05/28/2006 - "What a Friend We Have in Jesus!"

Date: May 28, 2006
Theme: "What a Friend We Have in Jesus!"
(Pastor John Hein)

THE ORDER OF WORSHIP: See Bulletin

Liturgy: TLH, p 5 ff (Also available on laminated sheet in pew)

Hymns:
WS 738: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (See Insert)
TLH 223: We Thank Thee, Jesus, Dearest Friend
TLH 457: What a Friend We Have in Jesus
TLH 212, st 1, 5-7: A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing

Scripture Readings:
Acts 1:15-26
1 John 4:13-21

Sermon Theme:
"What a Friend We Have in Jesus!"

John 15:12-17
(12) "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. (13) "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. (14) "You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. (15) "No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. (16) "You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and thatyour fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. (17) "These things I command you, that you love one another." (NKJV

05/21/2006 - "Painful and Productive Pruning"

Date: May 21, 2006
Theme: "Painful and Productive Pruning"
(Pastor John Hein)

THE ORDER OF WORSHIP: See Bulletin

Liturgy: TLH, p 5 ff (Also available on laminated sheet in pew)

Hymns:
WS 757: Christ Triumphant, Ever Reigning
TLH 53: Abide, O Dearest Jesus
TLH 411, st 1, 4-7: From Eternity, O God
TLH 412: May We Thy Precepts, Lord, Fulfill

Scripture Readings:
Acts 8:26-40
1 John 3:18-24

Sermon Theme:
"Painful and Productive Pruning"

John 15:1-8
(1) "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. (2) "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branchthat bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. (3) "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. (4) "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. (5) "I am the vine, you arethe branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. (6) "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw theminto the fire, and they are burned. (7) "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. (8) "By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples." (NKJV)

05/14/2006 - "The Good Shepherd Knows His Sheep"

Date: May 14, 2006
Theme: "The Good Shepherd Knows His Sheep"
(Pastor John Hein)

THE ORDER OF WORSHIP: See Bulletin

Liturgy: TLH, p 5 ff (Also available on laminated sheet in pew)

Hymns:
TLH 436: The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (See Insert)
TLH 648: I Am Jesus' Little Lamb
TLH 51: Now May He Who from the Dead

Scripture Readings:
Acts 4:23-33
1 John 3:1-2

Sermon Theme:
"The Good Shepherd Knows His Sheep"

John 10:14-18
(14) "I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep,and am known by My own. (15) "As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. (16) "And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock andone shepherd. (17) "Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. (18) "No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father." (NKJV)

05/07/2006 - "BOLDNESS: EVIDENCE OF THE LORD'S RESURRECTION"

Date: May 7, 2006
Theme: "BOLDNESS: EVIDENCE OF THE LORD'S RESURRECTION"
(Pastor John Hein)

THE ORDER OF WORSHIP: See Bulletin

Liturgy: WS, p 12 ff

Hymns:
TLH 205: The Day of Resurrection
TLH 210: The Strife Is O'er, the Battle Done
WS 769: Lift High the Cross
Distribution Hymns: TLH 192; 206
TLH 189: He Is Risen! Glorious Word!

Scripture Readings:
1 John 1:1-2:2
Luke 24:36-49

Sermon Theme:
"BOLDNESS: EVIDENCE OF THE LORD'S RESURRECTION"

Acts 4:1-14
(1) Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, (2) being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. (3) And they laid hands on them, and put themin custody until the next day, for it was already evening. (4) However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand. (5) And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes, (6) as well as Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. (7) And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, "By what power or by what name have you done this?" (8) Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: (9) "If we this day are judged for a good deed doneto a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, (10) "let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. (11) "This is the 'stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.' (12) "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." (13) Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. (14) And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. (NKJV)