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Pilgrim is a part of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) faithfully serving the Lord and the co

Service Days and Times:
10:30 AM Sunday Worship
11:45 AM Family Education Hour on Sundays (Adult Bible Study and Sunday School)

06/18/2026

Thursday Psalms: God Rescues You!

Today's psalm begins with an invitation really: If you dwell in the shelter of God, you will remain in the protective shadow of His care. The psalmist then proclaims his own faith, trusting that the Lord will always be his refuge and fortress during life's hard times. I've left out verses 3-13, where you'll read many examples of God's protection and care He promises to give you.

Psalm 91
1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the Lord,
“My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

In these final three verses, God replies, confirming and repeating His glorious promises to you:

14 “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him;
I will protect him, because he knows My name.
15 When he calls to Me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”

So, take God at His promises! Believe in God and love Him with all your heart and life. You'll notice God delivering you from temptations & danger. You'll see God protecting you from illnesses and calamities. Call on God in prayer and wait for His answers. Call on God in trouble, and see how He rescues you. Confess your sins to God, and He will honor you with His forgiveness. At the end of your earthly days, God will show you His salvation, God will welcome you into eternal life in heaven.

Abide in God, who rescues you!

Your servant in Christ,
Pastor Mark
Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS Burton, Michigan
office: 810.744.1188

We are Pilgrims with a Purpose:
Sharing God’s Love & Mercy with Each Other and the World.

Soli Deo Gloria

"The LORD is a stronghold in times of trouble." Psalm 9:9

06/14/2026

You & I are enemies of God because of our sins. But God loves you so much, He has taken your punishment away and gives you the gift of salvation!

06/11/2026

Thursday Psalms: Come to God & Sing!

Blessed Thursday to each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, your Savior!

Think about a time when you had to face some authority over a mistake you made. For example, have you ever needed to appear in court over a crime or citation? Perhaps as a child you were called to the Principal's office, or had to face your parents over some bad thing you had done. Reading this psalm today, I remembered some times in my life when I dreaded going before a judge in court or facing judgement for what I had done. I certainly did not want to be in God's presence, either. Yet, the psalmist encourages you to come into God's presence, to enter into His gates & courts with praise and singing. How can this be?

Psalm 100
1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
2 Serve the Lord with gladness!
Come into His presence with singing!
3 Know that the Lord, He is God!
It is He who made us, and we are His;
we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving,
and His courts with praise!
Give thanks to Him; bless His name!
5 For the Lord is good;
His steadfast love endures forever,
and His faithfulness to all generations.

On what basis can you come into God's presence in prayer? Based on our sins, you & I are totally unworthy, completely undeserving of God's attention, let alone His help. How is it that God allows and desires you to come to HIm? We're pointed to the answer in verse five. The Lord tells you that He is good; God is love!

Remember John 3:16? “For God so loved the world, that He gave his only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." Jesus Christ, the Son of God came from heaven to earth and became human, so that He could pay the cost of your sins and failures. Because of Jesus, and God's love for you, God is not an angry judge of your failures, but a forgiving, loving Father!

Continuing in verse five, God's love is steadfast, rock-solid, and lasting forever! Because of Jesus, God forgives you all your sins, every one of them! God is faithful to you, and the promises God gives you. God has kept, is keeping and will keep all His promises to you!

Today God invites you to come into His presence with singing, confessing your sins and knowing for sure that God forgives them. That is the best reason ever for singing, thanksgiving and praising!

Your servant in Christ,
Pastor Mark
Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS Burton, Michigan
office: 810.744.1188

We are Pilgrims with a Purpose:
Sharing God’s Love & Mercy with Each Other & the World.

Soli Deo Gloria

"The LORD is a stronghold in times of trouble." Psalm 9:9

06/07/2026

Like Jesus called St. Matthew to follow Him, Jesus calls you and shows you His love and mercy!

06/04/2026

Thursday Psalms: Afflicted for Good!

We don't know exactly what afflicted the psalmist, but usually to be afflicted is not a good thing. It was most likely uncomfortable or difficult. Could it be a punishment of some kind? Did God discipline him in a specific way? Perhaps some kind of trauma, or even perhaps a dream or vision from the Holy Spirit? We don't know what his affliction was, but he does tell us it profoundly changed him.

Psalm 119:65–72
65 You have dealt well with Your servant,
O Lord, according to Your word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
for I believe in Your commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep Your word.
68 You are good and do good;
teach me Your statutes.
69 The insolent smear me with lies,
but with my whole heart I keep Your precepts;
70 their heart is unfeeling like fat,
but I delight in Your law.
71 It is good for me that I was afflicted,
that I might learn Your statutes.
72 The law of Your mouth is better to me
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

The psalmist points out the great spiritual benefits he obtained, because of his affliction. First, we're told the affliction produced a spirit of obedience and discipline to keep God's word & commandments. This is always a good thing! Second, the affliction caused the psalmist writer to seek out and learn God's teachings or statutes. Again, a very good and blessed result.

