The Fifth Sunday in Lent 4/6/25
THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
APRIL 6, 2025
ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN CHURCH, FALLS CHURCH, VA
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PRELUDE When I Survey the Wonderful Cross Setting: David Maxwell
WELCOME
ENTRANCE HYMN (Stand) When I Survey the Wonderful Cross LSB 426
1 When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride.
2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast
Save in the death of Christ, my God;
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.
3 See, from His head, His hands, His feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
4 Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a tribute far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all!
CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS
In the name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Beloved in the Lord! Let us draw near with a true heart and confess our sins unto God our Father, beseeching Him in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to grant us forgiveness.
Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord,
and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.
(We kneel and reflect on our need before God)
O almighty God, merciful Father,
I, a poor, miserable sinner, confess unto You all my sins and iniquities with which I have ever offended You and justly deserved Your temporal and eternal punishment. But I am heartily sorry for them and sincerely repent of them, and I pray You of Your boundless mercy and for the sake of the holy, innocent, bitter sufferings and death of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to be gracious and merciful to me, a poor, sinful being.
Upon this your confession, I, by virtue of my office, as a called and ordained servant of the Word, announce the grace of God unto all of you, and in the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
INTROIT (Stand)
Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and `merciful,
Slow to anger and abounding in `steadfast love.
Jesus said: If any man would come `after me,
Let him deny himself and take up his cross and `follow me.
Christ was wounded for our `transgressions;
He was bruised for our `iniquities.
KYRIE
HYMN OF PRAISE (omitted during Lent)
THE PRAYER OF THE DAY
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us pray. Almighty God,
by Your great goodness mercifully look upon Your people that we may be governed
and preserved evermore in body and soul; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and
forever. Amen.
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THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
FIRST LESSON (Be seated) Isaiah 43:16-21
Thus says the Lord,
who makes a way in the sea,
a path in the mighty waters,
who brings forth chariot and horse,
army and warrior;
they lie down, they cannot rise,
they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:
“Remember not the former things,
nor consider the things of old.
Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.
The wild beasts will honor me,
the jackals and the ostriches,
for I give water in the wilderness,
rivers in the desert,
to give drink to my chosen people,
the people whom I formed for myself
that they might declare my praise.”
This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
8:00 PSALM 126 (Sung responsively)
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dream.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad.
Restore our fortunes, O Lord,
like streams in the Negeb!
Those who sow in tears
shall reap with shouts of joy!
He who goes out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
bringing his sheaves with him.
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.
10:30 ANTHEM Jubilation Choir By Gracious Powers
Music: Russell Schulz-Widmar Text: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
By gracious pow’rs so wonderfully sheltered, and confidently waiting, come what may,
we know that God is with us night and morning, and never fails to greet us each new day.
Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented, still evil days bring burdens hard to bear;
O give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, you taught us to prepare.
And when this cup you give is filled to brimming with bitter suff’ring hard to understand,
we take it thankfully and without trembling out of so good and so beloved a hand.
Yet when again in this same world you give us the joy we had, the brightness of your Sun,
we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be yours alone.
SECOND LESSON Philippians 3:8-14
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
10:30 CHILDREN’S SERMON
GOSPEL VERSE (Stand) from One and All Rejoice
O come, let us fix our eyes on Jesus,
the founder and perfecter of our faith,
who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross,
despising the shame,
and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
GOSPEL Luke 20:9-20
The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke the 20th chapter
Glory to You, O Lord.
[Jesus] began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while. When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out. Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’ But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’ And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!” But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written:
‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone’?
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people. So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to You, O Christ.
SERMON
Grace, mercy and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus. Amen. Dear friends in Christ:
The scribes and chief priests perceived that Jesus had told this parable against them. And their perception was right on. The parable clearly declares Jesus the true heir of the Father, not them. And not only this, but it also bluntly tells of God’s judgment upon those who reject him.
