1. St. Peter Worship at Key to Life
The means of grace grants us the blessings of Easter
St. Peter
Worship at
Key to Life
Saturday, April 18th

2. Welcome to St. Peter!
Our Easter joy and worship continues this Third Sunday of Easter.
Christ is still risen indeed. Life has meaning and purpose because Jesus rose from the dead.
As disciples of this living Lord, we are called and empowered by his Spirit to be his witnesses as we proclaim to a dying world the only Name that saves!

3. Welcome to St. Peter!
There are friendship registers at the end of each row.
Please take a moment to give us your information so that we have a record of your time with us today.
Thank you!

4. For Our Guests
If you have questions, let us try to help. Speak with an usher, greeter, or the person next to you.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Peter and its ministry, please talk to a pastor or member after the service.

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6. Prayer before Worship
Risen Lord, the joy in my heart continues over your resurrection from the grave.
Keep worldly concerns from distracting me from my noble calling to be your witness in my personal mission field.
Bless me as I worship you and as I lift high your cross in my life because it’s the key to eternal life. Amen.

7. Please be courteous and silence all pagers and cell phones.
Thank you

8. Help Needed
Volunteers are needed to help disinfect the books & toys, washing the stuffed animals and restocking the children’s quiet bags in the narthex.
Call Barb Follett for
more information

9. Reds Fastpitch Softball
We need more players for the summer church league.
See John Gut, Kirk Kamke or Pastor Mahnke if you are interested.

10. in the lower level of the Ministry Center
Annual Meeting
April 26th 6 p.m.
in the lower level of the Ministry Center

11. Annual Rummage Sale Where: Key to Life When: May 1 & 2
We are in need of any gently used items that you would like to donate to the sale.

12. Education Night at St. Peter School
Friday, April 24th
6-8 pm
Each classroom features a different theme!

13. St. Peter Worship at Key to Life
The means of grace grants us the blessings of Easter
St. Peter
Worship at
Key to Life
Saturday, April 18th

14. Alleluia! Jesus Lives CW #153 Verses 1 - 4
Text: Carl B. Garve,
Setting: FRED TIL BOD
Tune: Ludvig M. Lindeman,

15. Verse 1:
Alleluia! Jesus lives!
He is now the living one;
From the gloomy house of death
Forth the conqueror has gone,
Bright forerunner to the skies
Of his people, yet to rise.

16. Verse 2:
Jesus lives! Let all rejoice;
Praise him ransomed ones of earth.
Praise him in a nobler song,
Cherubim of heav'nly birth.
Praise the Victor-King, whose sway
Sin and death and hell obey.

17. Verse 3:
Jesus lives! Why do you weep?
Why that sad and frequent sigh?
He who died our brother here
Lives our brother still on high,
Lives forever to bestow
Blessings on his Church below.

18. Verse 4 (Please Stand):
Jesus lives! And thus, my soul,
Life is yours eternally;
Joined to him, your living head,
Where he is, you too shall be;
You with him at his right hand
Victor over death shall stand.

19. Opening Verses Pastor: In the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit.
All: Amen.

20. Opening Verses
Pastor: If Christ has not been raise, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
All: But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead.

21. Opening Verses
Pastor: If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
All: But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead.

22. Opening Verses
Pastor: If Christ has not been raised, then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.
All: But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead.

23. Opening Verses Pastor: Death has been swallowed up victory.
All: Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?

24. Opening Verses
Pastor: The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
All: But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

25. Opening Verses
Pastor: Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you.
All: Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

26. Opening Verses
Pastor: Yet so often we have not stood firm in our Christian faith; nor have we always given ourselves fully to our calling to be witnesses to a risen Jesus. How soon we let the joy of Easter fade away from our hearts and lives. For these and all our sins, we bow before God and humbly ask his forgiveness.

27. Confession of Sin
All: Holy and merciful Father, I confess that I am by nature sinful and that I have disobeyed you in my thoughts, words, and actions.
I have done what is evil and failed to do what is good.
For this I deserve your punishment both now and in eternity.

