resume on September 3^rd and will meet every Tuesday.
• The QUILTERS meet on Thursdays. If interested contact Caroline Jeffers as they do not meet every week. The next quilting party will be Thursday August 8^th from 11am – 2pm.

Happy Birthday to –  Allison Boese 8/2

                                                       SPECIAL PRAYERS

 Prayer request for Pastor Groth and his wife Jacklyn.  Pastor Groth has been hospitalized in Madison and they are running tests for cancer.

Prayers of strength and continued healing for Colton Dunn, Lisa Faltersack, Karen Fredricks, Nancy Lau, Wayne Neuberger, Felix & Janet Ortega, Joyce Weisjohn, and Rita Weisjohn’s sister.

 The Pewpoint – Theme of the Day – Creation Is Redeemed and Sanctified by the Word of Christ Jesus –   Having spared faithful Noah and his family from the flood, the Lord established His covenant with them, “and with every living creature,” that never again would there be “a flood to destroy the earth” (Gen. 9:9–11). He signed and sealed this everlasting covenant with His rainbow in the clouds, by which He sees and remembers His promise that “the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh” (Gen. 9:13–16). Although creation suffers under the curse of sin, the Lord preserves and orders creation for the benefit of His Church. In particular, all of creation is redeemed and sanctified by the incarnate Son of God. “Take heart,” and “do not be afraid,” for He is with you on the sea. He is not a ghost, but He has come in the flesh to save you. He has gotten “into the boat” with you, and the wind that was against you has ceased (Mark 6:45–51). For He is the Word and promise of the Father, and His own flesh and blood are the covenant by which you are “strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being” (Eph. 3:16–17).