When Jesus told this parable he was only a few days away from his arrest, trial and crucifixion. And in the same way, we are only a few days away from our remembrance of these things during Holy Week. Jesus’ parable thus prepares us well to enter into this time of increased meditation by pointing out how Jesus walked towards the cross with eyes wide open and has called us to do the same.
Having said this, I’ve already preached on this text many times in the past. So today I’d like us to concentrate on our other assigned readings.
The first of these comes from the great prophecy of Isaiah, the forty-third chapter. In this reading God urges us to open our eyes to see what he is doing. “Behold, I am doing a new thing;” he says, “now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?”
The big new thing God is doing is stated as: “making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” At the time of Isaiah, this was a reference to the path God would create so that his captive people in Babylon could return home. The path would be a long and arduous one – all the way through a great wilderness. But God would care for them along the way by providing for their needs, such as water.
Isaiah’s prophecy, as we know, was fulfilled when God made possible the return of those who were captive. God gave victory to the Persians over the Babylonians, and this allowed God’s people to return home to Judah.
But this prophecy is about more than just that one occasion. And it is not a simple telling of what God will do for some people at a certain time. Rather, it is a telling of what God will do for all people for all time. It is a prophecy about a freedom from captivity that God’s people will enjoy forever.
The prophecy tells us that God will do a new thing. And here we should note that this prophecy is fulfilled, in part, through the many new things that God is currently doing among us. For instance, last Sunday at St. Paul’s he baptized a newborn baby. The day before that he joined together a man and a woman in holy marriage. And through the opportunities to serve and learn and love that he provides for each of us daily, he does new things among us all the time. These are the things that speak to our hearts and encourage us in our faith.
But the greatest new thing that God has ever done is the sending of his Son into the world to save it. God did this when he sent Jesus to visibly walk among us on this earth and to die for the world’s sin.
This new thing from God saves all who place their trust in him. It saves them from the power of sin in their lives and it saves them from sin’s curse, which is death.
This new thing also allows us to be renewed in faith and spirit each time we remember it. And when we come to God’s house and enter into his presence with his gathered people in worship, he renews us through this message in the power of the Holy Spirit.
As God once provided a path toward freedom and a promise of refreshing water on the journey for his people in the days of Isaiah, so also, he provides these same things for us. He has placed us on the path of faith in his Son Jesus and provided his Spirit to renew and refresh us each day.
Today’s appointed psalm, Psalm 126, builds on this message by speaking to what we should do along our path during times of difficulty and sadness. As we know, life does not unfold without its bitter moments. As we see in the psalm, God offers to help us through these times.
The first thing we are to do of course is to turn to God in prayer. That’s what the psalm is leading us to do.
But the psalm also teaches us more than this as well. Specifically, it teaches us to remember the good we’ve already experienced. Oftentimes when we’re sad or overwhelmed we forget that God has given us much good in the past. In Israel’s case, the psalm led them to remember the times when God had previously restored its fortunes as a nation … times such as those when they were released from their slavery in Egypt, entered into their promised land, built a beautiful temple, were led by the voice of a prophet, and achieved days of peace and prosperity. The psalm leads people to note that in these times: “our mouth was filled with laughter and our tongue with shouts of joy.”
After its recollection of God’s restoration in the past, the psalm then goes on to lead us in praying for new blessings. It says: “Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negeb (which is a desert).” The prayer is stated confidently and directly because we know that God has given us blessings before and can certainly do so again.
In this prayer for restored fortunes, note the use of water imagery just like in Isaiah. Just as water in the desert is rare, so also our prospects for restored fortune often seem bleak. But God can make it rain in the desert and he can restore our fortunes too. Such surprises, in fact, come quite often from our gracious and merciful God, and they give us great joy.
After this simple and straightforward appeal, the psalm then offers us another word of teaching. It says: “Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!” And this verse is then followed by the psalm’s concluding verse, which expresses the same thought in parallel.
When the celebrated German composer Johannes Brahms wrote his great requiem, he chose this verse as the key text for its first movement. Whatever one thinks of the universalist theology in this work, Brahms’ musical composition and textual choices are unquestionably brilliant and extremely moving.
