LIVING or dying, Lord, I would be Thine: Keep me Thine forever, and draw me day by day nearer to Thyself, until I be wholly filled with Thy love, and fitted to be- hold Thee face to face; 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.41).
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Matins on Friday Ember Day in Pentecost – June 10, 2022
Order of Matins, p.208 Lutheran Worship
Pre-Service Hymn: “Come Holy Ghost, Our Souls Inspire” LW 157
Office Hymn “Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive” HS98 #877
Psalmody: Psalm 104, 68
Readings: Acts 2:14-21, John 6:44-52
Catechism; Lord’s Prayer
Sermon
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: 2022-Pentecost-Ember-Matins-Cover-June-8-10-and-11-2022-On-Line.pdf
Psalms: Pentecost-Ember-Days-Psalms-On-Line.pdf
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Catechesis on Holy Trinity Sunday (St. John 3:1-17) 2021
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 night meeting of Nicodemas with Jesus (St. John 3:1-17), which is the Holy Gospel for Holy Trinity Sunday.
Learn-by-Heart will include hymn #154, stanza 2 of “Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord,” Small Catechism, Table of Duties: To Workers of All Kinds: Eph 6:5-8; To Employers and Supervisors: Eph 6:9, To Youth: 1 Peter 5:5-6; To Widows: 1 Tim 5:5-6; To Everyone: Rom 13:9, 1 Tim 2:1 and St. John 3:5-6
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Catechesis-Trinity-Sunday-5-26-2021.pdf
Matins on Wednesday Ember Day in Pentecost June 8, 2022
Order of Matins, p.208 Lutheran Worship
Pre-Service Hymn: “Come Holy Ghost, Our Souls Inspire” LW 157
Office Hymn “Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive” HS98 #877
Psalmody: Psalm 104, 68
Readings: Acts 2:14-21, John 6:44-52
Catechism; Lord’s Prayer
Sermon
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: 2022-Pentecost-Ember-Matins-Cover-June-8-10-and-11-2022-On-Line.pdf
Psalms: Pentecost-Ember-Days-Psalms-On-Line.pdf
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Divine Service Pentecost Monday, June 6, 2022
Order of Divine Service I, p.136 Lutheran Worship
Hymn: “Come Holy Ghost, Our Souls Inspire” LW 157
Readings: Isaiah 57:15-21, Acts 10:42-48, St. John 3:16-21
Hymn “God Loves the World So that He Gave” LW 352, TLH 245
Sermon
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Pentecost-Monday-insert-6-6-2022.pdf
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#41 Following One’s Own Counsel is a Double Disadvantage
Therefore I began to build, to plant vineyards, and omitted no labor or effort. But all I got from all these labors was vanity, because I wanted to direct myself by my own counsel.” The wish to direct oneself by one’s own counsel is a vain one. In fact, anyone who seeks to direct himself by his own counsel afflicts himself with a double disadvantage: first, he tortures himself with his own counsels; second, he accomplishes nothing, or if he does accomplish something, sorrow intervenes and undoes it. So Nero built a magnificent royal palace but did not enjoy it. That is the way it usually happens, that one man builds but another possesses and enjoys what has been built; as the parable in the Gospel says (John 4:37), “One sows and another reaps.” …(Luther’s Works, v.15 p.34)
Divine Service Pentecost, June 5, 2022
Order of Divine Service I, p.136 Lutheran Worship
Hymn “O Holy Spirit, Enter In” LW 160, TLH 235
Readings: Genesis 11:1-9, Acts 2:1-21, St. John 14:23-31
Hymn “Come Holy Ghost, God and Lord” LW 154, TLH 224
Sermon
Communion Hymns: “Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Savior” LW 237, TLH 311
“Holy Spirit, Light Divine” LW 166, TLH 234
“Songs of Praise the Angels Sang” LW 447, TLH 35
“Come, Holy Ghost, Our Souls Inspire” LW 157
Closing Hymn “Forth in the Peace of Christ” LW 459
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Pentecost-Divine-Service-for-Online-6-5-2022.pdf
Picture: Fountain and Altar from Das Alte Testament Deutsch, M. Luther, Wittemberg, 1523.
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Miriam’s Sunday School Class #81: June 5, 2022
Today’s class finishes up Genesis 49:1-33 and then begins to examine “Joseph to His Brothers” in Genesis 50:15-21 and “The Death of Joseph” in Genesis 50:22-26.
Handout 1: Text-for-Chapter-49v1-to-28b.pdf
Handout 2: Text-for-Chapter-49v29-to-50v26.pdf
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
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For Grace to Praise God 2
O LORD Jesus Christ, by Thine excellent Name, spread through all the world by the apostles, perfect the praise of Thy victory in us who are the work of Thy hands, that our enemy may be stilled, and we be crowned with the perpetual triumph of glory and worship; Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen (Oremus, 1925, p.36).
For Heavenly Mindedness.
GRANT me, Lord, not to mind earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now while I am placed among things that are passing away, to cleave to those that shall abide; 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.35).