The service of the Word and Prayer for the Third Sunday after Pentecost (June 21, 2020). We praise God that in-person worship begins today under COVID-19 precautions, yet this video ministry will also continue for those who remain at home. See the COVID-19 page for more information. May God bless you as you receive His grace and mercy through His Word!
The service of the Word and Prayer for the Second Sunday after Pentecost (June 14, 2020). The long Pentecost season begins today. The paraments are green to remind us of the growth God provides when we delight in His Word. The theme for the day is “Gospel Words” and follows the Epistle reading of Romans 5:6-15. May you grow stronger in your faith and holy living through the good news of Christ crucified and risen for you!
The Holy Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – three persons yet one God. We honor God and His majesty when we humbly accept this by faith. May this service enrich your faith and love for God! Here are other helpful links for the service:
The Athanasian Creed (as printed in the hymnal): Athanasian Creed — We did not pray this in the service, but it is well worth your contemplation on how incredible the one true God is!
Here are the full lessons appointed for Holy Trinity Sunday:
Blessed be the Holy Trinity and the undivided Unity. Let us give glory to him because he has shown his mercy to us!
If you have been blessed with this service of the Word and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to: Immanuel Lutheran Church 45 West Broadway Plainview, MN 55964
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are ready to mail. Please do not mail cash. You can also give online here.
Thank you for your prayers and support during these troubling times. God will see us through this, and we will be better for it!
The promise of the Holy Spirit is fulfilled in this great feast of the Church. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love!
If you are in need of prayer, Holy Communion, or even someone to bring a meal or get some groceries for you, please let us know.
We have lots of soup available from Plainview’s “Blessings in Soup” effort by area churches. You can pick some up during office hours or it can be delivered to you. Soup options are chicken, vegetable, and beef vegetable; frozen in quart-sized bags.
If you have been blessed with this service of the Word and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to: Immanuel Lutheran Church 45 West Broadway Plainview, MN 55964
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are ready to mail. Please do not mail cash. You can also give online here.
Thank you for your prayers and support during these troubling times. God will see us through this, and we will be better for it!
The Seventh Sunday of Easter stands in the gap of the Ascension (40 days after Easter) and Pentecost (50 days after Easter). Jesus prays for us (John 17) that we would remember His cross and resurrection to enable us to live as one with Him in joy and hope, and even suffer in the glory of Jesus that the world cannot understand. But we do by grace through faith. If you have not viewed the Ascension service, you are encouraged to do so before viewing this service.
If you are in need of prayer, Holy Communion, or even someone to bring a meal or get some groceries for you, please let us know.
We have lots of soup available from Plainview’s “Blessings in Soup” effort by area churches. You can pick some up during office hours or it can be delivered to you. Soup options are chicken, vegetable, and beef vegetable; frozen in quart-sized bags.
If you have been blessed with this service of the Word and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to: Immanuel Lutheran Church 45 West Broadway Plainview, MN 55964
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are ready to mail. Please do not mail cash. You can also give online here.
Thank you for your prayers and support during these troubling times. God will see us through this, and we will be better for it!
We worship the King of Kings and Lord of Lords in this online service to celebrate the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ to His heavenly throne.
We invite you to begin watching the service at 7:30 p.m. so you can join your fellow redeemed in a time of worship and prayer. We are in this together even when we must be apart during this time of COVID-19 distancing. Praise be to God that what separates us is not stronger than He who unites us by His blood in baptismal waters!
LCMS Lectionary summary for the Sixth Sunday of Easter:
The Lord Jesus Comforts Us with the Preaching of His Resurrection
“The God who . . . gives to all mankind life and breath and everything” (Acts 17:24–25) wants all people to seek Him “that they might feel their way toward him and find him” (Acts 17:27). But in our sinful ignorance we humans turn instead to idols “formed by the art and imagination of man” (Acts 17:29). Therefore God appointed the Man of Righteousness, Jesus Christ, and “has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead” (Acts 17:31). Because He lives, we also live (John 14:19) in His forgiveness, and thus we love Him and keep His commandments (John 14:15). While the risen Lord prepares us for His Ascension, He will not leave us “as orphans” (John 14:18), but gives “another Helper,” the Holy Spirit, to be with us forever (John 14:16) through the preaching of “Jesus and the resurrection” (Acts 17:18). Because He “suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous” (1 Peter 3:18), we “regard Christ the Lord as holy” and are always “prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks” for the reason for our hope (1 Peter 3:15). Our Baptism “now saves” us “as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 3:21).
