Mountain View Lutheran Church, LCMS

Mountain View Lutheran Church, LCMS Join us for worship! Saturdays at 5:00pm
Sundays at 9:30am

Sunday Adult Bible Class at 8:00am Welcome! We'd love to see you!

Mountain View Lutheran Church (LCMS) is located in Apache Junction, AZ. Here at MVLC we are engaged in several activities and ministries regularly, including our family ministry, Stephen Ministry, LWML (Lutheran Women in Mission), several weekly Bible studies, quilting group, line dancing, and more! A weekend at Mountain View in the summer involves two worship services:
Saturdays at 5:00pm
Sundays at 9:30am
At 8:00am on Sundays, Pastor Mark Friedrich leads a Bible study.

Today we give thanks for the gift of work and for all those who labor each day to serve, provide, build, teach, care, an...
09/07/2026

Today we give thanks for the gift of work and for all those who labor each day to serve, provide, build, teach, care, and make a difference in our communities.

We pray that you and your family have a safe, restful, and blessed Labor Day! ❤️

09/07/2026

I will cleanse you

God's people had been rebellious and chased after other gods. They honored God with their lips but their hearts were far from God so God delivered them into the hands of their enemies to teach them and to call them to repentance. Yet in the midst of his discipline God was there promising that he would deliver and restore them. He would once again take them out of the nation that they lived in captivity. He would restore them and give them all good things because he is a gracious and loving God. He forgives and restores his people. We do not get what we deserve but rather receive one blessing after another.

How gracious and merciful God is to us. He doesn not treat us as our sins deserve because the wages of sin is death but the free gift of God is eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ. We stray from the shepherd and yet he will seek and save the Lost. There is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than the 99 who remain in the flock. We like sheep have gone astray and God has returned us to our place with him.

So trust in the Lord and he will restore you he will bless you and he will make his face to smile upon you. He lifts us us up and he will never leave us nor will he forsake us.

Ezekiel 36:24 “‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. 28 Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you. 30 I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine.

09/07/2026

This Labor Day, we thank God for the work he has called us to - to build, to plant, to shape, and to serve. Happy Labor Day from Mountain View Lutheran Church!

09/06/2026

You're invited to join us for worship at Mountain View Lutheran Church as we celebrate the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Come hear Pastor Mark Friedrich share an encouraging message, "Warning the Wicked" and spend time in worship, prayer, and fellowship as we gather to celebrate God's love and grace. Whether you're joining us in person or online, we'd love to worship with you!

09/06/2026

Love of God

What is the most important teaching of Christ? That is one question we need to think about. We might say, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and love your neighbor as you love yourself. How about this one? If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Here is another, It is by grace you have been saved this not of yourself it is a gift of God not by works so that no one can boast about it. Or how about this one? Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?

Is it hard to pick one of these? Maybe you have another verse that embodies the Christian faith. How about this one? For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

The Christian faith stands upon the foundation of Christ, his life, death and resurrection. If Christ be not raised our faith is futile and we are dead in our sins. Christianity stands not upon what we do but what God has done for us and what he continues to do in our life. Because we love him we keep his commandments. We will never keep them perfectly and that is why we need Jesus' payment for our sin. He has set us free and now we live each day as his forgiven children. Forgiveness in Christ is the foundation of our faith and because of that we live a new life in Christ. May the love of Christ fill you with his forgiveness and peace.

John 14:23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

Love is the heart of God’s law, and it’s how we’re called to show up for each other every single day. ❤️Join us this wee...
09/03/2026

Love is the heart of God’s law, and it’s how we’re called to show up for each other every single day. ❤️

Join us this weekend for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost as we dive into our scripture reading from Romans 13:1–10 and explore what it truly means to live out Christ’s love in our community.

We’d love to worship with you! ⛪✨

Service Times:
Saturday: 5:00 PM
Sunday: 9:30 AM

We can't wait to see you there!

