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Feuerhahn Funeral Bullet 17 March 2015
Feuerhahn Funeral Bullet 17 March 2015
Feuerhahn Funeral Bullet 17 March 2015
2:30 P.M.
+ IN NOMINE JESU +
THE PRELUDE
Stand and turn to face the baptismal font.
THE INVOCATION
AND REMEMBRANCE
OF BAPTISM
P: In the name of the Father and of the >1 Son and of the Holy
Spirit.
C: Amen.
P:
In Holy Baptism Ronald was clothed with the robe of Christs righteousness
that covered all his sin. St. Paul says, Do you not know that all of us who have
been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
C:
that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too
might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with Him in a death
like His, we shall certainly
THE ENTRANCE
HYMN
THE KYRIE
P: Lord, have mercy upon us.
C: Christ, have mercy upon us.
like His.
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P: Let us pray...
O God of grace and mercy, we give thanks for your loving-kindness to Ronald
and to all your servants who, having finished their course in faith, now rest from
their labors. Grant that we also may be faithful unto death and receive the
crown of eternal life; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and
reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
C: Amen.
Sit
THE OLD TESTAMENT
READING
Numbers 21:4-9
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Sit
THE HYMN OF THE DAY
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Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart
THE SERMON
Stand
THE APOSTLES
P: God has made us His people through our Baptism into Christ. Living together in
must and hope, we confess our faith.
C: 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.
everlasting.
Amen.
THE PRAYERS
P: Let us pray to the Lord, our God and Father, who raised Jesus from the dead.
P:
Almighty God, you have knit your chosen people together into one communion,
in the mystical body of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Give to your whole
church in heaven and on earth your light and your peace. Lord, in your mercy,
: hear our prayer.
Grant that all who have been baptized into Christs death and resurrection may
die to sin and rise to newness of life and so pass with Him through the gate of
death and the grave to our joyful resurrection. Lord, in your mercy,
: hear our prayer.
Grant that all who have been nourished by the holy body and blood of Your Son
may be raised to immortality and incorruption to be seated with Him at Your
heavenly banquet. Lord, in Your mercy,
: hear our prayer.
Give to the family of Ronald and to all who mourn comfort in their grief and a
sure confidence in Your loving care that, casting all their sorrow on You, they
may know the consolation of Your love. Lord, in Your mercy,
: hear our prayer.
Give courage and faith to the bereaved, that within the communion of Your
Church they may have strength to meet the days ahead in the assurance of a
holy and certain hope and in the joyful expectation of eternal life with those
they love who have departed in the faith. Lord, in Your mercy,
: hear our prayer.
. Help us, we pray, in the midst of things we cannot understand, to believe and
find comfort in the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the
resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Lord, in Your mercy,
: hear our prayer.
P: Receive our thanks for Ronald and for all the blessings You bestowed on him in
this earthly life. Bring us at last to our heavenly home that with him we may see
P: God of all grace, you sent your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, to bring life and
immortality to light. We give you thanks that by His death He destroyed the
power of death and by His resurrection He opened the kingdom of heaven to all
believers.
also and that neither death nor life nor things present nor things to come will be
able to separate us from Your love, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord, who
lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
C: Amen.
P:
C:
Taught by our Lord and trusting in His promises, we are bold to pray:
Our Father
against
us;
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.
Amen.
Sit
CHORAL
HYMN
Children
of the Heavenly
Father
THE COMMENDATION
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P: "I am the resurrection and the life," says the Lord. "He who believes in Me will
live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die."
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THE BENEDICAMUS, BEN EDICTION, AND DISMISSAL
P: Let us bless the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
HYMN
THE POSTLUDE
+ SOLI DEO GLORIA +
LITURGIST
PREACHER
CRUCIFER
CANTOR
MUSICIAN
PALLBEARERS
Mr. Harold Feuerhahn
Mr. Peter Throdahl
Dr. David Lotz (not present)
permission. LSB Liturgy License.NET, number 100010935. Nunc Ditnittis" Text: ICET; liturgical texts,
alt; l978 Lutheran Book of Worship; Music: Carlos R. Messerli, alt. l978 Lutheran Book qfWorsh1]1. Used
by permission. LSB Hymn License.NET, number l000l 0935 and created by Lutheran Service Builder 2006
Concordia Publishing House.
Ronald R. Feuerhahn
Ronald R. Feuerhalm was born on December 1, 1937, in Cape
Girardeau, Missouri to Alvin and Alma Feuerhahn. Ron was baptized
at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. He attended St. Pauls
College in Concordia, Missouri for the first two years of college, and
then matriculated at Concordia Senior College in Ft. Wayne, Indiana,
earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1959. Education toward
seminary of the ELCE in Cambridge, called Ron as preceptor (headmaster and teacher) where
he served until 1986. In that year his alma mater, Concordia Seminary, called him to its faculty,
where he taught in the area of historical theology until his retirement in 2008, 22 years of
distinguished teaching and scholarship in service to the church.
In addition to his teaching expertise in the area of modern church history, Ron served
as Seminary Archivist from 1999 until 2008. He served on numerous committees for the ELCE
and the LCMS including the ELCE Board for Overseas Mission, the ELCE Lutheran Free
Conference of Great Britain, the ELCE Executive Council, the LCMS Commission for
Doctrinal Review, and the LCMS Commission on Worship. Finally, he served as the chair of
the liturgy committee, one of the five committees tasked with preparing the 2006 Lutheran
Service Book. He was the premier scholar on the theology and work of Hermann Sasse,
publishing numerous articles and editing several collections of Sasses essays. As he did in
everything, Ron exercised this scholarship and leadership with competence, extensive historical
knowledge, pastoral insight, Christian humility, a keen sense of humor, and a preeminent