St. Luke's Lutheran Church*Fifth Sunday in Lent*Contemporary Service*4-6-25

ALL are WELCOME!!! • Our goal is "To know God's love and to share it!!" something we here at St. Luke's believe from deep within our souls. First Reading: Isaiah 43:16-21 16 Thus says the Lord, Who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, 17 Who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: 18 Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. 19 I am about to do 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. 20 The wild animals 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, 21 the people whom I formed for Myself so that they might declare My praise. Second Reading: Philippians 3:4b-14 [Paul writes:] 4b If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. 7 Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8 More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the sharing of His sufferings by becoming like Him in his death, 11 if somehow, I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me His own. 13 Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. Gospel: John 12:1-8 The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the twelfth chapter. 1 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. 2 There they gave a dinner for Him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with Him. 3 Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples (the one who was about to betray Him), said, 5 “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?” 6 (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) 7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of My burial. 8 You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.” #sundaychurchservice #jesusisking #hosana #AMEN #jesussaves #godblessusall #wejustneedjesus #Lordweneedyou #prayfortheworld #prayforeveryone #Godsmercy #Godsgrace #Godsjudgement #theholytrinity #fathersonandholyspirit #Yeshua #YHWH #thisdoinremembranceofme #eucharist 5633 E. Wardlow Ave Long Beach, CA 90808 Contemporary Service: 9:00 am PST Traditional Service: 11:00 am PST