Divine Service for All Saints’ Day – November 1, 2020

Posted on November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 by luther

Service Bulletin: All-Saints-Day-Divine-Service-for-Online-11-01-2020b.pdf
Printed Sermon: SRM1948-Defeat-the-Enemy-with-Mercy.pdf

0:00 Service Begins with Introit and A Litany of the Saints
11:00 Readings: Deuteronomy 33:1-3, Revelation 7:2-12, St. Matthew 5:1-12
18:00 Hymn “Behold a Host Arrayed in White” LW 192, TLH 656
22:10 Sermon “Defeat the Enemy with Mercy” St. Matthew 5:7 (length 21:00 minutes)
43:10 Reception of New Members David and Violet Taul
45:15 “Create in Me…” LW p.143
46:00 Remembrance of the Faithful Departed
50:50 The Prayer of the Church
51:55 Communion Liturgy
57:45 Communion Hymns:
“For All the Saints” LW 191, TLH 463
“I Am Trusting You, Lord Jesus” LW 408, TLH 428
“Brief Life Is Here Our Portion” TLH 428
1.10:16 Magnificat LW, p.228-230
1.12:45 Service ends

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL)
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For One’s Parents.

Posted on November 2, 2020August 17, 2020 by luther

ALMIGHTY God, Who hast strictly commanded us to honor our father and our mother next unto Thee: Grant me of Thy goodness and grace so to love and honor my parents, to fear and to obey them, to help and to pray for them, as Thou in Thy Holy Word hast directed and charged me to do; that both in their life and at their death their souls may bless me, and by Thy fatherly mercy I may obtain that blessing which Thou hast promised to those that honor their father and their mother; and that Thou, seeing my unfeigned heart and reverence toward them, mayest become my loving Father, and number me among those Thy children who are heirs of Thy glorious Kingdom; 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.79).

#63 We Are Like The Ancient True Church

Posted on November 1, 2020August 17, 2020 by luther

Since the papists know that in all these and other things we are like the ancient church and may truly be called the ancient church—for these things are not new or invented by us—it is amazing that they should deceive and damn us so shamelessly, calling us apostates and founders of a new church; for they cannot find anything in us which was not held in the ancient and true church at the time of the apostles. Thus I really think that this is the time of which Daniel 7 [:8–9] says, “One that was ancient of days took his seat” after the little horn had spoken blasphemously, and sat in judgment. For the original and ancient church shines forth once more (like the sun emerging from the clouds behind which it was shining, but where it could not be seen), and the horn which speaks blasphemies will perish and everything come to an end, as it is written and is evident in the result—but there is no time to speak of that now. (Luther’s Works, v.41, p.198)

Picture: A close-up of the Veronica window at History Trinity Lutheran Church, Souland Market, St. Louis MO