Lebanon Lutheran Church

05/29/2026

Holy Trinity SB 26Download…

05/28/2026

05/27/2026

Lewis on Noise, Silence, and the Beauty of Properly Paying Attention

05/23/2026

We celebrate the Day of Pentecost this weekend! Thanks be to God for His sending of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. Hear Christ for you at kfuo.org!

The Day of Pentecost
One Year Lectionary

Lutheran Service Book 497

Genesis 11:1-9
Psalm 143
Acts 2:1-21
John 14:23-31

05/14/2026

Blessed Ascension of Our Lord, from all of us at Concordia Historical Institute!

40 days after Christ rose from the dead, He ascended into heaven, as we read in Mark 16:19–20, Luke 24:51, and Acts 1:1–11. There are other references to the Ascension across the epistles (Romans 8:34, Ephesians 1:19–20, Colossians 3:1, Philippians 2:9–11, 1 Timothy 3:16, and 1 Peter 3:21–22), and Jesus foretells it three times in the Gospel of John (John 3:13, 6:62, and 20:17). Historically, the church has kept the Ascension as a festival of Christ 40 days after Easter Sunday. Some churches have Divine Service today, while others translate the feast to the Seventh Sunday in Easter.

What do we confess by celebrating the Ascension? Here's what the Augsburg Confession has to say:

"[Jesus] ascended into heaven that He might sit on the right hand of the Father, and forever reign and have dominion over all creatures, and sanctify them that believe in Him, by sending the Holy Ghost into their hearts, to rule, comfort, and quicken them, and to defend them against the devil and the power of sin" (AC III:4–5).

05/12/2026

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05/11/2026

John 16:23–30 / By Esaias Heidenreich

05/11/2026

Word and pray for the one being baptized. He mentions that some of the other “external things” were less important. In our day, some of these practices have come back. Other new ones have been added. “Each generation trims a little, adds a little (extolling is never finished); but always the a...

05/06/2026

In the second set of Commonplaces, Hunnius draws out the doctrinal and pastoral implications of Paul's thanksgiving for Philemon.