RUSHFORD LUTHERAN CHURCH
THE HOLY TRINITY
JUNE 15, 2025
SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICES
Led by: Pastor Steve Chellew
Scripture Reader
8:00 AM: Glen Kopperud
9:15 AM: Shari Michel
Organist
8:00 & 9:15 AM: Robyn Steffens
Projectionist
8:00 AM: Lisa Chellew
9:15 AM: Donny Kjos
Videographer
9:15 AM: June Vitse
Ushers
8:00 AM: Kerry Heiden, Wayne Meyer
9:15 AM: Mike Messenger, Chad Steffens
Altar Guild:
Tesh Kopperud, Ruth Peterson
(9:15 AM SERVICE IS LIVE STREAMED ON YOU TUBE.)
MONDAY COFFEE HOUSE WORSHIP
5:30 PM Led by: Pastor Steve Chellew; Pianist: Portia Lee
PRELUDE
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
GREETING ONE ANOTHER
OPENING HYMN (Please stand) Holy God, We Praise Your Name
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Holy God, we praise your name;
Lord of all, we bow before you,
All on earth your scepter claim,
All in heav’n above adore you.
Infinite your vast domain,
Everlasting is your reign.
Hark! The glad celestial hymn
Angel choirs above are raising;
Cherubim and seraphim,
In unceasing chorus praising,
Fill the heav’ns with sweet accord:
“Holy, holy, holy Lord!”
Lo, the ap-os-tol-ic train
Join your sacred name to hal-low;
Prophets swell the glad re-frain,
And the white-robed martyrs follow;
And from morn to set of sun
Through the Church the song goes on.
Holy Father, Holy Son,
Holy Spirit, three we name you,
Though in es-sence on-ly one;
Un-di-vid-ed God we claim you
And, ador-ing, bend the knee
While we own the mys-ter-y.
INVOCATION
Pastor: In the name of the Father, and of Son + and of the Holy Spirit.
People: Amen.
CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS
Pastor: As we approach our triune God and gather in His majestic name, we draw near with a true heart and confess our sins.
People: Almighty God, maker of all things, judge of all people, we admit and confess our sinfulness.
Pastor: We have turned away from one another in our thinking, speaking, and doing.
People: We have done the evil You forbid and have not done the good You demand. We do repent and are truly sorry for these our sins.
Pastor: Have mercy on us, heavenly Father, because of the obedience of our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son.
People: Forgive us all that is past, and with the power of the Holy Spirit, move us to serve You faithfully. Set our feet upon the new path of life, that we may delight in Your will and walk in Your ways to the glory of Your holy name.
Pastor: For the sake of Jesus innocent suffering and death, God the Father has forgiven you all of your sins. As a called and ordained servant of the Word, I stand in Jesus’ place in order to bring you this good news! Your sins are forgiven. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
People: Amen.
Pastor: God keep you in His grace by the Holy Spirit, lead you to greater faith and obedience, and bring you to live with Him forever, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
People: Amen.
RESPONSIVE PSALM Psalm 8 (ESV)
Pastor: O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
People: Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
Pastor: When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
People: What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Pastor: Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
People: You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
Pastor: All sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
People: The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
Pastor: Whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
People: O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
OLD TESTAMENT (Please be seated) Numbers 14:26-38 (ESV)
Lector: A reading from the book of Numbers, chapter fourteen, verses twenty-six to thirty-eight.
26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27 “How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me. 28 Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, 30 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. 34 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’ 35 I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.” 36 And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land— 37 the men who brought up a bad report of the land—died by plague before the Lord. 38 Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.
Lector: This is the Word of the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
SECOND LESSON Acts 2:22-36 (ESV)
Lector: A reading from the book of Acts, chapter two, verses twenty-two to thirty-six.
22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— 23 this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. 24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. 25 For David says concerning him, “ ‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken; 26 therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope. 27 For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption. 28 You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’ 29 “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, 31 he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. 33 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “ ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, 35 until I make your enemies your footstool.” ’ 36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Lector: This is the Word of the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
HOLY GOSPEL (Please stand) John 14:23-31 (ESV)
Pastor: The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the fourteenth chapter.
People: Glory to You, O Lord.
23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me. 25 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. 28 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, 31 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
Pastor: This is the Gospel of the Lord.
People: Praise to You, O Christ.
HYMN OF THE DAY (Please be seated) Be Thou My Vision
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Be thou my vision,
O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me,
Save that thou art:
Thou my best thought…
By day and by night,
Waking or sleep-ing,
Thy presence my light.
Be thou my wisdom,
And thou my true word;
I ever with thee
And thou with me, Lord.
Thou my soul’s shel-ter,
Thou my high tower,
Raise thou me heav’n-ward,
O Pow’r of my pow’r.
Riches I heed not,
Nor vain, empty praise,
Thou mine inheritance,
Now and always;
Thou, and thou on-ly,
First in my heart,
Great God of heaven,
My treasure thou art.
Light of my soul,
After victory won,
May I reach heaven’s joys,
O heav-en’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart,
What-ever be-fall,
Still be my vision,
O Ruler of all.
TODAY’S MESSAGE
Wandering in the Wilderness: The Story So Far
Numbers 14:26-38 & Selected Verses
PRAYERS OF GOD’S PEOPLE (Please stand)
Pastor: Let us pray for the whole people of God in Christ Jesus, and for all people according to their needs.
Each petition ends with: Lord, in your mercy,
To which we respond: Hear our prayer.
COMMUNION PREPARATION
Pastor: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
Pastor: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them to the Lord.
Pastor: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give Him thanks and praise.