In our sinful & selfish condition, we can't escape afflictions, as much as we would like to do so. Our good prayer today is that God would guide us to good results from our afflictions, that they would turn us to learn God's statutes, to believe in His commandments, and to keep God's Word in every way possible. And the best news ever? God forgives your afflictions and all sins; just confess them and receive His mercy and grace in return!

Your servant in Christ,
Pastor Mark
Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS Burton, Michigan
office: 810.744.1188

We are Pilgrims with a Purpose:
Sharing God’s Love & Mercy with Each Other and the World.

Soli Deo Gloria

"The LORD is a stronghold in times of trouble." Psalm 9:9

05/31/2026

We cant understand the Holy Trinity, but we know the loving gifts God gives us!

05/28/2026

Thursday Psalms: God Is Majestic!

In this psalm, David poses the great paradox, one of the most remarkable questions about our human existence and relationship with God. As David considers all the evidence of God's glorious creation, he wonders...What do you see in us? To use David's words: "...what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You care for him? What have we done to deserve being put in charge of God's created masterpiece?

Psalm 8 A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
You have set Your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
You have established strength because of Your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which You have set in place,
4 what is man that You are mindful of him,
and the son of man that You care for him?
5 Yet You have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

Notice how David poses this question and does not even address our sinfulness, which just amplifies this remarkable question? Why should God be mindful of you? Why should God care for me? Based on how we treat God and others, why shouldn't God simply zap us off the face of the earth? The answer is amazing, remarkable and very simple: God loves you! God loves every one of His created children, even those who do not love Him. You and I are God's sons and daughters, both by our creation in His image, and also by the salvation won for us, and given to us by Jesus Christ, God's Son.

Tonight, tomorrow, every time you confess your sins to God, you're asking this same question: "God, who am I that you should even allow me to come into Your presence and say "I'm sorry."?" We are totally undeserving of God's mercy, but He gladly and lovingly forgives us all the sins we sincerely confess. What a great gift of mercy and grace God gives to us! All of us should be singing and shouting every day these words of David: O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

Your servant in Christ,
Pastor Mark
Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS Burton, Michigan
office: 810.744.1188

We are Pilgrims with a Purpose:
Sharing God’s Love & Mercy with Each Other and the World.

Soli Deo Gloria

"The LORD is a stronghold in times of trouble." Psalm 9:9

05/24/2026

Jesus pours out living water, His Holy Spirit, inviting you to a new reality & new life!

05/21/2026

Thursday Psalms: God Remembers!

Blessed Thursday to each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, your Savior!

Our ability to remember things is really a funny thing. Not ha-ha funny, but rather an odd kind of funny. We try to remember good things, and often we can't. We try to "remember not" the bad things in our lives, but so often we can't push those bad memories away. Remembering the good and forgetting the bad sure sounds good, but it hardly ever works out that way for us. In our psalm verses for today, King David prays to God about God's remembering and also about his own.

Psalm 25:1, 6-7, 11
1 To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
6 Remember Your mercy, O Lord, and Your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
according to Your steadfast love remember me,
for the sake of Your goodness, O Lord!
11 For Your name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.

David certainly remembers his own bad stuff; they can't be avoided. He remembers the sins of his youth and his recent and even on-going transgressions. You & I also remember our own bad sins & failings. But David also remembers the good things, and I don't mean the good, fun Memorial Day gatherings of past years! David remembers the Lord's good promises: His promises of steadfast love , mercy and goodness. Because David remembers the good and bad, David prays boldly that the Lord would forgive his sins and pardon his guilt.

This is the Lord's promise to you also today. Remember your sins long enough so you confess them to God and learn to avoid them tomorrow. Remember what God promises you, that He loves you beyond your imagination, that He shows mercy to you always, and that His forgiveness pardons you & removes your guilt.

This is the best of news for you: God Remembers!

Your servant in Christ,
Pastor Mark
Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS Burton, Michigan
office: 810.744.1188

We are Pilgrims with a Purpose:
Sharing God’s Love & Mercy with Each Other & the World.

Soli Deo Gloria

"The LORD is a stronghold in times of trouble." Psalm 9:9

05/17/2026

The Ascension of Jesus Christ calls you to turn to Him for the forgiveness of all your sins!

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3222 S Genesee Road
Burton, MI
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