If you are in need of prayer, Holy Communion, or even someone to bring a meal or get some groceries for you, please let us know.
We have lots of soup available from Plainview’s “Blessings in Soup” effort by area churches. You can pick some up during office hours or it can be delivered to you. Soup options are chicken, vegetable, and beef vegetable; frozen in quart-sized bags.
If you have been blessed with this service of the Word and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to: Immanuel Lutheran Church 45 West Broadway Plainview, MN 55964
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are ready to mail. Please do not mail cash. You can also give online here.
Thank you for your prayers and support during these troubling times. God will see us through this, and we will be better for it!
The Fifth Sunday of Easter marks a turn in the season on Easter from the resurrection to the ascension of Jesus back to the Father. But He does not leave us without His promise that He will come again to take us to Himself (John 14:3). What a hope we have in Christ!
If you are in need of prayer, Holy Communion, or even someone to bring a meal or get some groceries for you, please let us know.
If you have been blessed with this service of the Word and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to: Immanuel Lutheran Church 45 West Broadway Plainview, MN 55964
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are ready to mail. Please do not mail cash. You can also give online here.
Thank you for your prayers and support during these troubling times. God will see us through this, and we will be better for it!
The Fourth Sunday of Easter is Good Shepherd Sunday (3-year lectionary). The worship service highlights this through Psalm 23 and the two hymns included in the service. Read all of John 10 to see how Jesus asserts that He is the Good Shepherd, but He also declares Himself the door to the sheep pen. The sermon unpacks this important declaration of Jesus as our protector and provider of salvation.
If you are in need of prayer, Holy Communion, or even someone to bring a meal or get some groceries for you, please let us know.
If you have been blessed with this service of the Word and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to: Immanuel Lutheran Church 45 West Broadway Plainview, MN 55964
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are ready to mail. Please do not mail cash. You can also give online here.
Thank you for your prayers and support during these troubling times. God will see us through this, and we will be better for it!
Easter triumph and joy continue on this Third Sunday of Easter!
Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them! – Jesus
LCMS Lectionary summary: The Risen Lord Jesus Is with Us in Holy Baptism and in “the Breaking of the Bread” From “before the foundation of the world” until heaven and earth pass away “the word of the Lord remains forever” (1 Peter 1:20, 25). This “living and abiding word of God” is the preaching of Christ Jesus, namely that God “raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory” (1 Peter 1:21). By this living word we “have been born again” to eternal life (1 Peter 1:23) and ransomed from our sinful and mortal life “with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Peter 1:18–19). This living word also calls us to repentance, to dying and rising in Holy Baptism “in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins” (Acts 2:38). In this, we receive the Holy Spirit “for you and for your children and for all who are far off” (Acts 2:39). Through the preaching of His Cross and Resurrection, Jesus draws near to bring us “into His glory” (Luke 24:26). As He opens the Scriptures, He opens our minds to comprehend “the things concerning Himself” (Luke 24:27) and He brings us to know Him “in the breaking of the bread” (Luke 24:35).
Click here for the Concordia Seminary virtual call service (Tuesday, April 28 at 7 p.m. CDT) where Immanuel’s son, PJ Aarsvold, will receive a vicarage assignment for the 2020-21 academic year: https://www.csl.edu/academics/call-day-services/
Another Easter classic hymn – words below
LSB 465 – Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds
(1) Now all the vault of heav’n resounds In praise of love that still abounds: “Christ has triumphed! He is living!” Sing, choirs of angels, loud and clear! Repeat their song of glory here: “Christ has triumphed! Christ has triumphed!” Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
(2) Eternal is the gift He brings, Therefore our heart with rapture sings: “Christ has triumphed! He is living!” Now still He comes to give us life And by His presence stills all strife. Christ has triumphed! He is living! Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
(3) O fill us, Lord, with dauntless love; Set heart and will on things above That we conquer through Your triumph; Grant grace sufficient for life’s day That by our lives we truly say: “Christ has triumphed! He is living!” Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
(4) Adoring praises now we bring And with the heav’nly blessèd sing: “Christ has triumphed! Alleluia!” Be to the Father and our Lord, To Spirit blest, most holy God, All the glory, never ending! Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
If you are in need of prayer, Holy Communion, or even someone to bring a meal or get some groceries for you, please let us know.
If you have been blessed with this service of the Word and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to: Immanuel Lutheran Church 45 West Broadway Plainview, MN 55964
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are ready to mail. Please do not mail cash. You can also give online here.
Thank you for your prayers and support during these troubling times. God will see us through this, and we will be better for it!
