Bulletin: November 3, 2024

First Lutheran Church                                                                All Saints Day
PO Box 153 - 240 Elm Street West                                             November 3, 2024          
Amery, WI   715-268-7135                                                            www.flcamery.org
Our mission is to know Jesus and to make Jesus known. Jn. 17    

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS

HYMN:  Shall We Gather at the River……………………..Red 423

CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS

HYMN: Soon and Very Soon………………………………Red 439

PSALM 24 The earth is the LORD's and all that is in it, the world and all who dwell therein.  For it is he who founded it upon the seas and made it firm upon the rivers of the deep.  "Who can ascend the hill of the LORD and who can stand in his holy place?" "Those who have clean hands and a pure heart, who have not pledged themselves to falsehood, nor sworn by what is a fraud. They shall receive a blessing from the LORD and a just reward from the God of their salvation."  Such is the generation of  those who seek him, of those who seek your face, O God of Jacob.  Lift up your heads, O gates; lift them high, O everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.   "Who is this King of glory?" "The LORD, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle." Lift up your heads, O gates; lift them high, O everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.   "Who is he, this King of glory?" "The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.”

GREETING

KYRIE-Red 157, Now the Feast- Red 167 Marty Haugen

PRAYER: Almighty God, your people are knit together in one communion in the mystical body of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Grant us grace to follow your blessed saints in lives of faith and commitment, and to know the inexpressible joys you have prepared for those who love you, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, whom with you and the Holy Spirit we worship and praise, one God, now and forever.  Amen.

Isaiah 25:6-9 On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death forever. Then the Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken. It will be said on that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 

Revelation 21:1-6a I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away." And the one who was seated on the throne said, "See, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true." Then he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end."

REMEMBERING THE SAINTS,

HYMN: Behold the Host………………………………….Red 425

GOSPEL: John 11:32-44 Through the raising of Lazarus, Jesus offers the world a vision of the life to come, when death and weeping will be no more. When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me." When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

APOSTLES’ CREED

CHILDREN COME FORWARD

SERMON

OFFERING

PRAYERS

CELEBRATION OF HOLY COMMUNION
For All the Saints- Rd 422,  Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness Rd 396, Music

BENEDICTION

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