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New Year’s Eve December 31, 2019

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PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 8240 Blue Ridge Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri 64138 [email protected] www.peacelutheranlcms.org

Office: 816-353-3813 Fax: (844) 272-8926

Grow in Peace Child Care Center: (816) 353-3910

PRAYER UPON ENTERING CHURCH

Father, when I lean on my own understanding I fall prey to

thinking in the natural and limit the work of the supernatural.

But when I trust You with all my heart I leave no room for

second guessing. Today I want to acknowledge Your

presence in every area of my life…family, work, relationships,

health, intellect and every other area of my life. You will bring

to pass the plans You have for me as I wholeheartedly trust

You for all that concerns me and those I love. Amen. REGARDING HOLY COMMUNION

The Lord’s Supper is celebrated at this congregation in the

confession and glad confidence that, as he says, our Lord gives

into our mouths not only bread and wine but his very body and

blood to eat and to drink for the forgiveness of sins and to

strengthen our union with him and with one another. Our Lord

invites to his table those who trust his words, repent of all sin,

and set aside any refusal to forgive and love as he forgives and loves us, that

they may show forth his death until he comes. Because those who eat and drink

our Lord’s body and blood unworthily do so to their great harm and because

Holy Communion is a confession of the faith which is confessed at this altar, any

who are not yet instructed, in doubt, or who hold a confession differing from that

of this congregation and The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, and yet desire

to receive the sacrament, are asked first to speak with the pastor before the

service. (If time does not permit this, please speak with the pastor immediately

following the service and an additional communion time can be made

available specifically for you.)

We pray for a speedy return of our Risen Lord and Savior so that these times of

division may cease, and we can all join together in the communion and

fellowship of all Christians in heaven.

NOTE: In the center of each communion tray are a few glasses with non-

alcohol wine for those who are on alcohol restrictive medications or wish to

abstain from alcohol for personal reasons.

Title Name Phone Pastor David M. Rolf (816) 730-8923

Dir. Child Care Carla Hamilton (816) 353-3910

Music Director Luke Nicolay (316) 655-9364

Maintenance Dave Ferber (816) 803-9714

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New Year’s Eve Service

Evening Prayer, page 243

December 31, 2019

Prelude

Welcome, Announcements and Opening Prayer

T Service of Light T

Opening Hymn 368 “Angels We Have Heard on High”

1 Angels we have heard on high,

Sweetly singing o’er the plains,

And the mountains in reply,

Echoing their joyous strains.

ref Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

2 Shepherds, why this jubilee?

Why your joyous strains prolong?

What the gladsome tidings be

Which inspire your heav’nly song?

3 Come to Bethlehem and see

Him whose birth the angels sing;

Come, adore on bended knee

Christ the Lord, the newborn King.

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Phos Hilaron – Hymn of Light

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Thanksgiving for Light

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P Let us pray

P Let the incense of our repentant prayer ascend before You,

O Lord, and let Your loving-kindness descend on us that,

with purified minds, we may sing Your praises with the

Church on earth and the whole heavenly host and may

glorify You forever.

C Amen

Old Testament Reading Isaiah 30:15–17

15For 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, 16and you said,

“No! We will flee upon horses”;

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therefore you shall flee away;

and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”;

therefore your pursuers shall be swift. 17A 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.

P This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

Epistle Romans 8:31b–39

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.

P This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

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Holy Gospel Luke 12:35–40

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

chapter.

C Glory to You, O Lord.

[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.

C Praise to You, O Christ.

Sermon Hymn 388 "Go Tell It on the Mountain"

ref Go tell it on the mountain,

Over the hills and ev’rywhere;

Go tell it on the mountain

That Jesus Christ is born!

1 While shepherds kept their watching

O’er silent flocks by night,

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Behold, throughout the heavens

There shone a holy light. Refrain.

2 The shepherds feared and trembled

When lo, above the earth

Rang out the angel chorus

That hailed our Savior’s birth. Refrain.

3 Down in a lonely manger

The humble Christ was born;

And God sent us salvation

That blessèd Christmas morn. Refrain.

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Sermon “Christ-Esteem”

Romans 8: 31b-39

Offering

Prayer of the Church

P In peace, P …. let us pray to the Lord.

C Lord, have mercy.

P Recalling God’s goodness in ages past and living in

hope and anticipation of that day when He shall

come again in His glory, let us bring these prayers to

His throne of grace in the name of Jesus Christ, our

Lord.

C Amen.

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T SERVICE OF THE SACRAMENT T

Preface

P It is truly good, right, and salutary … evermore praising

You and saying:

Sanctus

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Prayer of Thanksgiving

P Blessed are You, Lord of heaven and earth, for You have

had mercy on those whom You created and 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.

Gathered in the name and the remembrance of Jesus,

we beg You, O Lord, to forgive, renew, and strengthen

us with Your Word and Spirit. Grant us faithfully to eat His

body and drink His blood as He bids us do in His own

testament. Gather us together, we pray, from the ends

of the earth to celebrate with all the faithful the marriage

feast of the Lamb in His kingdom, which has no end.

Graciously receive our prayers; deliver and preserve us.

To You alone, O Father, be all glory, honor, and worship,

with the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and

forever.

C Amen.

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Lord's Prayer

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;

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.

The Words of Our Lord

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.”

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Pax Domini

Agnus Dei

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Distribution

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Distribution Hymns 384 "Of the Father's Love Begotten"

1 Of the Father’s love begotten

Ere the worlds began to be,

He is Alpha and Omega,

He the source, the ending He,

Of the things that are, that have been,

And that future years shall see

Evermore and evermore.

2 Oh, that birth forever blessèd,

When the virgin, full of grace,

By the Holy Ghost conceiving,

Bore the Savior of our race,

And the babe, the world’s Redeemer,

First revealed His sacred face

Evermore and evermore.

3 This is He whom seers in old time

Chanted of with one accord,

Whom the voices of the prophets

Promised in their faithful word.

Now He shines, the long-expected;

Let creation praise its Lord

Evermore and evermore.

4 O ye heights of heav’n, adore Him;

Angel hosts, His praises sing.

Pow’rs, dominions, bow before Him

And extol our God and King.

Let no tongue on earth be silent,

Ev’ry voice in concert ring

Evermore and evermore.

5 Christ, to Thee, with God the Father,

And, O Holy Ghost, to Thee

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Hymn and chant and high thanksgiving

And unending praises be,

Honor, glory, and dominion,

And eternal victory

Evermore and evermore. Amen.

374 "Gentle Mary Laid Her Child"

1 Gentle Mary laid her child

Lowly in a manger;

There He lay, the Undefiled,

To the world a stranger.

Such a babe in such a place,

Can He be the Savior?

Ask the saved of all the race

Who have found His favor.

2 Angels sang about His birth,

Wise Men sought and found Him;

Heaven’s star shone brightly forth

Glory all around Him.

Shepherds saw the wondrous sight,

Heard the angels singing;

All the plains were lit that night,

All the hills were ringing.

3 Gentle Mary laid her child

Lowly in a manger;

He is still the Undefiled

But no more a stranger.

Son of God of humble birth,

Beautiful the story;

Praise His name in all the earth;

Hail the King of glory!

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Benedicamus

Benediction

Closing Hymn 805 "Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow"

1 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host:

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Amen.

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