09/03/2026

The way you should go

Did your parents teach you right from wrong? Have you ever read in God's word what is pleasing to God and what is sinful? Do you always do what is good and right? As much as I know God's word and the instruction that my parents gave me there are times when I do not follow their words. God's people were like that. He warned them to forsake their idols and stop doing the practices of the evil people around them and yet they continued. God told them that they would be taken into captivity and yet they continued.

Sin if left unchecked will rob you of everything that is good. Each day we face a spiritual battle where we need God's help to make the good choices that will keep us away from sin and following the Lord in the way that we should go. God's word is always good and we need the power of the Holy Spirit to follow in his ways. We need his strength to avoid evil and do what is pleasing in his sight.

When we do sin and we will God invites us to come to him confess our sins, turn away from them and he will bring healing and forgiveness for all our sins. What a gracious God we have! He does not treat us as our sins deserve but he is tenderhearted and forgiving abounding in steadfast love and forgiveness. We should never distain his grace because it in not a licence to sin but it is a healing gift to those who are broken by guilt of our sin. So create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me.

Is 48:17 This is what the Lord says—
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you what is best for you,
who directs you in the way you should go.

09/02/2026

Look at what your generosity helped make possible!

A very special thank you to the ladies of the LWML and to everyone who faithfully gives during our LWML Mites Weekends! Your generous offerings help fund grants that support ministries like this one and make a real difference in the lives of others.

What a wonderful reminder that even small gifts, when given together, can have a tremendous impact. ❤️

We’re excited to share a look at this incredible new mobile laundry unit, created to bring practical help and hope to communities in need. This unit can travel wherever it’s needed, with a goal of providing approximately 75 loads of laundry each day.

Thank you for helping make ministry like this possible!

09/02/2026

Love is!

What is Love? We hear many people trying to describe it. We have people who think love is an emotion or feeling. We hear many songs about love but how do we understand what love is. Love in the English language can have multiple meanings like, I love my dog, I love my wife and children, I love ice cream but in the Greek there are many different words for love and these help us to understand what scripture teaches about love.

In 1 Cor 13 the word for love used is Agape. That is God's unconditional and unending love for sinful humanity. It is a choice or act of the will not based upon emotion but upon who God is because God is LOVE.
So as we read these words we can see that love is not a feeling but a choice that God makes and he has chosen you and me. There are many facets to this love and we love because God first loved us. Over the next few days we will talk more about this love and about what love is not.

We may think that the opposite of love is hate or fear but as you read these words notice how Paul describes what love is not and it focuses upon self centered love or narcissism. When we love only ourselves we cannot love others. God's love focuses upon others and it is a giving love. God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son. May God fill us with His love so that we might grow in our love for God and for one another.

1 Cor 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails.

09/01/2026

The living harvest

Today I want to talk about a topic that many people will have strong opinions about but in Scripture it is adiaphora which means God's word neither commands it nor forbids it so we dare not set up laws that seem to honor God with our lips but our hearts are far from Him.

What I am talking about is what attire should we wear to church. I read a discussion about wearing our best clothes to church like wearing dresses, suits and ties. It all sounds good because we want to do our best for God but underneath it I felt that some of the discussion would have been the focus of the scribes and pharisees in Jesus day.

As God's people we should honor him in everything we do and even what we wear can be a way to show God and not people how much we love him and value him but to lay our standards upon others is not right. We have gone from Christian liberty to legalism. I will always wear clothes that are decent and modest but I don't think we have to dress to impress God knows our heart and will be pleased with a contrite heart and not by the clothes we wear.

I also wish that I did not have to write this today because our thoughts and discussions should always be centered around the great commission and seeing that the fields are white unto harvest. How do we reach those who are lost and dead in sin and will our man made human rules drive people for whom Christ died away from the church.

People who are serving at a rescue mission dress for service and not to impress.
I welcome your comments and would love to talk further about this.

Matt 15:6 they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
8 “‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
9 They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.

Address

2122 S Goldfield Road
Apache Junction, AZ
85119

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 2:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 2:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 2:30pm
Thursday 8am - 2:30pm
Saturday 5pm - 6pm
Sunday 8am - 11:30am

Telephone

+14809828266

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