28. Confession of Sin
All: But I am truly sorry for my sins, and trusting in my Savior Jesus Christ, I pray:
Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.

29. (Pastor announces our forgiveness)
All: Amen.

30. Pastor:
The works of the Lord are great and glorious; his name is worthy of praise.

31. Glory Be To God All (Sung): All glory be to God on high!
Your name, O Lord, we glorify;
We praise you for your peace and grace,
Your favor toward our fallen race.

32. Glory Be To God All (Sung): Our grateful thanks to you we bring,
For your great glory, heav’nly King,
For all, O Father, you have done
Through Jesus Christ, your only Son.

33. Glory Be To God All (Sung): O Lamb of God, to you we pray.
You take all human sin away.
Have mercy, Lord; receive our prayer;
From God’s right hand, your mercy share.

34. Glory Be To God All (Sung): You, Christ, are holy—Lord alone;
The Father’s glory you made known.
We by your Spirit sing again:
“All glory be to God!” Amen.

35. (Pastor says the prayer of the day)
Pastor: Let us pray.
(Pastor says the prayer of the day)
All: Amen.

36. God’s Word to His People
Acts 4:8-12
The message we proclaim:
Salvation is found only in Jesus

37. God’s Word to His People
1 John 1:1-2:2
We proclaim the Word of Life

38. Verse of the Day All (Sung): Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
These words are written that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.

39. God’s Word to His People
Luke 24:36-48
The Risen Lord commissions his followers to proclaim repentance

40. Children’s Message

41. Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense CW # 167 Verses 1-5
Text: D. M. Luthers ... und Psalmen, Berlin, 1653 (st. 1-3)
The Lutheran Hymnal, St. Louis, 1941 (st. 4-5)
Setting: JESUS, MEINE ZUVERSICHT
Tune: Johann Crüger,

42. Verse 1:
Jesus Christ, my sure defense
And my Savior now is living!
Knowing this, my confidence
Rests upon the hope he's giving,

43. Verse 1:
Though the night of death be fraught
Still with many an anxious thought.

44. Verse 2:
Jesus, my Redeemer, lives;
I, too, unto life shall waken.
Endless joy my Savior gives;
Shall my courage, then, be shaken?

45. Verse 2:
Shall I fear, or could the head
Rise and leave his members dead?

46. Verse 3:
No, too closely am I bound
Unto him by hope forever;
Faith's strong hand the rock has found,
Grasped it, and will leave it never.

47. Verse 3: Even death now cannot part From its Lord the trusting heart.

48. Verse 4:
I am flesh and must return
Unto dust, whence I am taken;
But by faith I now discern
That from death I shall awaken

49. Verse 4: With my Savior to abide In his glory, at his side.

50. Verse 5:
Glorified, I shall anew
With this flesh then be enshrouded;
In this body I shall view
God, my Lord, with eyes unclouded;

51. Verse 5: In this flesh I then shall see Jesus Christ eternally.

52. “We Proclaim a Living Savior to a Dying World!”
1: The need & urgency
2: But I’m afraid
3: Where do I start?
4: How do I start?
5: Prayer’s Power
6: Get connected
7: Pass the SALT
8: Simple works, too

53. In thankfulness for our salvation, we support God’s work with our offerings.

54. Prayer of the Church Pastor: …Lord, in your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer.

55. Lord’s Prayer All: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.

56. Lord’s Prayer All: Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those
who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

57. Lord’s Prayer All: For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours
now and forever. Amen

58. God’s Blessing All: Amen. Pastor:
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
All: Amen.

59. He Is Arisen! Glorious Word CW #162 Verses 1
Text: Birgitte K. Boye,
Setting: WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET
Tune: Philipp Nicolai, , alt.

60. Verse 1:
He is arisen! Glorious Word!
Now reconciled is God, my Lord;
The gates of heav'n are open.
My Jesus did triumphant die,
And Satan's arrows broken lie,

61. Verse 1:
Destroyed hell's fiercest weapon.
Oh, hear What cheer!
Christ victorious,
Rising glorious,
Life is giving.
He was dead, but now is living!

62. Silent Prayer