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“THE CHURCH THAT IS A FAMILY” The Mission of Christ Lutheran Church:

Reach, Teach, & Preach

CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCHTHE LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD

475 North Ave. W. Brooksville, FL 34601

Rev. Paul Meseke-Pastor Church Office Hours: Robin Walter-Organist/Choir Dir. Tuesday-Friday 9-1 Bob Love – Custodian Office: 352-796-8331 Sharon Kostner – Church Secretary Email:[email protected]

Sunday Worship Service-10am www.clcfla.org

December 30th, 2018 New Year’s Eve Observed pg. 2

We welcome each and every one of you and invite you to let this be a

time for spiritual renewal.

Reach out a friendly hand to those around you.

As brothers and sisters in Christ, we gather as the people of God,

“The Church that is a Family”…………..Welcome!!

Guests & members: Please remember to sign the attendance sheet form

found in the Attendance book found in each pew.

Communion in the pew:

If you need to receive Holy Communion in the pew, please notify an usher

before service. We also request that you are seated in a aisle pew that is

easily accessible from the aisle.

Christ Lutheran Church Holy Communion: As I

commune as a Child of God, I examine myself

and understand that I am a sinner. I tell God that

I am sorry for the wrong that I have done, and I

believe that Jesus forgives me. As I approach the

Lord’s Table, I will receive, in this Holy Sacrament,

the real presence of Christ’s Body in the bread

and His Blood in the wine. Please see Pastor

Meseke before taking communion.

If you have trouble reading

this bulletin, we do have full

size bulletins printed. Ask one

of the ushers if you need one.

Do you have trouble hearing?

If you have trouble hearing,

please stop by the sound

room. We have hearing

devices available.

Parents of Children: We have children’s

bulletins and drawing boxes available.

Please return the drawing boxes after the

service.

We are glad that you are

with us this morning. If

there is a reason you can’t

be with us any Sunday

Worship, you can be with

us via the internet.

We live stream our worship

service. Go to our website

www.clcfla.org for the link.

You may also view any

worship service you may

have missed.


Prelude

Announcements

733 O God, Our Help in Ages Past

5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,

Soon bears us all away;

We fly forgotten as a dream

Dies at the op’ning day. Public domain


Confession and Absolution

(Please rise as you are able)

The sign of the cross may be made by all in remembrance of their Baptism.

Invocation LSB 184

P In the name of the Father and of the T Son and of the Holy Spirit.

C Amen.

Exhortation Hebrews 10:22; Psalm 124:8; Psalm 32:5 LSB 184

P Beloved in the Lord! Let us draw near with a true heart and confess our

sins unto God our Father, beseeching Him in the name of our Lord Jesus

Christ to grant us forgiveness.

P Our help is in the name of the Lord,

C who made heaven and earth.

P I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord,

C and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.

Silence for reflection on God's Word and for self-examination.

Confession of Sins LSB 184

P O almighty God, merciful Father,

C I, a poor, miserable sinner, confess unto You all my sins and iniquities

with which I have ever offended You and justly deserved Your temporal

and eternal punishment. But I am heartily sorry for them and sincerely

repent of them, and I pray You of Your boundless mercy and for the

sake of the holy, innocent, bitter sufferings and death of Your beloved

Son, Jesus Christ, to be gracious and merciful to me, a poor, sinful

being.

Absolution [John 20:19–23] LSB 185

P Upon this your confession, I, by virtue of my office, as a called and

ordained servant of the Word, announce the grace of God unto all of

you, and in the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ I

forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the T Son and

of the Holy Spirit.

C Amen.


Service of the Word

Kyrie Mark 10:47 LSB 186

Gloria in Excelsis Luke 2:14; John 1:29 LSB 187


Salutation and Collect of the Day

P Let us pray.

Eternal God, we commit to Your mercy and forgiveness the year now

ending and commend to Your blessing and love the times yet to come.

In the new year, abide among us with Your Holy Spirit that we may

always trust in the saving name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and

reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

Please be seated


Old Testament Reading Isaiah 30:15–17

For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest

you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”

But you were unwilling, and you said, “No! We will flee upon horses”;

therefore you shall flee away; and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”;

therefore your pursuers shall be swift. A thousand shall flee at the threat of

one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on

the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.

R This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

Psalm Psalm 90:1–12

R Lord, you have been our dwelling place

C in all generations.

R Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the

earth and the world,

C from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

R You return man to dust

C and say, “Return, O children of man!”

R For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past,

C or as a watch in the night.

R You sweep them away as with a flood;

C they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:

R in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;

C in the evening it fades and withers.

R For we are brought to an end by your anger;

C by your wrath we are dismayed.

R You have set our iniquities before you,

C our secret sins in the light of your presence.

R For all our days pass away under your wrath;

C we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

R The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty;

C yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly

away.

R Who considers the power of your anger,

C and your wrath according to the fear of you?

R So teach us to number our days

C that we may get a heart of wisdom.

C 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

Epistle Romans 8:31–39

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be


against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all,

how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring

any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to

condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was

raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or

persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;

we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved

us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things

present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything

else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ

Jesus our Lord.

R This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.


Verse of the Day Ps. 103:17a

P Alleluia. The steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting

on those who fear him. Alleluia.

Alleluia LSB 190

Holy Gospel Luke 12:35–40

P The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, the twelfth chapter.

[Jesus said:] “Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning,

and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the

wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he

comes and knocks.

Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes.

Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at

table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch,


or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! But know

this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was

coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. You also must

be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

P This is the Gospel of the Lord.

Nicene Creed

C 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 T of the world to come. Amen.


Please be seated

762 There Is a Time for Everything

© 2002 Stephen P. Starke. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License .NET, no. 100012767. © 2002 Stephen R. Johnson. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License .NET, no. 100012767.


Sermon: Even turning the calendar page can't separate us

from the love of God.

Offering

Offertory Psalm 51:10–12 LSB 192

Prayer of the Church


Lord's Prayer Matthew 6:9–13 LSB 196

C 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;

Please sign & pass the Welcome Books in the pews during the Offering


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.

Benediction

P 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 T give you peace.

C Amen.

At this time, those staying for the Service of the Sacrament please be seated.

Those not staying may leave at this time.

375 Come, Your Hearts and Voices Raising

5 Oh, the joy beyond expressing

When by faith we grasp this blessing,

And to You we come confessing

That Your love has set us free.

6 Gracious Child, we pray, O hear us,

From Your lowly manger cheer us,

Gently lead us and be near us

Till we join Your choir above. Public domain


Service of the Sacrament


Preface 2 Timothy 4:22; Colossians 3:1 Psalm 136 LSB 194

Proper Preface

P It is truly meet, right, and salutary that we should at all times and in all

places give thanks to You, holy Lord, almighty Father, everlasting God,

through Jesus Christ, our Lord; for in the mystery of the Word made flesh

You have given us a new revelation of Your glory that, seeing You in the

person of Your Son, we may know and love those things which are not

seen. Therefore with angels and archangels and with all the company

of heaven we laud and magnify Your glorious name, evermore praising

You and singing:


Sanctus Isaiah 6:3; Matthew 21:9 LSB 195

The Words of Our Lord

Matthew 26:26–28; Mark 14:22–24; Luke 22:19–20; 1 Corinthians 11:23–25 LSB 197

P Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night when He was betrayed, took bread,

and when He had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to the disciples

and said: “Take, eat; this is My T body, which is given for you. This do in

remembrance of Me.”

P In the same way also He took the cup after supper, and when He had

given thanks, He gave it to them, saying: “Drink of it, all of you; this cup

is the new testament in My T blood, which is shed for you for the

forgiveness of sins. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of

Me.”

Pax Domini John 20:19 LSB 197


Agnus Dei John 1:29 LSB 198

Please be seated

Distribution

Distribution Hymn LSB 199

380 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

The Dismissal LSB 199

P The body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ strengthen and preserve

you in body and soul to life everlasting. Depart T in peace.

C Amen.



Nunc Dimittis Luke 2:29–32 LSB 199

Thanksgiving Psalm 107:1 LSB 200


Post-Communion Thanksgiving

P Let us pray.

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.

Salutation 2 Timothy 4:22 LSB 201

Benedicamus Psalm 103:1 LSB 202

Benediction Numbers 6:24–26 LSB 202

P The Lord bless you and keep you.

The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you.

The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and T give you peace.


573 Lord, 'Tis Not That I Did Choose Thee

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Acknowledgments

Divine Service, Setting Three from Lutheran Service Book

Unless otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright ©

2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Created by Lutheran Service Builder © 2006 Concordia Publishing House.

T THIS WORSHIP IS ENDED. LET OUR SERVICE BEGIN. T


December 30th

,2018 – January 5th

, 2019

THIS WEEK AT CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH

Coffee Social in the Fellowship Hall after worship! Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. God’s Clothes Closet

Saturday: 9 – 11 am Yard Crew

Sunday: 9:00 a.m. Bible Class / Sunday School

10:00 a.m. Worship w/communion

Coffee Social in the Fellowship Hall after worship! Altar Color: White

Isaiah 60:1-6

Psalm 72:1-11

Ephesians 3:1-12

Holy Gospel Matthew 2:1-12

Birthdays this week:

12/31 Marilyn Wajda 01/03 Janet Grabowski

01/01 Andrew Hendel 01/03 Brigitte Lamberti

Anniversary this week:

01/01 Herbert & Eslene Florio 14 years

Scrip Cards Info:

Scrip Orders will start up again in January.

Advent Coin Folders

Please return your advent coin folders to the box for them in the Narthex.

Flowers:

Given by Lauretta Dorn in memory of her husband Ronald and in memory

of her daughters Yvonne and Denise.

Given by Ann Bjorklund remembering her husband Ron’s 5th year in heaven.

Starting in January, we will be adding “Amen” to

end each hymn we sing as was done in prior

years.


We pray for our members

“Church that is a Family”

Mickey Cook is in Brooksville Healthcare Center for rehab. She has a

fractured clavicle and two toes are fractured from a fall she had. 1114

Chatman Blvd Brooksville FL 34601

Sharon Lowe is home recovering from a

successful knee surgery . We pray for a quick recovery. 3238 Windjammer

Dr. Spring Hill FL 34607

We Pray for our members & Family in the Military

Breanna Crouse (Granddaughter of Henrietta Rice) is in the army stationed

in North Carolina. We pray for God’s comfort in her life.

Stephen & Alexandra Crist are stationed in

England. We pray for God’s care while away from family and friends.


We pray for family and friends

of the Congregation :

Edward Brady (Bob Love’s cousin) is in the Cleveland clinic with serious

heart problems. We pray for his health and recovery.

Gayle Rice (George Rice’s daughter-in-law) had multiple strokes. We pray

for her health and recovery.

Amanda Williamson (Daughter of Dave & Linda Duff) had a successful

surgery removing a cyst. We pray for a quick recovery.

Scott Fuller (son of Fred and Susan Fuller) Recovering from a successful

second hip surgery Please pray for a quick recovery.

Amanda Florio (Bert Florio’s niece) has a rare cancer . Please pray for her

comfort and that she can get the treatment to help her.

Barbara Reedy (Wayne Reedy’s wife) still has lots of problems with her

neuropathy. Some days good then others not so good. We pray for her

health and comfort.

Marie Fulgham (Kathy Colvin’s sister) has female issues. We pray for her

health.

Colleen Porter (Kathy Colvin’s daughter) has female issues. We pray for her

health.

Randy Francisco (Friend of Alan & Tammy Young)

Has throat cancer. We pray for his comfort while going through chemo

and radiation.

Kathy Jasso (sister-in-law of Deb Shepard) has stage 4 lung cancer. We pray

for her health.

Patricia Christianson (Daughter-in-law of Garry & Shirley Welder) is having

more tests since her cancer has spread throughout her body. We pray for

her health and strength.


Weighted

YTD Budget

Actual Gen’l Fund

YTD Giving

Dedicated

In YTD

2018 (Jan - Nov) 2018 (Jan-Nov) 2018 (Jan-Nov)

201,750.00 190,164.62 36,144.57

THOSE WHO ARE SERVING YOU

Pastor: Rev. Paul Meseke [email protected]

Organist: Robin Walter

This Week Jan 6th

Elders: Rick Henry Rick Henry

Acolytes: Hayley Leschner Grace Meseke

Ushers: David Benschneider

Angela Benschneider

Ken Eustice

Margaret Eustice

Phil Huntwork

Carol Huntwork

Janice Beamer

Kathy Colvin

Greeters: Ernie Ohff

Bell Ohff

Brad Colvin

Carol Buenning

Readers: Betty Dunstan Josh Hady

Sound: Phil Huntwork Phil Huntwork

Altar Guild: Rick Henry Rick Henry

Watch for

Lutheran float

in Jan 1 parade!

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