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Order of Service - Pg. 15 Hymn # 36 "Now Thank We All Our God" Hymn #569 "O Lord, I Sing With Lips and Heart" Hymn #398 "Renew Me, O Eternal Light" Readings Jeremiah 17:13-14 Galatians 5:16-24 St. Luke 17:11-19 Collect for Trinity 14 Keep, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy Church with Thy perpetual mercy; and because the frailty of man without Thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by Thy help from all things hurtful and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghhost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. Sermon on the Gospel Lesson 1)          Look at what faith does. Here are ten lepers standing far off from the Lord, keeping their distance so as to not infect anyone else with their terrible contagion. They ought to men of a hopeless demeanor. Having leprosy is a living death. Every day your disease eats away at your very flesh. Having...

Order of Service - Pg. 15 Hymn #344 Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs Hymn #417 How Can I Thank Thee, Lord Hymn #375 If Thy Beloved Son, O God Readings Leviticus 18:1-5 Galatians 3:15-22 St. Luke 10:23-37 Collect for the 13th Sunday after Trinity Almighty and Everlasting God, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity, and that we may obtain that which Thou dost promise, make us to love that which Thou dost command; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. Sermon on the Holy Gospel 1)         Jesus is the Good Samaritan. Without that understanding this Gospel lesson makes no sense. We might think it makes perfect sense because Jesus ends with the words, Go and do likewise. Many have imagined that those final words of Jesus show us the entire point of the parable. Go from this place and be the Good Samari...

Order of Service - Pg. 15 Hymn #3 Lord Jesus Christ, Be Present Now Hymn #30 O That I Had a Thousand Voices Hymn #26 Praise the Almighty, My Soul Adore Him Readings Isaiah 29:18-19 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 St. Mark 7:31-37 Collect for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity Almighty and Merciful God, of Whose only gift it cometh that Thy faithful people do unto Thee true and laudable service, grant, we beseech Thee, that we may so faithfully serve Thee in this life that we fail not finally to attain Thy heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. Sermon on the Epistle 1)          St. Paul writes, “ For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. ” ( 2 Corinthians 3:9 ) St. Paul is comparing the Law and the Gospel, the ministry of Moses and the ministry of Jesus. He says that...