Let us go up to the House of the Lord
Oh come, let us sing to the LORD;
let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep of his hand (Ps. 95:1-2, 6-7).
WORSHIP & STUDY
9:15 AM - Sunday School and Bible Study
10:30 AM - Divine Worship Service, The Lord's Supper is served on the first and third Sundays.
10:30 AM Wednesday, Confessions Study
7PM Wednesday, Divine Spoken Service
5:30PM Wednesday, Public Confirmation and Religion Classes for grades 5-8.
Rite of Confirmation
Mar. 22, 10:30AM, Confirmands Essays
Mar. 29, 10:30AM, During Worship Service
LENTEN SERIES
FOR US
“For us” is not simply a pithy line to use because it is easy to repeat. It is a confession of who God is and what He brings in giving us His Son. It helps us understand why God would send His Son to die for us.
The phrase “for us” also captures much of the Reformation’s theological emphasis—and Luther’s understanding of Scripture in particular. Luther went from searching for a righteous God and finding only stern rebuke to seeing God in the form of a little baby and as the one who became one of us for us so that we might become like Him.
Our Lenten preaching series hymn “O Love, How Deep” (LSB 544) was originally a twenty-three-stanza poem written in the fifteenth century by an unknown author. In the nineteenth century, an Anglican cleric named Benjamin Webb translated the hymn into English and then chose six stanzas for use in English hymnody. The doxological stanza was added later.
Some hymns tell a story, others teach, and still others create pictures in our minds of the great works of God. Some hymns do all three, weaving together a tapestry that is beautiful yet simple, wondrous yet easy to understand. “O Love, How Deep” is that kind of hymn.
Although it does not appear in the first stanza, the most pointed and beautiful language in the hymn is expressed in the phrase “for us.” The phrase is reminiscent of the language of the Nicene Creed: “Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven.”
LENT & EASTER SCHEDULE
Feb. 18 - 7PM, Ash Wednesday Service
Feb. 25 - Mar. 25, 7PM, Midweek Lenten Services
Mar. 29 - 10:30AM, Palm Sunday, Rite of Confirmation
April 2 - 7PM, Maundy Thursday Service, First Communion for Confirmands
April 3 - 7PM, Good Friday Service
April 5 - 7AM, Easter Sunrise Service followed by Easter Breakfast
10:30AM, Easter Sunday Service
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MUSIC
MATINS
Click here to practice singing the Order of Matins, LSB, 219ff
SERVICE OF PRAYER AND PREACHING