The phrase “sow in tears” speaks powerfully to us. And one of the reasons for this is that it can be interpreted in various ways.
In one way the phrase simply reflects the great sorrow that life often brings. Those who bear life’s great sorrows seem to sow in tears – meaning their tears come out of them abundantly, cast into their days as seeds are cast into the ground. Such an understanding is fitting for the beginning of a requiem. And it reflects a word of Jesus, too, who famously said: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” (Mt. 5:4).
This understanding underscores the fact that God blesses our mourning – promising us that good will come from it. “Those who sow in tears,” as the text says, “shall reap with shouts of joy!” Mourning with tears is a good thing – for it expresses our sorrow and releases our feelings rather than bottling them up.
During the church’s Holy Week, our readings, prayers, hymns and liturgy lead us through many emotional moments as we sorrow over Christ’s painful death and sacrifice. The Maundy Thursday and Good Friday liturgies in particular lead us to feel this loss. In them we let the feelings of loss linger and don’t quickly move past the pain. The services are always described as beautiful. But we should recognize them as healing too.
Such focus certainly captures the spirit of “sowing in tears” mentioned in our psalm. And yet, the psalm phrase also has a meaning beyond this too. When we read ahead to the next verse, we see that it not only repeats the same thought in parallel but also adds further explanation. Verse six says: “He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.” And here we see that the sowing being done is not just an expressing of our sorrow but also the work we are doing despite our sorrow. The psalm calls us to “go out” while weeping and “bear the seed for sowing.” In other words, we are to continue pressing ahead in our work and not let our sorrow bring us to a stop.
Certainly pausing for a time of mourning is always in order. Such breaks can be helpful, which is one of the reasons we have funerals after a death and encourage periods of grieving after other losses too.
But at some point, all of us need to go forward. And this can be very difficult.
In the psalm, the Lord God promises that he will bless us as we go forward with faith. Life may bring many losses, but God is with us through these and will bring forth harvests of good in other ways.
St. Paul certainly knew of this teaching. And he shared it with the same imagery in the concluding words of his letter to the Galatians. In chapter six (v. 9) he says to them: “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”
This is also the same thought Paul shared with the Philippian church in today’s second reading. In it Paul speaks about “pressing on.” He knows that he will experience the full harvest of joy and righteousness that God promises on the day of the resurrection, but until that day he keeps “pressing on to make it my own” – meaning to live with that joy and righteousness even now. He refers to this way of living as “the upward call of God in Christ Jesus,” and he confidently notes that it will be given to him someday as a “prize.”
Here Paul notes too that this prize comes only because of God’s grace, shown and prompted by Christ. Paul knows that he doesn’t have a righteousness of his own. In fact, in the verses right before the ones we read Paul shares his former attempts to be righteous and explains how they were completely inadequate. This is why he now counts them as rubbish and instead trusts in the righteousness that comes through faith in Christ.
This faith allows Paul to go forward despite his losses. Note how he mentions this when he says: “I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish that I may gain Christ.” This is Paul’s way of saying that he is sowing in tears with faith, trusting that he will someday reap with shouts of joy.
Today’s first three readings all help us understand the chilling parable in the Gospel reading where Jesus tells about his upcoming rejection and death. They help explain that God restores fortunes for his people. And they remind us that God helps us deal with our losses.
Let us praise God today for his excellent messages to us! Through them God assures us of the victory we have over sin and death, and assures us, too, of the help he gives in this life.
God sees our needs with his all-knowing eyes. Let us live with eyes opened by his word and focused with faith in his Son, that we may see the many new things he does. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
HYMN OF THE DAY (Stand) My Song Is Love Unknown LSB 430
1 My song is love unknown,
My Savior’s love to me,
Love to the loveless shown
That they might lovely be.
Oh, who am I
That for my sake
My Lord should take
Frail flesh and die?
2 He came from His blest throne
Salvation to bestow;
But men made strange, and none
The longed-for Christ would know.
But, oh, my friend,
My friend indeed,
Who at my need
His life did spend!
