Yearly Archives: 2023

Divine Service Epiphany Two – January 15, 2023

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Order of Divine Service I, p.136  Lutheran Worship
Hymn “O Blessed Home Where Man and Wife”  (LW 466)
Readings: Deuteronomy 18:15-19, Romans 12:6-16, St. John 2:1-11
Hymn “Happy the Man Who Feareth God” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #11)
Sermon
Communion Hymns:  “Rejoice, My Heart, Be Glad” LW 424, TLH 535
“I Come, O Savior, to Your Table” LW 242, TLH 315
“Song of Thankfulness and Praise” LW 88, TLH 134
“When Christ’s Appearing Was Made Known” LW 81, TLH 131

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin:  Epiphany-Two-Divine-Service-for-Online-1-15-2023.pdf

Picture: The Luther Bible 1534: Joshua 10 – The Sun Stands Still and Amorite Kings Defeated, p.7.

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Lutheran Bodies in North America, Class #26: January 15, 2023

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Today we return to our study on Lutheran Bodies in North America with an examination of the formation of the ELCA in 1988.

Handout 1: Part-7-Progressives-in-LCMS-final-2-1.pdf

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

 

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For Devout Mindedness.

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O LORD, with Whom is the fulness of salvation and the perfection of blessedness: Grant that we may pass our time both by day and by night in the meditation of Thy law, so that, like a fruitful tree planted by the rivers of Thy grace, we may bring forth fruit here and may be crowned with glory hereafter; 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.35-36).

Catechesis for Epiphany Two (John 2:1-11) 2020

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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 Jan 15, 2020, we learned stanza 3 of “The People That in Darkness Sat” (Lutheran Worship, #77), the third and fourth question of the Small Catechism on Holy Baptism, “What does such baptizing with water indicate?” and John 1:14.  This service is designed to prepare God’s people for the theme of the upcoming Sunday Divine Service.  The dialog sermon explains Jesus’ first miracle of turning the water into wine (John 2:1-11), which is the Holy Gospel for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany.

The service concludes with “Responsive Prayer for Catechesis 2020” (pdf link below).

Bulletins:  Catechesis-Epiphany-2-01-15-2020.pdf
Responsive Prayer:  Responsive-Prayer-for-Catechesis-2020.pdf

 

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#11 If You Chase Away the real Clergy, God Will Give You Over to Task Masters

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Though you may chase away all the clergy, you will not topple Christ from His throne.  What will happen to you is this: Because you refuse the upright and pious preachers and cannot tolerate them, God will replace them with others, who will govern you with a compulsion and a tyranny worse than the old one.” Therefore our bigwigs and others are on the right path when they put their heads together with the intention of hushing up and putting us under their thumb. They do not realize that there is Another sitting up there who keeps His rule and says: “If you refuse to have the right kind of preachers, then you shall have the devil and his preachers, who preach lies to you. These you will have to accept, and you will have to let them govern you and torment you.” Because the Gospel has been refused and even persecuted in our Germany, the corners are full of sectarians, fanatics, and Anabaptists; and there is nothing anyone can do to prevent it. (Luther’s Works, v. 21, pages 227).

Divine Service Epiphany One – January 8, 2023

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Order of Divine Service I, p.136  Lutheran Worship
Hymn “Within the Father’s House” LW 80, TLH 133
Readings: Isaiah 61:1-3, Romans 12:1-5, St. Luke 2:41-52
Hymn “Praise God the Lord, Ye Sons of Men” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #10, LW 44, TLH 105)
Sermon
“Jesus Has Come and Brings Pleasure” LW 78
“O Living Bread from Heaven” LW 244, TLH 316
“O Christ, Our Light, O Radiance True” LW #314
“The People That in Darkness Sat” LW 77, TLH 106
Closing Hymn: “What Child Is This” LW 61

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin:  Epiphany-One-Divine-Service-for-Online-1-8-2023.pdf

Picture: The Luther Bible 1534: Joshua 6 – The Wall of Jericho Fall Down, p.3.

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Bible Class #3 St. Luke Two – January 8, 2023

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Bible Class #3 on St. Luke Chapters One and Two:  January 8, 2023

On January 15, we will return to examine the formation of the ELCA in 1988.

Handout 1:  St-Luke-Chapters-One-and-Two.pdf

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

 

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For Faith 2

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ALMIGHTY Merciful God, we humbly beseech Thee to increase faith in us that we may walk in Thy obedience and obtain the end of faith, even the salvation of our souls; 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.33).

Divine Service The Epiphany of Our Lord – January 6, 2023

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Service of Light, LW p.250-255  Lutheran Worship
Psalm 72 (insert) and Isaiah 49:1-7
Hymn “Hail to the Lord’s Annointed”  (LW 82, TLH 59)
Divine Service begins with Introit, then Kyrie p.137
Readings: Isaiah 60:1-6, Mt 2:1-12
Hymn “Now Sing We, Now Rejoice” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #9, LW 47, TLH 92)
Sermon
Communion Hymn: “Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord” LW 240, TLH 307
“O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright” LW 73
Closing Hymn: “O Jesus King of Glory” LW #79

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin:  Epiphany-Divine-Service-for-Online-1-6-2023.pdf

Picture: The Luther Bible 1534:  Joshua 3: Carry the Ark of the Covenant through the Red Sea, p.2.

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#10 The real Clergy Prove His Gospel, Baptism and Sacrament

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“You see,” people say, “this is how they are trying to re-establish a dominion and to occupy a seat of authority, like the one the pope has been occupying. This would be intolerable, and we would have done better to remain under the pope.” To this I answer: “As a matter of fact, I myself have been afraid that this might happen. But abusing the clergy and trampling them underfoot is not the way to accomplish your purpose of preventing their tyranny, but the way to help bring it about. With the elimination of those whom you are trampling underfoot and chasing away you will still be unable to dispense with clergy or preachers. Christ intends to keep His rule over the world, so that His Gospel, Baptism, and Sacrament may remain. Though there may be no prince willing to protect it, He will do so, because the Father has placed Him at His right hand and wants Him to be Lord. Though you may chase away all the clergy, you will not topple Christ from His throne. (Luther’s Works, v. 21, pages 226-227).