Welcome to
SAINT PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH
THE LUTHERAN CHURCH - MISSOURI SYNOD

Sixth Sunday after Trinity

July 27, 2025

“In Nomine Iesu"

915 - 27th Street, Marion, Iowa 52302
e-mail: office@stpaulsmarioniowa.org
www.stpaulsmarioniowa.org
Phone: (319)377-4687

Welcome to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, and to the blessings, comfort, and peace of this congregation. As we gather, we prepare our hearts for the worship and praise of our Lord and Savior by remembering what the Scriptures say: “I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord!’ ” Psalm 122:1 and “One thing have I asked of the Lord…that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.” Psalm 27:4. In that joy, let us worship together with prayer and praise.

Each person or family is asked to fill out the registration card found in your bulletin. The ushers will gather the cards from both members and guests following worship. 

Matins, an Order of Worship for the morning, originated around the 4th Century. Christians observed ‘times of day’ for private devotions. These private “hours” developed into public services. Matins is marked by the thought of praise to God as Creator and Redeemer. We hope you enjoy the Service of Matins.

Prelude “God’s Own Child, I Gladly Say It”, Robert J. Powell

Welcome and Announcements
Ringing of the Bell ~ A Call to Worship 

The Order of Worship
Lutheran Service Book -Matins page 219

Opening Hymn    
          “Baptized Into Your Name Most Holy”       LSB #590

Opening Versicles (please stand)

      

Venite

Introit                                   Psalm 28:1–2, 7; antiphon: vv. 8–9
P	The Lord is the strength of his people;
C	he is the saving refuge of his anointed.

P	Save your people and bless your heritage!
C	Be their shepherd and carry them forever.

P	To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me,
C	lest, if you be silent to me, 
I become like those who go down to the pit.

P	Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help,
C	when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.

P	The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
C	my heart exults, and with my song 
I give thanks to him.

All 	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.

P	The Lord is the strength of his people;
C	he is the saving refuge of his anointed.

P	Save your people and bless your heritage!
C	Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
        
(be seated)

Special Solo Music 
            “The Lord is My Light and My Salvation”  (LSB 723)    

Old Testament Reading	Exodus 20:1-17

     1And God spoke all these words, saying,

     2“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

     3“You shall have no other gods before me.

     4“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

     7“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

     8“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

     12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

     13“You shall not murder.

     14“You shall not commit adultery.

     15“You shall not steal.

     16“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

     17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

P	O Lord, have mercy on us.	
C	Thanks be to God.
	
Epistle	                                                       Romans 6:1-11

     1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
     5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For one who has died has been set free from sin. 8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

P       O Lord, have mercy on us.
C       Thanks be to God.

(please stand)

Holy Gospel                                                     Matthew 5:17-26
P	The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, the 5th 
	chapter.
C	Glory to You, O Lord.

     17[Jesus said:] “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
     21“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 22But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire. 23So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. 26Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.”

P	O Lord, have mercy on us.
C	Thanks be to God.

(be seated)

Children’s Message

Responsory Hymn 
                    “All Mankind Fell in Adam’s Fall”            LSB #562

Sermon    

Please rise as we present the Offering and Sing Te Deum
      
Te Deum ~ We Praise You, O God (please stand)

(be seated)

Prayers of the Church
(After each portion of the prayers)
P   Lord, in your mercy,   C   Hear our prayer.

Lord's Prayer
All	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.
	
Collect of the Day
P	Lord of all power and might, author and giver of all good things, graft into our hearts the love of Your name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of Your great mercy keep us in the same; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
C	Amen.

Benedicamus (please stand)
P	Let us bless the Lord
C	Thanks be to God.
Benediction	2 Corinthians 13:14
P        The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God
           and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
C        Amen.
Sending Hymn 
                 “God’s Own Child, I Gladly Say It”              LSB #594

Silent Prayer	

 (be seated)

Postlude "Prelude & Fugue in F”, J. S. Bach

“Soli Deo Gloria”