Worship at All Saints - Sundays at 9:00
Worship is central to who we are here at All Saints. You’ll find a casual, come-as-you-are
atmosphere, and worship that blends ancient and modern liturgies, fantastic music,
camp songs, old favorites, and space to breath, reset, and welcome the Holy Spirit
to keep speaking and leading us into the world.
Our PrayerGround is available in the worship space, as well as a staffed nursery just
outside of the sanctuary. Contact Leah with any questions.
Can’t join us in person? No problem! Worship is live streamed on Facebook and YouTube
Sunday, April 28th, Fifth Sunday After Easter
Introduction
This Sunday’s image of how the risen Christ shares his life with us is the image of the vine. Christ the vine and we the branches are alive in each other, in the mystery of mutual abiding described in the gospel and the first letter of John. Baptism makes us a part of Christ’s living and life-giving self and makes us alive with Christ’s life. As the vine brings food to the branches, Christ feeds us at his table. We are sent out to bear fruit for the life of the world.
Readings and Psalm
Psalm 22:25-31, 1 John 4:7-21 and John 15:1-8
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Sunday, April 21st, Fourth Sunday After Easter
Introduction
The image of the good shepherd shows us how the risen Christ brings us to life. It is the relationship between the shepherd and the sheep, one of mutual knowledge and love, that gives the shepherd authority. The shepherd’s willingness to lay down his life for the sheep shows his love. First John illustrates what it means to lay down our lives for one another by the example of sharing our wealth with any sibling in need.
Readings and Psalm
Acts 4:5-12, John 3:16-24, John 10:11-18
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Sunday, April 14th, Third Sunday After Easter
Introduction
The gospel for the third Sunday of Easter is always one in which the risen Christ shares food with the disciples, meals that are the Easter template for the meal we share each Sunday. In today’s gospel, Jesus both shares the disciples’ food and shows them the meaning of his suffering, death, and resurrection through the scriptures, the two main elements of our Sunday worship.
Readings and Psalm
Psalm 4, John 3:1-7, Luke 24:36b-48
*Worship Bulletin: page 4, Canticle of Praise is ELW #723
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Sunday, April 7th, Second Sunday of Easter
Introduction
The Easter season is a week of weeks, seven Sundays when we play in the mystery of Christ’s presence, mostly through the glorious Gospel of John. Today we gather with the disciples on the first Easter, and Jesus breathes the Spirit on us. With Thomas we ask for a sign, and Jesus offers us his wounded self in the broken bread. From frightened individuals we are transformed into a community of open doors, peace, forgiveness, and material sharing such that no one among us is in need.
Readings and Psalm
Acts 4:32-35, 1 John 1:1--2:2, John 20:19-31
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Sunday March 31st: Resurrection of Our Lord: Easter Day
Alleluia! Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Christ is risen! Jesus is alive, and God has swallowed up death forever. With Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, we may feel astonished and confused, unsure of what to make of the empty tomb. But this is why we gather: to proclaim, witness, praise, and affirm the liberating reality of Christ’s death and resurrection. In word and feast, we celebrate God’s unending love, and depart to share this good news with all the world. Alleluia!
Land Acknowledgement
Creator, you made all people of every land. It is our responsibility to give thanks and respect to those who first occupied this land we are upon. At All Saints we give thanks to the Wahpekute (Wah-peh-kue-teh) Dakota, the first people of this land. We offer our respect to those ancestors who may be interred in this land, and are thankful for the gifts of the People of the land. For all these things we give thanks. Amen.
Readings and Psalm
Acts 10:34-43, Psalm 118 Selected vs from The Message, John 20:1-18
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Friday March 29th: Good Friday
Greeting
Today is a painful day in the story of our faith. We learn about betrayal, abuse, and murder. We feel heartbreak and grief. We hear echoes of the most painful parts of our own lives, the lives of those we love, and the lives of our neighbors who suffer around the world. As our perception adjusts to the growing darkness with each extinguished candle, our hearts adjust to the deepening discomfort of the Passion story. As we witness new and deeper things in the dark, our hearts perceive moments of kind- ness, acts of compassion, and instances of forgiveness amid the pain.
