The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost - Online Worship - September 14, 2025

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The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost

Join us next Sunday as
we share the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost!

The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Be Anew, You Who Think You Are So Clever!
September 21th, 2025 - 9:30AM
Faith Quest Sunday School meets next Sunday!
Registration available!

Next Sunday we conclude, “God’s Work! Our Hands!”
Join us as we conclude our seasonal donation efforts to
our local food shelf, “The Drawer,” and local school supply efforts!
A wish list is available of local school supplies students often need!

Upcoming Events:

All are welcome, encouraged to visit the Prayer Cross as moved to do so.

Going In Spirit & Grace

The Heart of Worship

Redman

When the music fades
All is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring
Something that’s of worth
That will bless Your heart
I’ll bring you more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required 
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You’re looking into my heart

refrain:
I’m coming back to the heart of worship
And it’s all about you 
All about you Jesus
I’m sorry Lord for the thing
I’ve made it when
It’s all about you
All about you Jesus

King of endless worth
No one could express
How much You deserve
Though I’m weak and poor
All I have is Yours
Every single breath
I’ll bring you more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required 
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You’re looking into my heart

(refrain twice) 

Litany Celebrating & Trusting God’s Faithfulness in a New Beginning

PSALM 51

Today, we celebrate and give thanks for the grace of a new beginning, for we were lost and now are found, so, we come back to the heart of worship, and we gather, in the name of The Father, and of The Son, and of The Holy Spirit.

Amen. Have mercy on me, O God. According to your steadfast love and your abundant mercy, wash me thoroughly, change my ways and cleanse me from my sin.

People of God: Jesus knows our transgressions; our sins are ever before him. Against Jesus alone have we sinned. Let us take a moment of silence to confess our sins and those times we have failed to trust we are forever found anew in God’s grace.

(silence for reflection)

Friends, trust the amazing grace of this new beginning: Jesus saves; Jesus forgives you all your sins. Jesus’ quest is for you to believe and to live anew! Trust anew, no matter how lost you may feel, come now, come anew, just as you are, to the One who will find you every time!

Song Anew In Grace

Just As I Am

Elliot & Bradbury

vs. 1
Just as I am without one plea
But that thy blood was shed for me
And that thou bidd’st me come to thee
O Lamb of God I come I come

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me out of your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.

Friends, hope and grace reveal a new beginning. Trust Jesus’ tireless quest is for you, more passionately than for a sheep or a coin. Come now, come anew, just as you are; trust anew, Jesus finds you every time!

Song Anew In Grace

Just As I Am

Elliot & Bradbury

vs. 5
Just as I am thou wilt receive
Wilt welcome pardon cleanse relieve
Because thy promise I believe
O Lamb of God I come I come

Loving God, you alone reveal to us a new beginning through your forgiveness, calling, and salvation. By your Holy Spirit, find us again today, find us when we feel most lost, find us when we do not know we have lost our way. Thanks to your gifts of repentance, mercy and faithfulness, we will come, just as we are. Renew our quest to celebrate, to make God and our neighbors first, to believe anew, to hold fast to your amazing grace. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.

Faith Quest is Back!
We’re excited to kick off a brand new year of Faith Quest, our Sunday School program at Lord of Life! Children ages 4 through 6th grade are invited to set out on an adventure of faith, discovering God’s love through Bible stories, crafts, music, and community projects.

Faith Quest takes place during the 9:30 am worship service, September through May. Each week, kids will be dismissed from worship to continue the journey together. New friends are always welcome, and enrollment is open all year long!

Old Testament Lesson

EXODUS 32:7–14

The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’” The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are. Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great a nation.” But Moses implored the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’” And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people. 

(New Revised Standard Version)

Song of Absolute Grace

Amazing Grace

Newton

vs. 1
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now am found
Was blind but now I see

vs. 2
‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed

vs. 3
Through many dangers toils and snares
I have already come
‘Tis grace has brought me safe thus far
And grace will lead me home

vs. 4
The Lord has promised good to me
His word my hope secures
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures

vs. 5
When we’ve been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we first begun

Gospel

LUKE 15:1–10

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable:  “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ Just so I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

(New Revised Standard Version)

BASED ON ROMANS 8:31–39

God’s Word in grace gave Saul a new beginning to become the Apostle Paul. Paul’s words build up our faith, too, to share a new beginning, so we boldly state our faith.

What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.

