Sunday, May 17th

6th Sunday in Easter

Children’s Worship

Sunday School this week is all about Peter. Find this week’s lesson here. The children’s bulletin and worship notes below are intended to be used during the worship service.

Word

Sunday, May 17th, 2020
sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A

First Reading: Acts 17:22-31

In Athens, Paul faces the challenge of proclaiming the gospel to Greeks who know nothing of either Jewish or Christian tradition. He proclaims that the “unknown god” whom they worship is the true Lord of heaven and earth who will judge the world with justice through Jesus, whom God has raised from the dead.

Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,
 ‘For we too are his offspring.’
Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

Ancient Word, Resurrected Wisdom.

Thanks be to God.

Psalm: Psalm 66:8-20

Bless our God, you peoples; let the sound of praise be heard.
 Our God has kept us among the living and has not allowed our feet to slip.
 For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us just as silver is tried.
 You brought us into the net; you laid heavy burdens upon our backs.
 You let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and water,
  but you brought us out into a place of refreshment.
 I will enter your house with burnt offerings and will pay you my vows—
 those that I promised with my lips and spoke with my mouth when I was in trouble.
 I will offer you burnt offerings of fatlings with the smoke of rams; I will give you oxen and goats.
 Come and listen, all you who believe, and I will tell you what God has done for me.
 I called out to God with my mouth, and praised the Lord with my tongue.
 If I had cherished evil in my heart, the Lord would | not have heard me;
 but in truth God has heard me and has attended to the sound of my prayer.
 Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer, nor withheld unfailing love from me.

Second Reading: 1 Peter 3:13-22

The author of 1 Peter encourages Christians to remain faithful even in the face of defamation and persecution. In baptism we are made clean to act in accordance with what is right.

Who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.

Ancient Word, Resurrected Wisdom.

Thanks be to God.

Gospel Acclamation

Sermon

Creed, Prayers, Passing of the Peace

The Creed

We have faith in God who lives among us. We are not alone, we live in God’s world:

We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus,

the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit.

We trust in God. We are called to be the Church:

to celebrate God’s presence, to live with respect in creation,

to love and serve others, to seek peace and resist evil,

to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope.

In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. Thanks be to God!

The Offering

We have a number of ways to participate and contribute when you are unable to attend worship in person. You can make a one-time donation, or manage ongoing giving. You may also chose to use the GivePlus App. Simply download the GivePlus app, and then search for “Holy Spirit Lutheran Church” using our zip code: 98034 (there are two other Holy Spirit Lutheran Churches in the country). Through that app you can also set up one-time or ongoing giving from your phone.

The Meal

All friends and members of the Holy Spirit community are invited to contribute to the visual representation of our praying The Lord’s Prayer together. There are lots of ways to participate, from pictures to karaoke! Find out more at https://www.hslckirkland.org/worship-helpers-wanted.

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PERMISSIONS INFORMATION for Worship May 17th

Song of Praise

Morning Praise:  Opening Dialogue.  Text: J. Tasch Jordan, adapt.  Music:  David Haas.  © 1996 GIA Publications, Inc.  All rights reserved.  Used by permission under OneLicense.net license #A-708353.

God is Alive/Morning Hymn.  Text and Music:  David Haas, b. 1957.  Music: SUMMIT HILL.  © 1987 GIA Publications, Inc.  All rights reserved.  Used by permission under OneLicense.net license #A-708353.

Gospel Acclamation

Now Bless the God of Israel.  Text: Benedictus, Luke 1:68-79, adapted by Ruth Duck, b.1947, © 1992, GIA Publications, Inc. Tune: MELBOURNE, Marty Haugen, b.1950, © 1994, GIA Publications, Inc.  All rights reserved.  Used by permission under OneLicense.net license #A-708353.

Sermon Hymn

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. Text: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788. Music: HYFRYDOL, Rowland Pritchard, 1811-1887. Public Domain. Led by Quarantones Lanell & Eric P and a host of witnesses.

Offertory

His Eye is on the Sparrow. Music by Chas. H. Gabriel, 1905. Associated text byCivilla D. Martin, 1905. Public Domain. Setting and offering by Quarantone Arief A.

The Lord’s Prayer

The Lord’s Prayer.  Traditional Text.  Music:  David Haas, b. 1957.  © 1987 GIA Publications, Inc.  All rights reserved.  Used by permission under OneLicense.net license #A-708353.

Postlude

Dragonfly. Music by Gary Schocker. Offered by Quarantones Lisa H & John S.

Spoken Liturgy

Spoken liturgy from SundaysandSeasons.com, alt., used by permission under Augsburg Fortress License #14006-LIT.  Addition spoken liturgy written by the local community, used by permission of the authors.

Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible © 1989 Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA.  Used by permission.

Quarantone Participation

Many people combined musical skills, joyful noise, and even lip syncing to the creation of today’s congregational songs and hymns! You can add your voice, skills and pictures to worship during this Easter season in a number of ways.  Please visit https://www.hslckirkland.org/worship-helpers-wanted to learn ways we could use your service!