10/03/2026
Join us this Sunday, The 19th Sunday after Pentecost, at Grace Lutheran, Henderson, NV. Receive the gifts of our Lord Jesus found in His Word, Water, Bread and W**e. Hear God's Word and receive His gifts of life and salvation. Every Sunday service, we confess our sins and hear the absolution. How wonderful to rejoice in a good conscience and know that we stand before the Lord forgiven and absolved.
Divine Services @8:00am and 10:45am.
Our Divine Services Sermon message will be from Pastor Eric Ash and Vicar Pratt assisting.
On line worship services will follow:
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FALL SUNDAY SCHOOL – All children ages 3 and older are invited to Sunday School from 9:30-10:30 am. We gather for opening chapel in the Sanctuary with Emily Blank and then to the classrooms with their teachers for Bible study and crafts.
JUNIOR CONFIRMATION CLASS - Grades 6 through 8 meet this morning at 9:30 am in the Sanctuary. This class reviews the Bible and Martin Luther’s Small Catechism in preparation for the Rite of Confirmation.
ADULT/YOUTH BIBLE CLASS – Join us this morning as Vicar Pratt leads our Book of Revelation Study. See you at 9:30 am in the Katie Luther Hall!
The 19th Sunday after Pentecost Readings
OLD TESTAMENT Isaiah 5:1-7
Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a w**e vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
GRADUAL Psalm 91:11, 103:1
P: He will command his angels con- | cerning you* to guard you in | all your ways.
C: Bless the Lord, | O my soul,* and all that is within me, bless his | holy name!
EPISTLE Philippians 3:4b-14
If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the
church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share
his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has
made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
HOLY GOSPEL Matthew 21:33-46
The Parable of the Tenants
33 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a w**epress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 34 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants[a] to the tenants to get his fruit. 35 And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’39 And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
“‘The stone that the builders rejected� has become the cornerstone;[b]�this was the Lord's doing,� and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 44 And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”[c]
45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. 46 And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.
