Order of Divine Service I, p.136  Lutheran Worship
Hymn “If God Had Not Been on Our Side” TLH 267
Readings:  1 Kings 17:17-24, Ephesians 3:13-21, Luke 7:11-17
Hymn “For Me to Live Is Jesus” LW 267, TLH 597
Sermon
Communion Hymns: “Jesus, Your Blood and Righteousness” LW 362, TLH 371
“In Peace and Joy I Now Depart” LW 185, TLH 137
“How Lovely Shines the Morning Star” TLH 343, LW 73

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

Service Bulletin:  Trinity-Sixteen-Divine-Service-for-Online-9-19-2021.pdf

Picture: In addition to aggressively promoting the reading of biblical texts in the vernacular, the Protestant Reformation also introduced one of the most creative and controversial periods of printed Bible illustration. Martin Luther made effective use of translations enriched with woodcuts, beginning with his first translation of the German New Testament. For that edition he employed Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), one of the leading artists of the German Renaissance, to supply a rich program of woodcuts, including twenty-one full-page illustrations of the Apocalypse.

Southern Methodist University, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Dallas Texas https://www.smu.edu/Bridwell/Special Collections andArchives/Exhibitions/Luther/Bibles/BRA0930

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Order of Divine Service I, p.136  Lutheran Worship

Hymn “How Lovely Shines the Morning Star” TLH 343, LW 73
Readings:  1 Kings 17:8-16, Galatians 5:25-6:10, Matthew 6:24-34
Hymn “What God Ordains Is Always Good” LW 422, TLH 521
Sermon
Communion Hymns: “O God, O Lord of Heaven and Earth” LW 319
“Love in Christ Is Strong and Living” LW 376
“I Leave All Things to God’s Direction” LW 429, TLH 529
“Sent Forth by God’s Blessing” LW 247

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

Service Bulletin:  Trinity-Fifteen-Divine-Service-for-Online-9-12-2021.pdf

Picture: “While I cannot claim to have got everything right, nevertheless I venture to say that this German Bible is couched in plainer and more correct language at many points than the Latin. So if the printers do not, as is their wont, spoil it with their carelessness, the German language has here a better Bible than the Latin. I ask my readers to decide.” — Martin Luther, from his preface to the first part of the Old Testament, 1523.

1522 Translation:  One of the more controversial translations was Luther’s rendering of Romans 3:28, where he inserted the word “alone,” [a person is justified by faith alone (alleyn, in the middle of the second line in the picture below)] that was present in neither the Greek or the Latin. In his Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen [Open Letter on Translating] in 1530, Luther defended the addition of “alone” as conforming to German idiom. https://gruber.lstc.edu/luthers_bible/1522.php

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Hymn “From God Can Nothing Move Me” LW 409, TLH 73
Readings:  Proverbs 4:10-23, Galatians  5:16-24, Luke 17:11-19
Hymn “I Will Sing My Maker’s Praises” LW 439, TLH 25
Sermon
Communion Hymns: “Blest the Children of Our God” LW 370
“How Lovely Shines the Morning Star” TLH 343, LW 73
“Oh, that I Had a Thousand Voices” LW 448, TLH 243
“Now Thank We All Our God” LW 443, TLH 36

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin:  Trinity-Fourteen-Divine-Service-for-Online-9-5-2021.pdf

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Picture: “Das Neue Testament Deutzsch: Wittenberg” – Title Page of Luther’s first edition of the New Testament in September 1522. (“Luther’s Bible Translations – 1522,” The Gruber Rare Books Collection, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. https://gruber.lstc.edu/luthers_bible/1522.php

Luther’s Bible Translations – 1522  Das Neue Testament Deutzsch

The “September Testament” / “December Testament”

In September, 1522, Luther published the first edition of his translation of the New Testament. He had begun that during his stay at the Wartburg, in eleven weeks from December 1521 to February 1522, but it was revised in collaboration with Melanchthon and others after he had returned to Wittenberg. Some 3-5,000 copies were printed and by December, 1522, a second edition, called the December Testament had to be published. The price was one guilder, which corresponded to two months’ salary for a schoolmaster. By the time Luther published the complete Bible in 1534, 87 editions of his New Testament had been published in High German and some 19 in Low German. More than 200,000 copies had been sold.

Luther’s translation was based on the second edition of the Greek text edited by Erasmus in 1519. He put Hebrews and James at the end of the testament, with Jude and Revelation, to underline what he considered as the secondary character of these books. A marginal note at Matt 5:19 refers to those who break the commandments rather than following them as “Papisten hauff” (a heap of papists). 21 illustrations from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder show that the language of the book of Revelation is to be taken metaphorically. The whore of Babylon (the anti-Christ) is equated with the Pope.

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Order of Divine Service I, p.136  Lutheran Worship
Commentary Service
Hymn “How Lovely Shines the Morning Star” TLH 343, LW 73
Readings:  Hosea 6:1-6, Gal 3:15-22, Lk 10:23-37
Hymn “Jesus, Your Boundless Love So True” LW 280, TLH 349
Sermon
Communion Hymns: “Chief of Sinners Though I Be” LW 285, TLH 417
“Jesus, Priceless Treasure” LW 270, TLH 347
“O Holy, Blessed Trinity” LW 479
“O Living Bread From Heaven” LW 244, TLH 316

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin:  Trinity-Thirteen-Divine-Service-for-Online-8-29-2021.pdf

Picture: Pr. Henson and Bp. Heiser processing in.  Bp. Heiser’s Annual Visitation was August 14-15, 2021.

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