The Twin Steeples Podcast

Devotion

• Romans 11:11-24

Announcements

• Review
  • Trunk or Treat
  • College Bible Study
• Upcoming
  
  • Church Choir
  • Men’s Breakfast
  • Red Cross Blood Drive
  • Ladies Bible Study
  • Worship
    • Communion
    • Bible Class: James 2:24 and Matthew 16:19
    • Sunday School: Sodom and Gomorrah
  • Joint Reformation Service
  • Sophomore Expedition
  • Women's Book Club
  • Outreach Meeting
  • Immanuel Building Committee

Prayer List 

• Jim Lien - Hospice
• Lynette Roehl
• Kathy Greve’s Sister Becky - Uterine Cancer
• Marvin Schweim
• Austin and Kathryn Hanel - Charlotte Irene Hanel
• Reformation/All Saints Day
• Mission in Bangladesh

Hymn of the Day:

• TLH 266 “O God, Our Lord, Thy Holy Word”

This recording is a condensed version of the sermon preached at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mankato, Minnesota on October 25, 2026. You can watch the full recording on our YouTube Channel.

 

Sermon Text: Ephesians 6:1-4 (NKJV)

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2  “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3  “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” 4  And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. 

 

Theme: God's Recipe for a Good Life

 

This weekend the focus of our service will be on the desire of God to save all people and how he uses the institution of the family as a means to accomplish that. God is the ultimate authority, but He bestows His authority on human institutions to carry out His blessings upon mankind. One of the most important of these is the family and the role of parents. If they don't do what God calls them to do, the result can be catastrophic. This hymn is the oldest Christian hymn, dating to the end of the second century.

Written by the Church Father, Clement of Alexandria, it describes Jesus using Biblical pictures like: Shepherd, King, Lord, Word, High Priest, Guide, Pride, Staff, Song and Christ. In these roles, God desires to feed and nurture our faith and bring us to the eternal home He has opened for us by His death and resurrection.

He uses His Word (v.4) and the Sacraments of Baptism (v.1) and the Lord's Supper (v.3) to accomplish this.

But parents also play an important role. They are to bring their children to the Word and Sacraments at an early age (infancy - v.5), so that they grow in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Christian Education is God's calling to parents and to His Church on earth. May we be faithful in this important calling as caretakers of God's children! 

Devotion

• Romans 11:1-10

Announcements

• Review
  • Quarterly Voters’ Meeting
  • Ladies’ Auxiliary
• Upcoming
  
  • Church Choir
  • Men’s Breakfast
  • Ladies Bible Study
  • Worship
    • Bible Class: Polygamy and Seeming Contradictions
    • Sunday School: The Birth of Isaac Announced
  • Trunk or Treat
  • College Bible Study
  • Board of Elders
  • Board of Education

Prayer List 

• Jim Lien - Hospice
• Lynette Roehl
• Kathy Greve’s Sister Becky - Uterine Cancer
• Gary Schufft - foot surgery
• Terri Halvorson - goiter surgery
• Karen Frank’s father John - health issues
• Austin and Katherine Hanel - baby girl
• College Bible Study
• Mission in India 

Hymn of the Day:

• TLH 383 “Seek Where Ye May to Find a Way”

This recording is a condensed version of the sermon preached at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mankato, Minnesota on October 18, 2026. You can watch the full recording on our YouTube Channel.

 

Sermon Text: Romans 14:1-9 (NKJV)

Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things. 2 For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. 3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him. 4 Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. 5 One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

 

Theme: We Are the Lord's!

1. Have Confidence in Him
2. Live in Faith To Him