Bible Class #23 on Exodus 20 – February 16, 2025

We continue our study of the book of Exodus with chapter twenty.
Overhead 1: The-Trips-up-the-Mountain.pdf
Overhead 2: Text-for-Exodus-20-Feb-2025-with-Full-Comparison.pdf

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

Divine Service Septuagesima – February 16, 2025

Hymn “With The Lord Begin Your Task” LW 483
Order of Divine Service, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Readings: Jeremiah 1:4-10, 1 Corinthians 9:24-10:5, St. Matthew 20:1-16
Hymn of the Day: “Salvation unto Us Has Come” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #16, LW 355, TLH 377)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: “Lord Jesus Christ, We Humbly Pray” LW 250, TLH 314
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
Communion Hymns:  “Through Jesus’ Blood and Merit” LW 369, TLH 372
“Fight the Good Fight” LW 299
“Lord, You I Love with All My Heart” LW 413
Closing Hymn:  “We Give You But Your Own” LW 405

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL)
Service Bulletin: Septuagesima-Cover-2-16-2025-Online.pdf
Picture: Ottheinrich Bible 1430  Ottheinrich Bible 1430 (III:47 & 48) The Talents in Luke 19:11-27

#16 Part Four: Chapter II. Prayer for Pastors and Hearers.

(Continued)  Send forth into Your harvest faithful workers [Mat. 9:38], so that they may gather a great harvest of saints. Open the hearts of the hearers, so that they may receive the seed of the Word with the holy obedience of faith [Act 16:14]. Grant to them Your grace, so that they may guard the holy deposit of the Word with a pure heart, and with patience bring forth abundant fruit [Luke 8:15]. May they hear attentively, may they hear carefully, may they hear fruitfully! Otherwise the Word which is preached to them, not having been mixed with faith, will judge them on the last day [John 12:48]. Show forth the express promise of Your grace, that Your Word will not return to You void [Isa. 55:11]. I am mindful of this Your promise, grant that the labor of the one who plants and the one who waters may be blessed [1 Cor. 3:7]. Grant Your protection, I ask, that the infernal raven may not dig up the holy seed of Your Word from the field of the hearts of men, nor the thorn of worldly pleasures and riches constrain it, nor the hardness of stone prevent it from bearing fruit [Mat. 13:4 ff., Luke 8:12 ff.]. Water that seed with the heavenly dew of Your grace, poured out from above, so that then the most abundant harvest of good works may spring forth. Bind together the hearts of pastors and hearers alike in the closest bond of love, so that they contend at the same time for one another in prayers, and encourage each other by their care for one another, Amen.  (The Daily Exercise of Piety by Johann Gerhard, Repristination Press, p.81-83)

Catechesis for Septuagesima – February 12, 2025

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 laborers in the vineyard (St. Matthew 20:1-16), which is the Holy Gospel for Septuagesima Sunday.

Learn-by-Heart will include “O God, May We E’er Pure Retain” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #80), Small Catechism, Office of the Keys 1-2 and meaning, and 1 Timothy 2:3-4.

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

Service Bulletin:  Catechesis-Septuagesima-02-12-2025.pdf
Responsive Prayer: Responsive-Prayer-for-Catechesis-2024-ASBH.pdf
Insert for Hymn: Martin-Luther-Matins-February-18-ASBH-plus-hymn.pdf

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Evening Prayer for Tuesday.

159. May the Lord grant us peace; a realization of our sins; and the amendment of our sinful lives through true faith in Jesus Christ; and, after this life, the life eternal. Amen.

I beseech Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, abide with me this night, so that when my body rests my soul may be alert to keep Thee ever before my heart and mind, to guard me from all evil. Let Thy holy angel guard me that the enemy come not nigh unto me; but that Thou, O Lord, abide alone with me. Let also all that Thou hast given me be so commended unto Thee, and receive all under Thy guardianship to defend them against all evil and preserve them unto eternal life. Amen.  (Seed-Grains of Prayer: A Manual for Evangelical Christians by William Loehe, Wartburg Publishing House, 1914, Page 279)

Divine Service on The Transfiguration of Our Lord – February 9, 2025

Hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee” LW 514
Divine Service I, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Readings: Isaiah 61:10-11, 2 Peter 1:16-21, St. Matthew 17:1-9
Hymn of the Day: “O Wondrous Type! O Vision Fair” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #15, LW 87)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: “Your Table I Approach” LW 249, TLH 310
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
Communion Hymns:
“Beautiful Savior” LW 507
“One Thing’s Needful” LW 277, TLH 366
“O God of God, O Light of Light” LW 83, TLH 132
“Tis Good, Lord, to Be Here” LW 89, TLH 135
Closing Hymn “Alleluia Song of Gladness” WS98 #819

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Transfiguration-of-Our-Lord-Cover-2-9-2025-Online.pdf

Picture: Ottheinrich Bible 1430  (I:57) The Transfiguration in Acts 21:37-22:21

Matins for St. Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor – February 9, 2025

Order of Matins, p.208 Luther Worship

Readings: 2 Timothy 4:1-8, St. Matthew 5:13-19
Hymn of the Day: “O Splendor of God’s Glory Bright” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #79)
Sermon

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: February-9-St-Cyril-of-Alexandria-Matins-Psalms-2025-On-line.pdf

#15 Part Four: Chapter II. Prayer for Pastors and Hearers.

O Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, our only Mediator and Redeemer, You have been exalted to the right hand of the Father, and send pastors and teachers of Your Word [Eph. 4:11], by whose work You gather the Church among us unto Yourself. I humbly beg You, who are one true God with the Father and the Holy Spirit, that You guide those Your ministers in the way of truth, and turn the hearts of their hearers to the true obedience of faith. There is no occupation of human life, no class of men, which is so subject to the hatred and plots of Satan as the ecclesiastical ministry of the Word. Protect, therefore, the members of this ministry with the shield of grace, and furnish them with the strength of patience, so that Satan’s traps cannot trip them up.

Grant, I ask, to Your ministers the necessary knowledge and pious diligence in all doings, that they first learn from You before presuming to teach others [Jas. 3:1]. Govern and enlighten their hearts by Your Spirit so that in the place of God they preach nothing other than God’s Word; they shepherd the flock committed unto them [1 Pet. 5:2], purchased and redeemed by Your precious blood [Acts 20:28], out of true and sincere love and not out of covetousness or ambition; they shepherd the flock in thought, word, and deed; they shepherd by the prayer of their soul, by the exhortation of the Word, and by example; so that they follow in the footsteps of the one to whom the care of the Lord’s flock was commended three times [John 21:15]. Rouse them that they keep watch over the souls entrusted to them, since they shall give serious account for them in the severe examination of the last judgment [Heb. 13:17]. Whatever they advise in the preaching of the holy Word, may they first be diligent in this matter in their own lives, lest being sluggish to work themselves, they labor in vain to arouse others. To whatever good works they inflame others, may they themselves first be zealous in these works by the fervor of the Spirit. Before they resound with words of exhortation, may they first proclaim by their works, whatever they are about to speak. (Continued On Transfiguration)  (from The Daily Exercise of Piety by Johann Gerhard, Repristination Press, p.81-83)

Evening Prayer for Monday.

127. In Thy Name, O Lord Jesus, I now lay me down to my temporal rest. Grant me finally the eternal rest, when I may lie down in peace to sleep and rise again and enter into eternal glory. Amen. (Seed-Grains of Prayer: A Manual for Evangelical Christians by William Loehe, Wartburg Publishing House, 1914, Page 226)