Trinity
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lutheran
Church - Missouri Synod
32946
Route 4
Girard, IL 62640
Pastor Keith GeRue
Office:
(217) 965 – 4816
Cell:
(217) 725 – 8137
“Tender
Evangelical Loving Care
The
Seventeenth Sunday
After Trinity September 29–30, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012 Worship
Service 5:30 p.m.
Sunday,
September 30, 2012 Sunday School &
Bible Class 9:00 a.m.
Sunday,
September 30, 2012 Worship
Service 10:00 a.m.
SUNDAY’S DIVINE SERVICE– THE LORD HUMBLES HIMSELF
“Do
not exalt yourself in the presence of the king” (Proverbs 25:6–14). Rather,
take the lowest position at the table. Humble yourself before Him. For your place
is not for you to take but for Him to give. Conduct yourself with all lowliness
and gentleness, bearing with one another in love (Ephesians 4:1–6), that the
King may give you glory in the presence of those at the table with you. “For
whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be
exalted” (Luke 14:1–11). Is this not the way of Christ? He is the one who took
the lowest place, who humbled Himself even to the point of death for us. He is
now exalted to the highest place at the right hand of the Father that penitent
believers may be exalted together with Him in the resurrection. To the humble
at His Supper He says, “Friend, go up higher,” giving you His very body and
blood for your forgiveness that you may ascend to take part in the great
wedding feast which has no end.— LSB Notes
LWML
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October
is LWML Month
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During
October our LWML will have a door collection for mites.
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Midstate
Fall Rally October 7, 5:30p.m. Zion Lutheran Church, 1301 N. State St., Litchfield. Speaker will be Diane Grebing. See bulletin
board.
Coffee Break Bible Study
Coffee
Break Bible Study meets on Sunday mornings at 9:00 for a lively discussion. Today,
we will be studying, Translations and paraphrases of the Scriptures, as
compared to the original text.
Please Pray For: Joe Worth,
Elena Howarth, Emily Rodenbeck, Phyllis McElroy, Dorothy Robison, George Van
Huss, Crystal Ray, Ruth Hedrick, Walt Hedrick, Erna Van Winkle, Mary Kay
Schmidt, Dorothy Schroll, Kathy Schmidt, John Haynes, Bill Uchtman, Colin Starks, George Shepherd,
and Katie Ketchum.
Happy
Birthday This Week:
Evelyn Carney, Dorothy Robison, Ozzie
Maddox, Gary Eskew, Kathy Donaldson
Happy
Anniversary: Gary & Amy Eskew
LUTHERAN HOUR "Jesus, I Don't
Love You"
Speaker Emeritus of The Lutheran Hour: Rev. Dr. Ken Klaus
Jesus said those who are not against Him are for Him, but the opposite is also true: those who are not for Jesus are against Him. (Mark 9:38-40)
Speaker Emeritus of The Lutheran Hour: Rev. Dr. Ken Klaus
Jesus said those who are not against Him are for Him, but the opposite is also true: those who are not for Jesus are against Him. (Mark 9:38-40)
WLUJ Springfield, IL 89.7 FM Sunday
3:00 pm
WSMI Litchfield 1540 AM Sunday 9:30 pm
Lutheran High Notes: Thanks to all who supported the Trivia Night.
Lutheran
High Players will have a dinner theater on October 26-27, 2012 more information
to follow soon. The Play is “Hard Luck.”
Lutherans for Life –
www.lutheransforlife.org
Life Thought: Scripture calls for
patience in suffering and reminds us that God can make it purposeful (James
5:10-11). The cross of His own Son assures us of this truth. Our society
increasingly deals with suffering by killing the sufferer and then calls it
compassion. They desperately need to hear about the compassion of the cross.
Life Quote: “[W]hen a child is adopted into a family there is a
real family formed there. Our entire Gospel is at stake in that recognition
because there is no such thing as an ‘adopted child,’ only children who were
adopted. Adopted in the New Testament is a past-tense verb, not an adjective.” Dr. Russell D. Moore, author of
“Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families” – A “Life Quote” from Lutherans For
Life ·
Readings for the Week of 17th
Sunday after Trinity
September 30 Jeremiah 28:1-29:32, 1 Timothy1:1-20, Psalms
86:1-17
September 31 Jeremiah 30:1-31:26, 1 Timothy2:1-15,
Psalms 87:1-7
October 1 Jeremiah 31:27-32:44, 1 Timothy3:1-16,
Psalms 88:1-18
October 2 Jeremiah 33:1-34:22, 1 Timothy4:1-16,
Psalms 89:1-13
October 3 Jeremiah 35:1-36:32, 1 Timothy 5:1-25,
Psalms 89:14-37
October 4 Jeremiah 37:1-38:28, 1 Timothy 6:1-21,
Psalms 89:38-52
October 5 Jeremiah 39:1-41:18, 2 Timothy 1:1-18, Psalms
90:1-91:16
October
6 Looking
Ahead to Sunday Deuteronomy 10:12–21, 1 Corinthians 1:1–9, Matthew 22:34–46
CALENDAR
Saturday,
September 29 5:30 pm Divine Service
Sunday,
September 30 9:00 am Bible
Class
10:00
am Divine
Service
11:00
am Pot Luck
Luncheon
11:15
am Voter’s
Monday
October 1– Tuesday October 2 Fall
Pastoral Conference
Wednesday,
October 3 8:30 am Concordia Chapel
5:30
pm Confirmation
7:30
pm AA
Thursday,
October 4 9;00 am LWML Bible Study
Friday,
October 5 Pastor’s
Family Day
Saturday,
October 6 5:30 pm Divine Service
The Intersection
of Church and State
A Lutheran Hour program on
Religious freedom in America. Broadcast Sunday, September 30, 4:00 pm on Fox
Business Channel. Dishnet 206. Directv 359. NewWave Cable 141.AT&T 211 or
1211.
NEXT WEEKS LESSONS:
The Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity
Deuteronomy 10:12–21; 1 Corinthians 1:1–9; Matthew
22:34–46
The Pharisees ask a Law question.
Jesus asks a Gospel question. The Pharisees seek to trap Jesus in His own
words. Jesus seeks to “trap” them in the saving reality of who He is as the
Messiah (Matthew 22:34–46). The Law requires you to “fear the Lord your God, to
walk in all His ways, to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul”
and to “love the stranger” (Deuteronomy 10:12–21). Failure to keep the Law
perfectly brings judgment. On the other hand, the Gospel brings the grace of
God given by Jesus Christ, that you may be blameless in the day of His return
(1 Corinthians 1:1–9). Jesus is David’s Son yet David’s Lord, true God and true
man. He is Love incarnate who fulfilled all the demands of God’s Law on our
behalf, that we might be saved from the Law’s condemnation and sanctified in
the Gospel’s forgiveness. Thereby we see that “God is faithful, by whom you
were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Collect: O God, forasmuch as without You
we are not able to please You, mercifully grant that Your Holy Spirit may in
all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord
. Amen.
