3rd Last Sunday in the Church Year – 2025
SIGNS OF THE LAST DAYS LEAD US TO THE WORD Prayer: As time ends and eternity begins, Lord Jesus, grant that we are found among those who confess You as Savior and Lord, that You may acknowledge us and receive us into the eternal mansions. Preserve us daily in Your grace. Make us watchful and prayerful. Add daily to those who are being saved. Cover the earth with Your Gospel of reconciliation, that peace may reign and hope abide in…
All Saints – 2025
YOU ARE A SAINT. BLESSED ARE YOU! Prayer: Lord, help us to believe that in You, for Jesus’ sake, we are blesséd. And strengthen our faith so that we believe that although here we are sinners, because our sins are taken away, we are saints, citizens of heaven. Amen. Dear Saints, Blessed are you in the name of Jesus. Amen. There are two words here that we need to learn. First, saint. People confuse that word. They see a…
Reformation Sunday – 2025
Luther’s reformation was about restoring the Gospel, seeing Christ for us, for our comfort. This conclusion to his letter to a depressed young man is one of the best ways to represent and remember Luther! When the devil throws our sins up to us and declares that we deserve death and hell, we should say: “I admit that I deserve death and hell. What of it? Does this mean I shall be sentenced to eternal damnation? By no means. For…
Trinity 18 – 2025
JESUS IS THE ANSWER TO THE LAW Prayer: Dear Lord, we know that Your Law is good; but since the Fall its holiness condemns us all, it dooms us for our sin to die, and has no power to justify. By Your Holy Spirit, help us to so use the Law that to Jesus we for refuge flee, who from the curse has set us free, and humbly worship at Your throne, saved by Your grace through faith alone. Amen!…
Trinity 17 – 2025
BEING AT REST IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS WHO HEALS: THAT’S WHAT THE SABBATH IS ABOUT Prayer: Lord Jesus, at our dinner tables we ask You to be our Guest. But there’s a greater table: Your holy Supper, Your body with the bread and with the wine the blood You shed. You say this food is for souls who are distressed, for hearts that long for peace and rest. You make it so we will be Yourguest, at Your banquet…
Trinity 16 – 2025
JESUS DESTROYS DEATH’S POWER OVER US Prayer: Lord, teach us that because of You, we now can have no fear of death and that our sadness over death is not like those who have no hope. But let it not only be that You teach us, but through Your Word and Sacraments powerfully give and preserve this faith in us, so that You defeat the fear of death and give us certain hope in the midst of sorrows. Amen. Sermon…
St. Michael and All Angels-2025
JESUS SAYS HIS LITTLE ONES HAVE ANGELS Prayer: We thank You, our heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have graciously kept us from all harm and danger. Into Your hands we commend ourselves, our loved ones and all your little ones, our bodies and souls and all things; let Your holy angels be with us, that the wicked foe may have no power over us. Amen. Sermon Text, St. Matthew 18:1-7, 10 (v. 10). “Take heed…
St. Matthew’s Day, Apostle and Evangelist – 2025
MATTHEW’S GOSPEL Prayer: Dear Lord God: We thank You today that You not only changed the life of Matthew, from being a tax collector and an outcast sinner to being Your disciple and apostle, but also You used him to write the first gospel. We thank You for the Gospel, by which we learn to know You, our Lord Jesus, and through which Your Word powerfully creates and preserves in us true saving faith. By Your Word, give us faith…
Trinity 13 – 2025
JESUS WANTS HIS CHURCH TO BE THE HOME OF MERCY Prayer: Lord, let mercy make me ever willing to bear my lot and not to fret. While You my restless heart are stilling, may I Your mercy not forget! Whatever comes my heart to test, Your mercy is my only rest. Lord, help me stand on this foundation as long as I on earth remain; Your mercy guide my meditation while I the breath of life retain. And then, when…
Funeral- Richard Getz
Christian Obituary for Richard Getz Richard Edward Getz was born on October 3, 1931, to Edward Adolf and Edna Getz in Teaneck, New Jersey. The Triune God who gave him life also gave him the new birth and saving faith; he was baptized in the name of the Triune God as a child. Having suffered the death of his mother before age 10, his paternal grandparents, Gottlieb and Anna Getz, raised him in this faith, and he was led to…