November 3rd, 2024
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Lagers with Lord is Monday, November 4th, at 6 pm at Buckshot’s! All are welcome for a time of faithful conversation.
High School Lock-In, Saturday, November 9th, 6 pm till Sunday, November 10th, 7 am. Scavenger Hunt, Games, Movies, and more! Friends welcome! Need to leave early for work? No problem! Just let PB know. Sign-up in the Narthex or talk to PB. Staffed by Luther Park Bible Camp. PLEASE LET PB KNOW IF YOU MIGHT BE COMING BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT OR HE MAY CANCEL
Voices of Praise, every Wednesday night at 7 pm. Come join us to sing together in praise to the Lord!
Crew on Wednesday, November 13th, 3:30 pm till 5 pm for all 3rd-6th graders!
MISSION MADNESS 2024: October 6-November 10th: ALL GOALS HAVE BEEN MET AFTER AN AMAZING SUNDAY! This Sunday alone we raised $3,076!! Our total raised is $4,786!!!!!!!!
$500 PB has to wear a Star Trek shirt (reminder: PB doesn’t like Star Trek). THIS WILL BE DONE ON MONDAY.
$1,000 PB eats a serving size of Mayonnaise. 50 Time & Talent sheets GOAL MET! COMPLETED
$1,500 PB gets attacked with silly string by kids in the congregation. HAPPENING ON NOVEMBER 10
$2,000 PB wears a full Packers outfit at the November Synod Gathering. HAPPENING ON NOVEMBER 7TH
$2,500 PB gets hit in the face with a pie by the Bishop Martin Halom on November 17th. HAPPENING ON NOVEMBER 17TH!
Community Thanksgiving Service, Sunday, November 17th, 6 pm.
Deer Hunter’s Worship, Wednesday, November 20th, 6:30 pm. Wear your blaze orange and camo!
Thank you to everyone who helped at the Potato Pancake Meal!
MUSINGS FROM PASTOR BRAD
SOMETIMES YOU JUST LIKE SERMONS. I LIKED THIS ONE SO I DECIDED TO SHARE IT HERE, EVEN THOUGH IT DID NOT COME OUT EXACTLY THIS WAY IN WORSHIP. If you want that version, go to the Trinity Lutheran YouTube page or the Facebook page to see that version.
Isaiah 25:6-9
On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death forever. Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. It will be said on that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen
Imagine you receive an invitation in the mail. It is an invitation to a party, and when you arrive to that party you realize that this party is for you. On the food table is an absolute smorgasbord of your favorite foods. So, if it was me, you got bacon, friend chicken, ribs, hamburgers, hot dogs with all the fixings, popcorn, my wife’s stuffing she makes at Thanksgiving, peanut butter ice cream. All my favorites and more. Just spread out and all I can eat and eat and eat. A feast if you will. This is the image that is presented for us here in Isaiah, a vision of the future of what God will provide for us. A feast, showing an image of the abundance of what God will provide. Think about the feast that God would provide for you, what food would be on the table, that you could enjoy, signs of God’s love for you. Notice that in this image everyone is invited, which means you are invited. All are welcome to the feast.
But notice something else. The Lord, the king, isn’t feasting on the food. Rather, the Lord is feasting on something else. The Lord isn’t swallowing food. The Lord is swallowing tears. He is swallowing disgrace. He is swallowing death itself. The Lord is feasting on the shroud of grief and pain that covers the people so that they can not only feast but see that they are saved, and that they are no longer covered in pain and suffering but have salvation, that they are no longer separated from God but united with him.
This swallowing up, this destruction of death itself, has been done by Jesus Christ on the cross for you. We see that same language used in our Revelation reading, as God wipes away tears and death and crying and pain will be no more. Jesus Christ comes to save us, to destroy death and the shroud that it has over us. For we carry that shroud of grief, of hopelessness, of pain and suffering with us every day. But through the work of Jesus Christ on the cross, we have a new future, a new beginning, new life, for we have this promise that is set before us. Our tears our wiped away and a feast is set before us, of food that feeds us, food of hope and grace, mercy and joy, of tears that are wiped away, of knowing that we have eternal life in Jesus Christ and that death has no power for we have eternal life and that we have a place prepared for us in glory.
Even more, we have a Savior who knows the pain of that shroud and the sting of those tears, who has cried over the loss of friends and has compassion upon us. And this Jesus invites us every day to a feast of new life, for he swallows up our pain and suffering and grief and sets before us hope and salvation and resurrection. For that we can say, “Thanks be to God!” Amen