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“In this World you will have trouble, but take heart!

I have overcome the world”

The Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 25 & 28, 2025

ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH – LCMS

700 Main St.  P.O. Box 220   Clyman, WI  53016  

Rev. Daniel L. Bohn & Church 1(920) 341-2025  – shepherdatzion@gmail.com

Worship Times: Sundays – 8:30am & Wednesdays – 7:00pm

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Music –  Dee Dee Wille      Elder – Greg Schwartz / Wed: Ralph Kohlhoff

Bulletin Announcements: Email: zionclyman@gmail.com

Congregation Information: Neal Kohlhoff Email: neal.kohlhoff50@gmail.com

Altar Guild for May: Connie Kreitzman     Thank you.

 Guests.  Welcome to Zion.  We are happy to have you worship with us.  Please sign our guestbook located in the Narthex.  About Holy Communion:  We welcome to the Lord’s Table all who have repented of their sins and seek to amend their sinful life; all who believe that Jesus is truly present in, with, and under the bread and the wine; and all who believe that through the words “given and shed for you” forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation are given.  If this is your confession and you are a member of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, then come with a thankful heart and join us.   If you are a visitor and would like to commune, please talk with Pastor Dan before the service.  To help in preparing to receive Holy Communion open the front cover of the Burgundy hymnal or turn to pages 329 & 330.  Gluten free wafers are available, please talk with an Elder or Pastor before the service if you would appreciate them.

AS WE GATHER  It is almost the end of the Easter Season and the challenge of sharing the message of the empty tomb and life in Christ continues in our readings today! Paul reminds us that there are people who need to hear about the Love and word of God. Lydia and her household respond in their new faith in a readiness to help others. The vision in Revelation shows the perfect city, Jerusalem.  A picture of all believers who have overcome this world and have been made eternal.  Until that triumphant day we will be challenged by sin, a sinful world, and satan himself.  But Christ reminds us. “Take heart, I have overcome the world.”

 Ringing of the Bell and Welcome

Hymn “Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice”             LSB 556

Invocation – In the name of the Father and of the X Son and of the Holy Spirit.      Amen.

Opening Sentences – Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.  He showed me the holy city Jerusalem.  The city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Confession and Absolution – As God’s children, we are called to confess our sin trusting in the one true God who is faithful and just and who will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.          All:  Almighty God, our maker and redeemer, we poor sinners confess unto You that we are by nature sinful and unclean and that we have sinned against You by thought, word, and deed.  Wherefore we flee for refuge to Your infinite mercy, seeking and imploring Your grace for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.  By Your Holy Spirit increase in us true knowledge of You and of Your will and true obedience to Your Word, to the end that by Your grace we may come to everlasting life; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.  Amen        Almighty God, our heavenly Father, has had mercy upon us and has given His only Son to die for us and for His sake forgives us all our sins.  To those who believe on His name He gives power to become the children of God and has promised them his Holy Spirit, He that believes and is baptized shall be saved.  Grant this, Lord, unto us all.  Amen

Kyrie                                                      LSB 186

Hymn of Praise      Gloria in Excelsis  LSB 187 –  Pastor:  Glory be to God on high:

Salutation – The Lord be with you.      And also with you.

Prayer of the Day – O God, the giver of all that is good, by Your holy inspiration grant that we may do  those things that are according to Your will and by Your merciful guiding accomplish them.  We pray this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.

Our First Reading Acts 16:9-15       During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”  After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.  From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day we went on to Neapolis.  From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia.  And we stayed there several days.  On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer.  We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.  One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth.  She was a worshiper of God.  The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.  When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home.  “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

Psalm 67 –    May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, that your way may be known on earth, and your saving power among all nations.  Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!  Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth.  Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!  The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us.  God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!  Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever.  Amen.

Gradual – Christ has risen from the dead.  God the Father has crowned him with glory and honor.  He has given him dominion over the works of his hands; he has put all things under his feet.

Our Second Reading  Revelation 21:9-14, 21-27      One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”  And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.  It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.  It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates.  On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.  There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.  The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.    Vs21-27  The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl.  The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.  I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.   The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.  The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.  On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.  The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.  Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

 Verse – Alleluia.  We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.  Alleluia.    Christ said; “In the world you will have tribulation.  But take heart; I have overcome the world.”  Alleluia.

