Handout 1: Outline-for-the-Resurrection-Bible-Class-^N1-April-2-2023.pdf
Handout 2: Outline-for-the-Resurrection-Bible-Class-^N2.pdf
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
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Order of Divine Service I, p. 136 Lutheran Worship
Hymn “I Know that My Redeemer Lives” LW 264, TLH 200
Readings: Isaiah 52:13-15, 1 Corinthians 5:6-8, St. Mark 16:1-8
Hymn of the Day: “Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #29, LW 123, TLH 195)
Sermon
Communion Hymns: “Jesus Christ Is Risen, Today” LW 127, TLH 199
“Lo, Judah’s Lion Wins the Strife” LW 146, TLH 211
“At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing” LW 126
“The Day of Resurrection” LW 133, TLH 205
Closing Hymn “Good Christians Friends, Rejoice and Sing” LW 129
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Resurrection-of-Our-Lord-Divine-Service-for-Online-4-9-2023.pdf
Picture: The Luther Bible 1534: (Volume 2) Ezekiel 37 – The Dry Bones, #0219
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Easter Vigil, Part 2 from 2023
Part 1 of the vigil is on the previous post. CLICK HERE
Service of Light
Service of Readings
Hymn #9 “All You Works of God”
Service of Baptism/Confirmation
Hymn “All Who Believe and Are Baptized” LW 225
This is Part 2 of the vigil.
Service of Communion
Dignus Est Agnus
Colossians 3:1-4,
Sequence Hymn #124
St. Matthew 28:1-10
Hymn of the Day “Ere Yet the Dawn Hath Filled the Skies” ASBH #28
Sermon
Offertory Hymn “He Is Arisen! Glorious Word!” LW 520, TLH 189
Communion liturgy, p.144
Hymn: “Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain” LW 141, TLH 204
Hymn “Christ the Lord is Risen Again” TLH 190
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Easter-Vigil-for-2023-Online.pdf
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Easter Sunday Matins
Order of Matins, p.208 Lutheran Worship
Office Hymn “Like the Golden Sun Ascending” TLH 207
Psalmody: Psalm 92, 1, 2, 3, 99
Readings: 1 Corinthians 15:51-57, St. John 20-1-18
Sermon
After Benedicamus, Paschal Blessing, LW p.244-249
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Easter-Dawn-Psalms-Full-Page-2023.pdf
Picture: The Luther Bible 1534: 1 Kings 6 – Solomon’s Temple, #459
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Isaiah 53:12. Fourth: And made intercession for the transgressors. There he commends His patience to us. He was heartily glad to do it. First He depicts the suffering, second, the kind of suffering, third, the power of the suffering, and fourth, His patience. Thus He compassionately prayed for transgressors and crucifiers and shed tears for them and did not deal with them with threats. Who can place the Christ thus depicted in love into his heart, as He is here described? Oh, we would be blessed people if we could believe this most noble text, which must be magnified. I would wish it to be honored in the church, so that we might accustom ourselves to an alert study of this text, to bring us to see Christ as none other than the One who bears and shoulders the burden of our sins. This figure is a solace to the afflicted, but to snoring readers these are nothing but idle words. (Luther’s Works, v. 17, pages 231-232).
To Jesus, the Life of our flesh, Who quickeneth Whom He willeth: To Jesus, the Life of our soul, Who came that we might live more abundantly: To Jesus, the Life of His Church, Who loved her and gave Himself for her: Let all in earth, and in Paradise, reconciled by His death, and saved by His life, give glory and honor, worship and praise, now and for evermore. Amen. (Oremus, 1925, p.22).
Order of Lauds
Psalmody: Psalm 51, 92, 64, Canticle of Hezekiah, Psalm 150 (insert)
Readings: 1 Peter 3:17-22, St. Matthew 27:57-66
Hymn of the Day: “Ere Yet the Dawn Hath Filled the Skies” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #28)
Sermon
Benedictus, p.217 Lutheran Worship
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Holy-Saturday-Psalm-Full-Page-4-8-2023.pdf
Picture: The Luther Bible 1534: 1 Kings 22:29-40 – Ahaz killed by Archer, #495
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Isaiah 53:12. Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong. Here he repeats as if by an exclamation. Since He poured out His soul in death and was not simply dead but was numbered with the transgressors, the prophet in these words repeats the suffering of Christ. Here he says: He gave His life into death. With that battering ram he strikes the stubbornness of the Jews, who do not want to hear about the Christ who dies but who look for a Christ who never dies. Here the prophet in a very simple and expressive way depicts the manner of His death. He says He will die and then points with the fingers, He will be numbered with the transgressors, as if to say, “You Jews want to acknowledge your Christ. He will appear in such a form that He will die the most despised kind of death in the midst of robbers.” The Jews, who look for a glorious Christ before they will believe in a crucified one, did not want to see this text. This is the way it happens to us who are blind, although as for us, let us believe in the crucified One.
Yet He bore the sins of many. He has described the death. Now he delineates the force and power of His sufferings. He says, “He did not die in vain, but all promises of Scripture have been fulfilled, and all our sins have been taken away. No, He did not toil in vain by His death, but He died to fulfill the promises and to set us free. (Luther’s Works, v. 17, pages 231).
I love thee, O Father, Who didst give Thy Son for me. I love Thee, O Christ, Who on the cross didst die for me. (Oremus, 1925, p.23).
Order of Divine Service I, p.136 Lutheran Worship
Hymn of the Day: “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #27, LW 113, TLH 172)
Bidding Prayer, p.276
Readings: Isaiah 50:6-9, Isaiah 52:13-53:12, Hosea 6:1-16, 2 Corinthians 5:14-21, St. John 18:1-19:42
Hymn “A Lamb Alone Bears Willingly” LW 111, TLH 142
Reproaches
Hymn “Lamb of God, Pure and Sinless” Stanza 1 & 2 of LW 208, TLH 146, ASBH #25
Hymn “Sing, My Tongue” LW 117
Sermon
Communion Hymns
Hymn “O Dearest Jesus, What Law Have You Broken” LW 119, TLH 143
Hymn “Go to Dark Gethsemane” LW #110, TLH 159
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Good-Friday-Divine-Service-for-Online-4-7-2023.pdf
Insert: Good-Friday-Insert-THREE-4-7-2023-Full-Page.pdf
Picture: The Luther Bible 1534: 1 Kings 18:16-46 – Elijah at Mt Carmel, #486
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