You will have time for reflection during each part of the evening. You can draw, color, or write on each page in this booklet. You may also look at some of the art that has been created during Lent that is shown on the screen. You may also reflect through song, as we have a song that will be sung during each section.Tonight, the story of Jesus’ death will remind us not only of our ultimate liberation from death, but also of the quiet joy our Creator holds for us when we cannot carry it ourselves. As Christians, we hold the grief of this day alongside the goodness of God. We know this story is not the end.
Readings:
Mark 14:1-9, Mark 14:10-26, Mark 14:32-46, Mark 14:53-54, 66-72, Mark 15: 16-40, Mark 15: 42-47
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Sunday, March 24th: Palm Sunday
This week, the center of the church’s year, is one of striking contrasts: Jesus rides into Jerusalem surrounded by shouts of glory, only to be left alone to die on the cross, abandoned by even his closest friends. Mark’s gospel presents Jesus in his complete human vulnerability: agitated, grieved, scared, forsaken. Though we lament Christ’s suffering and all human suffering, we also expect God’s salvation: in the wine and bread, Jesus promises that his death will mark a new covenant with all people. We enter this holy week thirsty for the completion of God’s astonishing work.
Procession with Palms
Mark 11:1-11, Psalm 31:9-16
Readings and Psalms
Philippians 2:5-11, Mark 14:1--15:47
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Sunday March 17th: Fifth Sunday in Lent
God promises Jeremiah that a “new covenant” will be made in the future: a covenant that will allow all the people to know God by heart. The church sees this promise fulfilled in Christ, who draws all people to himself when he is lifted up on the cross. Our baptismal covenant draws us to God’s heart through Christ and draws God’s love and truth into our hearts. We join together in worship, sharing in word, song, and meal, and leave strengthened to share God’s love with all the world.
Readings and Psalms
Jeremiah 31:31- 34, Psalm 51:1-12, Psalm 119:9-16, Hebrews 5:5-10 and John 12:20-33
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Sunday March 10th: Fourth Sunday in Lent
The fourth of the Old Testament promises providing a baptismal lens this Lent is the promise God makes to Moses: those who look on the bronze serpent will live. In today’s gospel Jesus says he will be lifted up on the cross like the serpent, so that those who look to him in faith will live. When we receive the sign of the cross in baptism, that cross becomes the sign we can look to in faith for healing, for restored relationship to God, for hope when we are dying.
Readings and Psalm
Numbers 21:4-9, Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22, Ephesians 2:1-10, and John 3:14-21
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Sunday, March 3rd: 3rd Sunday in Lent
The third covenant in this year’s Lenten readings is the central one of Israel’s history: the gift of the law to those God freed from slavery. The commandments begin with the statement that because God alone has freed us from the powers that oppressed us, we are to let nothing else claim first place in our lives. When Jesus throws the merchants out of the temple, he is defending the worship of God alone and rejecting the ways commerce and profit-making can become our gods. The Ten Commandments are essential to our baptismal call: centered first in God’s liberating love, we strive to live out justice and mercy in our communities and the world.
Readings and Psalm: Exodus 20:1-17, Psalm 19, 1 Corinthians 1:18-25, John 2:13-22
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Sunday February 25th: 2nd Sunday in Lent
Introduction
The second covenant in this year’s Lenten readings is the one made with Abraham and Sarah: God’s promise to make them the ancestors of many, with whom God will remain in everlasting covenant. Paul says this promise comes to all who share Abraham’s faith in the God who brings life into being where there was no life. We receive this baptismal promise of resurrection life in faith. Sarah and Abraham receive new names as a sign of the covenant, and we too get new identities in baptism, as we put on Christ.
Readings and Psalm: Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16, Psalm 22:23-31, Romans 4:13-25, Mark 8:31-38
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Sunday, February 18th: 1st Sunday in Lent
On Ash Wednesday the church began its journey toward baptismal immersion in the death and resurrection of Christ. This year, the Sundays in Lent lead us to focus on five covenants God makes in the Hebrew Scriptures and to use them as lenses through which to view baptism. First Peter connects the way God saved Noah’s family in the flood with the way God saves us through the water of baptism. The baptismal covenant is made with us individually, but the new life we are given in baptism is for the sake of the whole world.
