St Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
313 4th St, Manistee, MI 49660-2901
website: stpaulsmanistee.com
facebook.com/SPLCManistee
Telephone: 231-299-1022
Pentecost 15 - Sept 18, 2022 Theme Humility
Prayer Before Worship – Lord, please motivate me to serve you with my whole life.
Hymn 231
Common Service, page 15, front of hymnal
Prayer: O Lord Jesus Christ,/ preserve the congregation of believers with Your never-failing mercy. Help us avoid whatever is wicked & harmful, / & guide us in the way that leads to our salvation; for You live & reign with the Father & the Holy Spirit,/ one God, now & forever.
(Sing) Amen.
Epistle: Hebrews 13: 1-8
We serve the Lord by living our lives for the benefit of (loving) the people around us
13 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. 2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. 3 Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. 4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” 6 So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” 7 Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Replace Psalm with Hymn 779
Gospel: Luke 14: 1, 7-14
Christians are humble and generous without thought of repayment.
14 One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. 7 When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: 8 “When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. 9 If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. 10 But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that
when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests. 11 For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” 12 Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Apostles' Creed, pg 19
Hymn 397
Sermon: Old Testament Lesson: Proverbs 25: 6,7
Self-exaltation has no place in the life of God’s child.
6 Do not exalt yourself in the king’s presence, and do not claim a place among his great men; 7 it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than for him to humiliate you before his nobles.
Theme: What are you worth?
1. On your own
{Lev 19:2}“Be holy because I the LORD your God am holy.”
2. In Christ Jesus
Jeremiah. (9:24) “Let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth.”
(2 Cor 12:9) “Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power my rest on me.”
1 Cor 1:31: “Let him who boasts, boast in the LORD.”
Human beings on our own - _______________
Human beings in Christ - _________________
Thankoffering
The members of St Paul's have joined together to do the Lord’s work in this area & around the world. Visitors need not feel obligated to participate in this offering which supports our church’s ministry.
Prayer of the church, pg 127
Special Prayers
Lord's Prayer, pg 20
Hymn 491
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