The Sixth Sunday After Epiphany - Online Worship - February 16, 2025
The Sixth Sunday After Epiphany
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Sunday Worship - The Seventh Sunday After Epiphany
”Treasured to Imagine All the People!”
February 23, 2025 - 9:30AM
Faith Quest Sunday School resumes next Sunday!
All are welcome, encouraged to visit the Prayer Cross as moved to do so.
Gathering In Light & Grace
Here I Am to Worship
Hughes
Light of the World
You stepped down into darkness
Opened my eyes
Let me see
Beauty that made
This heart adore You
Hope of a life
Spent with you
refrain:
Here I am to worship
Here I am to bow down
Here I am to say that
You’re my God
You’re altogether lovely
Altogether worthy
Altogether
Wonderful to me
King of all days
Oh so highly exalted
Glorious
In heaven above
Humbly You came
To the earth You created
All for love’s sake
Became poor
(refrain)
And I’ll never know
How much it cost
To see my sin
Up on that cross
And I’ll never know
How much it cost
To see my sin
Up on that cross
(refrain)
Treasuring a New Epiphany in God’s Light & Grace
BASED ON PSALM 147
Today, the One who treasures us first gives us a new epiphany thanks to the One who on every level, blesses us with light and grace, so, here we are to worship, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen. By grace our lives are holy, our hearts are true, hope is ours. I cry to you, Lord, and you hear me. You alone meet me on my level; you bring me out from the depths, and you alone restore me.
People of God: The Lord does hear you; your every prayer, your every confession. Let us take a moment of silence to confess our sins and those times we fail to trust the light and grace of Christ.
(silence for reflection)
Friends in Christ: Sing praises to the Lord, give thanks to his holy name. His anger is for a moment, while his favor is for a lifetime. Our new epiphany in grace is clear on every level: Jesus saves, Jesus forgives you all your sins. Forever glorify the Lord in your life on every level!
Song of Renewal
Be Glorified
Kilpatrick
vs. 1
In my life Lord
Be glorified
Be glorified
In my life Lord
Be glorified today
By your favor, O Lord, you help us, you comfort us, you save us; you have established us as strong as the mountains. We praise you on every level for your faithfulness and grace!
Friends of Jesus: The Lord forever hears your prayer; he turns your mourning into dancing. Trust anew, God’s Word! In light and grace, get up, do not be silent; glorify the Lord in your heart on every level!
Song of Renewal
Be Glorified
Kilpatrick
vs. 2
In my heart Lord
Be glorified
Be glorified
In my heart Lord
Be glorified today
The Lord is our strength and hope in the midst of trouble, we will not be moved. The One who treasures us first is faithful on every level; we will forever glorify his holy name!
As God’s people and God’s Holy Church: Give thanks for every epiphany, for God is making Jesus known on every level! May God’s Church forever glorify God’s light and grace!
Song of Renewal
Be Glorified
Kilpatrick
vs. 3
In Your Church Lord
Be glorified
Be glorified
In Your Church Lord
Be glorified today
Almighty and loving God, as Jesus met those around him on every level; come to us, call out to us, fill us by your Spirit with a new life long epiphany of light and grace to glorify you alone. Teach us and touch us on every level, as you and your greatness fill us. Enter your Church, our worship, our hearts, and lives, to lift up our voices, to treasure first, to glorify first, our God, in new ways on every level. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.
Faith Quest Sunday School meets today!
The Old Testament
JEREMIAH 17:5–10
Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord. They shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. They shall be like a tree planted by the water, sending out its roots by the stream. It shall not fear when heat comes, and its leaves shall stay green; in the year of drought it is not anxious, and it does not cease to bear fruit. The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse – who can understand it? I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.
(New Revised Standard Version)
The New Testament
1 CORINTHIANS 15:12–20
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ – whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died.
(New Revised Standard Version)
Song of Light & Grace
He Is Exalted
Paris
He is exalted
The King is exalted on high
I will praise Him
He is exalted
Forever exalted
And I will praise His name
He is the Lord
Forever His truth shall reign
Heaven and earth
Rejoice in His holy name
He is exalted
The King is exalted on high
(repeat)
He is exalted
The King is exalted on high
Gospel
LUKE 6:17–26
Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them. Then Jesus looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets. But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.”
(New Revised Standard Version)
Song of Life & Grace Anew
I Was There To Hear Your Borning Cry
Ylvisaker
I was there to hear your borning cry
I’ll be there when you are old
I rejoiced the day you were baptized
To see your life unfold
The Sacrament of Holy Baptism for Wyatt Dana House
Stating Our Faith in God “The Apostles’ Creed”
Do you believe in God The Father?
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
Do you believe in Jesus Christ, The Son of God?
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
Do you believe in God The Holy Spirit?
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen.
Welcoming The Newly Baptized
Through Holy Baptism, God has made Wyatt Dana a new brother member of the priesthood we all share in Christ Jesus, that we may proclaim the praise of God and bear his creative and redeeming word to all the world.