Readings and Psalm: Genesis 9:8-17, Psalm 25:1-10, 1 Peter 3:18-22, Mark 1:9-15
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Wednesday, February 14th: Ash Wednesday
On Ash Wednesday we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross indelibly marked on our foreheads at baptism. While we journey through Lent to return to God, we have already been reconciled to God through Christ. We humbly pray for God to make our hearts clean while we rejoice that “now is the day of salvation.” Returning to our baptismal call, we more intentionally bear the fruits of mercy and justice in the world.
Readings and Psalm: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17, Isaiah 58:1-12 (alternate), Psalm 51:1-17, 2 Corinthians 5:20b--6:10, Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
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Sunday, February 11th: Transfiguration of Our Lord
Introduction
The Sundays after Epiphany began with Jesus’ baptism and end with three disciples’ vision of his transfiguration. In Mark’s story of Jesus’ baptism, apparently only Jesus sees the Spirit descending and hears the words from heaven. But now Jesus’ three closest friends hear the same words naming him God’s Beloved. As believers, Paul writes, we are enabled to see the God-light in Jesus’ face, because the same God who created light in the first place has shone in our hearts to give us that vision. The light of God’s glory in Jesus has enlightened us through baptism and shines in us also for others to see.
Readings and Psalm: 2 Kings 2:1-12, Psalm 50:1-6, 2 Corinthians 4:3-6, Mark 9:2-9
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Sunday, February 4th: Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
In Isaiah the one God who sits above the earth and numbers the stars also strengthens the powerless. So in Jesus’ healing work we see the hand of the creator God, lifting up the sick woman to health and service (diakonia). Like Simon’s mother-in-law, we are lifted up and healed to serve. Following Jesus, we strengthen the powerless; like Jesus, we seek to renew our own strength in quiet times of prayer.
Readings and Psalm: Isaiah 40:21-31, Psalm 147:1-11, 20c, 1 Corinthians 9:16-23, Mark 1:29-39
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Sunday, January 28th: Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
In Isaiah the one God who sits above the earth and numbers the stars also strengthens the powerless. So in Jesus’ healing work we see the hand of the creator God, lifting up the sick woman to health and service (diakonia). Like Simon’s mother-in-law, we are lifted up and healed to serve. Following Jesus, we strengthen the powerless; like Jesus, we seek to renew our own strength in quiet times of prayer.
Readings and Psalm: Isaiah 40:21-31, Psalm 147:1-11, 20c, 1 Corinthians 9:16-23, Mark 1:29-39
Sunday, January 21st: Third Sunday after Epiphany
As we continue through the time after Epiphany, stories of the call to discipleship show us the implications of our baptismal calling to show Christ to the world. Jesus begins proclaiming the good news and calling people to repentance right after John the Baptist is arrested for preaching in a similar way. Knowing that John was later executed, we see at the very outset the cost of discipleship. Still, the two sets of brothers leave everything they have known and worked for all their lives to follow Jesus and fish for people.
Readings and Psalm: Jonah 3:1-5, 10, Psalm 62:5-12, 1 Corinthians 7:29-31, Mark 1:14-20
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Sunday, January 14th: Second Sunday after Epiphany
All the baptized have a calling in God’s world. God calls not just pastors and deacons but also the youngest child, like Samuel. The story of the calling of Nathanael plays with the idea of place. Nathanael initially dismisses Jesus because he comes from Nazareth. But where we come from isn’t important; it’s where—or rather whom—we come to. Jesus refers to Jacob, who had a vision in a place he called “the house of God, and . . . the gate of heaven” (Gen. 28:17). Jesus says he himself is the place where Nathanael will meet God.
Readings and Psalm: 1 Samuel 3:1-10 [11-20], Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18, 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, John 1:43-51
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Sunday, January 7th: Baptism of Our Lord
Our re-creation in baptism is an image of the Genesis creation, where the Spirit of God moved over the waters. Both Mark’s gospel and the story in Acts make clear that it is the Spirit’s movement that distinguishes Jesus’ baptism from John’s. The Spirit has come upon us as upon Jesus and the Ephesians, calling us God’s beloved children and setting us on Jesus’ mission to re-create the world in the image of God’s vision of justice and peace.
Readings and Psalm: Genesis 1:1-5, Psalm 29, Acts 19:1-7, Mark 1:4-11
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