The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

06/10/2026

The initial round of voting in the election for president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod was not conclusive, and a runoff will be required.

Read the full story: https://thelc.ms/49NWfaS

06/10/2026

Every Wednesday at lunchtime, join your brothers and sisters in Christ by pausing to pray the Litany. The Litany is an ancient order of prayer that Christians have used for hundreds of years. It is a prayer that is relevant every day of our lives, in times of hope, fear, joy and grief.

Pray the Litany:

Lutheran Service Book, pp. 288–289

Online: https://thelc.ms/4amTz3b

06/10/2026

The Rev. Dr. Christian Tiews was 40 years old when he first truly heard the Gospel during a service connected to his daughter’s Lutheran day care in Tomball, Texas. He and his wife, Gudula (Lula), joined the church, and eventually he studied to become an LCMS pastor. After serving two congregations in Oklahoma, Christian and Lula embarked on a new phase as LCMS missionaries to Germany. It was a welcome return, since they both grew up there. Now, Lula serves as communications specialist for the LCMS Eurasia region, and Christian works with hundreds of Persian refugees who are interested in Christianity — he has personally baptized 50 of them — and teaches online courses for future pastors through Luther Academy, based in Riga, Latvia.

Learn more about the Tiews family, their work in Germany and how you can pray for them in the Spring 2026 issue of Lutherans Engage the World.

Tiews is an LCMS missionary to Germany, where he works primarily with Persian refugees.

06/09/2026

PSALM 28

To you, O Lord, I call;
my rock, be not deaf to me,
lest, if you be silent to me,
I become like those who go down to the pit.
Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy,
when I cry to you for help,
when I lift up my hands
toward your most holy sanctuary.

Do not drag me off with the wicked,
with the workers of evil,
who speak peace with their neighbors
while evil is in their hearts.
Give to them according to their work
and according to the evil of their deeds;
give to them according to the work of their hands;
render them their due reward.
Because they do not regard the works of the Lord
or the work of his hands,
he will tear them down and build them up no more.

Blessed be the Lord!
For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
The Lord is my strength and my shield;
in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
my heart exults,
and with my song I give thanks to him.

The Lord is the strength of his people;
he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!
Be their shepherd and carry them forever.

06/09/2026

Text
Colossians 3:5-11

Preacher
Rev. Sean Daenzer

Liturgy
Morning Prayer
LSB p. 235

Hymn (LSB)
421, “Jesus, Grant That Balm and Healing”

06/09/2026

Gifts to the 2026–2029 National Offering of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) will directly benefit ongoing domestic work carried out at the local level by LCMS congregations, districts and others, and supported by LCMS Family Ministry, Youth Ministry, Campus Ministry and School Ministry. The National Offering theme is based on Psalm 78:4: “We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonders that He has done.”

Learn more about the National Offering in the comments.

06/08/2026

"You have to meet Vaughn Hendrickson and Eden Dehne," writes the Rev. Dr. James A. Baneck, executive director for Pastoral Education. "They are two awesome students I met at Concordia University, Nebraska (CUNE), studying to be Lutheran school teachers. They represent more than 400 young Lutherans preparing to be Lutheran teachers at our five universities of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). They also represent thousands before them, ever since 1838, when Lutheran teachers taught school on the ships crossing the Atlantic to the United States."

Learn more about Vaughn and Eden in the latest issue of Reporter.

Vaughn Hendrickson and Eden Dehne represent hundreds of young people preparing to be Lutheran teachers at the five LCMS universities.

06/08/2026

Text
1 John 4:8b-21

Preacher
Rev. Hans Fiene

Liturgy
Responsive Prayer 2
LSB p. 285

Hymn (LSB)
504, “Father Most Holy”

06/08/2026

We invite you to memorize 1 Corinthians 6:20 with us this week.

Memorizing Scripture is a valuable practice for Christians, even in a digital age. Join us each week as we hide God's Word in our hearts.

Learn more at lcms.org/memoryverse.

06/07/2026

+SERVICE OF THE WORD+
Second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 5A)
June 7, 2026

OLD TESTAMENT
Hosea 5:15–6:6

I will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and in their distress earnestly seek me.

“Come, let us return to the Lord;
for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;
his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us as the showers,
as the spring rains that water the earth.”
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
like the dew that goes early away.
Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

EPISTLE
Romans 4:13–25

The promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.

That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

GOSPEL
Matthew 9:9–13

As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”