Yearly Archives: 2024

Learn-by-Heart before Ash Wednesday – February 14, 2024

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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 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 will not.  Instead, there will be a Divine Service for Ash Wednesday.  Link to Ash Wednesday Divine Service

Learn-by-Heart will include “When over Sin I Sorrow” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #19, LW 367, TLH 152), Small Catechism, Sacrament of the Altar Second question and meaning, and Psalm 51:17.

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

Service Bulletin:  Catechesis-Ash-Wednesday-2-14-2024.pdf
Insert for Hymn:  Ash-Wednesday-Insert-2-14-2024-ASBH-Final-with-Hymn.pdf
Bulletin for Ash Wednesday Divine Service: Ash-Wednesday-Divine-Service-for-Online-2-14-2024-B.pdf

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Liturgical Elements, Class #27 – February 11, 2024

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We continue our look at the liturgical elements in the Common Service.  Today we examine the Post-Communion liturgy.
Handout 1: The-Post-Communion-in-the-Divine-Service b.pdf
Overhead: Luther-on-the-Aaronic-Benediction.pdf

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

Picture: Concordia Lutheran Church (Frohna, MO) was founded in 1839 by families from Altenburg, Missouri.  Our congregation participated in a Christmas Country Church Tour on December 14, 2023.

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Divine Service on Quinquagesima Sunday – February 11, 2024

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Hymn #304 “The Son of God Goes Forth to War” (TLH 452)
Divine Service I, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Readings:  Isaiah 35:3-7, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, St. Luke 18:31-43
Hymn of the Day: “If Thy Beloved Son, O God” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #18, TLH 375)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: “Lord Jesus Christ, You Have Prepared” LW 246, TLH 306
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
Communion Hymns:
“God, Whose Almighty Word” LW 317, TLH 307
“In You, Lord, I Have Put My Trust” LW 406, TLH 508
“Let Me Be Yours Forever” LW 257, TLH 334

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Quinquagesima-Divine-Service-for-Online-2-11-2024.pdf

Picture:  The Luther Bible 1534: Revelation 7, Sealing the servants of God on their foreheads, #957.

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Catechesis for Quinquagesima – February 15, 2023

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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 PM.

In this video from February 15, 2023, we learned “If Thy Beloved Son, O God” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #18, TLH #375), Small Catechism, Sacrament of the Altar, First Question and meaning, and Philippians 3:9 or 1 Corinthians 2:14.
This service is designed to prepare God’s people for the theme of the upcoming Sunday Divine Service.  The dialog sermon explains “Jesus Healing the Blind Man” (St. Luke 18:31-43), which is the Holy Gospel for Quinquagesima Sunday.
The service concludes with “Responsive Prayer for Catechesis” (pdf link below).

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

Service Bulletin:  Catechesis-Quinquagesima-2-15-2023.pdf
Responsive Prayer for Catechesis:    Responsive-Prayer-for-Catechesis-2023.pdf
Insert for Hymn:  Quinquagesima-insert-2-19-2023-Final.pdf

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#12 Four Classes of Hearers

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My Beloved: You learn from this Gospel that there are many kinds of hearers of the pure Word of God, but only a few who retain it and bring forth good fruit. This must be diligently presented to the people, so that all may examine themselves and discover to what class of hearers they belong, and make haste to be numbered among those who are called the good ground, in whom the Word brings forth fruit.

The first class of hearers are those with whom the Word fares as “the seed by the wayside.” It does not yield fruit because it is either trodden down or devoured by the fowls of the air. The second class are they “who hear and receive the Word with joy.” They not only speak of it but believe in it, and it grows finely, as the seed upon a rocky soil, but when the first hot day of summer comes it begins to wither, because it has neither root nor moisture. When persecution and tribulation come, such people fall away before the good fruit of faith with patience follows. The third class are easily discernible. They are Christians who are as seed among thorns; it grows, but brings no fruit and is choked; the thorns grow too densely around it. The fourth class of hearers, finally, are they who faithfully receive and retain the Word in an honest and good heart until it brings forth fruit with patience. They do not endeavor to avoid persecution for the sake of the Word, are ready in faith and love towards God, to endure all that may happen, and bring forth fruit, some an hundred-fold, some sixty-fold, and some thirty-fold. (Luther’s House Postil, Sermon for Sexagesima, Volume 1, p. 218-219)

Liturgical Elements, Class #26: February 4, 2024 

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We continue our look at the liturgical elements in the Common Service.  Today we examine the Pax Domini, the Agnus Dei and the communion.
Handout 1:  The-Verba-in-the-Divine-Service.pdf

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

Picture: Concordia Lutheran Church (Frohna, MO) was founded in 1839 by families from Altenburg, Missouri.  Our congregation participated in a Christmas Country Church Tour on December 14, 2023.

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Divine Service on Sexagesima – February 4, 2024

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Hymn “Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Your Word” LW 334, TLH 261
Divine Service I, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Readings: Isaiah 55:10-13, 2 Corinthians 11:19-12:9, St. Luke 8:4-15
Hymn of the Day: “May God Embrace Us with His Grace” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #17, LW 288, TLH 500)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: “O Jesus, Blessed Lord, My Praise” LW 245, TLH 309
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
“Preserve Your Word, O Savior” LW 337, TLH 264
“Lord, Open Now My Heart to Hear” LW 197, TLH 5
Closing Hymn: “On What Has Now Been Sown” LW 217, TLH 46

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Sexagesima-Divine-Service-for-Online-2-4-2024.pdf

Picture: The Luther Bible 1534: Revelation 6:12-17 – The Sixth Seal with the  Earthquake, #956

Before the Altar 2.

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FORGIVE O Lord, I most humbly implore Thee, my many sins, and be gracious to my great unworthiness, granting me Thy blessing and grace so to come before Thee as will wholly show forth Thy praise and be to the good of 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.136, adapted for lay use).

Divine Service for Presentation of Our Lord – February 2, 2024

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Order of Divine Service, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Hymn “God Loved the World So That He Gave” LW 352
Readings: Malachi 3:1-4, Hebrews 2:14-18, St. Luke 2:22-32
Hymn of the Day: “In Peace and Joy I Now Depart” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #77, LW 185, TLH 137)
Sermon

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: The-Presentation-of-our-Lord-1-year-February-2-ASBH.pdf

Picture: Looking toward the back of Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg, MO. Our congregation participated in a Christmas Country Church Tour on December 14, 2023. “

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Catechesis on Sexagesima (Luke 8:4-15) 2022

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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 PM.

This service is designed to prepare God’s people for the theme of the upcoming Sunday Divine Service.  The dialog sermon explains the parable of the sower sowing the seed and the four types of soil (Luke 8:4-15), which is the Holy Gospel for Sexagesima Sunday.

Learn-by-Heart will include Lutheran Worship #369 (TLH 372), stanza 2-3 of “Through Jesus’ Blood and Merit,” Small Catechism, Office of the Keys, question three, and Psalm 1:2 or Luke 8:18.

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

Service Bulletin:  Catechesis-Sexagesima-02-16-2022.pdf
Responsive Prayer: Responsive-Prayer-for-Catechesis-2022-8.5×11.pdf