9.28.25 Bulletin & Announcements

Norman Davenport Lutheran Parish

Believe Series Week 2- Personal God

Sunday, September 28, 2025 Pastor Katie Kringstad

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PRELUDE/BELL

WELCOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS: P: “The Lord be with you! R: and also, with you

GATHERING This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. The Holy Spirit calls us together as the people of God.

GATHERING SONG: Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service #712 vs 1-2

SHARING OF THE PEACE

PRAYER OF THE DAY: (unison)

Let us pray. A brief silence is kept before the prayer.

O God, rich in mercy, you look with compassion on this troubled world. Feed us with your grace, and grant us the treasure that comes only from you, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.

Confession and Forgiveness (ELW p. 94).

Kyrie – (ELW p.147)

Canticle of Praise

HOLY COMMUNION

LORD’S PRAYER (unison) -

Apostles’ creed

CHILDREN’S MOMENT

READING: 1 Timothy 6:6-19

⁶ Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment, ⁷ for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it, ⁸ but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. ⁹ But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains. ¹¹ But as for you, man of God, shun all this; pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness. ¹² Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. ¹³ In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you ¹⁴ to keep the commandment without spot or blame until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ which he will bring about at the right time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords. ¹⁶ It is he alone who has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see; to him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. ¹⁷ As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches but rather on God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. ¹⁸ They are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous, and ready to share, ¹⁹ thus storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of the life that really is life.

Psalm: Psalm 23 (responsively)

Leader-The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. ² He makes me lie down in green pastures,

ALL- he leads me beside quiet waters, ³ he refreshes my soul.

Leader- He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.

ALL- ⁴Even though I walk through the darkest valley,^[^a^]Leader- I will fear no evil, for you are with me;

ALL- your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Leader- ⁵You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

ALL- You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Leader- ⁶Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life,

ALL- and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

HYMN OF THE DAY: Will You Let Me Be Your Servant #659 vs1-2

SERMON: Pastor Katie – Believe – 2 Personal God

READING: Matthew 6:25–34

²⁵“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[^a^]? ²⁸“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³²For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

HYMN OF THE DAY: Will You Let Me Be Your Servant #659 vs 3-5

Prayers of Intercession

Gracious God, we come to you in prayer for the church, the world, and all in need. A brief silence.

We pray for the church, that it would remain faithful to the gospel, always striving to serve the needs of those who are oppressed and rejecting the complacency that comes from wealth. God of grace,