THE WORDS OF OUR LORD (Matthew 26:26–28; Mark 14:22–24; Luke 22:19–20; 1 Corinthians 11:23–25)
Pastor: Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night when He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to the disciples and said: “Take, eat; this is My X body, which is given for you. This do in remembrance of Me.”
In the same way also He took the cup after supper, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying: “Drink of it, all of you; this cup is the new testament in My X blood, which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
PROCLAMATION OF CHRIST
Pastor: As often as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
People: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
Pastor: O Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, in giving us Your body and blood to eat and to drink, You lead us to remember and confess Your holy cross and passion, Your blessed death, Your rest in the tomb, Your resurrection from the dead, Your ascension into heaven, and Your coming for the final judgment. So remember us in Your kingdom and teach us to pray:
LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those
Who trespass against us;
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
And the power and the glory,
Forever and ever. Amen.
CELEBRATION OF HOLY COMMUNION (Please be seated)
COMMUNION HYMN All Creatures of Our God and King
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All creatures of our God and King,
Lift up your voice with us and sing:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
O burning sun with golden beam,
And silver moon with softer gleam:
Oh, praise him! Oh, praise him!
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
O rushing wind and breezes soft,
O clouds that ride the winds aloft:
Oh, praise him! Alleluia!
O rising morn, in praise rejoice,
O lights of evening, find a voice.
Oh, praise him! Oh, praise him!
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
O flow-ing wa-ters, pure and clear,
Make mu-sic for your Lord to hear.
Oh, praise him! Alleluia!
O fire so mas-ter-ful and bright,
Pro-vid-ing us with warmth and light,
Oh, praise him! Oh, praise him!
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Dear moth-er earth, who day by day
Un-folds rich bless-ings on our way,
Oh, praise him! Alleluia!
The fruits and flow’rs that ver-dant grow,
Let them his praise a-bun-dant show.
Oh, praise him! Oh, praise him!
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
O ev’ryone of tender heart,
Forgiving others, take your part,
Oh, praise him! Alleluia!
All you who pain and sorrow bear,
Praise God and lay on him your care.
Oh, praise him! Oh, praise him!
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
And you, most kind and gentle death,
Waiting to hush our final breath,
Oh, praise him! Alleluia!
You lead to heav’n the child of God,
Where Christ our Lord the way has trod.
Oh, praise him! Oh, praise him!
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Let all things their Creator bless,
And worship God in humbleness.
Oh, praise him! Alleluia!
Oh, praise the Father, praise the Son,
And praise the Spirit, Three in One,
Oh, praise him! Oh, praise him!
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
COMMUNION BLESSING (Please stand)
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Pastor: Let us pray. We give thanks to You, almighty God, that You have refreshed our spirits, nourished our faith, and forgiven our sins. Bless our days ahead and keep us sanctified in the truth, that we remain together as one Body in the confession and proclamation of You, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
People: Amen.
BENEDICTION (Numbers 6:24-26)
Pastor: The Lord bless you and keep you.
The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you.
The Lord look upon you with favor and X give you peace.
People: Amen.
DISMISSAL
Pastor: Go in peace. Serve the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
CLOSING HYMN (Please be seated) Father, I Adore You
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Fa-ther, I a-dore You,
Lay my life be-fore You.
How I love You.
Je-sus, I a-dore You,
Lay my life be-fore You.
How I love You.
Spir-it, I a-dore You,
Lay my life be-fore You.
How I love You.
Three In One, I a-dore You,
Lay my life be-fore You.
How I love You.
OFFERING THANK YOU FOR WORSHIPPING WITH US TODAY
All songs and hymns CCLI 11170614. Parts of the liturgy © Creative Worship, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, MO, 1994 to today; or © Lutheran Book of Worship, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Minneapolis, MN, 1978, or © Reclaim Resources, St. Paul, MN, 2013 Scripture references, unless otherwise noted, from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The following individuals have requested prayer:
Family of Marlys Johnson, Alice Sievers, Emily Heiden-Michaelis, Deanna Stennes
Prayer Concerns: Please contact Pastor Steve by emailing steve.chellew@gmail.com or calling 507.703.1221. You may also call the church office at 507-864-7152
Memorial Service for Marlys Johnson will be held on Monday, June 16th, 11:00 a.m., here at Rushford Lutheran. Visitation will be at church from 9:00 to 11:00. Luncheon following.
Highway 30 Concert: has been rescheduled for Sunday, August 17th. Please join us for regular worship this coming Sunday, June 15th or Monday night, June 16th.
Rushford Flower Baskets have been planted in the planters out front. Those wanting to contribute to the planter fund may drop their contribution off at the church office. This may be done in celebration of any event or person in your life. Each planter is $55.00.
CALENDAR
SUNDAY, JUNE 15 THE HOLY TRINITY (FATHER’S DAY)
8:00 AM & 9:15 AM Worship service w/Communion
Coffee served by Miriam Circle-Fellowship Hall
SUPER SUNDAES TO FOLLOW SERVICES IN FELLOWSHIP HALL
10:15 AM Adult Bible Study
MONDAY, JUNE 16
11:00 AM Memorial Service for Marlys Johnson
5:30 PM Coffee House Worship w/Communion
6:30 PM Church Council Meeting
TUESDAY, JUNE 17 YOUTH TRIP TO VALLEYFAIR
4:00 PM Martha Circle Meeting @ RLC
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18
9:00 AM Men’s Helping Hands
9:00 AM Ladies’ Mission Work
SUNDAY, JUNE 22 SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
8:00 AM & 9:15 AM Worship Service
Coffee served by Miriam Circle-Fellowship Hall
6:30 PM Youth Group
NO MONDAY COFFEE HOUSE WORSHIP