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!

The Divine Service for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (August 8, 2021). Jesus continues to unpack what it means that He is the bread of life. He demands that we believe in Him, but He does not leave even faith to us. The Father calls and gathers us through the working of the Holy Spirit to give us bread for belief. This is the good bread that leads us to Jesus for forgiveness and eternal life!

August 8 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.
August 8 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.

“Bread for Belief” – John 6:35-51

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 Divine Service for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (August 1, 2021). We begin a 3-week dive into the Bread of Life discourse in John chapter 6. What does it mean that Jesus is the bread of life? Why do we seem to always seek out the earthly “bread” that perishes instead of the bread that gives true life? While we do need our daily bread, when we also have Jesus, we have bread for life – real life – for eternity.

August 1 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.
August 1 bulletin and announcements (PDF)

“Bread for Life” – John 6:22-35

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 Divine Service for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (July 25, 2021). What do you think of when you see a rainbow in the sky? God’s Word for us today recalls the promise and the covenant God made with Noah that He would not destroy the earth with a flood again. God’s bow in the clouds reminds us of judgment and promise that points us to Jesus, who perished in the flood of our sins but rose victorious over them. Baptism is the continuation of God’s covenant with Noah to save through water and God’s unbreakable word!

July 25 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.
July 25 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.

“God’s Bow in the Clouds” – Genesis 9:8-17

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 Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (July 18, 2021). Pastor Fred Morck leads the service today.

One of the ways God instructs us in our relationship together is that of Shepherd and sheep. Those who are given charge over the sheep are to be like the Lord, who is the Good Shepherd. But that is not an easy task to do; a hard example to follow. That is why God sends Jesus to feed the sheep and show us how God takes care of us and our faith as we listen to Him.

July 18 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.
July 18 bulletin and announcements

Service will be live-streamed at 9:00 a.m. Check it out on our YouTube channel.

“Shepherds” – Jeremiah 23:1-6 and Mark 6:30-44

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 Divine Service for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (July 11, 2021). The Church begins a reading of St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians for the next several weeks. This Epistle is loaded with God’s grace for you, as well as what the Christian life should look like. Paul assures his readers then as well as the Church today that we have been chosen by God to be in His kingdom. This is His doing; His gift. Our emotions, our commitment, our successes or failures have no weight when it comes to the gift of salvation. Thanks be to God!

July 11 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.
July 11 bulletin and announcements

Service will be live-streamed at 9:00 a.m. Check it out on our YouTube channel.

“Chosen for the Family of God” – Ephesians 1:3-14

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 Divine Service for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (July 4, 2021).

Strength in weakness? Doesn’t seem right, does it? Yet, that’s exactly the way God works in His saving us from sin and eternal death and in our daily lives. Our pride and power must yield to God so that His will would be done through His power that is far greater than we can imagine. On the cross, Jesus appeared weak and helpless, but on the third day, He shows just how strong He is and now that strength lives on in the hearts of those who believe in Him!

July 4 bulletin and announcements
July 4 service (PDF) or try this web version that will fit your computer, tablet, or phone.

Service will be live-streamed at 9:00 a.m. Check it out on our YouTube channel.

“The Power of Weakness” – 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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!

The Divine Service for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (June 27, 2021). Jesus shows the world that He has authority for life – to give life, that is. He takes upon Himself our sicknesses and even death in order to open our hearts to His life-giving grace and mercy.

June 27 service
June 27 bulletin and announcements

Service will be live-streamed at 9:00 a.m. Check it out on our YouTube channel.

“Authority for Life” – Mark 5:21-43

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!