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7/19/26 – 8th Sun after Pentecost

7/19/26 – 8th Sun after Pentecost EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (19 July 2026) Readings: Isaiah 44:6–8, Romans 7, Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43 The Word of the Gospel Bestows the Righteousness of Christ and Brings Forth Faith The good Seed, which is “the Son of Man,” Jesus Himself (Matt. 13:37), brings forth a harvest of faith and bears good fruits in “the sons of the kingdom” (Matt. 13:38). Whatever is sown apart from His Word is of the devil, who plants the weeds of…

7/12/26 – 7th Sun after Pentecost

7/12/2026 – 7th Sun after Pentecost SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (12 July 2026) The Preaching of the Word of Christ Bears the Good Fruits of Faith and Love As “the rain and the snow come down from heaven” and “water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout” (Is. 55:10), so the Word of God accomplishes the purpose for which He speaks it, granting joy and peace through the forgiveness of sins and producing the fruits of faith and love in…

7/5/26 – 6th Sun after Pentecost

Bulletin – 6th Sunday after Pentecost 2026 SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (5 July 2026) Jesus Christ, Our Savior, Is Our True Peace and Sabbath Rest Though we have died with Christ in Holy Baptism, and we are raised to new life in Him, we find “another law waging war” in our body and life, that is, between our old Adam and the new man (Rom. 7:23). By the Spirit of Christ, we “desire to do what is right,” but we are…

6/28/2026 – 5th Sun After Pentecost

Bulletin – 5th Sunday after Pentecost FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (28 June 2026) The Lord Jesus Brings Division on Earth for the Sake of Peace with God in Heaven False prophets preach what their hearers want to hear, promising peace even when the Lord has spoken “war, famine, and pestilence” (Jer. 28:8). But if “the LORD has truly sent the prophet,” he speaks what the Lord has spoken, and “the word of that prophet comes to pass” (Jer. 28:9). The…

6/21/2026 – 4th Sun after Pentecost

Bulletin – Fourth Sunday After Pentecost 2026 FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (21 June 2026) Delivered from Sin and Death, You Now Live before God in the Righteousness of Christ The outcome of sin is death, “but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 6:23). He has set you free from the slavery of sin and has brought you “from death to life” (Rom. 6:13). No longer are you under the condemnation of the Law,…

6/14/2026 – 3rd Sun after Pentecost

Bulletin – Third Sunday after Pentecost 2026 THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (14 June 2026) The Lord Our God Saves Us in Love and Cares for Us by the Ministry of His Gospel The holy Triune God “shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners,” ungodly and at enmity with Him, “Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8). The incarnate Son has justified us by His blood and reconciled us to His God and Father (Rom. 5:9–10). Whereas…

6/7/2026 – 2nd Sun after Pentecost

SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (7 June 2026) Jesus Calls Sinners to Repentance and Newness of Life in Accordance with His Mercy In calling Matthew the tax collector to follow Him, Jesus demonstrates that He has come “not to call the righteous, but sinners” (Matt. 9:9, 13). As a good physician, He comes not to confirm them in their sins, but to heal them with His grace, calling them to repentance, faith and newness of life (Matt. 9:12). He puts them…

05/31/2026 – Holy Trinity Sunday

Click Here for Bulletin THE HOLY TRINITY (May 31, 2026) The Holy Triune God Recreates Us in the Image and Likeness of Christ Jesus The holy Triune God “created the heavens and the earth,” and “behold, it was very good” (Gen. 1:1, 31). However, after Adam and Eve fell into sin and plunged God’s good creation into decay and death, the Son of God would be “delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God” to be “crucified and…

05/24/2026: The Day of Pentecost

Click Here for Bulletin THE DAY OF PENTECOST (May 24, 2026) The Risen Lord Jesus Pours Out the Holy Spirit The Lord took “some of the Spirit” that was on Moses “and put it on the seventy elders” of Israel (Num. 11:25), and they “prophesied in the camp” (Num. 11:26). In the same way, our risen Lord Jesus poured out His Holy Spirit at the Feast of Pentecost — the 50th day and the “Eighth Sunday” of Easter. When “a sound…

05/17/26: The 7th Sunday of Easter

Click Here for Bulletin SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (May 17, 2026) Our Lord Jesus Is with Us in the Upper Room of His Church on Earth On the night when He was betrayed, our Lord Jesus prayed for His apostles and His Church on earth. “The hour” had come when the Father would glorify His Son by the cross (John 17:1). Through the shedding of His blood, He would bring forgiveness for the sins of the world, and in His resurrection and…

05/10/26: The 6th Sunday of Easter

Click Here for Bulletin SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (May 10, 2026) The Lord Jesus Comforts Us with the Preaching of His Resurrection “The God who … gives to all mankind life and breath and everything” (Acts 17:24–25) wants all people to seek Him that they might “feel their way toward him and find him” (Acts 17:27). But in our sinful ignorance, we humans turn instead to idols “formed by the art and imagination of man” (Acts 17:29). Therefore, God appointed the Man…

05/03/26: The 5th Sunday of Easter

Click Here for Bulletin FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (May 3, 2026) The Lord Jesus Christ Is the Way, the Truth and the Life The risen Lord Jesus alone is “the way, and the truth, and the life,” and we come “to the Father” only through Him (John 14:6). God is thus “glorified in the Son,” and those who believe in Him will do the works of Christ because He goes to the Father for us (John 14:12–14). Stephen, “a man full of…

04/26/26: The 4th Sunday of Easter

Click Here for Bulletin FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (April 26, 2026) The Crucified and Risen Lord Jesus Christ Is Our Good Shepherd Although we “were straying like sheep,” the Lord Jesus Christ has willingly suffered and died for us, bearing our sins “in his body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24–25). We are healed by His wounds (1 Peter 2:24), and in His resurrection He gathers us to Himself as our Good Shepherd, by whose righteousness we “have life and have…