Divine Service for Trinity 11, Sunday, August 15, 2021

Order of Divine Service I, p.136  Lutheran Worship
Hymn “How Lovely Shines the Morning Star” TLH 343, LW 73
Readings:  Gen 4:1-15, Eph 2:1-10, Luke 18:9-14
Hymn “As Surely as I Live God Said” LW 235
Sermon
Communion Hymns: “All Mankind Fell in Adam’s Fall” LW 363, TLH 369
“The Savior Calls; Let Every Ear” LW 315, TLH 281
“Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Savior” LW 326, TLH 311
“On What Has Now Been Sown” LW 217, TLH 46

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin:  Trinity-Eleven-Divine-Service-for-Online-8-15-2021.pdf

Picture: Holy Cross Lutheran Church (Kerrville, TX) the host of the Eldona Summer Camp July 19-23, 2021.

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Miriam’s Sunday School, Class #41: Sunday, August 15, 2021

Today’s class will study Lot and his daughters in Genesis 19.
Handout 1:  Text-for-Genesis-19v30.pdf

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).

Picture: Bp. James Heiser teaching at the Eldona Summer Camp in Kerrville, TX July 19-23, 2021.

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Matins on St. Mary, Mother of Our Lord, August 15, 2021

Order of Matins, p.208  Lutheran Worship
Office Hymn “For All the Faithful Women”  HS98 #880 st. 9
Psalmody:  Psalm 116, 45
Readings:  Isaiah 61:10-11, Galatians 4:4-7, Luke 1:46-55
Sermon
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).

Service Bulletin:  St-Mary-Mother-of-Our-Lord-Psalms-August-15-2021-Te-Deum.pdf

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#51 Suffering and Crosses are No Match for the Christ

Therefore we know that we can quite rightly bid defiance and say: Even though there were ten popes or Turkish emperors, I would like to see whether all of them together are a match for the Man who is called Christ. They may very well start a game which will grow too big for them to handle, but they will not demolish the Word. And this will happen even though we are weak in faith.

This then is the true art, that in suffering and cross we should look to the Word and the comforting assurance, and trust them, even as He said, “In me you shall have peace, but in the world, tribulation” [cf. John 16:33]. It is as if he were saying: Danger and terror will surely hit you if you accept my Word; but let it come, this will happen to you because of me. So be of good cheer; I will not forsake you, I will be with you and will help you. No matter how great the affliction may be, it will be small and light for you, if you are able to draw such thoughts from the Word of God. (Luther’s Works, v.51, p.205)

Self-Surrender.

LORD, take my lips, and speak through them; take my mind, and think through it; take my heart, and set it on fire; 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.41).

Divine Service for Trinity Ten, August 8, 2021

Order of Divine Service I, p.136  Lutheran Worship
Hymn “Awake, My Soul, and with the Sun” LW 478, TLH 536
Readings:  Jeremiah 8:4-12, Romans 9:30-10:4, Luke 19:41-48
Hymn “For Jerusalem You’re Weeping” LW 390, TLH 419
Sermon
Communion Hymns: “I Come, O Savior, to Your Table” LW 242, TLH 315
“The World Is Very Evil” Insert from TLH 605, LW 463
“Our Father, Who from Heaven Above” LW 431, TLH 458

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin:  Trinity-Ten-Divine-Service-for-Online-8-8-2021.pdf

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Picture: Pr. Daniel Mensing leading service at the Eldona Summer Camp in Kerrville, TX July 19-23, 2021.

Miriam’s Sunday School Class #40:  August 8, 2021

Today’s class will study the destruction of Sodom in Genesis 19.
Handout 1:  Text-for-Genesis-19v1-through-29c.pdf

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).

Picture: Pr. Eric Stefanski leading class at the Eldona Summer Camp in Kerrville, TX July 19-23, 2021.

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#50 Give Yourself to Scripture And All Will Be Better

If you give yourself to Scripture, you will feel comfort and all your concerns will be better, which otherwise you cannot control by any act or means of your own. After all, a merchant can bring himself, for the sake of gaining money and wealth, to leave house and home, wife and child, and risk his life for the sake of filthy lucre, and still have no sure promise or assurance that he will return home in health to wife and child; and yet he is foolhardy and rash enough to venture boldly into such danger without any promise whatsoever. Now, if a merchant can do that for money and riches, fie upon you, that we should not want to bear a little cross and still want to be Christians, even though besides we have in our hands the tree to which we cling against the waves, namely, the Word and the fine strong promises that we shall not be overwhelmed by the waves….

Now if the merchant … can muster up such courage to take upon himself … and suffer such peril, effort, and labor, we should be simply ashamed that we rebel against suffering and the cross, even though we know, in the first place, that God has appointed that we should suffer and that it cannot be otherwise. In the second place, we also know our promise and assurance, that, even though we are not such good Christians as we ought to be and are timid and weak both in life and faith, He will nevertheless defend his Word simply because it is his Word. (Luther’s Works, v.51, p.204-205)

Catechesis on Trinity Ten 2019 (St. Luke 19:41-48)

On Wednesday nights, Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL) offers to both children and adults an opportunity for teaching with Learn-by-Heart at 6:30 PM and a catechetical service at 7:00.

In this video from August 21, 2019, we learned stanza 3 of “When all the World Was Cursed” (Lutheran Worship #187) and the seventh commandment and its meaning.  This service is designed to prepare God’s people for the theme of the upcoming Sunday Divine Service.  The dialog sermon explains “The Time of Jesus’ Visitation” (St. Luke 19:41-48), which is the Holy Gospel for Trinity Ten.

The service concludes with “Recite Word by Word.”    [Length: 1 hour]

Bulletins:  Catechesis-Trinity-Ten-8-21-2019-online.pdf
Prayers:  Recite-Word-by-Word.pdf

For Consecration 4.

LIVING or dying, Lord, I would be Thine: Keep me Thine forever, and draw me day by day nearer to Thyself, until I be wholly filled with Thy love, and fitted to be- hold Thee face to face; 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.41).