Today’s class examines Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife in Genesis 39:1-23.
Handout 1: Text-for-Genesis-39.pdf
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
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Monthly Archives: March 2022
Divine Service Invocabit March 6, 2022
Order of Divine Service I, p.136 Lutheran Worship
Hymn “Who Trusts in God a Strong Abode” LW 414, TLH 437
Readings: Genesis 3:1-21, 2 Corinthians 6:1-10, St. Matthew 4:1-11
Hymn “O Christ, Who Art the Light and Day” TLH 559
Sermon
Communion Hymns: “Onward, Christian Soldiers” LW 518, TLH 658
“Lord Jesus Christ, We Humbly Pray” LW 250, TLH 314
“Not All the Blood of Beasts” LW 99, TLH 156
“How Precious Is the Book Divine” LW 332, TLH 285
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Invocabit-Divine-Service-for-Online-3-6-2022.pdf
Picture: Seven Bowls from Das Newe Testament Deuotzsch. The image is from Martin Luther’s (1483-1546) September Testament. Revelation 16- The seven bowls of God’s wrath are poured out upon the earth as the dragon breathes evil spirits, depicted as frogs. Woodcut designed by Lucas Cranach, the Elder (1472-1553), a close friend of Martin Luther. For information on licensing this image, please send an email, including a link to the image, to dia@emory.edu. These images are made available by the generous contribution of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation.
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#21 For Luther’s Mother Margaret: A fatherly, gracious chastisement
First, dear Mother, by God’s grace you well know by now that this sickness of yours is [God’s] fatherly, gracious chastisement. It is a quite small chastisement in comparison with that which he inflicts upon the godless, and sometimes even his own dear children, when one person is beheaded, another burned, a third drowned, and so on. And so all of us must sing: “For Thy sake we are being daily killed and regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” This sickness therefore should not distress or depress you. On the contrary, you should accept it with thankfulness as being sent by God’s grace; [you should] recognize how slight a suffering it is—even if it be a sickness unto death—compared with the sufferings of his own dear Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who did not have to suffer on behalf of himself, as we have to do, but who suffered for us and for our sins. (Luther’s Works, v. 50, p.18)
For One’s Children. 3
O LORD Jesus Christ, Who art the eternal wisdom of the Father: We beseech Thee to assist, with Thy heavenly grace, the good learning and godly discipline of our children, that in all and above all things they may attain the knowledge of Thee, Whom to know is life eternal; and that, according to the example of Thy holy childhood, as they grow in years they may grow in wisdom, and in favor with God and man; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. (Oremus, 1925, p.81).
Learn-by-Heart on Invocabit/Lent One (Matthew 4:1-11) 2021
This Wednesday night, Trinity Lutheran Church(Herrin, IL) offers an opportunity for teaching with Learn-by-Heart at 6:30 PM. The teaching for Learn-by-Heart will include hymn #508, stanza 1 of “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” Small Catechism, Sacrament of the Altar, 3, and Philippians 3:9 or 1 Corinthians 2:14. Although we normally follow the Learn-by-Heart with a Catechesis service designed to prepare God’s people for the theme of the upcoming Sunday Divine Service (The Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness from St. Matthew 4:1-11), this Wednesday we did not. Instead there was a Divine Service for Ash Wednesday (Link here Ash Wednesday Divine Service ).
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Learn-by-Heart Bulletin: Learn-by-Heart-2-17-2021.pdf
Ash Wednesday Bulletin: Ash-Wednesday-Divine-Service-for-Online-2-17-2021.pdf
Divine Service Ash Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Order of Divine Service
Introit and the Lenten Address
The Litany, p.279-283 Lutheran Worship
Readings: Joel 2:12-19, 2 Peter 1:2-11, St. Matthew 6:1-21
Hymn “When over Sin I Sorrow” LW 367, TLH 152
Sermon
Corporate Confession and Absolution, p.308-309 Lutheran Worship
Communion Hymns: “Not All the Blood of Beasts” LW 99, TLH 156
“Glory Be To Jesus” LW 98, TLH 158
“By Grace I’m Saved” LW 351, TLH 373
Departing Hymn “Now the Day is Over” LW 491, TLH 654
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Ash-Wednesday-Divine-Service-for-Online-3-2-2022.pdf
Picture: Judas from Das Newe Testament Deuotzsch. The image is from Martin Luther’s (1483-1546) September Testament. Two men attempt to kill a bird on a pole. The first with a bow and arrow and the second by blowing a pellet out of a tube. This is an image of the term “judas bird” in which a bird acts as a trap for hunted birds. Woodcut designed by Lucas Cranach, the Elder (1472-1553), a close friend of Martin Luther. For information on licensing this image, please send an email, including a link to the image, to dia@emory.edu. These images are made available by the generous contribution of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation.
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Learn-by-Heart on Mar 2, 2022
A shortened Catechesis to prepare for Invocabit/Lent One at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, Mar 2, 2022. Link to Live Stream
This Wednesday night, Trinity Lutheran Church(Herrin, IL) offers to both children and adults an opportunity for teaching with Learn-by-Heart from 6:30 to 7:00 PM. Although we normally follow the Learn-by-Heart with a Catechesis service designed to prepare God’s people for the theme of the upcoming Sunday Divine Service (The Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness from St. Matthew 4:1-11), this Wednesday we did not. Instead there was a Divine Service for Ash Wednesday. Link to Ash Wednesday Divine Service
Tonight’s Learn-by-Heart will include Lutheran Worship #99 (TLH 156), stanza 1 of “Not All the Blood of Beasts,” Small Catechism, Sacrament of the Altar, the second and third question from the Small Catechism, and Psalm 51:17.
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Bulletins: Catechesis-Ash-Wednesday-3-2-2022-online.pdf
#20 Luther’s Letter to his Dying Mother, Margaret
Grace and peace in Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior, Amen
My dearly beloved Mother! I have received my brother James’s letter concerning your illness. Of course this grieves me deeply, especially because I cannot be with you in person, as I certainly would like to be. Yet I am coming to you personally through this letter, and I, together with all the members of my family, shall certainly not be absent from you in spirit.
I trust that you have long since been abundantly instructed, without any help from me, that (God be praised) you have taken [God’s] comforting Word into [your heart], and that you are adequately provided with preachers and comforters. Nevertheless I shall do my part too and, according to my duty, acknowledge myself to be your child, and you to be my mother, as our common God and creator has made us and bound us to each other with mutual ties, so that I shall in this way increase the number of your comforters. (Luther’s Works, v. 50, p.18)