A Service of Praise and Thanksgiving

Remembering the Life and Ministry of

The Rev. Dr. Ronald Raymond Feuerhahn
The Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus
Concordia Seminary
St. Louis, MO

March 17, 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:

We were buried therefore

with Him by baptism

into death, in order

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

be united with Him in a resurrection

HYMN

THE KYRIE
P: Lord, have mercy upon us.
C: Christ, have mercy upon us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.

THE PRAYER OF THE DAY

P: The Lord be with you.
C: And also with you.

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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THE EPISTLE READING

Stand
THE GOSPEL

Ephesians 2: l-l0

READING

John 3:14-21

Sit
THE HYMN OF THE DAY

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Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart

THE SERMON
Stand
THE APOSTLES

Text: John 3:14-21

CREED

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.

He descended into hell.

The third day He rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,

the holy Christian Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life

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

You face to face in the joys of paradise. Lord, in Your mercy,

C: hear our prayer.

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.

Strengthen us in the confidence that because He lives we shall live

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

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
and lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.

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

OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED

The Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Kloha

Provost, Concordia

Seminary,

St. Louis.

The Rev. Dr. Ray Mirly

President, Missouri District, The Lutheran ChurchMissouri

The Rev. Bart Day

Synod

Interim Chief Mission Officer and Executive Director of the Office of National
Mission, The Lutheran ChurchMissouri

Synod

Stand

THE NUNC DIMITTIS

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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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."
THE BENEDICAMUS, BEN EDICTION, AND DISMISSAL
P: Let us bless the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.

P: The Lord bless you and keep you.

The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you.
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and >I< give you peace.
C: Amen.

P: Let us go forth in peace,

C: in the name of the Lord. Amen.
THE SENDING

HYMN

Stanza 4: Choir only

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Lord Jesus Christ, with Us Abide

THE POSTLUDE
+ SOLI DEO GLORIA +

Memorial contributions may be made to the Ronald Feuerhahn Student

Endowment Fund (Concordia Seminary) or the American Parkinson Disease
Association St. Louis Chapter Patient Services.

SERVANTS OF THE WORD

LITURGIST

The Rev. David Pelsue

Pastor, The Church of the ReformationLutheran
Affton, Missouri

PREACHER

The Rev. Dr. Scott Bruzek

Senior Pastor, St. John Lutheran Church

Wheaton, Illinois
ORGANIST

The Rev. Henry Gerike

Kantor, The Church of the ReformationLutheran
Affton, Missouri

CRUCIFER

CANTOR
MUSICIAN

The Rev. Bill Wrede

Director of Ministerial Recruitment and Admissions
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri
Mr. Mark Bliese

Mrs. Holly Eickmann

PALLBEARERS
Mr. Harold Feuerhahn
Mr. Peter Throdahl
Dr. David Lotz (not present)

Mr. Bobby Shuck (not present)

Mr. Chris Campbell
Mr. Jeff Muskopf
Acknowledgments
Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles. a division of Good News
Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Portions of the Funeral Liturgy, LSB Agenda. Used by

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

the pastoral ministry followed as he earned a Master of Divinity degree

in 1963 from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Further study resulted in
a Master of Philosophy degree in 1980 from Cambridge University in England and the Doctor
of Philosophy degree fiom the same institution in 1992.
Ron was ordained at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau in 1963 and was
called to serve as a missionary in England and Wales, United Kingdom, within the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of England (ELCE) until 1967. From 1964-70 he also serve as the pastor of
St. Davids Lutheran Church in Cardiff, Wales. He was then called to Resurrection Lutheran
Church Cambridge, England, where he served until 1977. In 1977 Westfield House, the

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

churchmanship and care for the people of God.

Ron married Carol (ne Throdahl) Feuerhalm on August 31, 1963. Their 51 years of
marriage were blessed with three children: the late Philip Charles who died in infancy; Katluyn
Sian (J efi) Muskopf, and Heather Gail (Chris) Campbell, and three grandchildren. Ron was
admired by his family, colleagues, students, and friends for his humility, his collegiality, his
love for the ofiice of the ministry, the churchs liturgy, and the life of the church, and his
teaching which always pointed to Christ Jesus. For the gifis of God in this servant of God, the

church says: Amen! Glory be to God.