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SEASONS OF THE CHURCH YEAR

 

EPIPHANY SEASON: 

THE FIFTH SUNDAY after THE EPIPHANY

 

The Church Year is divided into Festivals beginning with Christmas, which includes  4 Sundays in Advent and Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  This is followed by Epiphany Season which begins with the Epiphany of Our Lord and ends 9 Sundays later with the Transfiguration of Our Lord.  The Time of Easter follows beginning with Lent, followed by Holy Week starting with Palm Sunday and concludes with Good Friday.  Easter Season begins with the Resurrection of Our Lord and includes the Ascension of Our Lord  and ends with PENTECOST.  

The first PENTECOST took place on the 50th day after Easter Sunday when the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, enabling them to testify boldly to spread the Good News of the Gospel. 

This Sunday we observe THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY.

THE SERMON TEXT:  2025 Feb 09

Isaiah 6:1-8 NIV

6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;
   the whole earth is full of his glory.”

4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”

8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”

And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

THE DIVINE SERVICE: A GUIDE CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION + A RESOURCE FROM THE LUTHERAN WITNESS

Confession and Absolution

WE ARE WELCOMED INTO GOD’S PRESENCE.

Definition The Invocation calls on God’s name. He delights to be present among us to bestow His gifts. Because the Invocation uses God’s name, it also reminds us that He sealed us with His name in Holy Baptism, using these words: “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

The Confession and Absolution answers the accusation frequently made of Christians: “Aren’t you all hypocrites?” From the outset, we are honest before God and one another, confessing our sins and receiving forgiveness from Him. Martin Luther writes: “Everything, therefore, in the Christian Church is ordered toward this goal: we shall daily receive in the Church nothing but the forgiveness of sin through the Word and signs [Sacraments], to comfort and encourage our consciences as long as we live here” (LC II 55).

From God’s Word Invocation (LSB p. 184): God gives us His Triune name in His command to baptize (MATT. 28:19). Jesus sent His apostles to baptize “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” The church invokes God’s name because Jesus promised that “where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them” (MATT. 18:20). Solomon’s prayer of dedication for the temple trusts God’s promise that where His name is, there He is present among His people in a unique and saving way (1 KINGS 8:29).

Confessional Address (LSB p. 184): This address leads into the rite of Confession and Absolution. The pastor addresses the congregation in preparation for confessing their sins so that they may “draw near with a true heart” (HEB. 10:22). We draw near not because of the blood of bulls and goats, but because of the blood of Christ, shed for us (HEB. 9:11–14).

Excerpts from the Lutheran Witness, Worship

SERMON THEME for The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany:

Facets of Worship

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SERMON  HYMN:

Holy, Holy, Holy

Author: Reginald Heber (1826)

1. Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
Holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

2. Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore thee,
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea.
Cherubim and seraphim, falling down before thee,
Who was and is and evermore shall be.

3. Holy, Holy, Holy! though the darkness hide thee,
Though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see,
Only thou art holy; there is none beside thee,
Perfect in pow'r, in love, and purity.

4. Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy name, in earth, and sky, and sea;
Holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity.

Hear the Sermon on YouTube

(posted shortly after the Service but not live streamed)

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Services follow the liturgical order of worship which Christians have used historically.

Our music is traditional style, using Lutheran Worship and other sources.

The Gospel is central to our worship, and God comes to us through His Word and Sacraments  for forgiveness of sins, life and eternal salvation.

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