The Twin Steeples Podcast

May 28, 2025

• Devotion
  • Ecclesiastes 3:10-15

 

• Announcements
  
  • No Sunday School and Bible Class
  • Sunday Service at 9:00am
  • Rummage Sale
  • Memorial Day Service
  • Ladies' Auxiliary
  • Evening Ambassadors
  • Ascension Day Service
  • Men's Breakfast
  • Ladies Bible Study
  • Congregational Meeting
  • Midweek Bible Study starts next Thursday
  • Delegates' Conference
  • Mission Festival

 

• Prayer List 
  • Pastor John Hein
  • Pastor Tim Wheaton
  • Jim Lien
  • Agnes Kopp
  • Ethan Kranz
  • Mark Stelter
  • Mark Schweim
  • Marilyn Timm
  • Professor Joel Gullerud
  • Members at a Distance
  • Mission in Nepal

 

• Common Christian Q &A: Does the Bible approve of slavery?

 

• Hymn: TLH 514 “God Moves in a Mysterious Way” 

Sermon - May 25, 2025

This recording is a condensed version of the sermon preached at Immanuel Ev. Lutheran Church on May 25, 2025. You can watch the full recording on our YouTube Channel.

 

1 John 5:11-15 

And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. 14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

Theme: The Testimony of God Verifies the Truth of the Resurrection
1. A Testimony Verifying Life In His Son 
2. A Testimony Which Gives Confidence in Prayer 

Hymn 194 - Abide with Us, the Day is Waning

The fifth weekend after Easter is known as "Rogate Sunday." Rogate is the Latin word for "prayer." There is a connection between prayer and the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Jesus tells us to pray to the Father "in His name" and other passages of Scripture speak of praying "in the name of Jesus." But what value is prayer "in the name of Jesus" if He is dead? Prayer is only valuable if Jesus is living, interceding on our behalf before the Throne of God. So there is a rich connection between prayer and the celebration of Jesus' resurrection from the dead.

This weekend we will be singing a meaningful hymn of Norwegian heritage written by Caspar Boye and based on the resurrection appearance of Jesus to the two men who were walking to the town of Emmaus on the day of Christ's resurrection. The theme of the hymn is taken from their request (prayer) of Jesus: "Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent." (Luke 24:29)

This hymn highlights the power and value of prayer throughout. We ask: "Incline Thine ear, Thou King of Grace" (v.1). We acknowledge "In prayer devout, before Thee bending" (v.2). We recall "When Thou didst pray: 'Thy will be done'" (v.3). And we pray: "Abide with us" (v.3,4). 

As we have before we focus on the topic of death. Paul declares: "The last enemy that will be destroyed is death." (1 Corinthians 15:26) He then continues: "So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” (1 Corinthians 15:54) Thanks be to God!

Savior, strengthen us through the burdens of this sinful world with the confidence in Your victory and in the knowledge that because You live, our prayers in Your name are powerful and effective! Help us to make better use of this precious gift and privilege!

Join us this weekend as we rejoice in these rich blessings of God's grace in Christ! 

May 21, 2025

• Devotion
  • Ecclesiastes 3:1-9

 

• Announcements
  
  • No Sunday School and Bible Class
  • Sunday Service at 9:00am
  • Graduation
  • Thank you to Brandan Heinze
  • Voter's Meeting
  • Women's Study Guild
  • Rummage Sale
  • Church Choir
  • Men's Breakfast
  • Ladies Bible Study
  • Anchored in Hope
  • Memorial Day Service
  • Ascension Day Service
  • Congregational Meetings
  • Delegates' Conference
  • Mission Festival

 

• Prayer List 
  • Pastor John Hein
  • Pastor Tim Wheaton
  • Jim Lien
  • Agnes Kopp
  • Mark Stelter
  • Mark Schweim
  • Family of Mary Schierenbeck
  • Expansion Relocation Committee and Comparison Committee
  • Mission in Liberia

 

• Common Christian Q &A: What did they do with offerings in the Old Testament?

 

• Hymn: TLH 521 “What God Ordains Is Always Good” 

Sermon - May 18, 2025

This recording is a condensed version of the sermon preached at Immanuel Ev. Lutheran Church on May 18, 2025. You can watch the full recording on our YouTube Channel.

 

John 21:20-25

 

Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, "Lord, who is the one who betrays You?" 21 Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, "But Lord, what about this man?" 22 Jesus said to him, "If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me." 23 Then this saying went out among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, "If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you?" 24 This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true. 25 And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.

 

Theme: Comparison Is the Thief of Joy
1. God Gives a Variety of Blessings
2. True Joy Come from Following Christ