The Fifteenth
Sunday After Trinity September 15–16, 2012
SUNDAY’S DIVINE SERVICE– “You cannot
serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24–34), for they require two contrary forms of
service. Worry is the worship given to the false god of mammon, an unbelieving
anxiousness and focus on the things of this world. Faith is the worship of the
true God, a confident trust that He is a loving Father who will care for all of
our needs in both body and soul. The widow of Zarephath served God, that is,
she believed the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah that the bin of flour would
not be used up nor would the jar of oil run dry (1 Kings 17:8–16). He who feeds
the birds and clothes the flowers will certainly provide for our daily needs.
For He has already provided for our eternal needs, clothing us with Christ’s
righteousness in Baptism and feeding us His body and blood for our forgiveness.
With such confidence we are liberated from worry and freed to do good with our
material resources, especially to those who are of the household of faith (Galatians
5:25–6:10).
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 Donna Smith.
Military: Please keep in your prayers all
Military persons, especially Brittany Worth who is deployed to Afghanistan.
Hospitalizations: Please notify Pastor GeRue about
any sickness or hospitalizations.
Happy
Birthday This Week:
John Haynes, Valerie GeRue, Suzanne Maddox
Happy
Anniversary: Dick & Stephanie Sisson
Lutherans for Life –
www.lutheransforlife.org
Life Thought: “I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24b) Who cannot
identify with this tension? All Christians live on this teeter-totter. We
bounce up and down between faithful and faithless countless times daily. This
should give us empathy and a loving manner when confronting others with their sin
as we realize how much we all need the grace and forgiveness of God in Christ.
Life Quote: “It can never be in
society’s best interests that anyone should be killed because they are ill, or
that the health service should be turned into a death service … Whatever public
opinion may say, doctors have an overriding duty to an ethical code that says
‘first do no harm.”’ Melanie Phillips, British columnist
CALENDAR
Saturday, September 15 5:30 pm Divine
Service
Sunday, September 16 9:00 am Bible Class
10:00
am Divine
Service
Monday, September 17 6:30 pm Parish Planning
Tuesday, September 18 8:00 am NM
Ministerial
5:00
pm Unity Board of Directors
Wednesday , September 19 5:00 – 7:00
pm Confirmation
7:30 pm AA
Thursday, September 20 7:30 am Virden Chamber
Friday, September 21 Pastor’s
Family Day
Saturday ,
September 22 5:30 pm Divine Service
Voters will meet on
Sunday, September 30 after church.
We
will also have a fellowship potluck dinner that day
NEXT WEEKS
LESSONS:
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
A large funeral procession
carrying the only son of a widow is confronted by another large procession,
Jesus and His followers. Death and Life meet face to face at the gate of the
city (Luke 7:11–17). Filled with compassion, Jesus comes into direct contact
with our mortality in order to overcome it. He touches the coffin and speaks
His creative words of life, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” Jesus does what
is neither expected nor requested. For through Christ, God the Father “is able
to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think” (Ephesians
3:14–21). Jesus bore our death in His body that we may share in His
resurrection. Even as Elijah stretched himself out three times over the
Zarephath woman’s son (2 Kings 17:17–24), God stretched Himself out over us in
the threefold application of His name in the baptismal water, breathing new and
everlasting life into us. “To Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all
generations, forever and ever.”
Collect: O Lord, we pray
that Your grace may always go before and follow after us, that we may be
continually given to all good works; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord .
Amen.
Old Testament: 1 Kings 17:17–24
Epistle: Ephesians
3:13–21
Holy Gospel: Luke 7:11–17
Readings
for the Week of 15th Sunday after Trinity
September 16 Cain Murders His Brother Abel—Genesis 4:1-1-15
Titus
3:8-15, Philippians 1:21–2:11
September 17
Philemon
1-25, Philippians 2:12-30
September 18 David’s
Thanksgiving to God—2 Samuel 7:18-29
Hebrews
1:1-14, Philippians 3:1-21
September 19 David
Shows Kindness to Mephibosheeth—2 Samuel 9:1-13
Hebrews
2:5–3:6, Philippians 4:1-23
September 20 David
and Bathsheba— 2 Samuel 11:1-17, 22-25
Hebrews
4:14–5:14, Colossians 1:1-23
September 21 The
Prophet Nathan Confronts David - 2 Samuel 11:26-12:15 Hebrews 6:1-20, Colossians 1:24–2:7
September 22 Looking Forward to Sundays
Lessons: 1 Kings 17:17–24,
Ephesians 3:13–21, Luke 7:11–17
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