Reaching the Lost. Discipling the Saved. Sharing the Love of Jesus with Everyone.
Our sermon series for the Lenten season is, “You Meant it for Evil, but God Meant it for Good”. It is based upon a series by the same name ©2022, by Dr. Jeffrey Gibbs, Professor Emeritus of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (used with permission).
In this series we will explore the numerous ways God in His grace turns evil intentions and situations into good!
I hope you’ll join us!
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The Sealy Christian Food Pantry will hold a Pancake Supper on Fat Tuesday!
Here are the details:
| DATE | Tuesday, February 13, 2024 |
| TIME: | 5:00-7:00 PM |
| LOCATION: | Trinity Lutheran Church 402 Atchison St., Sealy, TX 77474 |
| COST: | Free Will Offering Benefiting our Building Fund |
| MENU: | Pancakes, Sausage Patties, Coffee or Juice |
| OTHER: | Singers and Dancers from the Community will Entertain! |
Your generosity is greatly appreciated.
We’re going to get into one of those tricky difficult topics today: life and abortion.
We often try to stay away from lightning rod topics like this because we don’t want to put off some people. But the fact is, where Scripture speaks we must also; and scripture speaks very clearly on this topic.
For You formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:13
The Bible tells us that God created us in our mother’s womb; intricately weaving us into exactly the person He wants us to be. And throughout Scripture we know that God is a God of life. That started all the way back in creation in Genesis where He brings life from nothing and breathes His Spirit into humanity.
Scripture is the story of God creating, restoring, promising, and through Jesus being life. So it should not be controversial warranting surprise that God is strongly pro-life.
Perhaps the challenge for us is that we don’t want to come off as judgmental. And that is true. And so let us always remember, that where there has been sin and there is confession, there is forgiveness. The God who forgives sins is available for any who have not chosen life in the past. Period. Not just in the areas of abortion, but in avenues of freezing or discarding embryos; birth control which prevents implantation; or when we belittling, harm, insult, demean, or just don’t seek the best for others through their lives.
When we look at life in all the glorious aspects God has blessed us with, it is evident that we have all failed to be the true pro-life advocates and witnesses He has called us to be.
So, then: let us confess our sins and be renewed in the One who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life; forgiven and given a life to live and His life to share in all areas to all people!
“Lord, be our Life and our Light for more abundance for everyone!”
It’s fitting that we start the new year with the start of scripture in Genesis. But that’s not the only start to consider today.
I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
Mark 1:8
In Mark we also see the beginning of Jesus’ ministry when He was baptized in the Jordan.
That might seem like a strange connection, but the newness for Jesus and His ministry and the newness of creation have a deep connection for us. That is, we are new creations when we are joined in our baptism with the baptism of Jesus!
We are new, forgiven, made pure!
So as we look to the new year and trying to make ourselves anew in resolutions, let’s not forget that in Jesus and through His baptism and ours, we are new also truly and perfectly new!
No “BELONG” special ministry class this weekend, January 7, 2024, as the teacher is under the weather.
Happy new year!
As we start the new year so we also start a new BridgeKidz series with the tagline, “Active Games for Active Faith!”
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
Following Jesus isn’t boring, it’s exciting!
Knowing how much God loves us isn’t something we just keep to ourselves, it’s something so good it can change the world.
When we actively seek to obey God and trust Him more and more each day, it changes us. Just like the more times you play a game, the better you get at it, it’s the same with your faith. The more you practice trusting God and living life His way, the better you get at it.
In this series kids will play a lot of fun and active games and learn that when God challenges us to “move” by obeying Him, it’s time to MOVE!
Kids will learn that when God says “move!” We should listen.
Our series begins on Sunday, January 7, 2024, and will continue through February 25, 2024.
Join us!
My eyes have seen Your salvation.
Luke 2:30
Jesus redeems, renews, and moves us forward to a next thing we may not know or expect.
A new year; a new life in Christ.
Relationship not religion. — Jesus did it all and does it all to move us ahead.
On Sunday, December 31, 2023, following worship, it’ll be time to take the Christmas decorations down, organize, and store them for next year.
Food will be served, so come help, eat, and enjoy the fellowship!
Tonight is the culmination of our series and our waiting! It all comes down to this. To HIM; born for us!
1In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. 6And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. 7And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
Luke 2:1-7
May the Lord bless your celebration o f the birth of the Savior, Jesus, through Whom you, too, are “wrapped Up In Love!”
Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
There are times we put on our best. For many that was for big, special occasions, like weddings, funerals, anniversaries, and Sundays. (Remember, “Sunday best” for clothes?)
There’s something to that. Something about dressing up in our best attire for special occasions. But it can go further than that. We can also tell some people by the clothes they wear. Military uniforms tell us branches, campaigns, and ranks. Royalty can be observed with crowns and ornate robes. And, in liturgical traditions, some pastors and priests can be differentiated by their garb.
This was true in Scripture as well. In fact, when God commanded the Israelites to build a tabernacle in the desert, He also gave detailed instructions on how the priests were to dress. The outfits were very ornate. They included many aspects, but one that I find interesting is the gems on the ephod (breastplate). There were twelve, each with the names of each tribe, so that when the priest entered into the “Holy of Holies” (or “Holiest Place”), their names would be born “as a continuing memorial before the LORD” (Exodus 28:29).
But we’re getting ready for Christmas. And we see a Savior born for us and bear our name before the Father, not with gems on an ornate breastplate, but through a manger and swaddling clothes!
There is a “great exchange” which takes place tonight: a priestly intercessor for the Great intercessor. Our wretched sins for His perfection. Our worst for His best. Our hurts and pains born by Him on the cross. Our shame on His cross. Our attempt at a holy projection for the Holy One, naked and dying.
Is dressing up in our best good? Sure! But seeing the One born humbly in the manger; the One who died naked on a cross, well, that’s infinitely better!
Through faith in the One born for us, the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: we have been clothed and covered with a robe of righteousness, so our soul will exalt!
O Come, O come, Immanuel!
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