A New Beginning, For the Lost and Found

EXODUS 32:7-14; 1 TIMOTHY 1:12-17; LUKE 15:1-10

Schools, work places, stadiums, malls, restaurants, airports, train stations, recreation and workout facilities - just about any place you can lose something has a “lost and found” department.  We lose a whole range of things.  Actually, we do not really “lose” anything.  We misplace things.  We think we had it with us.  We forget to take it with us.  We allow them to slip through our fingers.  We thought it was `right here.’  When you lose something, how long does it take you before you know it is lost?  How do you feel when you find it?  When it comes to your spiritual walk, what are things you lose? Self? Heart? Spirit? Truth? Faith? Way? Hope?  Do you lose them; or do they get misplaced, left behind?  Did you think you had them with you, knew where they were?  Do you know when you are lost?  Today, as we read of the lost sheep and the lost coin, we celebrate a new beginning in amazing grace as God in Jesus Christ finds us every time!

1. We lose things all the time, in life, and in our spiritual walk.
Exodus 32:7-8

A. We do not really lose anything.

B. What are some of the things you misplace?  How is it that we misplace God, faith, spirit, etc.?  How do we get lost, misplaced?

2. What is lost, is lost the moment it is misplaced.  This is so true in our walk with Christ!
Exodus 32:8,11; 1 Timothy1:13; Luke 15:2

A. Just because we do not recognize something is lost for a period of time, does not mean it was not lost long before.

B. We so often do not know something is lost until we want it, need it, miss it, recognize its value.

3. Once something is lost, we want to find it right away!  We cannot rest until we find it, we cannot imagine being without it.  Can you imagine being without faith, heart, Christ?
1 Timothy 1:16; Luke 15:4,8

4. Things that are lost need to be found.
1 Timothy 1:13-15; Luke 15:6,9

A. Things need to be found (passive), they do not find themselves.

B. Who do you need to find you? What do you need to find?

5. To take something from the `lost and found,’ you need to be able to identify it, to claim it as your own, and might even need to identify yourself.
Exodus 32:27

A.      What are you willing to claim as your own in your discipleship?

B. Do you know Who puts His claim on you, identifies you as His Own, has no problem identifying Himself on your behalf?

6. When you find something, how do you feel?
Luke 15:7,10

A. When those treasures are found and recovered, we often are thankful, excited, relieved, joyful!

B. God is no stranger to longing for you, to feeling these emotions!

7. “I found it in the last place I looked.”  Celebrate a new beginning in grace, for you are lost AND found!
Exodus 32:14; Luke 15:4,8

A. Why do we wait to look for what we lost, why do we look in every other place first?  Why not look in the last place first?

B. In amazing grace, Jesus looks in the last place first to find us, every time! Every time we are lost, we will be found, every time!

Offering is available for our indoor services. Find a Lord of Life with a volunteer bucket to deposit offering in person as you leave worship today. If you find yourself wanting to offer your gifts to Lord of Life, you can do so online using the link below. You can also drop offering at anytime in our secure mailbox at Lord of Life located in the parking lot.

Song of Hope & Grace

People Need The Lord

Nelson, McHugh

vs. 1
Ev’ryday they pass me by
I can see it in their eyes
Empty people filled with care
Headed who knows where
On they go through private pain
Living fear to fear
Laughter hides their silent cries
Only Jesus hears

refrain:
People need the Lord
People need the Lord
At the end of broken dreams
He’s the open door
People need the Lord
People need the Lord
When will we realize
People need the Lord

vs. 2
We are called to take His light
To a world where wrong seems right
What could be too great a cost
For sharing life with one who’s lost
Through His love our hearts can feel
All the grief they bear
They must hear the words of life
Only we can share

(refrain)

People need the Lord

Sharing our Needs and Joy with God in Prayer

...as we pray to you, Jesus, ...
Give us a new beginning in your presence and hope and grace.

All these things and whatever else you see we need, grant to us we pray, for into your hands, O Lord, we commend all for whom we pray, trusting in your mercy through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Holy Communion will take place during our service. If you are not worshipping with us in person but would like to receive Communion, we will be offering Drive Through Communion at our building at 16200 Dodd Lane, Lakeville, Minnesota, following our indoor service. Drive Through Communion will be available between 10:15am & 10:30am.

For those worshiping with us in person, we receive communion through intinction; that is, you will receive the bread, the host, then dip into the glass of choice, either a red wine in the chalice closest to the host, or in a light colored non-alcoholic grape juice. All are welcome.

We also offer gluten free and pre-packaged options. Please take these options before arriving at the host to receive a blessing.

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.

Song During Holy Communion

Lord, I Run to You

Walker

vs. 1
Lord I run to You
No one else will do
Lord in troubled times
I will run straight to You
Though my heart and flesh may fail
You’re my ever present help
My tower of strength
My portion evermore

vs. 2
Lord I run to You
No one else will do
Lord You said we’d face trouble
Pain and fear
But to be of good cheer
Be of good cheer 
For You have overcome
Overcome the world

refrain:
I lift my eyes up to the mountains
Where does my help come from
It comes from You Lord
You are the Maker
Of earth and heaven
And there is nothing
That’s too hard for You

vs. 3
So Lord we run to You
No one else will do
Lord You said we’d face trouble
Pain and fear
But to be of good cheer
Be of good cheer 
For You have overcome
Overcome the world

(refrain then repeat vs 3)

So Lord we run to You

The body and blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, strengthen you and keep you in his grace, this day, and on into life everlasting.
Amen.

