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Trinity Worship Schedule

5:30 pm | Saturday Traditional Worship
8:00 am | Sunday Traditional Worship
10:30 am | Sunday Blended Connections Worship

06/01/2026

Hosea 5:15-6:6

It is often the case that pain precedes blessing. We wish that wasn’t the case, but it often is. There is often something that must be removed from our lives before we can experience the good things we desire. Think of cancer. The treatment is awful, but without surgery and medicine to remove the cancer, the blessing of health will never come. Think of your spiritual life. All of us are sinners, and unless that sin is removed, we will not receive God’s blessing. Not because God refuses to bless us, but because the wages of sin is death.

Hosea writes in our Old Testament lesson, “Come, let us return to the Lord. For he has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us; he has wounded us, but he will bind up our wounds.” God is like the surgeon who wounds a patient by cutting out a tumor so that he can bring healing once the tumor is removed. Or even better, God is our true Father, who disciplines us so that we might turn from sin and death to righteousness and life. He tears only to heal. He wounds, but only to restore.

None of us is without sin, which means that all of us require God’s discipline if we are to be saved. Hebrews 12:6 says, “The Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” If God allowed us to remain in sin, how could it be said that he loves us? Rather, it is because he loves us that he wounds us. Everyone whom God disciplines, he also restores. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

05/31/2026

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05/31/2026

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05/29/2026

Matthew 28:16-20
Before Jesus ascends into heaven, he says to the apostles, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." Only then does he commission them to make disciples of all nations by baptizing and teaching. The order matters. Before Jesus commissions the Church to make disciples, he places the Church on an eternal foundation. His authority.

This is what makes the Church unlike any other community on earth. Every other institution exists by some lesser authority. A government exists by the consent of the governed or the power of the sword. A business exists by the laws of the state and the demand of the market. A family exists by the bonds of nature and law. But the Church does not exist by consent, law, market, or nature. It exists by the authority of Christ. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Him. Strip away the buildings, the budgets, the programs, and even the permission of the state. The Church still stands. None of those things are the foundation of the Church. Without any of them, the Church continues. It makes disciples by baptizing and teaching because it is founded by Christ. He created it. And nothing can destroy it.

Empires rise and fall. Cultural moods shift. Governments at times protect the Church, at times tolerate it, and at times persecute it. None of this changes the Commission. The same Lord who said "All authority has been given to me" also said, "I am with you always, to the end of the age." As long as Christ is Lord, the Church stands. In Jesus' name, Amen.

05/27/2026

Acts 2:14a, 22-36
This Sunday is Trinity Sunday. It is the only Sunday of the church year that is dedicated to a doctrine. And while it may seem strange to us, the doctrine of the Trinity is what makes the church unique. As Christianity continued to grow in the second, third, and fourth centuries, it was confronted with questions about God. The most pressing of which was Jesus' relationship to God. Was he a man whom God adopted as his Son? Was he a second, lesser God? Was he the Father but appearing under a different form? Today, we would say that Jesus is what makes the church unique. But we are only able to say that because of the teaching which lies at the root of who Jesus is, the doctrine of the Trinity.

In Acts 2, we see the doctrine of the Trinity appear. Peter is preaching. The Holy Spirit has just been given, and Peter focuses his audience on the work of the Trinity for their redemption. The first person of the Trinity is God the Father. God is the one who testified to the identity of his Son through the miracles he gave Jesus to do. It was the Father's plan that Jesus was to be delivered to lawless men and crucified. The Son of God is Jesus Christ. He was the one sent by the Father to carry out the Father's plan. After Jesus was raised from the dead, the Holy Spirit was sent into the world to bear witness to the salvation the Father accomplished in his Son. Three persons, but only one God.

As the church reflected on the identity of Jesus Christ, it was led to the confession of the Trinity. Jesus is not the adopted son of God. He is the true Son of God. Jesus is not a second, lesser God. He is coequal to the Father. Jesus is not the Father appearing under a different form. He is one God with the Father, yet a person distinct from the Father. The Trinity is what makes the church unique because it is only through this doctrine that we are led to a right understanding of who Jesus is. As revealed in Scripture, we worship one God, but three persons. We worship three persons, but receive one salvation. In Jesus' name, Amen.

