The Divine Service for the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost and Heritage Fest. Do you remember the first time you tried to thread a needle, perhaps as a child? Did you think it was impossible, but then it finally went through? Jesus lays out an absurd possibility of a grown camel threaded through a needle, and that is easier than a rich person’s salvation. It isn’t any easier for the poor or middle class, either. So who can be saved? No one. So God does the impossible for us in Christ Jesus. He is our substitute so that salvation is not only possible, but guaranteed!

Today is Immanuel’s 26th annual heritage fest. Chuck Thiel and the Jolly Ramblers have been providing old time/polka music for a generation and they bring their musical talents to praise God with the style of music that many in rural America with European heritage grew up with.

Heritage Fest Service 2021 (PDF)
2021-10-17 bulletin and announcements (PDF)

One of the services will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel. The processed video will be linked on this page when the hymn texts are added.

“Making the Impossible Possible in Christ” – Mark 10:23-31

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel.

Thank you for your prayers and support! May your week ahead be blessed in the Lord!

The Divine Service for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost. Caring for one another is sometimes easier said than done. But as Christians, we are called to do this because we all share in Christ, and we want the whole body to be working well. Stephen Ministry is a tool that God has blessed Immanuel to have to help those who are stuck in a fog of sin or despair to care for those who need an extra measure of God’s love and direction to be healed and be mentally and spiritually healthy. Thank you, Lord, for those you equip to care givers to those in need!

2021-October-10 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.
2021-October-10 bulletin and announcements (PDF)

The 10:15 service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel. The processed video will be linked on this page when the hymn texts are added.

“Caring for One Another” – Hebrews 3:12-19

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel.

Thank you for your prayers and support! May your week ahead be blessed in the Lord!

Today we celebrate God’s gift of marriage and children. They are an image of God’s unfailing commitment to His people that is perfectly fulfilled in Christ Jesus. He is the groom that adores His bride, the Church, and lays down His life to make her holy, even when she has been terribly unfaithful. Divorce is not in our Lord’s vocabulary!

We also observe LWML Sunday and give thanks to God for raising up this auxiliary organization that helps support so many missions, outreach, and people in need all around the world.

2021-October-03 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.
2021-October-3 bulletin and announcements (PDF)

The 8:00 service was live-streamed today on our YouTube channel. The video will be linked on this page when the hymn texts are added.

“God’s Unfailing Commitment to You” – Mark 10:2-16

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel.

Thank you for your prayers and support! May your week ahead be blessed in the Lord!

Have you ever been scandalized? That is caught in a sin or uncomfortable situation that made you wish you were somewhere far away? To Jesus, the scandal we are to avoid is causing others to sin. We often get comfortable with our sins and think we need not repent of them. But woe to those who think that way! Fortunately, the scandal of the cross is the way out and the way to forgiveness and right living.

2021-September-26 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.
2021-September-26 announcements (PDF)

The 10:15 service will be live-streamed. Check it out on our YouTube channel. The video will be linked on this page when the hymn texts are added.

“Scandalized!” – Mark 9:38-50

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel.

Thank you for your prayers and support! May your week ahead be blessed in the Lord!

The Divine Service for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (Sept 19, 2021). God’s Word in the epistle of James is often hard to hear and understand. This is the result of our sin and inability to understand. So we need the Holy Spirit to enlighten our hearts and invigorate our lives that reflect the love of God who cares enough to take us aside once in a while in order to correct sinful behavior. This is the wisdom from above that pays dividends for eternity!

2021-September-19 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.
2021-September-19 bulletin and announcements (PDF)

The 10:15 service will be live-streamed. Check it out on our YouTube channel. The video will be linked on this page when the hymn texts are added.

“Wisdom from Above” – James 3:13-4:10

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel.

Thank you for your prayers and support! May your week ahead be blessed in the Lord!

The Divine Service for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost (September 5, 2021). Jesus heals a deaf and mute man by His word and touch. When the man realized what had happened, he praised God and told everyone he could. We also have been touched by Jesus in word and sacrament. We also get to praise God and tell everyone what He has done by His cross and resurrection!

2021 September 5 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.
2021 September 5 bulletin and announcements (PDF)

The 10:15 service will be live-streamed. Check it out on our YouTube channel. The video will be linked on this page when the hymn texts are added.

“Ephphatha! Be Opened!” – Mark 7:31-37

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel.

Thank you for your prayers and support! May your week ahead be blessed in the Lord!

The Divine Service for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (August 29, 2021). God’s Word is simple instructions for life. The problem is that as sinners, we do not always listen, or do, or keep, or teach those instructions because we fail to understand them by God’s grace. But God Word also points us to the fulfillment of the Law in Christ Jesus who did keep God’s simple instructions in order to give us life!

August 29 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.
August 29 bulletin and announcements (PDF)

Service will be live-streamed at 9:00 a.m. Check it out on our YouTube channel. The video will be linked on this page when the hymn texts are added.

“Simple Instructions for Life” – Deuteronomy 4:1-2,6-9

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel.

Thank you for your prayers and support!

The Service for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost (August 22, 2021)

What traditions do you have? Some families and institutions are defined by their long-held traditions of eating, gathering, and celebrating. Tradition is good unless it becomes more important than God’s Word. Jesus confronts the traditions of men that have no place in the life of the Christian. But He does not leave us without hope. For in Him, we find a tradition to live by as we gather as God’s people have for generations around Word and Sacrament.

August 22 bulletin and announcements (PDF)
August 22 service (PDF)

Today’s service was not recorded due to volunteers on vacation. For those of you who regularly come here for the worship service, we thank you and pray you will continue to be blessed by this video ministry.

You can also make use of this week’s LCMS video ministry through “Main Street Living”:

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel. Thank you for your prayers and support!

Are you disturbed that Jesus says you must eat of his flesh and drink of his blood to have life in you? This is offensive to the sinner, but shear grace for the believer. Have some faith in Jesus as the one who endured the scandal of the cross for your forgiveness and salvation. That’s living bread for a living faith in this world that is preparing for eternal life in heaven!

August 15 service (PDF)
August 15 bulletin and announcements (PDF)

Pastor Augustine’s sermon on John 6:51-69 titled, “Bread for Living”. Updated 8/28/21 with the recorded video with hymn texts displayed.

God bless your week in the Lord!