Tag: Trinity
What happens in God’s Divine Service
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, throughout today’s Divine Service, you will hear teaching points on just what is happening, has happened, and primarily what is about to happen in the service. All Vicars here at Catalina do such a service, as it helps us know just what is happening, and also prepares us for a congregation that perhaps has yet to recover the treasury of certain parts of the service, or perhaps just don’t know why they do what they do. …For more, click on the title above.
Trinity_2 2023
Second Sunday after Trinity
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The Tree of Life
God Lovingly Gifts to Man–the Man of Faith Responds in Love
For well more than five centuries, the Sunday Gospel readings drawn from the Evangelist Luke’s writings have annually been heard on the first five Sundays that follow the Feast of the Holy Trinity. The first three of those, beginning today, continue to declare a call to the hearers of God’s Word to be faithful in using the gifts God continues to give to them. …For more, click on the title above.
Trinity_1 2023
First Sunday after Trinity
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Comfort in the face of Incomprehensible Ways
“O depth of riches, both the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgements, and how incomprehensible are His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? And who has been His counselor? Or who has first given to Him, that it shall be recompensed to him?”
Thus far our text. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, these few short verses are something I very much wish the average person would understand about God. Many problems people have with who God is and how He works could be dispelled by a good understanding of this text. Since probably the beginning of life after the fall, non-believers have been hung up on these aspects of Our God. …For more, click on the title above.
Jesus is at the center of the Trinity
Jesus – and this is so important in understanding Lutheran theology vs. other protestant theology – Jesus is at the center of the Trinity. He is the One who will bring you into the triune life of God…
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Trinity 2023
Feast of the Holy Trinity
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The Church’s new song is not what some people think it is
Again, today, the Lord of the Church has preserved His Church through another year. Throughout this “Year of the Psalm,” which is now a long-held Catalina Lutheran tradition, on most Sunday’s of the past year, God’s Word of Law and Gospel has been proclaimed from the Psalms. Through the declaration of the convicting, condemnning and killing Law, and, we pray, the predominance in our proclamation of the acquitting, atoning and enlivening Gospel, you, God’s people have been encouraged to behold Christ Jesus as the Psalms reveal Him. That is, as the One Who bore the full brunt of the Law that you might receive the full benefits of His Good News….For more, click on the title above