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 Old Testament: Micah 7: 18-20 Epistle: I Peter 5: 6-11 Gospel: Luke 15: 1-10 (11-32) As we think about Father’s Day, a poet once penned, “Our Father by whom all fatherhood is named.” As great an honor as is to be named after our heavenly Father, there is no perfect human father. Those of us who are fathers all fall…
Service Folder (.pdf) Service Folder (.docx) The LORD God has prepared a feast of Salvation. (Isaiah 25:6-9) By means of the Gospel the Spirit invites all to believe it and to receive the LORD’s saving gifts in the Holy Supper. Many make excuses and reject this invitation, even as the Jews did in the days of Jesus, yet the Master’s house will…
Service Folder Old Testament: Jeremiah 9:23-24 Epistle: I John 4:16-21 Gospel: Luke 16:19-31 In Jesus story about the Rich Man and Lazarus, Jesus tells us that when Lazarus, the beggar died, he was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The name Lazarus means “God is my help.” Though it looked like Lazarus had God’s disfavor because of the bad in his…
Service Folder (.docx) Service Folder (.pdf) Sunday is Trinity Sunday. It is the custom of the Church to confess the Athanasian Creed on this day. While we will sing a hymn version of Athanasian Creed, the sermon will quote the following from it: “Whoever will be saved shall, above all else, hold the catholic faith…. and the true Christian faith is this,…
Service Folder Today is the Last Sunday in the Church Year. On this Sunday we look for Jesus to return and bring the Church, purchased with his blood and nurtured by Word and Sacrament, home. In the gospel for the day, Jesus is pictured as a Bridegroom and the Church as 10 Virgins waiting for him to bring us to the joyous…
Service Folder Today’s lessons turn us to the end times and Jesus’ return. The end times will be marked by tribulation and false prophets (Matthew 24:15-28). At the end, Jesus will return to raise the dead and “grant to all believers in him, eternal life. (I Thessalonians 4:13-18) As we live in these last times, God gives us gospel promises to keep…
Service Folder Baptized into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, we belong to two kingdoms. One is called the Kingdom of the Left, where the state governs by laws. The other is called the Kingdom of the Right, where God governs by grace. The Kingdom of the Left is temporary; the Kingdom of the…