 Holy Gospel John 16:23-33 –     The Holy Gospel according St. John, the Sixteenth chapter.   Glory to You, O Lord.        In that day you will no longer ask me anything.  Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.  Until now you have not asked for anything in my name.  Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.  “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.  In that day you will ask in my name.  I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.  No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.  I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”  Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech.  Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions.  This makes us believe that you came from God.”  “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied.  “A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home.  You will leave me all alone.  Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.  “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.  In this world you will have trouble.  But take heart!  I have overcome the world.”   This is the Gospel of the Lord.   Praise to You, O Christ.

Nicene Creed – I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible.   And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried. And the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. And He will come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead, whose kingdom will have no end.    And I believe in the Holy Spirit,   the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And I believe in one holy Christian and apostolic Church, I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, and I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life X of the world to come.    Amen.

Hymn  “Christ, the Lord Is Risen Today”      LSB 469

Sermon

Prayers of the Church

The 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.

We Gather our Tithes and Offerings

 Service of the Sacrament

Preface   2 Timothy 4:22 – Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.  It is right to give Him thanks and praise.

Proper Preface –  It is truly good, right, and salutary that we should at all times and in all places give thanks to You, holy Lord, almighty Father, everlasting God.  And most especially are we bound to praise You on this day for the glorious resurrection of Your Son, Jesus Christ, the very Paschal Lamb, who was sacrificed for us and bore the sins of the world.  By His dying He has destroyed death, and by His rising again He has restored to us everlasting life.  Therefore with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnify Your glorious name, evermore praising You and singing:

Sanctus                                                  LSB 195

Prayer of Thanksgiving – Blessed are You, Lord of heaven and earth, for You have called us together to receive Your Son’s body and blood in this Sacrament.  Grant that we are strengthened thereby to live each day in true faith and then to rejoice in eternity with You, Your Son, and the Holy Spirit in the marriage feast of the Lamb in His kingdom which has no end.  To You be all glory, now and forever.  Amen.

The Words of Our Lord – Consecration of the Elements

Proclamation of Christ  1 Corinthians 11:26; Revelation 22:20 – As often as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.      Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.     

Pax Domini –   The peace of the Lord be with you always.

Agnus Dei                                               LSB 198

Distribution Hymns: “Alleluia!  Jesus Is Risen”        LSB 474

“Alleluia!  Let Praises Ring”     LSB 822   

“Jerusalem the Golden”           LSB 672

Nunc Dimittis                                          LSB 199

Post-Communion Thanksgiving – O God the Father, the fountain and source of all goodness, who in loving-kindness sent Your only-begotten Son into the flesh, we thank You that for His sake You have given us pardon and peace in this Sacrament, and we ask You not to forsake Your children but always to rule our hearts and minds by Your Holy Spirit that we may be enabled constantly to serve You; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.     Amen.

Benediction      Numbers 6:24–26 –     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.   Amen.   

Hymn*vs1,2,4**  “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today”    LSB 463

ANNOUNCEMENTS

YES IN CHRIST – Saying Yes With Our Treasures –

Weekly Budget Needed: $3279

 Attendance/Communed: 5/14/2025 = 14 / 10       5/18/2025 = 42 / 39

Giving:    5/18/2025: Envelopes = $4820     Plate = $80                            

 Mark Your Calendars…

 Semi Annual Voter’s Meeting will be held on Sunday, June 1^st      after the service.

 The Quilters will meet on Thursday June 5^th from 11am – 2pm

 MAY BIRTHDAYS:   5/25 Robert Schultz   5/27 Ralph Kohlhoff   5/31 Jim Goehl Jr.

 The 2024 Zion Lutheran Church annual is available.

Be sure to pick up a copy.

SUNDAY SCHOOL…A new and retooled Sunday School is being proposed for Zion.         The goal would be to reach out to the Clyman community this fall.  It will be given a new name as it will not meet on Sundays.  An example could be Zion Bible Club.  Before this is offered, we will need people in place to help teach, organize and lead.  Contact Erica Goehl or Deanna Gochanour.   Thank you.

Please keep the following in your Special Prayers:

Dave Stuebe, Colton Dunn, Janet Ortega, and Lana Sterwald who are recovering from surgery.

Dawn Pint after a procedure done.

We keep all in our congregation who are in need of God’s comfort and healing.

The pictures on the table in the narthex are for anyone who wants them.

Please help yourself.