05/25/2026

Genesis 1:1-2:4a
If you ever met someone who did not know of any being called God, what would you tell him about your God? What is it that makes God, God? Many Lutherans would begin with the death of Christ for the forgiveness of sins and the promise of eternal life. And that is a good thing to communicate, but it isn't the best place to start because it doesn't tell a person who God is. In fact, it leaves the main question unanswered. I understand that a man called Jesus died for my sins, but who is this being who would judge my sins? Who is God?

When Scripture introduces us to God, it doesn't begin with Jesus. It begins with creation. It is there that we first meet this being called God and learn who he is. God is the one who created all things. Apart from God, there would not be light, but only darkness. Apart from God, there would not be heaven or earth, but a formless void. Apart from God, there would not be life, and not even death. There would be nothing. God is the one who brought all things into existence. Everything exists because of him, and he alone exists without dependence on anything. That is God.

When speaking with someone who does not know God, creation is still the best place to begin. Who is God? He is the one who created you. He is the one who brought you into being and willed your existence. And then we can add, "He is the one who loves you." Because, as we read the creation account, all of it culminates in the creation of life, with human life at its peak. God brought the physical world into existence for the sake of the living things he made to inhabit it. God intended to create something that could receive his love and rejoice in it eternally, you and me. God is the one who made us. He is the one who loves us. And yes, he is the one who redeems us. In Jesus' name, Amen.

05/24/2026

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05/24/2026

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05/22/2026

John 7:37-39

The problem with water is that you always need it. A man can go weeks without food (Jesus fasted 40 days in the wilderness). But water? Dehydration will set in after a few hours, and after only a few days, death. Because of that, water has always been associated with life. It is a constant need upon which our bodies are utterly dependent. No wonder that Jesus often links faith in him with water. Just as we are completely dependent on water for physical life, we are completely dependent on him for spiritual life.

In John 7, we find Jesus in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. During the seven days of the feast, a priest would take a golden flagon, leave the temple to draw water from the Pool of Siloam, and then return to the temple to pour the water into a silver basin by the altar. The ceremony recalled Isaiah 12:3, "With joy you will draw water from the well of salvation," and also Numbers 20 (water from the rock) and Ezekiel 47 (the river of life flowing from the temple). The whole point of the ceremony was to connect life with God. So when Jesus gets up on the last day of the feast and says, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink," he is claiming to be the source of eternal life. As John 1:4 says, "In Him was life, and that life was the light of men."

We are blessed to live in a time and place where water is always present. Whenever we are thirsty, we can turn on the water and get a drink. But we have an even greater blessing because Jesus has given us true water, living water, water that will well up in all who believe in him and overflow to eternal life. In Jesus' name, Amen.

05/20/2026

Acts 2:1-21

Different seasons are good for different things. For example, young adulthood is a great season to have kids. A man has a much easier time handling late nights and years of interrupted sleep in his twenties and thirties than in his forties and fifties. In Acts, Peter alerts us to the particular season we are in according to God's time, and the good thing for this season.

It is Pentecost. The Holy Spirit has just descended on the first believers as a tongue of fire. A crowd gathers to see the sight, and they are amazed at what they hear. The crowd is composed of people from all over the Mediterranean world, but each one hears the good news of Jesus in his own language. Peter sees an opportunity, and he begins to preach. Quoting from the prophet Joel, he says, "In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people." Then he adds, "And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." At the beginning of his quotation from Joel, Peter announces the time. It is the last days, as proven by the fact that God has poured out the Spirit, just as Joel said would happen in the last days. And this time is good for something very important, salvation, for "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

The last days began at Pentecost, and they will continue until the day of Christ's return. When Christ returns, there will be the great judgment Jesus himself prophesies in Matthew 25, where the world is divided between the sheep and the goats, the sheep receiving an eternal reward and the goats receiving eternal punishment. But that isn't today. Today is the day of salvation. It is the time where the Spirit is poured out for the forgiveness of sins and the creation of faith. It is the time where God invites us to find peace with him through repentance and faith in his Son. So as long as this time continues, we continue to joyfully call on the name of our Savior. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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530 4th Street NW
Faribault, MN
55021

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 5pm - 6:30pm
Sunday 7:30am - 12pm

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