The Twin Steeples Podcast

February 19, 2025

• Devotion
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

 

• Announcements
  • Sunday School and Bible Class
  • Church Council
  • Ambassadors
  • Women's Study Guild
  • Ladies Bible Study
  • Craft du Jour
  • Women Who Hike
  • Ash Wednesday
  • Red Cross Blood Drive

 

• Prayer List 
  • Pastor John Hein
  • Pastor Tim Wheaton
  • Jim Lien
  • Lilia Howley
  • College Age Students
  • Mission in India

 

• Hymn 376 “Rock of Ages” 

Hymn 377 - Salvation unto Us Has Come

This weekend we enter into a short season between Epiphany and Lent called the Gesima Sundays. These names of these three weeks roughly count down the days until the celebration of Jesus' resurrection. On the first of these Sundays, Septuagesima (70 days), we reflect on our guilt and unworthiness before God and His mercy in giving us what we do not deserve.

The hymn that will be the focus of our service this weekend is the great reformation hymn by Paul Speratus "Salvation unto Us has Come." This hymn was written and included in the first Lutheran Hymnal published in 1523. It is a beautiful declaration of the sinner's salvation by Grace, through Faith, and in Christ Jesus, and powerfully reveals that we cannot be saved by our own works or efforts. This truth was particularly true in the 1500's in contrast to the false teaching of salvation by works as taught in Roman Catholicism, but it is just as needed today. The religions of the world that many people are confronted by today all teach salvation by works, and even many Christian denominations fall into the error of emphasizing man's works over God's grace. The rich Scriptural truths proclaimed in this hymn are as needed today as they were 500 years ago! In addition, these powerful words are combined with a powerful tune which matches its joy and confidence in Christ's work for us.

Join us as we study this hymn about our inability to save ourselves and the joy and comfort of knowing that Jesus has made the "full atonement" for our sins by taking on our flesh and giving His life as the ransom to set us free.

February 12, 2025

• Devotion
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:13-15

 

• Announcements
  • Sunday School and Bible Class
  • Ladies Bible Study
  • Anchored in Hope Support Group
  • ERC
  • Women's Bible Study
  • Church Council
  • Ambassadors
  • 3rd Sunday Communion
  • Women's Study Guild
  • Women Who Hike
  • Ash Wednesday

 

• Prayer List 
  • Pastor John Hein
  • Pastor Tim Wheaton
  • Jim Lien
  • Lilia Howley
  • Margaret Fraze
  • Jeff Strand
  • Parents of Children
  • Mission in the Philippines
    • https://missionaryohlmann.blogspot.com/ 

 

• Common Christian Q&A 

  • Is it true that the King James Bible was written by a king? I have a coworker who won't believe anything written by a king. What do I say to that?

 

• Hymn 260 “O Lord, Look Down from Heaven, Behold”

Hymn 720 - Oh, Wondrous Type, Oh, Vision Fair

Epiphany is an often overlooked season of the church year. It is sandwiched between Christmas and Lent, two of the most familiar seasons of the church year. Epiphany concludes with the Transfiguration of Jesus, which we will be celebrating this weekend. This is fitting, first because the Transfiguration is a magnificent proof that Jesus is the Son of God, and second because we are told that following the Transfiguration, Jesus begins to “set His face to go to Jerusalem” (Luke 9:51). In other words, Transfiguration Sunday is an appropriate “bridge” connecting Epiphany to the season of Lent. 

Little is known about the hymn “Oh, Wondrous Type! Oh, Vision Fair” other than it was originally composed in Latin and used in the Old Sarum Rite from Salisbury, England in 1495. It was translated from Latin into English by John Mason Neale, the prolific 19th-century translator of Greek and Latin hymns. Sadly, only four stanzas of this hymn are included in Worship Supplement 2000. We will include a fifth stanza (found in other hymnals) which is a fitting doxology to the reminder that Jesus is True God and the Savior of all people.

This hymn reminds us that the glory which was revealed in Jesus on the mountain is a glory that those who believe in Him will also share when Jesus returns on the last day. Because of the work which Jesus came to accomplish for sinful mankind, we will, by God's grace, experience that glory when we see Him face to face in heaven. This truth causes us, God's people, to raise our voices in joyful strains of prayer and praise in worship. Thanks be to God!

Join us as we study this hymn about the revelation of Jesus as true God, and the assurance of being partakers of that glory in heaven because of Jesus life and death as our substitute.

February 5, 2025

• Devotion
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12

 

• Announcements
  • Sunday School and Bible Class
  • Reorganization Meeting
  • Annual Voters Meeting Part 2
  • Outreach Meeting
  • Women's Bible Study
  • Anchored in Hope Support Group
  • Ladies' Bible Study
  • ERC
  • College Bible Study
  • Ambassadors
  • Women Who Hike

 

• Prayer List 
  • Pastor John Hein
  • Pastor Tim Wheaton
  • Jim Lien
  • Lilia Howley
  • Margaret Fraze
  • Jeff Strand
  • Time and Talent Offerings
  • Missionary Peter Evensen

 

• Hymn 260 “O Lord, Look Down from Heaven, Behold”