Holy Cross Day - September 14, 2025

Hope Lutheran Church is a member congregation of The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. Today’s service will follow the order of Divine Service, Setting Two , LSB pp. 167-183. Those attending online, please be sure to sign the online registration form, https://forms.gle/DF9oy5HbqNutMDzk6. Service Leaders Rev. Jacob T. Mueller, Pastor David Cason, Organist Acknowledgments “Cross of Jesus, Cross of Sorrow” Text: William J. Sparrow-Simpson, 1860–1952 Tune: John Stainer, 1840–1901 Text and Tune: Public domain “This is the Feast” Text: John W. Arthur © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Tune: Richard W. Hillert © 1978,1988 Richard W. Hillert. Used by permission. Lutheran Service Book Hymn License #110002193. Alleluia and Verse (“Alleluia, Lord, to whom shall we go”) Text: © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Music: Richard W. Hillert © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Used by permission. Lutheran Service Book Hymn License #110002193. “Sing, My Tongue, the Glorious Battle” Text: Venantius Honorius Fortunatus, c. 530–609; tr. John Mason Neale, 1818–66, alt. Tune: Carl F. Schalk, 1929–2021 Text: Public domain Tune: © 1967 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission. Lutheran Service Book Hymn License #110002193. Offertory (“What shall I render”) Text: © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Tune: Ronald A. Nelson © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Used by permission. Lutheran Service Book Hymn License #110002193. Preface Text: © ICET; liturgical texts. Tune: Ronald A. Nelson © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Used by permission. Lutheran Service Book Hymn License #110002193. Sanctus (“Holy, Holy, Holy”) Text: © ICET; liturgical texts. Tune: Ronald A. Nelson © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Used by permission. Lutheran Service Book Hymn License #110002193. Agnus Dei (“Lamb of God”) Text: © ICET; liturgical texts. Tune: Ronald A. Nelson © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Used by permission. Lutheran Service Book Hymn License #110002193. “Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Savior” Text: John Hus, c. 1369–1415; German version, Martin Luther, 1483–1546; (sts. 1–2, 4–5, 7, 9): tr. The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941, alt.; (sts. 3, 8): tr. Lutheran Service Book, 2006; (sts. 6, 10): tr. F. Samuel Janzow, 1913–2001, alt. Tune: Geistliche Lieder auffs new gebessert, 1533, Wittenberg, ed. Joseph Klug, alt. Text (sts. 3, 6, 8, 10): © 1980 and 2006 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission. Lutheran Service Book Hymn License #110002193. “Christ the Light of All the Living” Text: Ernst Christoph Homburg, 1605–81; tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1827–78, sts. 1–2, 5, 7, alt.; tr. Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book, St. Louis, 1912, sts. 3–4, 6 Tune: Das grosse Cantional, Darmstadt, 1687 Text and music: Public domain “Not What These Hands Have Done” Text: Horatius Bonar, 1808–89 Tune: William H. Monk, 1823–89 Text and Tune: Public domain “Thank the Lord” Text: © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Tune: Ronald A. Nelson © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship. Used by permission. Lutheran Service Book Hymn License #110002193. “Jesus, Refuge of the Weary” Text: Girolamo Savonarola, 1452–98; tr. Jane F. Wilde, 1826–96, alt. Tune: Erbaulicher Musicalischer Christen-Schatz, Basel, 1745; setting: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 Text and music: Public domain Divine Service, Setting Two from Lutheran Service Book © 2006, Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission. Lutheran Service Book Hymn License #110002193. Unless otherwise indicated, all 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.