3 Sometimes they strew His way
And His sweet praises sing;
Resounding all the day
Hosannas to their King.
Then “Crucify!”
Is all their breath,
And for His death
They thirst and cry.
4 Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
He gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries!
Yet they at these
Themselves displease
And ’gainst Him rise.
5 They rise and needs will have
My dear Lord made away;
A murderer they save,
The Prince of Life they slay.
Yet cheerful He
To suff’ring goes
That He His foes
From thence might free.
6 In life no house, no home
My Lord on earth might have;
In death no friendly tomb
But what a stranger gave.
What may I say?
Heav’n was His home
But mine the tomb
Wherein He lay.
7 Here might I stay and sing,
No story so divine!
Never was love, dear King,
Never was grief like Thine.
This is my friend,
In whose sweet praise
I all my days
Could gladly spend!
APOSTLES’ CREED Hymnal, back cover
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried.
He descended into hell.
The third day He rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Christian Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life ✠ everlasting. Amen.
OFFERING
Offerings support the church’s mission work – both here and through our many partners. Offerings may be placed in the box at the sanctuary entrance or sent to the church through our website or the mail. Fellowship Cards help us welcome new people and track participation. Please fill one out and place it in the offering box following the service.
PRAYERS OF THE CHURCH (Kneel)
In peace, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For courage, that God would deliver us from fear, give us boldness to confess His saving truth, and assure us of deliverance in time of trouble, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For pastors, that they would be faithful in the preaching of the Word and the administration of the Sacraments; and for the church, that we would receive these gifts in thankfulness that Christ was rejected by sinners so that we may be welcomed into His kingdom, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For parents, that God would bless them with every good gift to teach their children of the salvation and life that is theirs in Christ, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For civil authorities, that God would strengthen them to discourage evil and encourage good; and that He would keep us ever mindful that He is the One who shields us and lifts our heads, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For all those on our prayer list, for all who suffer in our midst, and for those in need whom we name in our hearts at this time… that our heavenly Father would remind them continually of His benefits, forgive all their iniquities, heal all their diseases and crown them with steadfast love, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For repentant hearts, that we may abandon all confidence in our flesh, counting all other gains as loss, and so receive Christ’s body and blood for the forgiveness of our sins, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
For all the faithful, that we may count all things as loss except Christ and Him crucified and be drawn to Him through Word and Sacrament, let us pray to the Lord: Lord, have mercy.
O Lord, in Holy Baptism You have shared Christ’s suffering, death and resurrection with us, that we might be raised from the dead. Preserve us from taking His sacrifice for granted and encourage us to forget what lies behind and strain forward to what lies ahead, until we attain the resurrection from the dead; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
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THE LITURGY OF HOLY COMMUNION
OFFERTORY LSB 192
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation, and uphold me with Thy free spirit. Amen.
PREFACE TO HOLY COMMUNION
The Lord be with you.
And with thy spirit.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up unto the Lord.
Let us give thanks unto the Lord, our God.
It is meet and right so to do.
It is truly good right and salutary…evermore praising You and saying:
SANCTUS
Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Sabaoth;
heav’n and earth are full of Thy glory.
Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is He, blessed is He, blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the highest.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
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.
THE WORDS OF OUR LORD
PAX DOMINI
The peace of the Lord be with you always.
Amen.
AGNUS DEI
O Christ, Thou Lamb of God, that takest away the sin of the world,
have mercy upon us.
O Christ, Thou Lamb of God, that takest away the sin of the world,
have mercy upon us.
O Christ, Thou Lamb of God, that takest away the sin of the world,
grant us Thy peace. Amen.
DISTRIBUTION (Be seated)
Those wishing to commune at the foot of the steps should come forward first. Those wishing to commune at the altar rail should come forward after these, front rows first, from both sides of the aisle. After receiving, all should return to their seats. A common dismissal will be given at the end.
COMMUNION HYMN Not All the Blood of Beasts LSB 431
1 Not all the blood of beasts
On Jewish altars slain
Could give the guilty conscience peace
Or wash away the stain.