We welcome you into the Lord’s family. We receive you as a fellow member of the body of Christ, a child of the same heavenly Father, and a worker with us in the kingdom of God. Amen.
Song of Life & Grace Anew
I Was There To Hear Your Borning Cry
Ylvisaker
I was there to hear your borning cry
I’ll be there when you are old
I rejoiced the day you were baptized
To see your life unfold
Treasured on This and Every Level
JEREMIAH 17:5-10; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:12-20; LUKE 6:17-26
`Do you get it?' `I didn't understand one thing they said.' `That guy talked way over my head.' Do you ever feel this way? Have you been in situations where you want to understand, and yet the person doing the explaining is talking on a different plain? One of the keys to being a good teacher is being able to relate the material to one's students. To present the material on the level of the listener. In Luke this morning, we read that Jesus, "came down with them and stood on a level place." Our Epiphany today is, the One who treasures us first, comes and stands with us, to meet us on this and every level. Though Jesus' ways are contrary to the world, he wants nothing to go over our heads. The Spirit fills us with light and grace to believe anew Emmanuel is forever with us on every level!
1. The One who treasures us first, comes down on our level, to help us understand him, to reveal himself, to believe and to see him, to fill us with light and grace. Luke 6:17 - "Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place,..."
A. Jesus, in his ministry, met people on every level, to teach, to preach, to heal, to forgive, to restore, to save.
i. Jesus told parables about things we can relate to.
ii. Jesus used miracles in the midst of real life events.
iii. Jesus cried with those he loved.
iv. Jesus sat down with those who were excluded.
v. Jesus faced death on our level.
B. The One who treasures us first, comes down on our level to fill us with light and grace so we might be touched by his power and presence.
Luke 6:19 - "All in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them."
i. Emmanuel is forever with us; Jesus' power and presence are with us even when we cannot see him or touch him.
ii. The sacraments of baptism and communion, bring Christ's power and presence to our level.
iii. The Holy Spirit comes to us; we receive Christ on our level.
iv. The blessing of God’s people, fellow believers, is an epiphany God uses to touch us with light and grace on this and every level.
2. Though Jesus' ways are contrary to the world, The Spirit fills us with light and grace as Jesus brings his message to us on every level.
A. The Beatitudes make no sense to us in this world. The summary-like version of the Beatitudes (from Matthew 5) given in Luke 6:20-26 help us believe and see just how different God does things, how different we are in Christ.
B. That the dead would rise and the sinner would be forgiven, are a new level for us. This is the promise Jesus brings to us on every level.
1 Corinthians 15:13-18.
C. The Holy Spirit fills us with light and grace to live with faith and hope and assurance on a new level.
Jeremiah 17:5-10
3. The Holy Spirit fills us in Jesus Christ to give us a new epiphany on this and every level: God does things differently to break into our lives, to make clear, the One who treasures us first, touches us, graces us, saves us!
Offering is available for our indoor services. Find a Lord of Life with a volunteer bucket to deposit offering in person as you leave worship today. If you find yourself wanting to offer your gifts to Lord of Life, you can do so online using the link below. You can also drop offering at anytime in our secure mailbox at Lord of Life located in the parking lot.
Song Anew in Light & Grace
Cry of My Heart
Butler
refrain:
It is the cry of my heart
To follow You
It is the cry of my heart
To be close to You
It is the cry of my heart
To follow
All of the days of my life
vs. 1
Teach me Your holy ways O Lord
So I can walk in Your truth
Teach me Your holy ways O Lord
And make me wholly devoted to You
(refrain)
vs. 2
Open my eyes so I can see
The wonderful things that You do
Open my heart up more and more
And make me wholly devoted to You
(refrain twice)
All of the days of my life
All of the days of my life
... as we pray to you, Jesus,
Bless us with a new epiphany, in your treasured light and grace.
All these things and whatever else you see we need, grant to us we pray, for into your hands, O Lord, we commend all for whom we pray, trusting in your mercy through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Holy Communion will take place during our service. If you are not worshipping with us in person but would like to receive Communion, we will be offering Drive Through Communion at our building at 16200 Dodd Lane, Lakeville, Minnesota, following our indoor service. Drive Through Communion will be available between 10:15am & 10:30am.
For those worshiping with us in person, we receive communion through intinction; that is, you will receive the bread, the host, then dip into the glass of choice, either a red wine in the chalice closest to the host, or in a light colored non-alcoholic grape juice. All are welcome.
We also offer gluten free and pre-packaged options. Please take these options before arriving at the host to receive a blessing.
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.
