Zion Lutheran Church LCMS, Sauk Centre

Zion Lutheran Church LCMS, Sauk Centre Divine Service
10:00 a.m. (fall through spring)
9:00 (summer)

05/31/2026

On repentance...

True repentance refuses comparisons.
I must confess that I am a poor, miserable sinner, not relative to the other sinners, but relative to God. The wrath of the righteous God is our only concern, not how we stand in comparison to others.

The righteousness of Christ is the only one that avails before God (Luke 1:75) Righteousness offered in comparison to other sinners will never make us right in God’s presence (Matthew 6:1)

05/31/2026

"The yes-man is your enemy, but your friend will argue with you."

Alexander Solzhenitzyn

05/31/2026

“It is a great mistake to believe that the Lord’s Supper is profaned by being celebrated often. If it were a mobilization of human feelings or a beautiful spectacle, then we had all reasons to rarely celebrate it, because all stirring up of human feelings and all spectacles are boring in the long run.

But Holy Communion is something completely different. It is God’s dealing with the soul, something that we need continually and that will increasingly become a blessing to us the more often it happens. God’s work never becomes boring, and His holiness does not decrease as the years pass by.”
Bo Giertz

05/31/2026

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope!

05/24/2026

Christ: Everything or Nothing

If Christ provides only a part of our salvation, leaving us to provide the rest, then we are still hopeless under the load of sin.

For no matter how small the gap which must be bridged before salvation can be attained, the awakened conscience sees clearly that our wretched attempt at goodness is insufficient even to bridge that gap. The guilty soul enters again into the hopeless reckoning with God, to determine whether we have really done our part. And thus we groan again under the old bo***ge of the law.

Such an attempt to piece out the work of Christ by our own merit, Paul saw clearly, is the very essence of unbelief; Christ will do everything or nothing, and the only hope is to throw ourselves unreservedly on His mercy and trust Him for all.

J. Gresham Machen

05/24/2026

The Day of Pentecost - A

Introit

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful,
and kindle in them the fire of your love. Alleluia.
O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
These all look to you,
to give them their food in due season.
When you give it to them, they gather it up;
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
When you send forth your Spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the ground.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful,
and kindle in them the fire of your love. Alleluia.


Collect of the Day

O God, on this day You once taught the hearts of Your faithful people by sending them the light of Your Holy Spirit. Grant us in our day by the same Spirit to have a right understanding in all things and evermore to rejoice in His holy consolation; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

05/24/2026

REMINDER: TIME CHANGE

The Divine Service at Zion this morning begins at 9:00 a.m.

It will continue at 9:00 throughout the summer months.

All are welcome!

05/10/2026

The theology of the cross is the theology of Jesus Christ, the second Adam, who lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. His glory is the cross; his death is his hour of power. The theology of the cross sees the glory of God hidden under the suffering and death of the Son of God.

The cross of Christ is the starting point and the focal point for all theological thinking, comprehending the visible and manifest things of God through Christ’s suffering and his cross. Centered in the cross of Christ, the theology of the cross is uniquely positioned to deal with suffering and death.

In the cross of Jesus, we see the God who hides life in death, victory in defeat, power in weakness. He buries his divinity deeply in our humanity and then suffers, dies, and rises to save the world. He is most God for us when he is most forsaken and afflicted in his suffering.

Faith in Jesus does not seek displays of power and glory, nor does it demand a blessing God has not promised, as though Jesus’ death were not sufficient. Faith in the crucified and risen Jesus is content to have him present in suffering, silently embracing us as the Man of Sorrows who is acquainted with our grief.
Rev. William Cwirla

05/10/2026

The Sixth Sunday of Easter - A

Introit

Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.
Forever, O LORD, your word
is firmly fixed in the heavens.
Your faithfulness endures to all generations;
you have established the earth, and it stands fast.
By your appointment they stand this day,
for all things are your servants.
If your law had not been my delight,
I would have perished in my affliction.
I will never forget your precepts,
for by them you have given me life.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.

Collect of the Day

O God, the giver of all that is good, by Your holy inspiration grant that we may think those things that are right and by Your merciful guiding accomplish them; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

05/03/2026

What is the Book of Concord?

The Book of Concord is also known as the Lutheran Confessions, or the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Published as a collection in 1580, it contains the three ecumenical creeds (the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed), the Augsburg Confession (written in 1530) and its Apology (defense) (1531), the Smalcald Articles (1537), the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (1537), Luther’s Small and Large Catechisms (1529), and the Formula of Concord (1577). Together these writings, tell us what it means to be Lutheran.

The Lutheran Confessions are not the Bible. No one claims that they are. The Holy Scriptures alone are the inspired and inerrant Word of God and the sole rule and norm of our doctrine and life. But as Lutherans, we believe the Lutheran Confessions contained in the Book of Concord are the correct “summary and explanation” of the Scriptures.

This is what the frequently asked questions section of the Book of Concord site says: “Since we have the Bible, why do we have the Book of Concord? The Lutheran Confessions are a summary and explanation of the Bible. They are not placed over the Bible. They do not take the place of the Bible.

The Book of Concord is how Lutherans are able to say, together, as a church, ‘This is what we believe. This is what we teach. This is what we confess.’ The reason we have the Book of Concord is because of how highly we value correct teaching and preaching of God's Word.”

You may find a copy of The Book of Concord in our church library!

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