September 29th: The Sixteenth Sunday of Pentecost

First Lutheran Church

Our mission is to know Jesus and to make Jesus known. -John 17

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
HYMN: "Beautiful Savior" Red 838
STEWARDSHIP MOMENT
CONFESSION & FORGIVENESS
PRAYER
FIRST READING: Amos 6:1a, 4-7
SECOND READING: Timothy 6:6-19
HYMN: "For the Beauty of the Earth" Red 879
GOSPEL: Luke 16:19-31
APOSTLE'S CREED
SERMON by Mike Schut, "Money, Economics & Faith"

• "In truth, all human beings are called to be saints...The saints are simply those men and women who relish the event of life as a gift and who realize that the only way to honor such a gift is to give it away." -William Stringfellow, Lawyer & Lay Theologian
• Job 12:7-8 "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you."
• "Our hope lies in that minority of people whose lives are less defined by economics than by beauty and the love that attends it." Wes Jackson, The Land Institute

HYMN: "For the Fruit of All Creation" Red 679
OFFERING
OFFERTORY: "We Give Thee but Thine Own" Green 410, vss 1, 2, 5
PRAYERS
LORD'S PRAYER
BLESSING
HYMNS: "Let All Things Now Living" Red 881

Thank you, God, for opportunities to see you in the faces of strangers. In Jesus' name. Amen.