2411 Woodlake Road Denison, Texas 75021 (903) 465-1016 www.glcdenison.org
November 6, 2016 We’re glad you’re here!
Our 8 a.m. service uses the traditional liturgies and hymns of the Lutheran Church. The 10:30 a.m. Worship Service is a more contemporary service, using a variety of formats, instruments and newer songs along with traditional hymns. Please fill out a Family Registration Card with your Prayer Requests. Pass cards to the center aisle so the ushers can collect them. Children are welcome in the worship service. They are invited to the front for a children’s message during the 10:30 a.m. service. A nursery is provided for children 3 and under during the Sunday School and the 10:30 a.m. Service. The ushers will assist you in finding the nursery.
Mission Grace exists to strengthen people in their relationship with Jesus Christ and to empower them to share Jesus with others.
Ministers: Members of Grace Pastor ..... Michael J. Mattil Secretary ..................... Elaine Botka Organist ........ Cheryl Mattil Children’s Minister .... Jeana Parsons
This Week at Grace Today November 6 8:00 a Traditional Worship 9:15 a Sunday School/Bible Class 10:30 a Blended Worship 5:30 p Hand Bells Choir 6:30 p Praise Team Wednesday November 9 11:00 a Ladies Bible Study 1:00 p Quilters 6:00 p Midweek Thursday November 10 6:30 a Men’s Breakfast Bible Study Saturday November 12 6:00 p Family Movie Night Next Sunday November 13 8:00 a Traditional Worship 9:15 a Sunday School/Bible Class 10:30 a Blended Worship 11:45 a LWML Meeting 5:30 p Hand Bells Choir 6:30 p Praise Team
Serving This Week 8:00 a.m. Elders 10:30 a.m. Elders Ushers
David Bentley Josh Velten Dan Williams
Altar Care Nursery Today Nursery Next Week
Robin, Chrissie, April Gilbert Pioneer Camp Group Pioneer Camp Group
Lindel Davis Danny Blackshear
LADIES OF GRACE BIBLE STUDY Ladies of Grace has agreed to continue studies of the Extraordinary women of the Bible. If you'd like a peek ahead, read 2 Kings 11. ALL are welcome to join us Wednesday, November 9, in the Fellowship Hall for prayer, study, sharing, and a luncheon following. Contact Kay at 817-307-8405 for any questions LWML will meet next Sunday, November 13 after the late service, to discuss details of the Swedish Meatball Fundraiser.
Through Operation Christmas Hope our goals is to bring the hope we have in Christ to 1000 children in the Baton Rouge area. Our plan is to provide each child with a hardback copy of Paul L. Maier’s “The Very First Christmas” and a shoe box gift. We are asking you and your church to consider assisting us by providing some shoe box gifts. Each shoe box should contain a gift or gifts valued at between $10 and $15. The gift should be wrapped and a tag with gender (Boy or Girl) and age group (preschool – Kindergarten, 1st – 3rd, and 4th - 6th) should be placed on the top of the box. Gifts need to be delivered to Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, 5851 New York Ave., Arlington, TX 76018 by December 4th.You can call or e-mail David Ricks. (Phone 214-563-5928, e-mail disastercare@bslc.net ). As we search for ways to share information with our members in a timely manner, we are using Remind. This is used by schools to share information with parents. If you would like to receive messages about things going on here at Grace, you can sign up through our website (glcdenison.org) or this link: https://www.remind.com/join You can join as many classes as you wish by using the codes below: @glcden @glcconfirm @glcpray @glcdyouth @glcpt
General News Confirmation Class Prayer Chain Youth Group Praise Team
You can also join through the Remind app, or by texting any of the codes to 81010.
Saturday, November 12 at 6:00 p.m. Family Movie Night A catered meal will be provided. Please sign up on the bulletin board outside the church office so we know how many to plan for dinner. Movie Title: “Facing the Giants”
Worship Service 8:00 10:30 Welcome Opening Hymn LSB566 By Grace I’m Saved Invocation Confession Absolution Psalm 148 Lord have mercy Salutation Prayer Of The Day Exodus 3:1–15 Gradual 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, 13-17 Verse Matthew 20:1-16 Nicene Creed Sermon Hymn TLH374 Grace Tis a Charming Sound Sermon Grace Offertory Offering Offering Hymn LSB805 Praise God Prayer of the Church Preface Holy, Holy, Holy Lord’s Prayer Words of Institution Peace of the Lord Lamb of God Distribution Song of Simeon Thanksgiving Benediction Closing Hymn LSB549 All Hail the Power of Jesus'
Invocation Welcome Opening Song Here I Am To Worship Malachi 3:6-10 Confession Absolution Hymn of Praise Thy Mercy Words of Institution Distribution Hymn LSB547 The Lamb Litany Offering Offering Prayer Prayers of the Church Lord’s Prayer Exodus 3:1–15 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, 13-17 Mathew 20:1-16 Song Amazing Grace/My Chains are Gone Sermon Grace Benediction Closing Hymn LSB783 Take My Life and Let it Be
Exodus 3:1–15 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that
though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ” God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.”
2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, 13-17 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come. Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming…But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying
work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter. May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
Gospel Lesson Matthew 20:1-16 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ So the last will be first, and the first last.” Printed copies of the November Calendar with Birthdays and Anniversaries are available in the Narthex. Current information is always available at www.glcdenison.org. Altar Flowers today are given by Sandra Noth celebrating birthdays of Corine, Tanya, Wynma, Martha, and Samantha. Hand Bells at today at 5:30 p.m. Praise Team practice today 6:30 p.m.