Sunday Worship Service, May 5, 2024, at 10:30 AM MST

AS WE GATHER A treasured children’s song, “I Love to Tell the Story, has a refrain that follows each of the stanzas penned by poet Arabella Katherine Hankey, repeating the simple words: “I love to tell the story; ’Twill be my theme in glory, To tell the old, old story Of Jesus and His love.” The original Greek language in which John wrote his Gospel uses the word “love” either as a noun or a verb some nine times in the section of Jesus’ words heard in the Gospel for today. Jesus wants His disciples and us to know the abiding power of His love. It is that love that compels us to love one another—and the “others” beyond our circles of family, friends, and other close relationships. We are blessed in hearing the “old, old story of Jesus and His love” anew today. May we be blessed in telling it out in love as well!  Bulletin can be found at: https://app.lutheranservicebuilder.co... FIRST READING (People from every nation are accepted by God.) Acts 10:34–48   EPISTLE (The victory of Christ overcomes the world.) 1 John 5:1–8 HOLY GOSPEL (Obeying Christ’s commands and remaining in His love) John 15:9–17 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Creative Worship for the Lutheran Parish, Series B, Quarter 2. Copyright © 2023 Concordia Publishing House. All rights reserved. Used by permission. PRELUDE “Intrada Festiva” Type: Music; Contributors: Dale Wood; All rights reserved. Used with permission under ONE LICENSE #738352-A. PROCESSIONAL HYMN "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus" v.1-3 LSB 660 Text: George Duffield, Jr., 1818–88, alt. Tune: George J. Webb, 1803–87 Text and tune: Public domain ENTRANCE HYMN "If God Himself Be For Me" v.1-2,5 (sung to the tune of LSB 660) Text: Paul Gerhardt, 1607–76; (sts. 1, 5): tr. Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book, 1907, Pittsburgh, alt.; (st. 2): tr. Richard Massie, 1800–87, alt. Text: Public domain SERMON HYMN "I Love to Tell the Story" Tune: William G. Fischer, 1835–1912 Tune: Public domain SERMON RESPONSE “Prelude on ‘Kingsfold’” #1043971 Type: Music; Contributors: John A Behnke, Ralph Vaughan Williams; Tune: © 2010 Lorenz Publishing Company, a division of The Lorenz Corporation (Admin. by Music Services); All rights reserved. Used with permission under ONE LICENSE #738352-A. OFFERTORY “Here I Am, Lord” #hb766 Type: Music; Contributors: Sandra Eithun, Daniel L. Schutte; All rights reserved. Used with permission under ONE LICENSE #738352-A. "We Give Thee But Thine Own" v.1-2 LSB 781 Text: William W. How, 1823–97 Tune: William H. Monk, 1823–89 Text and tune: Public domain DISTRIBUTION HYMNS "Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord" LSB 637 Text: Latin, 7th cent.; tr. John Mason Neale, 1818–66, alt. Tune: Trente quatre Pseaumes de David, 1551, Geneva, ed. Louis Bourgeois Text and tune: Public domain "The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want" LSB 710 Text: The Psalms of David in Meeter, 1650, Edinburgh Tune: William Gardiner, 1770–1853 Text and tune: Public domain "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" LSB 686 Text: Robert Robinson, 1735–90, alt. Tune: Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1813, Harrisburg Text and tune: Public domain "Stay With Us" LSB 879 Text: Herbert F. Brokering, 1926–2009 Tune: Walter L. Pelz, 1926 Text and tune: © 1990 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110005077 RECESSIONAL HYMN "Alleluia! Jesus Is Risen" v.1-4 LSB 474 Text: Herbert F. Brokering, 1926–2009 Tune: David N. Johnson, 1922–87 Text: © 1995 Augsburg Fortress. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110005077 Tune: © 1968 Augsburg Publishing House. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110005077