Yearly Archives: 2025

Catechesis Trinity Thirteen – September 10, 2025

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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 Good Samaritan” (St. Luke 10:23-27), which is the Holy Gospel for Trinity Thirteen.

Learn-by-Heart will include “Thank God It Hath Resounded”  (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal), Small Catechism, Ninth and Tenth Commandments and meaning,  and Romans 5:8.

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

Service Bulletin:  Catechesis-Trinity-13-9-10-2025.pdf
Insert for Hymn: ASBH-Thank-God-It-Hath-Resounded.pdf
Suffrages:  Suffrages-for-Catechesis-2024-Online.pdf

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Prayer for The Lord’s Day.

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  1. Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord preserve me from all evil: the Lord preserve my soul. The Lord preserve my going out and coming in forevermore. The Lord bless me and keep me: the Lord make His face to shine upon me and be gracious unto me: the Lord lift up His countenance upon me and grant me peace. Amen.

O, ever blessed Trinity, unto Thy grace I commend my all this day,—this Sunday,—my body and soul, my walks and ways, and all my deeds and undertakings; and beseech Thee to open my heart and my lips rightly to praise Thy name,—holy above every other name. Since Thou hast created me unto the glory of Thy holy name, let me so live that I may honor and serve Thee in love and fear. Amen.

(Seed-Grains of Prayer: A Manual for Evangelical Christians by William Loehe, Wartburg Publishing House, 1914, Pages 97-98)

Divine Service Trinity Twelve – September 7, 2025

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Order of Divine Service, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Hymn “God Himself Is Present” LW 206
Readings:  Isa 29:18-19, 2 Cor. 3:4-11, Mark 7:31-37
Hymn of the Day: “O Christ, Our True and Only Light” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #50, LW 314, TLH 512)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: “Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Savior” LW 237, TLH 311
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
Communion Hymns:
“God’s Word Is Our Great Heritage” LW 333
“My Soul, Now Praise Your Maker” LW 453, TLH 34
“The Lord, My God, Be Praised” LW 174

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Trinity-Twelve-Cover-09-07-2025-Online.pdf

Picture:  Ottheinrich Bible 1430 (II:37)  “Let the Little Children Come to Me” – Mark 10:13-16

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Bible Class #51 “Moses’ Third Address” – September 7, 2025

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Today, we will study Moses’ Third Address and the Blessings and the Cursings

Overhead 1: Text-for-Deuteronomy-27-30-Third-Address-b.pdf
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).

Picture: The Expansion room is being prepared as a larger Adult Bible Class room.

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#58 Part I of II: The Allegory Explaining Deuteronomy 21:10ff:

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In Deuteronomy 21:10ff., God gave His people this commandment: “If you see a beautiful woman among the captives and you want to take her as your wife, bring her into your house, let her hair be shaven and her nails trimmed, and her clothes in which she was taken captive laid aside, and let her sit in your house and mourn her father and her mother for one month. Then sleep with her and marry her and let her be your wife.”

Along with the fact that the Lord God wanted to use these various ceremonies in order to prevent the Israelites from entering into marriage with foreigners and idol worshipers lightly, there is an excellent type, or rather, an allegory presented to us in this ceremonial law. For the captive foreign woman stands for the soul of a sinner, which is a “foreigner and outside of the city and people of God” (Eph. 2:12). It is also captive in the kingdom of the devil (Col. 1:13). If she (that is, the soul) figuratively becomes pledged in marriage to Christ, the heavenly Bridegroom, then she must first allow herself to be washed and purified by true repentance.

She must “lay aside her clothing in which she was taken captive,” that is, she must “take off the old man” (Eph. 4:22) and “despise the stained garment of the flesh” (Jude 23).

She must “let her hair and nails be trimmed”; that is, she must lay aside the evil lusts of the flesh, especially haughtiness and greed, which are understood by the hair and nails, and she must undergo a spiritual circumcision of the heart (Deu. 30:6).  (Sermon for Mary Magdalene-July 22, Postilla Volume 3 by Johann Gerhard consisting of 15 sermons for Saints Days and other festivals, Repristination Press, page 106)

Catechesis Trinity Twelve – September 3, 2025

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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 Jesus’ healing of the deaf and mute man (St. Mark 7:31-37), which is the Holy Gospel for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity.

Learn-by-Heart will include the hymn “This Day at Thy Creating” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal), Small Catechism, Seventh & Eighth Commandments and meaning, and Ephesians 2:8-9.

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

Service Bulletin: Catechesis-Trinity-12-9-3-2025.pdf
Insert for Hymn: ASBH-This-Day-At-Thy-Creating.pdf
Suffrages:  Suffrages-for-Catechesis-2024-Online.pdf

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Divine Service Trinity Eleven – August 31, 2025

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Order of Divine Service, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Hymn “How Precious Is the Book Divine” LW 332
Readings:  2 Samuel 22:21-29, 1 Corinthians 15:1-10, Luke 18:9-14
Hymn of the Day: “All Mankind Fell in Adam’s Fall” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #49, LW 363, TLH 369)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: “Here, O My Lord, I See You Face to Face” LW 243
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
Communion Hymns:
“As Surely as I Live God Said” LW 235
“I Lay My Sins on Jesus” LW 366
“Delay Not, Delay Not, O Sinner, Draw Near” LW 349

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Trinity-Eleventh-Cover-8-31-2025-Online.pdf

Picture:  Ottheinrich Bible 1430 (II:30) Feeding the Four Thousand

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Divine Service, The Beheading of St. John the Baptist – August 29, 2025

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Order of Divine Service, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Readings: Jeremiah 1:17-19, St. Mark 6:17-29
Hymn: “From All Thy Saints” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal ASBH #101)
Sermon

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: August-29-Beheading-of-St-John-the-Baptist-Insert-2024.pdf

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Catechesis Trinity Eleven – August 27, 2025

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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.  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 Pharisee and the tax collector (St. Luke 18:9-14), which is the Holy Gospel for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity.

Learn-by-Heart will include the hymn “Thy Table I Approach” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal), Small Catechism, Sixth Commandment and meaning, and Ephesians 2:8-9.

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

Service Bulletin: Catechesis-Trinity-11-8-25-2025.pdf
Insert for Hymn: ASBH-Thy-Table-I-Approach.pdf
Suffrages:  Suffrages-for-Catechesis-2024-Online.pdf

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