9-20-26 17th Sunday after Pentecost – God’s Grace Isn’t Fair – Immanuel Ev Lutheran Church, Buffalo

Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1970 Edmonson Ave NE, Buffalo MN 55313 extends a warm welcome for you to visit in person, and to visit our website and Facebook page. Links are at the bottom of this description. Pastor Oehlke invites you to ask him anything you may be wondering or concerned about. Contact him in person, through pastor@myimmanuel.org or 763-682-4573. We encourage you to click ‘Like’ on this video. If you want to be notified when Immanuel Lutheran's videos are uploaded, please Subscribe and click the Bell. September 20, 2026 Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Communion service at WELS Immanuel Lutheran Church, Buffalo MN. Pastor Christopher Oehlke officiating. Organist/pianist: Karen Davis. Liturgy from Christian Worship A Lutheran Hymnal. WELCOME, VISITORS: We are glad you could be with us and we welcome you back any time. Please sign our “Welcome” card found in the pew holders or sign the guest book in the narthex/entry. PRAYER BEFORE COMMUNION: Dear Savior, upon your gracious invitation I come to your altar. Let me find favor in your eyes that I may approach your table in true faith and receive the sacrament to the salvation of my soul. Amen. We apologize for technical difficulties with the video being cut off during the last hymn. Preservice piano music 1:32 Start of service 2:04 HYMN 381 Grace Has a Thrilling Sound 4:17 CONFESSON OF SINS 5:58 GLORY BE TO GOD 7:50 PRAYER OF THE DAY 8:35 FIRST LESSON – Jonah 3.10-4.11 11:01 PSALM 27 “The Lord is my light and my salvation - of whom shall I be afraid?” 13:50 SECOND LESSON – Romans 9.6-16 15:23 VERSE OF THE DAY 15:47 GOSPEL – Matthew 20.1-16 20 “Indeed the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing to pay the workers a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 He also went out about the third hour and saw others standing unemployed in the marketplace. 4 To these he said, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and I will give you whatever is right.’ So they went. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour and did the same thing. 6 When he went out about the eleventh hour, he found others standing unemployed. He said to them, ‘Why have you stood here all day unemployed?’ 7 “They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ “He told them, ‘You also go into the vineyard.’ 8 When it was evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last group and ending with the first.’ 9 “When those who were hired around the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius. 10 When those who were hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But they each received a denarius too. 11 After they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner: 12 ‘Those who were last worked one hour, and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’ 13 “But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not make an agreement with me for a denarius? 14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give to the last one hired the same as I also gave to you. 15 Can’t I do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ 16 In the same way, the last will be first, and the first, last.” 18:01 NICENE CREED 19:46 HYMN 390 Salvation unto Us Has Come 23:57 SERMON Matthew 20.1-16 “Grace is Not Fair” 42:45 CREATE IN ME 43:40 INSTALLATION OF SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS 46:32 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. 47:10 THE SACRAMENT 48:04 HOLY, HOLY, HOLY 48:54 WORDS OF INSTITUTION 49:26 O CHRIST, LAMB OF GOD 50:17 DISTRIBUTION 53:06 HYMN 384 By Grace I’m Saved 57:29 HYMN 401 Your Works, Not Mine, O Christ 1:01:46 SONG OF SIMEON 1:02:35 PRAYER AND BLESSING 1:03:28 HYMN 379 Amazing Grace—How Sweet the Sound Immanuel Lutheran Church Buffalo, MN Aerial View (Drone) July 26, 2018    • Immanuel Lutheran Church. Buffalo, MN. Aer...   http://www.myimmanuel.org/   / myimmanuel   https://wels.net/