Carol During Holy Communion
I Will Follow
Tomlin
Where You go I’ll go
Where You stay I’ll stay
When You move I’ll move
I will follow
All Your ways are good
All Your ways are sure
I will trust in You alone
Higher than my sight
High above my life
I will trust in You alone
refrain:
Where You go I’ll go
Where You stay I’ll stay
When You move I’ll move
I will follow You
Whom You love I’ll love
How You serve I’ll serve
If this life I lose
I will follow You
Yeah
I will follow You
Yeah
Light unto the world
Light unto my life
I will live for You alone
You’re the One I seek
Knowing I will find
All I need in You alone
In You alone
(refrain)
bridge:
In You there’s life everlasting
In You there’s freedom for my soul
In You there’s joy unending joy
And I will follow
(refrain)
I will follow You yeah
I will follow You yeah
The body and blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, strengthen you and keep you in his grace this day, and on into life everlasting.
Amen.
Let us pray.
Pour out upon us the spirit of your love, O Lord, and unite the wills of those whom you have fed with one heavenly food; through Jesus Christ, the Lord of life. Amen.
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 give you peace, for you are blessed with every epiphany in God’s treasured light and grace in the One who treasures you first! In the name of The Father, and of The Son, and of The Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Let us go in the peace of Christ, celebrating the love of God, and serving The Lord of life.
Thanks be to God!
Going Anew in Light & Grace
Everywhere I Go
Timmons
refrain:
Ev’rywhere I go
On this road
High and low
Where I go I go with You
So I won’t be afraid
This is my hope
Come what may
Where I go I go with You
Where I go I go with You
vs. 1
There’s a city
That calls me by name
There’s a city
That calls me by name
Yes as I run this race
I am cheered by the saints
There’s a city
That calls me by name
vs. 2
There’s a future
That runs through my veins
There’s a future
That runs through my veins
And there’s nothing on earth
That can stand in the way
There’s a future
That runs through my veins
(refrain)
bridge:
Your breath upon these bones
Your fire in my soul
Your Kingdom is my home
And I don’t walk alone
Ev’rywhere I go
On this road high and low
Where I go I go with You
So I won’t be afraid
This is my hope
Come what may
Where I go I go with You
Ev’rywhere I go
On this road
High and low
Where I go I go with You
So I won’t be afraid
This is my hope
Come what may
Where I go I go with You
Where I go I go with You
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This Sunday, February 16th, we celebrate The Sixth Sunday After Epiphany, “Treasured On This And Every Level!” Faith Quest, Sunday School meets! Through The Sacrament Of Holy Baptism, today we welcome Wyatt Dana House into the Christian family. We pray God’s blessings on Wyatt every day as he walks in the light and promise of Jesus Christ! Wyatt’s sponsors and Godparents are Jared and Nicole Violette.
Next Sunday, February 23rd, 9:30 a.m., we celebrate The Seventh Sunday After Epiphany, “Treasured To Imagine All The People!” Faith Quest, Sunday School meets!
As we share our worship, we give thanks for every volunteer as you bless our ministry, greeting, ushering, nursery, serving communion, live streaming, AV ministry, set up, clean up, fellowship, worship leaders, and more! You can access details and ways to sign up on our website and Facebook page! Thank you!
Friends, today as always, all who proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, are welcome to God’s table of grace as we share Holy Communion. For those sharing their generosity today, we thank you for your faithful giving! Offering is collected in baskets by the ushers as you exit the sanctuary.
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From everyone on every level of leadership and service, we continue to pray for you and to give thanks to God for each of you! Please contact Pastor Jamie if he can serve you in any way: jamie.thompson@lordoflifemn.org
We pray The Holy Spirit breathes anew on us to be God’s people and to be God’s Church, as together we make known and we trust anew God’s gifts of hope, peace, justice, clarity, calm, and comfort forever break forth in new ways for you and your loved ones, today, and as we share every gift of God’s light, love and grace!
Acknowledgments for today’s service include:
Litany Treasuring A New Epiphany In God’s Light & Grace, written based on Psalm 30. “I Was There To Hear Your Borning Cry,” © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW) and With One Voice Hymnal Supplement © 1995 Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis & Board of Publication, Lutheran Church In America, Philadelphia; and Evangelical Lutheran Worship © 2006 by Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis, MN. Used with permission. “Prayer of The Day,” “Lord’s Prayer,” “Post-Communion Blessing, Prayer, & Benediction,” based on the LBW. “Here I Am To Worship” © 2000 Thankyou Music CCLI #3266032 “In My Life, Lord, Be Glorified” © 1999 This Far by Faith; An African American Resource for Worship, Augsburg Fortress, All rights reserved. Used with permission. “Jesus Loves Me” © Words and Music Public Domain, CCLI #4771887 “He Is Exalted” © 1985 Mountain Spring Music CCLI #17827 “Cry of My Heart” © 1991, this arr. © 1997 Mercy/Vineyard Publishing CCLI #844980 “I Will Follow” © 2010 SHOUT! Music Publishing CCLI #5806878 “Everywhere I Go” © All Essential Music CCLI #7050066 All rights reserved. All songs used with permission. CCLI License #1380826 & OneLicense #A-724016.