Trinity Four Divine Service – June 23, 2024

Order of Divine Service I, p. 136 Lutheran Worship
Invocation Hymn (See bulletin)
Readings:  (See bulletin)
Hymn of the Day: (See bulletin)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: (See bulletin)
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
Communion Hymns:  (See bulletin)

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

Catechesis for Trinity Four – June 19, 2024

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.

This service is designed to prepare God’s people for the theme of the upcoming Sunday Divine Service.  The dialog sermon explains Jesus’ teaching on hypocritical judging and mercy (Luke 6:36-42), which is the Holy Gospel for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity.

Learn-by-Heart will include the hymn “Lord Jesus Christ, Thou Highest Good!” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #42), Small Catechism, Second Commandment and meaning, and St. Luke 6:38c.

Service Bulletin:  Catechesis-Trinity-4-June-19-2024.pdf
Insert for Hymn:  Trinity-Fourteen-Insert-09-10-2023-ASBH.pdf
Suffrages:  Suffrages-for-Catechesis-2024-Online.pdf

Before Communing 3.

O GOD the HOLY GHOST, have mercy upon me, be gracious unto me, and grant that I receive this holy sacrament worthily, that through it my weak faith may be strengthened, my cold heart kindled with love, my troubled conscience comforted, my hope freshened, my sinful life bettered, and finally be saved. Amen. (Oremus, 1925, p.147).

#45 The True Highest and Best Blessing is to Be Called To His Gospel

Therefore we see that upon the rich God lays various crosses and trials, diseases and afflictions; not only because they have deserved such things by their sins, but because God desires to guard them against future sins, and thus keep them in His fear. They would otherwise, were it not for trials, de crease in prayer, faith and zeal for the Word of God, from day to day, and finally neglect them altogether.

The true, highest and best blessing; however, by which we can and should discern the goodness of God, is not temporal prosperity, but the ever lasting blessing, that God has called us to His Gospel, in which we hear Him and learn how He, on account of His Son, desires to be merciful to us, to forgive our sins and to save us eternally; besides to defend us graciously here on earth from the tyranny of the devil and of the world. Whoever rightly considers this blessing, even if he have lack of temporal blessings, so that he is poor, sick, despised, miserable and burdened with all manner of adversity, still regards all these things as insignificant; for he sees that he always gains more than he has lost. If he has no money nor property, he still knows that he is called unto everlasting life and that this is assured unto him in Baptism and the Word. (Luther’s House Postil, Sermon for the First Sunday after Trinity, Volume 3, p. 648)

Trinity Three Divine Service – June 16, 2024

Order of Divine Service I, p. 136 Lutheran Worship
Invocation Hymn (See bulletin)
Readings:  (See bulletin)
Hymn of the Day: (See bulletin)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: (See bulletin)
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
Communion Hymns:  (See bulletin)

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

Picture:  Ottheinrich Bible 1430  Stephen Arrested Acts 6

Catechesis Trinity Three – June 12, 2024

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 Lost Sheep and Lost Coin (St. Luke 15:1-10), which is the Holy Gospel for the Third Sunday after Trinity.

Learn-by-Heart will include the hymn “In Thee Alone, O Christ, My Lord” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #41), Small Catechism, First Commandment and meaning, and St. Luke 15:2.

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

Service Bulletin:  Catechesis-Trinity-3-6-12-2024.pdf
Insert for Hymn:  Trinity-Three-Insert-06-25-2023.pdf
Suffrages:  Suffrages-for-Catechesis-2024-Online.pdf

Before Communing 2.

O GOD the SON, SAVIOUR of the world, have mercy upon me, and let me be a loving guest at Thy holy supper. Give me what Thou hast promised and let me take what Thou hast appointed for me. Amen. (Oremus, 1925, p.146).

#44 The Father Who Really Loves Us, Corrects Us

For no Christian is to think that when he fares ill God has forgotten him or is angry with him. For this is God’s way and manner, that like a good father He is always after His children with the rod, in order that through such correction they may be admonished and kept from sin; since they would otherwise, if there were no correction, feel secure and continue in sin. Therefore a Christian is not only not to be offended at his misery, but to derive the assurance therefrom that God loves him, thinks of him and seeks what is best for him. As also the wise man says: “If a father really loves his son, he corrects him.”

Hence it is a great mistake if you judge of God’s goodness and grace by your temporal condition. It is true, indeed, money and goods, a healthy body, and the like, are gifts and blessings of God, but such a blessing as shall not endure forever. For at last everything must be left behind at any rate. Besides, to this blessing the evil attaches itself, that if one does not especially abide in the fear of God and pay strict attention to the Word, it gives rise to much sin on account of our sinful nature. (Luther’s House Postil, Sermon for the First Sunday after Trinity, Volume 3, p. 647)