Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, through remembering our Baptisms, hearing Your Word, and receiving the Lord’s Supper, fill us to overflowing with Your love, acceptance, and forgiveness. Send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts and minds through this Service, so that we are renewed and re-energized to go into our community as beacons of confidence, courage, and concern. We ask in Jesus’ precious name, the Same who lives with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, we pray that You would feed us with the Bread of Heaven today and that You would satisfy our deep hunger for a Life that has meaning and significance. We ask in the name of Jesus, the Bread of Life, and the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, patience is hard for us; therefore, we ask that You send Your Holy Spirit to create within us a desire to bear patiently our neighbors’ foibles and faults and to be gracious and forgiving with them. Also, enable us to endure suffering, especially unjust suffering, and, in the midst of such suffering to pray, “Thy will be done!” We ask in the name of Jesus, who is very patient with us and who patiently endured suffering for our sake. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, send Your Holy Spirit to teach us, first of all, that there are storms we cannot survive apart from Jesus. And, secondly, send Your Holy Spirit to impart a faith to us that trusts in Jesus as, not only, the Lord of the storm, but also, trusts Him as the Lord who has redeemed us, purchased and won us from all sin, from the fear of death, and from the deceptions of the devil. We ask in the name of Jesus, the One who pilots us through the ultimate storm because He endured it for us, and the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, in this Ash Wednesday Service, may we see Jesus’ example of gentle service; but, more than that, through Jesus’ words about what His example means and through Paul’s words about how we are led by the Spirit, give us the desire and the power to gently serve others. We ask in the name of Jesus, who is gentle and humble in heart. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, send Your Holy Spirit through the message of Jesus’ death and resurrection that we might experience the glory of real and eternal Life today, tomorrow, and forever. We ask in the name of Jesus, the point and purpose of all of Holy Scripture, and the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, we are weary of this world’s struggles and of our attempts to acquire rest by ourselves. Through the message of Your dear Son’s death for our sins and resurrection for our justification give us new and eternal Life right now, life free of the fear of judgment today, and free from the anxiety of being judged on the Last Day. We ask in the name of Him who died the death we deserved and and was raised to Life that we might be given present and eternal Life, free of any accusation, the Same Christ Jesus who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, send Your Holy Spirit through the message of Jesus’ death and resurrection that our soul thirst might be satisfied to such an extent that out of the depths of our being a rushing river of living water flows, quenching the thirst in our families, in our friends, in our communities, yes, and, even in our thirsting world. We ask in the name of Jesus, the Source of living water, and the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, we experience Your just verdict of condemnation for the wrong, hurtful, and self-justifying sins we repeatedly and frequently commit. But, because Jesus took our condemnation on Himself at the cross, forgive us and renew us in Your unconditional love. We ask in the name of Him who died the death we deserved, the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, send Your Holy Spirit that we might look and see Jesus dying on the cross for us, and, thus, be totally renewed every day. We ask in the name of Jesus, Your Son, our Savior. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

SERVICE THEME In the Gospel of John, Jesus’ miracles are called signs. Jesus miraculous signs are indeed signs of something very significant about Jesus, other than simply His divine power to do miracles. If Jesus’ miracles cease to be a sign signifying something and simply become an end in themselves, they produce a false and spurious faith; what I am calling miracle faith. Have a listen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, as You sent Your Son into our world to be our Passover Lamb who takes away the sin of the world; now send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts to transform us from the inside out through the message of Your dear Son’s death and resurrection. And, as the Holy Spirit has made us His temple when we were baptized into Christ’s body and we were all made to drink of one Spirit, enable us to see each other as Your home – the place where You, Your Son, and the Holy Spirit dwell. We pray in the name of Your dear Son, our Lamb, the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, send Your Holy Spirit through message of Jesus’ being lifted up to draw all people to Himself as the Source of self-giving and Life-giving love. May we rejoice in that today, tomorrow, indeed, forever. We ask in the name of Your beloved Son, our crucified Lord, the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, may we today experience again Messiah Jesus, the One who knows each of us better than we know ourselves. And, send Your Holy Spirit that we may trust that because He knows us to the very core of our being, He knows what we need to grow in our Christian faith and life, as well as in our witness to Him through our words and actions. We ask in the name of Jesus, the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, send Your Holy Spirit through Your Son as we hear of Him in the Songs, the Readings, and the Message – to assure us that, with Jesus’ birth and through His death and resurrection, He is a God who is with us, no matter who we are or what we have done. We ask in the name of Your beloved Son, our crucified Lord, the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, as the Word, Your dear Son, became flesh and tabernacled among us, may we – individually and as a Christian family – be channels through which Jesus’ love is offered and given to others. We ask in the name of Your beloved Son, our crucified Lord, the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, this Christmas season, send Your Spirit to help us – individually and as a Christian family – to speak to our friends and family who are not yet in Christ, who have not yet experienced the glory of His love. We ask in the name of Jesus, Your beloved Son, our crucified Lord, the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, this Christmas season, send Your Spirit to help us – individually and as a Christian family – to speak to our friends and family who are not yet in Christ, who have not yet experienced the glory of His love. We ask in the name of Jesus, Your beloved Son, our crucified Lord, the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Bohlken

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Father, send your Holy Spirit to reveal the glory of Your goodness, Your grace, and Your compassion in Jesus’ death and resurrection. We ask in the name of Jesus, Your dear Son and our crucified Lord, the Same who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Dan

PRAYER OF THE DAY Father, send your Holy Spirit into our hearts through the message of Your dear Son’s death and resurrection. And, as the Holy Spirit has made us Your dear children through that same message, enable us to grow in our Christian faith and life through hearing anew that very same message again and again. Amen!

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Pastor Beck

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Let us pray. Heavenly Father, though we do not deserve Your goodness, still You provide for all our needs of body and soul. Grant us Your Holy Spirit that we may acknowledge Your gifts, give thanks for all Your benefits, and serve You in willing obedience; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Beck

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH O Lord, You granted Your prophets strength to resist the temptations of the devil and courage to proclaim repentance. Give us pure hearts and minds to follow Your Son faithfully even into suffering and death; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Beck

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH O God, Your almighty power is made known chiefly in showing mercy. Grant us the fullness of Your grace that we may be called to repentance and made partakers of Your heavenly treasures; through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Beck

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Let us pray. Heavenly Father, during His earthly ministry Your Son Jesus healed the sick and raised the dead. By the healing medicine of the Word and Sacraments pour into our hearts such love toward You that we may live eternally; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen!

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Pastor Beck

COLLECT OF THE CHURCH Let us pray. Almighty God, in Your mercy guide the course of this world so that Your Church may joyfully serve You in godly peace and quietness; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen!

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