The Trinity season extends from Pentecost to Advent. The color green is used to picture the Church as it matures and bears the fruits of the Spirit.
Service Folder📖🔍 Proverbs 25:6-14 ▪ Ephesians 4:1-6 ▪ ✞ Luke 14:1-11
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Evangelical Lutheran Church
“For by grace you have been saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God”— Ephesians 2:8, 9
Trinity Season
Service Folder📖🔍 I Kings 17:17-24 ▪ Ephesians 3:14-21 ▪ ✞ Luke 7:11-17
Service Folder📖🔍 Deuteronomy 6:4-7 ▪ Galatians 5:25-6:10 ▪ ✞ Matthew 6:24-34
Theme: Thanksgiving Service Folder📖🔍 Jeremiah 17:13-14 ▪ Galatians 5:16-24 ▪ ✞ Luke 17:11-19 There is an interesting connection between Sunday’s lessons. In Luke 17:10-18 ten lepers asked Jesus to have mercy on them. Jesus healed them by means of his Word. In Galatians 5:16-24, we learn that we inherited the leprous sinful self from Adam. The Holy Spirit cleansed us of the…
Service Folder📖🔍 Leviticus 18:1-5 ▪ Galatians 3:15-22 ▪ ✞ Luke 10:23-37 The Law cannot help us or give us life. Rather, it confines everyone under sin as wounded and naked before God (Gal. 3:15–22). So it is that two figures of the Law, the priest and the Levite, passed by the injured man on the side of the road (Luke 10:23–37). Only…
Service Folder📖🔍 Isaiah 29:18-19 ▪ 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 ▪ ✞ Mark 7:31-38 A man who was deaf and therefore also had an impediment in his speech was brought to Jesus (Mark 7:31–37). Jesus put His fingers into the man’s ears, spat and touched his tongue; and sighed “Ephphatha” opening the man’s ears, and loosening his tongue to speak plainly as Isaiah prophesied…
Theme: Humility – Pharisee and Publican Service Folder📖🔍 ✞ Luke 18:9-14 ▪ ✞ Matthew 9:9-13 The lowly tax collector who prayed, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” was the one who went down to his house justified before God, not the respectable, outwardly righteous Pharisee who trusted in himself and his own good living (Luke 18:9–14). The one who penitently despairs…