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††† the General prayer of the Church is prayed
† “CONTINUE STEADFASTLY IN PRAYER, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.” (Col. 4:2) †
Announcements
THANK YOU to Pastor Dan Praeuner for filling in for Pastor Bertram and bringing God’s Word and Sacraments to us this morning.
THANK YOU to Kathy Dye of Immanuel Ev. Lutheran Church of Alliance for filling in for Beverly on the piano this morning.
PASTOR BERTRAM will be on vacation through July 26. In case of an emergency in which a pastor is needed, please call Pastor Rockhill of Crawford/Harrison at 430-8485. Pastor Praeuner, retired and living in Hot Springs, will be filling in on Sundays.
HELLO AGAIN! Starting in July, we are going back to having Greeters at every Divine Service. Greeters are needed for August, & September. If you can serve as a Greeter during either of those months, please email Kathi Brown, kathi@chadrad.com.
DO GOD’S BLESSINGS STOP IN THE SUMMER? Of course not! Many of us take time to vacation during the summer months. While you may be gone for several weekends, the on-going work of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church continues. If you are going to be gone, please make sure that your financial offerings, as a response to God’s continuing blessings, also continue. Thank you!
THE JULY-SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF PORTALS OF PRAYER has been placed in your mailbox in the Narthex. Large print, digest-sized, and extra regular-sized copies are available on the Missions Table in the Fellowship Hall. Be sure to use yours faithfully to bring you into God’s Holy Word daily. Take an extra copy to someone who does not yet trust in Jesus the Savior.
PREPARING FOR NEXT SUNDAY (Aug 1)- To prepare for next Sunday’s Divine Service and your hearing of the Word, read through and meditate upon the readings from God’s Word for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost.
Old Testament: Exodus 16:2-15
Epistle Reading: Ephesians 4:1-16
Holy Gospel: John 6:22-35
VOTERS’ ASSEMBLY MEETING: Wednesday, July 28 at 7:00PM.
SIGN THE RECORD OF FELLOWSHIP: If you are a member of a sister congregation of the Missouri Synod, OR if you would like to request a pastoral visitation, please indicate on the form. While exiting the church, please hand the completed sheet to the usher.
*Reminder: Please “quiet” or turn off your cell phone while worshipping with us today. Thanks!
BIRTHRIGHT, the crisis pregnancy center in Chadron, has announced their decision to close their door immediately.
NEW RESPONSE BOOKLET on the missions Table in the Fellowship Hall. The topic is A Biblical Response to Homosexually. From the back cover: “When it comes to homosexuality, many sincere Christians believe that Jesus was silent on the topic. Or that times change, and Scripture doesn’t apply. Or even that the Bible has been misinterpreted. Has it?” Pick up your copy today.
GOVERNMENT POWER AND CHRISTIANS: “In short, since St. Paul here (Rom. 13:1) says government power is God’s servant, we must admit that it is to be exercised not only by the heathen but by all men. What does it mean that “it is God’s servant” but that government authority is, by its very nature, such that one may serve God by it? Now it would be very unchristian to say that there is any service of God in which a Christian should and dare not take part, when serving God benefits no one so much as Christians. It would indeed be well and desirable that all princes were sincere and good Christians; for the sword and power, as a special service to God properly belong to Christians rather than to all other men on earth” (What Luther says, 227).
FUNERAL PLANNING FORMS: if you would like to have input into planning your funeral service as a faithful witness to your Savior Jesus, these forms can be helpful. Please talk to Pastor Bertram for more information. To help you get started, you may download our Lutheran Funeral Service Planning Guide here.
FOOD PANTRIES ACROSS OUR NATION continue to face an increased need for their services, including the Shepherd’s Pantry at Immanuel Lutheran Church. Canned or other non-perishable food items are always needed and can be placed in the big basket in the Narthex. Monetary donations are used to purchase milk, meat, fresh vegetables and fruit to supplement the non-perishable items. The Shepherd’s Pantry has a freezer and can accept small amounts of frozen foods. Please consider being a blessing to our community in this way.
CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE’S BIBLE SALE ends Saturday, July 31. See the links on our website at www.oursavirschadron.com. Use the promo code YFL.
FROM THE GOOD BOOK: Treat older women as you would your mother, and treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters” (1Tim 5:2 NLT ).
THANK YOU to Kathy Dye of Immanuel Ev. Lutheran Church of Alliance for filling in for Beverly on the piano this morning.
PASTOR BERTRAM will be on vacation through July 26. In case of an emergency in which a pastor is needed, please call Pastor Rockhill of Crawford/Harrison at 430-8485. Pastor Praeuner, retired and living in Hot Springs, will be filling in on Sundays.
HELLO AGAIN! Starting in July, we are going back to having Greeters at every Divine Service. Greeters are needed for August, & September. If you can serve as a Greeter during either of those months, please email Kathi Brown, kathi@chadrad.com.
DO GOD’S BLESSINGS STOP IN THE SUMMER? Of course not! Many of us take time to vacation during the summer months. While you may be gone for several weekends, the on-going work of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church continues. If you are going to be gone, please make sure that your financial offerings, as a response to God’s continuing blessings, also continue. Thank you!
THE JULY-SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF PORTALS OF PRAYER has been placed in your mailbox in the Narthex. Large print, digest-sized, and extra regular-sized copies are available on the Missions Table in the Fellowship Hall. Be sure to use yours faithfully to bring you into God’s Holy Word daily. Take an extra copy to someone who does not yet trust in Jesus the Savior.
PREPARING FOR NEXT SUNDAY (Aug 1)- To prepare for next Sunday’s Divine Service and your hearing of the Word, read through and meditate upon the readings from God’s Word for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost.
Old Testament: Exodus 16:2-15
Epistle Reading: Ephesians 4:1-16
Holy Gospel: John 6:22-35
VOTERS’ ASSEMBLY MEETING: Wednesday, July 28 at 7:00PM.
SIGN THE RECORD OF FELLOWSHIP: If you are a member of a sister congregation of the Missouri Synod, OR if you would like to request a pastoral visitation, please indicate on the form. While exiting the church, please hand the completed sheet to the usher.
*Reminder: Please “quiet” or turn off your cell phone while worshipping with us today. Thanks!
BIRTHRIGHT, the crisis pregnancy center in Chadron, has announced their decision to close their door immediately.
NEW RESPONSE BOOKLET on the missions Table in the Fellowship Hall. The topic is A Biblical Response to Homosexually. From the back cover: “When it comes to homosexuality, many sincere Christians believe that Jesus was silent on the topic. Or that times change, and Scripture doesn’t apply. Or even that the Bible has been misinterpreted. Has it?” Pick up your copy today.
GOVERNMENT POWER AND CHRISTIANS: “In short, since St. Paul here (Rom. 13:1) says government power is God’s servant, we must admit that it is to be exercised not only by the heathen but by all men. What does it mean that “it is God’s servant” but that government authority is, by its very nature, such that one may serve God by it? Now it would be very unchristian to say that there is any service of God in which a Christian should and dare not take part, when serving God benefits no one so much as Christians. It would indeed be well and desirable that all princes were sincere and good Christians; for the sword and power, as a special service to God properly belong to Christians rather than to all other men on earth” (What Luther says, 227).
FUNERAL PLANNING FORMS: if you would like to have input into planning your funeral service as a faithful witness to your Savior Jesus, these forms can be helpful. Please talk to Pastor Bertram for more information. To help you get started, you may download our Lutheran Funeral Service Planning Guide here.
FOOD PANTRIES ACROSS OUR NATION continue to face an increased need for their services, including the Shepherd’s Pantry at Immanuel Lutheran Church. Canned or other non-perishable food items are always needed and can be placed in the big basket in the Narthex. Monetary donations are used to purchase milk, meat, fresh vegetables and fruit to supplement the non-perishable items. The Shepherd’s Pantry has a freezer and can accept small amounts of frozen foods. Please consider being a blessing to our community in this way.
CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE’S BIBLE SALE ends Saturday, July 31. See the links on our website at www.oursavirschadron.com. Use the promo code YFL.
FROM THE GOOD BOOK: Treat older women as you would your mother, and treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters” (1Tim 5:2 NLT ).
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READ THE BIBLE IN 2021: This past week, ending on July 24, we read from Proverbs 16 through Ecclesiastes 4. Proverbs are “wise sayings,” and most were authored by King Solomon. Some proverbs remain anonymous, and chapter 30 is credited to Agur. A few that are bound to be remembered from your reading include: “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Pr 16:18), “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it” (22:6), “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another” (27:17), and “Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him (30:5). Solomon also authored Ecclesiastics. Along with its prose and poetry are many proverbs. Solomon sums up the feel of the book and helps us understand his frame of mind with the word vanity, which he uses 17 times in the first four chapters. Indeed, his favorite saying is, “Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.” To help us recall what we read this past week, a short quiz was posted on our website. For your reading enjoyment, personal edification and to be ready for next week’s quiz, read Ecclesiastes 5 through Isaiah 17 now through Saturday.
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LIFE QUOTES JULY 25, 2021
“We need to keep fueled up through Christian fellowship in worship and in the sacraments. We need to pray without ceasing and receive the peace in that special relationship with God. And then, we need to stand strong and boldly declare God’s plan for life. We can’t be timid, afraid to speak up or be noticed. If we don’t share the truth, who will?” Virginia Flo, Regional Director of Minnesota and National Conference Director, Lutherans For Life – A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life • lutheransforlife.org
STEWARDSHIP BULLETIN SENTENCES JULY 25, 2021
Proper 12
Ephesians 3:20 – “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think …” We often shortchange God by failing to remember what Paul says here: God can do far more than what we can think or ask. His power, and His love, are without bound and without measure. So why do we fear to follow His word? Isn’t it in fact fear that keeps us back from a life of joyous generosity and open-handedness? But God is able to do far more abundantly! So let us not be afraid to take the Lord at his Word and live according to it.
KFUO.ORG AND AM850 JULY 25, 2021
CHRIST FOR YOU this week: Hear a missionary story from Kenya on The Coffee Hour 7/29 at 9:00 a.m. CT, study Jeremiah 41-46 on Sharper Iron's "A Time to Destroy and a Time to Build" (weekdays at 8:00 a.m. CT), and study Nehemiah 9-13 on Thy Strong Word (weekdays at 11:00 a.m. CT). Find these programs on demand at kfuo.org or on the KFUO Radio app! All times CST.
LUTHERAN HOUR JULY 25, 2021
"TBD"
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Michael Zeigler
LUTHERAN HOUR AUGUST 1, 2021
"Blowing in the Wind"
Speaker Emeritus of The Lutheran Hour: Rev. Dr. Ken Klaus
"Archives August" begins with a classic message from Pastor Ken Klaus in which he contrasts popularly-held urban legends with the unchanging truth of God's Word.
(Ephesians 4:14-16)
The Lutheran Hour is broadcast each Sunday at 7:30am on Stereo AM 610 KCSR.
“We need to keep fueled up through Christian fellowship in worship and in the sacraments. We need to pray without ceasing and receive the peace in that special relationship with God. And then, we need to stand strong and boldly declare God’s plan for life. We can’t be timid, afraid to speak up or be noticed. If we don’t share the truth, who will?” Virginia Flo, Regional Director of Minnesota and National Conference Director, Lutherans For Life – A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life • lutheransforlife.org
STEWARDSHIP BULLETIN SENTENCES JULY 25, 2021
Proper 12
Ephesians 3:20 – “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think …” We often shortchange God by failing to remember what Paul says here: God can do far more than what we can think or ask. His power, and His love, are without bound and without measure. So why do we fear to follow His word? Isn’t it in fact fear that keeps us back from a life of joyous generosity and open-handedness? But God is able to do far more abundantly! So let us not be afraid to take the Lord at his Word and live according to it.
KFUO.ORG AND AM850 JULY 25, 2021
CHRIST FOR YOU this week: Hear a missionary story from Kenya on The Coffee Hour 7/29 at 9:00 a.m. CT, study Jeremiah 41-46 on Sharper Iron's "A Time to Destroy and a Time to Build" (weekdays at 8:00 a.m. CT), and study Nehemiah 9-13 on Thy Strong Word (weekdays at 11:00 a.m. CT). Find these programs on demand at kfuo.org or on the KFUO Radio app! All times CST.
LUTHERAN HOUR JULY 25, 2021
"TBD"
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Michael Zeigler
LUTHERAN HOUR AUGUST 1, 2021
"Blowing in the Wind"
Speaker Emeritus of The Lutheran Hour: Rev. Dr. Ken Klaus
"Archives August" begins with a classic message from Pastor Ken Klaus in which he contrasts popularly-held urban legends with the unchanging truth of God's Word.
(Ephesians 4:14-16)
The Lutheran Hour is broadcast each Sunday at 7:30am on Stereo AM 610 KCSR.