Let us pray.
Pour out upon us the spirit of your love, O Lord, and unite the wills of those whom you have fed with one heavenly food; through Jesus Christ, The Lord of life. Amen.

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 give you peace, as you trust each new beginning in the living, life-changing grace of Jesus Christ. In the name of The Father, and of The Son, and of The Holy Spirit.
Amen.

Let us go in the peace of Christ, celebrating the love of God, and serving the Lord of life.
Thanks be to God!

Going Anew in Spirit & Grace

Build Your Kingdom Here

Gilkeson

vs. 1
Come set Your rule and reign
In our hearts again
Increase in us we pray
Unveil why we’re made
Come set our hearts
Ablaze with hope
Like wildfire in our very souls
Holy Spirit come invade us now
We are Your church
We need Your pow’r in us

vs. 2
We seek Your kingdom first
We hunger and we thirst
Refuse to waste our lives
For You’re our joy and prize
To see the captives’ hearts released
The hurt the sick the poor at peace
We lay down our lives
For heaven’s cause
We are Your church
We pray revive this earth

refrain:
Build Your kingdom here
Let the darkness fear
Show Your mighty hand
Heal our streets and land
Set Your church on fire
Win this nation back
Change the atmosphere
Build Your kingdom here
We pray

vs. 3
Unleash Your kingdom’s pow’r
Reaching the near and far
No force of hell can stop
Your beauty changing hearts
You made us for much more than this
Awake the kingdom seed in us
Fill us with the strength
And love of Christ
We are Your church
We are the hope
On earth

(refrain)

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Today, Sunday, September 14th, we share, The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost!

 “A New Beginning; For The Lost And Found!” Faith Quest Sunday School meets today! Registration available! Today we continue, “God’s Work! Our Hands!”

Join us as we share through next Sunday, our seasonal donation efforts to our local food shelf, “The Drawer,” and local school supply efforts! A wish list is available of local school supplies students often need! Thank you!

Join us next Sunday, September 21st, as we share, The Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost!

“Be Anew, You Who Think You Are So Clever!” Faith Quest Sunday School meets next Sunday! Registration available!

Next Sunday we conclude for this year, “God’s Work! Our Hands!” Join us as next Sunday, we conclude our seasonal donation efforts to our local food shelf, “The Drawer,” and local school supply efforts! A wish list is available of local school supplies students often need! Thank you!

Friends, today as always, all who proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, are welcome to God’s table of grace as we share Holy Communion. For those sharing their generosity today, we thank you for your faithful giving! Offering is collected in baskets by the ushers as you exit the sanctuary.

We hope our worship will touch you, comfort you, reassure you, and grace you in some way! If you believe others you know would be blessed to receive this bulletin, the sermon notes, or our live stream links, please forward these to them.

From everyone on every level of leadership and service, we continue to pray for you and to give thanks to God for each of you! Please contact Pastor Jamie if he can serve you in any way: jamie.thompson@lordoflifemn.org

We pray The Holy Spirit breathes anew on us to be God’s people and to be God’s Church, as together we make known and we trust anew God’s gifts of hope, peace, justice, clarity, calm, and comfort forever break forth in new ways for you and your loved ones, today, and as we share every gift of God’s light, love and grace!

Acknowledgments for today’s service include:

Litany Celebrating & Trusting God’s Faithfulness In A New Beginning – written based on Psalm 51. “Just As I Am,” “Amazing Grace,”  © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW) and With One Voice Hymnal Supplement © 1995 Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis & Board of Publication, Lutheran Church In America, Philadelphia; and Evangelical Lutheran Worship © 2006 by Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis, MN. Used with permission. “Prayer of The Day,” “Lord’s Prayer,” “Post-Communion Blessing, Prayer, & Benediction,” based on the LBW. “Heart Of Worship” © 2012 S.D.G. Publishing, CCLI #6453172 “Just As I Am, Without One Plea,” Words & Music Public Domain, CCLI #23206 “Jesus Loves Me” © Words and Music Public Domain, CCLI #4771887 “Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound” Words and Music Public Domain, CCLI #4755360 “People Need The Lord” © 1983 River Oaks Music CCLI #18084 “Lord, I Run to You” ©2004 Integrity’s Praise! Music CCLI #4187945 “Build Your Kingdom Here” © 2011 Thankyou Music CCLI #6186078 All rights reserved. All songs used with permission. CCLI License #1380826 & OneLicense #A-724016.