Catechesis Trinity Eleven – August 27, 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.  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

#57 XLI: The Principles of Christian Patience, part 5:

The Church, the bride of Christ, is black without (Cant. i. 5), because of her afflictions and persecutions; but within she is comely and beautiful, because she enjoys the consolations of the divine Spirit. The Church is as a garden enclosed (Cant. iv. 12), and so is every faithful soul, since no one knows its beauty unless he is within it. And never shall we know fully and perfectly the consolations of the Spirit of God, unless the power of the flesh over us is destroyed by affliction. If the love of the world fills our hearts, then the love of God can find no entrance therein. A vessel already full cannot be filled with some new liquid unless it be first emptied. Let us therefore empty our hearts of the love of the world, that we may fill them with the love of God. So God, in sending the cross, seeks to destroy the love of the world in us, that the divine love may find place in our heart. The cross, moreover, leads us to prayer, and becomes the occasion for the exercise in us of Christian virtues. When the north wind blows upon the garden, its spices flow out (Cant. iv. 16), and when persecutions sweep over the Church then are developed those peculiar graces and virtues which are so pleasing to God. The beloved Bridegroom of the soul is white and ruddy (Cant. v. 10); white in His holy innocence, ruddy in the blood-marks of His passion; and that the beloved bride of Christ may be made pure and white in her virtues, she is made ruddy by her sufferings for His name’s sake.

From the hardest stone of our afflictions divine grace can bring forth oil and honey, and from the bitter root of present suffering the sweetest fruit of eternal glory.

And to this eternal glory, O Lord Jesus, lead us on and on, and to its blissful enjoyment finally bring us! Amen. (Gerhard’s Sacred Meditations – XLI: The Principle of Christian Patience, Repristination Press, p. 240-241)

Divine Service Trinity Ten – August 24, 2025

Order of Divine Service, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Hymn “Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs” LW 204
Readings:  Jeremiah 7:1-7, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11, Luke 19:41-48
Hymn of the Day: “My Jesus, As Thou Wilt” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #48, TLH 420)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: “I Come, O Savior, to Your Table” LW 242, TLH 315
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
Communion Hymns:
“The Church’s One Foundation” LW 289
“Come, My Soul, with Every Care” LW 433, TLH 459
“For Jerusalem You’re Weeping” LW 390, TLH 419

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Trinity-Tenth-Cover-8-24-2025-Online.pdf

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Picture: Ottheinrich Bible 1430 (III:44) Pharisee and Tax Collector Luke 18:9-14

Bible Class #49: Numbers 22-25 Part Two – August 24, 2025

Today, we will continue our study of Numbers 22-25 Balaam, Balak, the Moabites, and the Midianites.
Overhead 1:Text-for-Numbers-22-25.pdf

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

Picture:  We still have lots to do, but the wall is down.  The room may be big enough for our adult class.

Matins, St. Bartholomew, Apostle – August 24, 2025

Order of Matins, p.208  Lutheran Worship
Psalmody:  9, 45
Hymn of the Day: “From All Thy Saints” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #100)
Readings:  Prov 3:1-7, 2 Cor 4:7-10, Luke 22:24-30
Hymn of the Day: “I Know of a Sleep in Jesus’ Name” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #98)

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: August-24-St-Bartholomew-Matins-2025-Online.pdf

Picture: Taking down the expansion room wall to get ready for the new BIGGER adult Bible Class room.

Catechesis Trinity Ten – August 20, 2025 (only audio)

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 “The Time of Jesus’ Visitation” (St. Luke 19:41-48), which is the Holy Gospel for Trinity Ten.

Learn-by-Heart will include the hymn “We Now Implore God the Holy Ghost” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #48), Small Catechism, Tenth Commandment and meaning, and St. Luke 16:9.

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

Service Bulletin:  Catechesis-Trinity-10-08-20-2025.pdf
Insert for Hymn:  ASBH-We-Now-Implore-God-the-Holy-Ghost.pdf
Suffrages:  Suffrages-for-Catechesis-2024-Online.pdf

#56 XLI: The Principles of Christian Patience, part 4:

But consider the blessed advantages of the cross. It destroys the roots of worldly love in us, and implants the love of God in our heart. The cross begets within us a hatred of the world, and lifts up our minds to the contemplation of things heavenly and divine. If we mortify the deeds of the flesh, the Holy Spirit lives within us; and as the world becomes bitter to our souls, Christ becomes sweeter and sweeter. Greater, indeed, are the mysterious influences and blessing of the cross, since by it God calls us to contrition for our sins, to a true and holy fear of Himself, and to the exercise of patience. When the Lord stands at our heart’s door and knocks, let us open to Him, and hear what He shall speak in our souls. Oh, the world and the carnal outward man may look with contempt upon the cross, but to God and in the eyes of the inward spiritual man it is glorious. What could be more abject and despicable than the passion of Christ, our Saviour, in the eyes of the Jews; and yet what could be more glorious and precious than that same passion of Christ in the eyes of God; since this is the price He paid for the atonement of the sins of the whole world (1 John ii. 2)? And so the righteous man is afflicted: “The righteous man perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart” (Is. lvii. 1); but how precious is the cross,—“precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints” (Ps. cxvi. 15). (Gerhard’s Sacred Meditations – XLI: The Principle of Christian Patience, Repristination Press, p. 239-240)

Divine Service Trinity Nine – August 17, 2025

Order of Divine Service, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Hymn “O Day of Rest and Gladness” LW 203
Readings:  1 Chronicles 10:6-13, 1 Corinthians 10:6-13, Luke 16:1-9
Hymn of the Day: “Oh, Blest the House, Whate’er Befall” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #47, LW 467, TLH 625)
Sermon
Offertory: “Create in Me…”         p.18
General Prayer………                    p.19-20
Hymn: “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence” LW 241
Exhortation                                    p.21
Communion Service, p.144 (Lutheran Worship)
Communion Hymns:
“To You, Omniscient Lord of All” LW 234
“What Is The World to Me” LW 418
“Lord of Glory, You Have Bought Us” LW 402
Closing Hymn: “How Blest Are They Who Hear God’s Word” LW 222

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Trinity-Ninth-Cover-8-17-2025-Online.pdf

Picture:  Ottheinrich Bible 1430 (III:38) The Shrewd Manager Luke 16:1-13

Divine Service St. Mary, Theotokos August 15, 2025

Order of Divine Service, p.7   The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal
Hymn “For All the Faithful Women” HS98 #880 st. 9
Readings:  Isaiah 61:10-11, Galatians 4:4-7, Luke 1:46-55
Hymn “Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #99, LW 308)
Sermon
Communion

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: August-15-St-Mary-Theotokos-Insert-2024.pdf

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