The Twin Steeples Podcast

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

Hymn 196 - I Am Content! My Jesus Liveth Still

We continue in our celebration of the resurrection of Jesus again this weekend. One of the hymns we will be singing this weekend is a German hymn from the 1700's written by Johann Moller. 

This hymn weaves in many New Testament Bible passages and does a beautiful job of showing us what the resurrection of Jesus actually means for us. As we saw two weeks ago, this hymn also begins and ends each verse with the emphatic declaration: "I am content!" 

The death and resurrection of Jesus is able to give us greater contentment than the knowledge that He cares for our physical needs. He cares even more about our spiritual needs. To guarantee this Jesus "fulfilled the law of God for me" (v.1). In addition to His perfect life, Jesus also paid our sin debt through His own death on Calvary's cross. Then He rose from the dead, bringing death into subjection to Him and releasing believers from its power. 

Jesus is my Lord and is a good and gracious leader and ruler who desires and accomplishing "my soul's release" (v.3), and promises to bring us to Heaven. He is also the Light of the World, which offers sinners "sweet comfort, hope and peace" (v.4).

Finally we return to the topic of death. Through His own death, Jesus has sanctified death and the grave of His saints, and in the resurrection from the dead will destroy the power of death over His redeemed children. In the resurrection from death "we shall always be with the Lord" (1 Thessalonians 4:17).

Yes, "I am content!" The resurrection of Jesus gives the greatest hope and peace!   

Join us in our study of this hymn and as we join to sing this hymn in our worship this weekend. Christ's resurrection gives us the greatest contentment of all! 

May 14, 2025

• Devotion
  • Ecclesiastes 2:24-26

 

• Announcements
  
  • Sunday School and Bible Class
  • Board of Elders
  • Church Choir
  • Men's Breakfast
  • Graduation Service
  • Ladies Bible Study
  • Anchored in Hope
  • Recessed Voters' Meeting
  • Women's Study Guild
  • Rummage Sale
  • Memorial Day Service
  • Ascension Day Service
  • Delegates' Conference
  • Mission Festival

 

• Prayer List 
  • Pastor John Hein
  • Pastor Tim Wheaton
  • Jim Lien
  • Lilia Howley
  • Mark Stelter
  • Family of Nila Strege
  • Family of Mary Schierenbeck
  • Christian Parents
  • Mission in Congo

 

• Common Christian Q &A: Why is the Bible not organized chronologically?

 

• Hymn: LSB 854 “Forth in Thy Name, O Lord, I Go”

Sermon - May 11, 2025

This recording is a condensed version of the sermon preached at Immanuel Ev. Lutheran Church on May 11, 2025. You can watch the full recording on our YouTube Channel.

 

Matthew 9:14-17

14 Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?" 15  And Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. 17  Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."

Theme: The Old is Incompatible with the New
The Old: Work-righteousness of men
The New: Salvation through Christ Jesus