Book of Concord, Bible Class #43: Article II. Free Will concluded

This Bible study examines Article II. Free Will (concluded)
Quiz #42 ( grey sheet):  Quiz-42-for-July-26-2020-Free-Will-continued.pdf
Overhead:  Overheads-July-26-2020.pdf
Annotated Text of FC SD II:  Formula-of-Concord-Solid-Declaration-Article-II.pdf

Note 1: A Divine Service was also video recorded and is available at trinityh.org, under the tab, Sermons
Note 2: This is the audio only post.  The vimeo video is also available.   Click here –>  Vimeo Video for #43

Divine Service for Trinity Seven – July 26, 2020

Service Bulletin:  Trinity-Seven-Divine-Service-for-Online-7-26-2020.pdf
Printed Sermon:  SRM1926-Faith-is-Necessary.pdf

0:00  Hymn “Baptized into Your Name Most Holy” LW 224, TLH 298
3:00   Service Begins
9:05 Readings:  Genesis 2:7-17, Romans 6:19-23, Mark 8:1-9
14:05 Nicene Creed
15:45  Hymn “Lord Jesus Christ, Life-Giving Breath” LW 248, TLH 312
19:25  Sermon “Faith Is Necessary” St. Mark 8:8 (length 17:30 minutes)
36:55  “Create in Me…” LW p.143
37:45  The Prayer of the Church
43:15  Communion Liturgy
51:45 Communion Hymns:
“Feed Your Children, God Most Holy” LW 468, TLH 659
“All Depends On Our Possessing” LW 415, TLH 425
“Sing Praise to God, the Highest Good” LW 452
1:02.25 “Guide Me Ever, Great Redeemer” LW 220, TLH 54
1.04:40  Service ends

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL)
This post is the audio, if you want the video CLICK HERE –>  Vimeo Video for Trinity Seven
Note: The Bible class was also recorded and will be available at trinityh.org.

For the Anniversary of Ordination.

O GOD, by Whose command the order of all time runs its course: Look graciously upon me Thy servant, whom Thou hast been pleased to call to Thy service, and that my service may be pleasing unto Thee, do Thou mercifully preserve in me Thy gifts ; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.   (Oremus, 1925, p.74).

#48 We Observe Moderation in Human Ordinances

We will regard these externals as we do a christening robe or swaddling clothes in which a child is clad for baptism. The child is not baptized or sanctified either by the christening robe or by the swaddling clothes, but only by the baptism. And yet reason dictates that a child be thus clothed. If this garment is soiled or torn, it is replaced by another, and the child grows up without any help from swaddling clothes or christening robe. Here too one must exercise moderation and not use too many of these garments, lest the child be smothered. Similarly, moderation should also be observed in the use of ceremonies, lest they become a burden and a chore. They must remain so light that they are not felt, just as at a wedding no one thinks it a chore or a burden to conform his actions to those of the other people present. I shall write on the special fasts when I write about the plague of the Germans, gluttony and drunkenness, for that properly belongs in the sphere of temporal government.  (Luther’s Works, v.41, p.175)

Picture:  The chalice from historic Trinity Lutheran Church in Soulard Market, St. Louis, MO:  It “was made in Austria for a monastery in Spain.  During the Napoleonic Wars it somehow came into the possession of a Saxon prince, who gave it to the group when they left Germany for America in 1838” (from A Pictorial Souvenir).

Book of Concord Bible Class #42: Formula of Concord, II: Free Will continued

This Bible study examines Article II. Free Will (continued).
Quiz #41 (blue sheet):  Quiz-41-for-July-12-2020-Free-Will.pdf
Overhead: Formula-of-Concord-Solid-Declaration-Article-II.pdf

Note 1: A Divine Service was also video recorded and is available at trinityh.org, under the tab, Sermons
Note 2: This is the audio only post.  The vimeo video is also available.   Click here –> Vimeo Video for #42

Divine Service for Trinity Six – July 19, 2020

Service Bulletin:  Trinity-Six-Divine-Service-for-Online-7-19-2020.pdf

0:00  Hymn “When Morning Gilds the Skies”  LW 460
3:20   Service Begins
10:05 Readings:  1 Kings 19:11-21, 1 Peter 3:8-15, St. Luke 5:1-11
17:50 Nicene Creed
19:10  Hymn “All Mankind Fell in Adam’s Fall” LW 363, TLH 369
22:20  Sermon “The Father’s Plan” Romans 6:5 (length 17:00 minutes)
39:20  “Create in Me…” LW p.143
40:10  The Prayer of the Church
46:15  Communion Liturgy
54:20 Communion Hymns:
“Here is the Tenfold Sure Command” LW 331, TLH 287 (different tune)
“I Lay My Sins on Jesus” LW 366, TLH 652
“Baptized into Your Name Most Holy” LW 224, TLH 298
1.07:10  Service ends

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL)
This post is the audio, if you want the video CLICK HERE –>  Vimeo Video for Trinity Six
Note: The Bible class was also recorded and will be available at trinityh.org.

