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Sabine Miner
Given Life in Time
August 12, 1939
Given Life in Eternity
November 30, 2016
AS WE GATHER
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Today we gather in the valley. Grief rising on one side, pain rising on the other. The valley can be lonely, treacherous, and all-encompassing. I will fear no evil. Ahead lies a mountain, a mountain of hope. Joy and peace envelop all who pass through the valley and ascend the mountain. Today we make that journey to the mountaintop.
SABINE’S LIFE IN PICTURES (Music only) Hallelujah By Leonard Cohen
*INVOCATION
Pastor: In the name of the Father and of the ┼ Son and of the Holy Spirit.
People: Amen.
*PRAYER
Pastor: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
Pastor: Let us pray to the Lord.
O God whose mercies are new every morning, give us strength as we
Walk through the valley of the shadow of death. May Your rod and staff
comfort us. Bring us safely to Your mountain, where we will join with
all the saints proclaiming Your praise, glory, wisdom, thanks, honor,
power, and strength. This we pray in Jesus’ name.
People: Amen.
*HYMN “Amazing Grace” (Green Book 448)
FIRST LESSON Romans 8:31-39 (Nothing can separate us from God’s love in Christ)
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died–more than that, who was raised–who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Pastor: This is the Word of the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
SECOND LESSON Revelation 22:1-5 (The Lord God will be their light)
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
Pastor: This is the Word of the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
SABINE’S LIFE IN WORDS
HYMN “How Great Thou Art” (Red Book 78)
O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder
Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy pow’r throughout the universe displayed.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee;
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee;
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
And when I think that God, His son not sparing,
Sent him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin;
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee;
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee;
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart!
Then I shall bow in humble adoration.
And there proclaim, my God, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee;
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee;
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
WORDS OF COMFORT Pastor Lucke
*PRAYER
*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.
*BENEDICTION
Pastor: The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift His countenance on you and ┼ give you peace.
People: Amen.
CLOSING SONG Somewhere Over the Rainbow By Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole