Yearly Archives: 2024

Catechesis for Trinity-One – October 16, 2024

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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.

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 the nobleman’s son at Capernaum (St. John 4:46-54), which is the Holy Gospel for the Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity.

Learn-by-Heart will include “By Grace I’m Saved, Grace Free and Boundless”  (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #59, LW 351, TLH 373), Small Catechism, introduction to the Lord’s Prayer and meaning, and 2 Corinthians 4:6.

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

Service Bulletin: Catechesis-Trinity-21-10-16-2024.pdf
Insert for Hymn:  Trinity-Twenty-First-Insert-10-29-2023-ASBH.pdf
Suffrages:  Suffrages-for-Catechesis-2024-Online.pdf

 

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Thanksgiving after the Communion 2.

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WE give thanks unto Thee, O God, even we who are sunken in so many sins and have found no health and comfort save that which is with Thee only: We humbly beseech Thee that Thou wilt not turn from us, though it be but our just desert, the light of Thy countenance, but according to Thy great mercy increase in us continually that which Thou hast already begun; 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.149).

Divine Service Trinity Twenty – October 13, 2024

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Order of Divine Service, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Hymn “Jerusalem the Golden” LW 309, TLH 613
Readings:  Isaiah 65:1-2, Ephesians 5:15-21, Matthew 22:1-14
Hymn of the Day: “How Lovely Shines the Morning Star” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #58, TLH 546)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: “Soul, Adorn Yourself with Gladness” LW 239
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
Communion Hymns:
“I Am Trusting You, Lord Jesus” LW 408
“Let Me Be Yours Forever” LW 257, TLH 334
“How Firm a Foundation” LW 411, TLH 427

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin:  Trinity-Twenty-Cover-10-13-2024-Online.pdf

Picture: Ottheinrich Bible 1430  (VII:43) Paul Before Festus in Acts 25

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#61 Where The Forgiveness Is Not Believed, God Is Considered to Be a Liar

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All now depends on this, that you accept such assurance and hold it to be true that God is merciful unto you for Christ’s sake. This we here learn from the man sick with the palsy. In the first place, the Lord admonishes him to believe, saying: Son, be of good cheer, and doubt not, thy sins are forgiven thee. As soon as the palsied man believed these words his sins were really forgiven.

Thus we come into possession of the forgiveness of sins in our day also, when the servant of the Church, or any other Christian, assures you: God is not angry with you, do not you be angry with Him, because He has, for the sake of His Son Jesus Christ, forgiven you all your sins. You should therefore, with all confidence, trust in this assurance and suffer yourself to be torn to pieces rather than to doubt it. For if you doubt, the absolution, even if it were pronounced over you orally by God and His holy angels, would profit you nothing.

Where there is no faith, there God is considered a liar, as though He did not tell us the truth and would not fulfill His promises. May God in mercy graciously deliver us from such unbelief and sin, although the devil is a real expert in leading people to consider God a liar and to distrust His promises. (Luther’s House Postil, Sermon for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity, Volume 3, p. 832)

Catechesis on Trinity 20 (St. Matthew 22:1-14) 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.

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 the marriage feast (St. Matthew 22:1-14), which is the Holy Gospel for the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

In this video from October 26, 2022, we learned Lutheran Worship #477, stanza 1, “Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain,” (The Lutheran Hymnal #288), the first petition of the Lord’s Prayer and meaning from Luther’s Small Catechism and 2 Thessalonians 2:13b-14.

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

Bulletins:  Catechesis-Trinity-20-10-26-2022-online.pdf
Responsive Prayer: Recite Word by Word

 

On Receiving the Wine 1.

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GLORY be to Thee, O Lord Jesus Christ! Welcome to my soul, Lord Jesus, with the precious drink of Thy most holy blood, which, with the consecrated wine, Thou givest me to drink in Thy sacrament, as Thou didst pour it out on the cross for the forgiveness of my sins. May this bless me into everlasting life. Amen. (Oremus, 1925, p.148).

Divine Service Trinity Nineteen – October 6, 2024

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Order of Divine Service, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Hymn “Now Let Us Come Before Him” LW 184, TLH 122
Readings:  Isaiah 44:21-23, Ephesians 4:22-28, Matthew 9:1-8
Hymn of the Day: “We All Believe in One True God” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #57, LW 212, TLH 252)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: “O Living Bread from Heaven” LW 244, TLH 316
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
Communion Hymns: “I Will Sing My Maker’s Praises” LW 439, TLH 25
“We Sing the Almighty Power of God” LW 441
“Oh, Bless the Lord, My Soul” LW 457, TLH 27

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin:  Trinity-Nineteen-Cover-10-6-2024-Online.pdf


Picture: Ottheinrich Bible 1430 (VII:41) Paul Appeals to Caesar Before Festus in Acts 25

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Bible Study #5 on Exodus 3 – October 6, 2024

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We continue our study of the book of Exodus with more from Chapter Three.
Handout 1: The-Meaning-and-Significance-of-the-name-Yahweh.pdf
Overhead 1: Text-for-Exodus-3-Draft-Summer-2023-On-line.pdf

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

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