#46 In Human Ordinances There Is Great Freedom to Change

Nevertheless, there should be freedom here: for instance, if we are unable, because of an emergency or another significant reason, to preach at six or seven, at twelve or one o’clock, on Sunday or Monday, in the choir or at St. Peter’s, one may preach at a different hour, day, or place, just as long as one does not confuse the people, but properly apprises them of such a change. These matters are purely external (as far as time, place, and persons are concerned) and may be regulated entirely by reason, to which they are altogether subject. God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit are not interested in them—just as little as they are interested in what we wish to eat, drink, wear, and whom we marry, or where we want to dwell, walk, or stand; except that (as was said) no one should, without reason, adopt his own way and confuse or hinder the people. Just as at a wedding or other social event no one should offend the bride or the company by doing something special or something that interferes, but one should join the rest, and sit, walk, stand, dance, eat, and drink with them. For it is impossible to order a special table for each individual, and also a special kitchen, cellar, and servant. If he wants anything, let him leave the table without disturbing the others. Thus here too everything must be conducted peacefully and in order, and yet there must be freedom if time, person, or other reasons demand a change; then the masses will also follow harmoniously, since (as was said) no Christian is thereby made any more or less holy.  (Luther’s Works, v.41, p.174)

Picture: St. John

For Missionaries 1

O LORD Jesus Christ, Who ascending to Thy throne of glory didst leave as heritage to Thy disciples the transcending privilege of carrying the banner of Thy victory and the message of Thy love to every people: As Thou hast promised to be with Thine own unto the end, vouchsafe Thy strengthening presence to all those who have gone forth in Thy name to strange lands and peoples; enable them by Thy Spirit to preach, teach, and live Thee in all Thy love and tenderness, granting them in the ingathering of souls that inspiration of joy that shall make them strong to persevere. and to carry their cross in carrying Thine; Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.   (Oremus, 1925, p.75-76).

Divine Service for Trinity Five – July 12, 2020

Service Bulletin:  Trinity-Five-Divine-Service-for-Online-7-12-2020.pdf

0:00  Hymn “Baptized into Your Name Most Holy”  LW 224, TLH 298
3:00   Service Begins
9:35 Readings:  1 Kings 19:11-21, 1 Peter 3:8-15, St. Luke 5:1-11
15:05 Nicene Creed
19:10  Hymn “If You But Trust in God to Guide You” LW 420, TLH 518
22:05  Sermon “At Your Word” Lk 5:5 (length 13:45 minutes)
35:50  “Create in Me…” LW p.143
36:45  The Prayer of the Church
43:00  Communion Liturgy
50:50 Communion Hymns:
“How Can I Thank You, Lord” LW 385, TLH 417
“Awake Thou Spirit of the Watchmen” LW 315, TLH 494
“Evening and Morning” LW 419
“Our Fathers’ God in Years Long Gone” LW 326
1.06:00  Service ends

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL)
This post is the audio, if you want the video CLICK HERE –>  Vimeo Video for Trinity Five
Note: The Bible class was also recorded and will be available at trinityh.org.

#47 The Pope’s Unchangeable Laws Replace God’s Laws

The pope, to be sure, has scribbled the whole world full of books about these things and fashioned them into bonds, laws, rights, articles of faith, sin, and holiness so that his decretal really deserves, once again, to be consigned to the fire. For we could do well without this book that has caused so much great harm. It has pushed Holy Scripture aside and practically suppressed Christian doctrine; it has also subjected the jurists, with their imperial law, to it. Thus it has trodden both church and emperor underfoot; in their stead it presented us with these stupid asses, the canonists, these will-o’-the-wisps who rule the church with it and, still more deplorable, left the best parts in it and took the worst out, foisting them on the church. Whatever good there is in it, one can find much better and more richly in Holy Scripture, indeed, also in St. Augustine alone, as far as teaching Christendom is concerned; and then, as far as temporal government is concerned, also in the books of the jurists. For the jurists themselves once contemplated throwing this book out of jurisprudence and leaving it to the theologians. However, it would have been far better to throw it into the fire and reduce it to ashes, although there is something good in it, for how could sheer evil exist unless there was some good with it? But there is too much evil, so much that it crowds out the good, and (as was said) a greater measure of good is to be found in Scripture and also in the fathers and among the jurists. Of course, it might be kept in the libraries as evidence of the folly and the mistakes of the popes, some of the councils, and other teachers. That is why I am keeping it. (Luther’s Works, v.41, p.174-175)

Picture:  The pulpit originally it had the four evangelists and an angel. When the angel was damaged by the tornado of 1896, a statue of Martin Luther (a gift from a congregation in Dresden, Germany) replaced the angel.