ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH

5th Sunday After Pentecost

July 1st, 2012

The Altar Flowers have been given to the Glory of God by the Klemash Family in memory of their loved ones and by Lillian DallaPiazza in memory of her loved ones.

The Eternal Light is lit to the Glory of God by Tom and Shirley Bicusky in memory of their loved ones.

Food Bank Collection will be next Sunday, July 8th. The item of the month is fruit juices and drinks

The newly revised 2012 Zion Phone Directories are available on the Narthex table. Please take one when you leave today.

FREE TO A GOOD HOME: 8ft conference table and 10 chairs on rollers, located in the Preschool’s Romper Room (delivery not available☺ U-Haul). Call the church office if you are interested.

There will be NO Body & Soul Boot Camp on either Sunday, July 1st or July 8th.

Calling all vocalists and musicians! Zion is looking for volunteers to play or sing for the offertory during our summer services. Young people who are taking voice/instrument lessons are encouraged. Contact Paula Gardner at 412-276-0269 for more information.

Please pray for Emily Senne from Illinois who was in a terrible car accident. Emily is the daughter of the DeBoe’s friends in Illinois and their adopted granddaughter. She has a lot of serious injuries, is in the surgical ICU, and will need back surgery. You can send well wishes to: Emily Senne 1210 S. Beechtree Lane Bartlett, IL 60103

ANNOUNCEMENTSJJuly 1st, 2012

(Please take a moment to fill out the Attendance books. Thank you!!)

Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you. Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.” So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking for a king from him. He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. And he will appoint for himself

commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”

Now Samuel called the people together to the LORD at Mizpah. And he said to the people of Israel, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’ But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands.” And Samuel said to the people, “The LORD is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous deeds of the LORD that he performed for you and for your fathers. When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried out to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place. But they forgot the LORD their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them. And they cried out

to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.’ And the LORD sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety. And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the LORD your God was your king. And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the LORD has set a king over you. If you will fear the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well. But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you and your king. Now therefore stand still and see this great thing that the LORD will do before your eyes. Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the LORD, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking for yourselves a king.” So Samuel called upon the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”

Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.” The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.” When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”

We welcome to the Lord’s Table all who have been baptized in the name of the Triune God, can examine themselves spiritually and believe they receive the true body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and as a profession of their faith. If you hold a profession of faith that differs from that of our congregation, please speak to the Pastor before the start of the service before communing. • We believe the body and blood of Christ are truly present in the bread and wine. • We believe Christ offers the forgiveness of sins in the Lord’s Supper, but that the Lord’s Supper is not

necessary for salvation. • We believe the Lord’s Supper remembers the death of Christ and proclaims his death until he returns. • We believe the Lord’s Supper is a statement of unity in the body of Christ; we do not believe it creates

that unity. During the distribution, you are encouraged to sing the Distribution Hymns, pray, or meditate on the words “this is my body… this is my blood, given for you.”

The cups at the center of the Individual Communion tray contain diluted wine for those with alcohol sensitivities.

WEEK OF July 1-8, 2012

OUR ATTENDANCE: Sunday 6/24 167 OUR OFFERINGS: Sunday 6/24 $3,927.00 Year to Date $3,927.00

SUNDAY 7/1 (1 Samuel 28-31) MONDAY 7/2 (2 Samuel 1-3)

TUESDAY 7/3 (2 Samuel 4-6)

WEDNESDAY 7/4 (2 Samuel 7-9)

THURSDAY 7/5 (2 Samuel 10-12)

FRIDAY 7/6 (2 Samuel 13-15)

SATURDAY 7/7 (2 Samuel 16-18)

SUNDAY 7/8 (2 Samuel 19-21) Food Bank Collection