St. Johns - Weekly Bulletin

 

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
September 6, 2026
 
Divine Service Setting 1 – LSB 151

Hymn: O God of God, O Light of Light                                            LSB 810
Stand

Confession and Absolution

 
Exhortation (p.151)
Corporate Confession (p.151)
 

Service of the Word
 

Introit (responsively)      Psalm 92:1–4; antiphon: v. 5

P  How great are your works, | O Lord!*
                Your thoughts are | very deep!
C  It is good to give thanks | to the Lord,*
                to sing praises to your name, | O Most High;
P  to declare your steadfast love in the | morning,*
                and your faithful- | ness by night,
C  to the music of the lute | and the harp,*
                to the melody | of the lyre.
P  For you, O Lord, have made me glad | by your work;*
                at the works of your hands I | sing for joy.
C  Glory be to the Father and | to the Son*
              and to the Holy | Spirit; 
       as it was in the be- | ginning,*
              is now, and will be forever. | Amen.
P  How great are your works, | O Lord!*
                Your thoughts are | very deep!

Kyrie (p.152)
Hymn of Praise: Gloria in Excelsis (p. 154)

Collect of the Day
P  Let us pray.
O God, from whom all good proceeds, grant to us, Your humble servants, Your holy inspiration, that we may set our minds on the things that are right and, by Your merciful guiding, accomplish them; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
C  Amen.

Sit

Old Testament Reading: Ezekiel 33:7-9
        ⁷“So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. ⁸If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. ⁹But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.”

L  This is the Word of the Lord.
C  Thanks be to God.

Gradual         Psalm 34:9, 19, alt.
C   Fear the Lord, | you his saints,*
             for those who fear him lack | nothing!
       Many are the afflictions of the | righteous,*
             but the Lord delivers him out | of them all.

Epistle: Romans 13:1-10
        ¹Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. ²Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. ³For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, ⁴for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. ⁵Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ⁶For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. ⁷Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
        ⁸Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. ⁹The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁰Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

L  This is the Word of the Lord.
C  Thanks be to God.

Stand
Alleluia (p.156)

Holy Gospel: Matthew 18:1-20
                ¹At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” ²And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them ³and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ⁴Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
                ⁵“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, ⁶but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
                ⁷“Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes! ⁸And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. ⁹And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
                ¹⁰“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. ¹¹For the Son of Man came to save the lost. ¹²What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? ¹³And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. ¹⁴So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
                ¹⁵“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. ¹⁶But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. ¹⁷If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. ¹⁸Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. ¹⁹Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. ²⁰For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

L  This is the Gospel of the Lord.
C  Praise to You, O Christ.

Apostles' Creed (p.159)  

Sit
Hymn of the Day: Lord God, to Thee We Give All Praise           LSB 522
Sermon

Stand
Prayer of the Church
Offering
Offertory (p. 159)
The Lord’s Prayer (p. 162)
Concluding Collect
Benediction     

Sit
Announcements
Hymn: Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus                                           LSB 531
 
Acknowledgments
Divine Service, Setting One from Lutheran Service Book.  Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard
Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Created by Lutheran Service Builder © 2026 Concordia Publishing House.  
Prayers – For the home-bound: Charlotte Scepaniak, Ken Maas, Betty Meints, Lloyd Jerde, Maralyn Hoops, Muriel Pigors, Larry & Sandra Grieben, and Doris Vilhauer.
For those sick, injured, or recovering: Nathaniel Wendt, Michael Wendt, Phyllis Yeske, Kevin Fehn, Daryl Swanhorst, Tom Hanson, Annikki Marttila, Keith Underberg, Doris Larson, Russ Brandt, Kathie Lassanske, Betty Meints, Sheila Christofferson, William Cutler, Keith Jensen, Rachelle Moorman, Rick Grieben, Pastor Jacob Smith, Dan Wolf, and Joyce Hermansen.
For expectant mother Sydney Hammrich.
For the children we sponsor through Mission Haiti: Michelet Voltaire, Michel Djoury, and Orgea Djouna.
For Pastor Andreasen & family, and all our LCMS missionaries.
 
St. John’s
Ushers: Josh & Desa Larson
Next Week: Lyle & Cathi Podoll
Last Week: Attendance – 29; Offering - $1,272

Our Savior
Altar Guild: Sarah Rausch & Rachel Rausch
Acolytes: Caleb Siebert & Aurian Tschappat
Last Week: Attendance – 91
Offering – General Fund $3,970
 
Schedule for the Week
Sunday                St. John’s Service of the Word – 8:00 am
                           St. John’s Bible Study – 9:15 am
                           Our Savior Divine Service – 10:45 am
Monday               Labor Day – Office Closed, No Mat Ladies
Tuesday              Coffee & Confessions – 6:30 am
                           Senior Potluck – 12:00 pm
                           Blood Drive at Our Savior – 3:00-6:30 pm
Wednesday          Catechism Class – 5:00 pm
                           Prayer Service – 6:00 pm
                           Bible Study – 6:30 pm
                           Our Savior Council – 7:30 pm
Saturday              Bible Study – 9:30-11:30 am
Next Sunday        St. John’s Divine Service – 8:00 am
                           Our Savior Sunday School – 9:30 am
                           Our Savior Bible Study – 9:45 am
                           Our Savior Divine Service – 10:45 am
                           Nursery Circle – 12:00 pm