Our Savior Lutheran Church

Our Savior Lutheran Church We are a WELS church serving the Ga***rd Area. Our services are Sunday mornings at 8:45 am

06/04/2026

These are some of Jesus’ final words to his disciples...

God loves sinners—and he wants us to say it out loud.Christians are sinners whom God has mercifully called. Only mercy ...
06/03/2026

God loves sinners—and he wants us to say it out loud.

Christians are sinners whom God has mercifully called. Only mercy can explain why Jesus brings people to faith and promises them salvation. Only grace can explain how He calls them to serve as they are able, even in the ministry of the gospel.

Join us for worship this Sunday at 8:45 am as we understand how God calls sinners to serve him and learn to say it out loud!

How can I know the Bible is true?Have a headache? Take two leeches and call mein the morning. If you consult a medical t...
06/03/2026

How can I know the Bible is true?

Have a headache? Take two leeches and call me
in the morning. If you consult a medical text
from a couple of centuries ago, that may be the
remedy you find. Today a textbook would
probably tell you to pop a couple of aspirin.
Tomorrow… Lasers? Magnetics? Who knows
what advancements or discoveries will change
how a simple headache is treated? It is amazing
how much the science of medicine has changed
even over the course of the last hundred years.
How will we ever know when we have really
found the answers?
66 – 40 – 1500 – 1: What do those numbers
mean? The Bible is made up of 66 books that
were written by 40 writers over the course of
1500 years. But in all of those books, only one
message is found. The message? We have a
problem (and it isn’t a simple headache). Our
problem is our sin and the guilt that it brings.
That one message is also about the remedy for
our problem—God sent Jesus, a perfect Savior,
to die for our sin and guilt. Now believers in
Jesus have the promise of eternal life in heaven.
That simple message of salvation is repeated
throughout the Bible, from Moses’ writing in
Genesis to the writings of the apostle John in
Revelation. How amazing that so many different
writers from different times record a single
message that reveals the world’s only true
Savior from sin!
Maybe it isn’t all that amazing. “For prophecy
never had its origin in the human will, but
prophets, through human, spoke from God as
they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2
Peter 1:21). The very same God who loved us
enough to send his own Son to die for us made
sure that we would know about Jesus by having
his message written down. Because God had
men record his Word, the Bible is unlike any
other book. We are told that “all Scripture is
God-breathed” (2 Timothy 3:16). God himself
spoke through, breathed into these writers, so
their words are really God’s Word. Since the
Bible is God’s Word, we can trust that it is true.
God is speaking to us through the words that he
caused to be written in the Bible. Join us for
worship, where we gather to hear what
important things, he has to say to all of us.

06/03/2026

In Jesus, grace is not abstract...

06/02/2026

It's a small detail, but it makes you stop and think...

06/01/2026

Before anything existed, God was already there...

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surf...
05/31/2026

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Genesis 1:1-3

A Mystery for Our Comfort
Already at the very beginning of time, we see God in three persons working to bless us. God the Father created all things. The Holy Spirit participated in a miraculous way as he hovered over the waters, and the apostle John reveals that it was through Jesus, God the Son, that all things were called into being.

The Bible clearly teaches that there is one God in three persons. Each person, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is separate and distinct, yet there is only one God. In other words, One + One + One = One. Obviously, this equation does not add up. Throughout history, people have tried to understand the mystery of the triune God. But no matter how hard we try, finally, it just doesn’t add up.

But should it really surprise us? Is it really all that unreasonable that we can’t completely fathom the all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-holy God? When we are confronted with this mystery, there are two ways we can respond. We can arrogantly raise our voices and argue with the creator of heaven and earth, or we can humbly bow our heads in worship to praise the one who is above all. The Holy Spirit moves us to do the latter. With the psalmist, we can proclaim: “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain” (Psalm 139:6).

But the Bible doesn’t reveal the triune God only to humble us, but also to comfort us. Just as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were active and working in creation, they were also active and working in our salvation. The Father sent his one and only Son. The Son freely offered his life for our sins. The Spirit brings what Jesus accomplished to us personally by creating faith in our hearts, enabling us to receive forgiveness of sins and the promise of everlasting life.

Prayer:
Almighty God, you are beyond my understanding and intellect. Thank you for revealing yourself to me in the pages of the Bible, and leading me to your Son, Jesus Christ, my Savior. Amen.



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We believe in the triune God. He is the only true God.The festival of the Holy Trinity is a time to celebrate Godreveali...
05/30/2026

We believe in the triune God. He is the only true God.

The festival of the Holy Trinity is a time to celebrate God
revealing himself to us as one God in three persons. The
triune God wants his people to teach this mystery in its
biblical truth and purity. This festival of the Holy Trinity
begins the second half of the Church Year with a
proclamation of people being baptized and blessed in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
the only true God.

Join us for worship as we celebrate the triune God and
hear what God wants us to share about this truth!
Our new series “Say it Out Loud” begins today!

Sunday service begins at 8:45 am. We'd love to see you there!

Does prayer really make a difference?“I must not be asking God for the right things.”“If only I could concentrate better...
05/30/2026

Does prayer really make a difference?

“I must not be asking God for the right things.”
“If only I could concentrate better when I pray.”
“Maybe God is not really listening after all.”
If these are thoughts that ever cross your mind
or settle in your heart, then maybe you are
asking the question, “Does prayer really work?”
Maybe you have been praying for a long time
and have not received the answer you wanted
or felt that there hasn’t been any change.
Well, there is good news. Prayer really does
make a difference. There are two reasons for
this. First, prayer does not depend on us. If
answers to our prayers depended on us, we
would never have our prayers answered,
because as sinful people God would not listen to
us. That might hurt our feelings, but it is the
truth.
That leads to the subsequent reason why prayer
makes a difference. It depends upon God. In the
Bible, we read this little prayer, “Lord, hear my
prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your
faithfulness and righteousness come to my
relief” (Psalm 143:1). The person who spoke this
prayer recognized that it was God’s faithfulness
on which the answer to his request depended.
God’s faithfulness was demonstrated when he
kept his promise to send us Jesus. In saving love,
Jesus died to pay for our sins that had separated
us from God and had closed his ears to our
prayers. Jesus’ perfect sacrifice opens the way
to God and gives believers in Jesus the gracious
promise that their prayers are heard and
answered.
If you are struggling with prayer—if you don’t
know what to pray for, or how to pray—worship
with us to hear more about your Savior, Jesus,
and the difference he makes for your prayers.
Because of Jesus, prayer really does work. We
have his Word on it.

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128 W. Fifth Street
Ga***rd, MI
49735

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8:45am - 10:30am

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