2 But Christ, the heav’nly Lamb,
Takes all our sins away;
A sacrifice of nobler name
And richer blood than they.
3 My faith would lay its hand
On that dear head of Thine,
While as a penitent I stand,
And there confess my sin.
4 My soul looks back to see
The burden Thou didst bear
When hanging on the cursèd tree;
I know my guilt was there.
5 Believing, we rejoice
To see the curse remove;
We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice
And sing His bleeding love.
NUNC DIMITTIS AND CONCLUDING LITURGY LSB 199-202
Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace according to Thy word,
for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the face of all people,
a light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of Thy people Israel.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
THANKSGIVING LSB 200
O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good,
and His mercy endureth forever.
POST-COMMUNION COLLECT
Let us pray.
We give thanks to You, almighty God, that You have refreshed us through this salutary gift, and we implore You that of Your mercy You would strengthen us through the same in faith toward You and in fervent love toward one another; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
SALUTATION LSB 201
The Lord be with you.
And with thy spirit.
BENEDICAMUS LSB 202
Bless we the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
BENEDICTION LSB 202
The Lord bless you and keep you.
The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you.
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and T give you peace.
Amen, amen, amen.
SENDING HYMN We Sing the Praise of Him Who Died LSB 429
1 We sing the praise of Him who died,
Of Him who died upon the cross.
The sinner’s hope let all deride;
For this we count the world but loss.
2 Inscribed upon the cross we see
In shining letters, “God is love.”
He bears our sins upon the tree;
He brings us mercy from above.
3 The cross! It takes our guilt away;
It holds the fainting spirit up;
It cheers with hope the gloomy day
And sweetens ev’ry bitter cup.
4 It makes the coward spirit brave
And nerves the feeble arm for fight;
It takes the terror from the grave
And gilds the bed of death with light;
5 The balm of life, the cure of woe,
The measure and the pledge of love,
The sinner’s refuge here below,
The angels’ theme in heav’n above.
6 To Christ, who won for sinners grace
By bitter grief and anguish sore,
Be praise from all the ransomed race
Forever and forevermore.
ANNOUNCEMENTS (Be seated)
DISMISSAL
POSTLUDE We Sing the Praise of Him Who Died Setting: Tim Shewmaker
FELLOWSHIP: Board of Youth
Those serving:
8:00 a.m.:
Greeter: Bob Juenger
Comm. assist: Jim Easterly
Reader: Norm Williams
Violin: Shaw-Hwa Yang
10:30 a.m.:
Greeter: Jason Starck
Comm. assist: Dan Buuck
Reader: Lynn Jacquez
Acolyte: Natalie Starck
AV Assistants: Hannes Buuck, Andreas Buuck
Acknowledgements
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Created by Lutheran Service Builder © 2025 Concordia Publishing House.
198 O Come, Let Us Fix Our Eyes on Jesus Text: Hebrews 12:2, alt.
Tune: Mark L. Bender, b. 1951 Text: © 2001 Crossway Bibles. Used by permission: OAR Hymn License no. 110005326 Tune: © 2009 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission: OAR Hymn License no. 110005326
426 When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Text: Isaac Watts, 1674–1748 Tune: Second Supplement to
Psalmody in Miniature, 1778, London; adapt. Edward Miller, 1731–1807 Text and tune: Public domain
430 My Song Is Love Unknown Text: Samuel Crossman, c. 1624–1683 Tune: John N. Ireland, 1879–1962
Text: Public domain Tune: © John Ireland Trust. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no.
110005326
431 Not All the Blood of Beasts Text: Isaac Watts, 1674–1748, alt. Tune: William Daman, c. 1540–1591
Text and tune: Public domain
429 We Sing the Praise of Him Who Died Text (sts. 1–5): Thomas Kelly, 1769–1855; (st. 6): Hymns
Ancient and Modern, 1861 Tune: attr. Daniel Read, 1757–1836 Text and tune: Public domain
