Guidelines and Instructions for Services at Zion Updated 2020-07-24 We are following CDC and State recommended guidelines for holding worship services in person. SCHEDULE Services will be the following: Sunday, 7:45 AM Sunday, 10:30 AM Wednesday, 7:00 PM The services will be the same (readings and hymns, etc.) There will be Bible Study at 9:15 […]
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Guidelines for Returning to the Lord’s Altar Here is how we are planning to slowly return to church and receive the Sacrament of the Altar beginning with Phase 3 of the Reopen Illinois plan. Please read these guidelines carefully and let me or your elder know if you have any questions. * Services will continue […]
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ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH NEWS Friday, May 20, 2022 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Zion Family, Jesus tells us to ask anything of the Father in His Name. Woohoo! Genie in a bottle! New car! Lots of money! Every disease instantly cured! Um, not like that. We have prayer backwards. We think […]
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ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH NEWS Friday,May 13, 2022 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Members and Friends of Zion, Jesus tells His disciples that it is better for Him to go away so that the Holy Spirit will come. But what will the Holy Spirit do? “He will take of what is mine and […]
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ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH NEWS Friday,May 6, 2022 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Saints of Jesus, Sorrow is not forever. Grief isn’t forever. Sadness is not permanent. Our hope as Christians is that the sighs and groans and tears of this life will one day be gone, wiped away. We have this […]
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ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH NEWS Friday, April 29, 2022 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Little Lambs of the Lord, This Sunday is known as “Good Shepherd” Sunday. We hear Jesus tell us that He is the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for the sheep. Sheep are often pictured as cute, […]
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ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH NEWS Friday, April 22, 2022 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Redeemed of the Lord, Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Yeah, right! Wait, what? That’s Thomas’ reaction. He didn’t believe when the other Apostle told him they had seen the Lord. Why should he? Would you? It’s not […]
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ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH NEWS Good Friday, April 15, 2022 Click to open this email in your browser Happy Good Friday! How can the most terrible day-the day the Son of God dies-be called Good? Because He dies for you. For me. For the whole world. This is the strange and great mystery of our salvation: […]
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ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH NEWS Friday, April 8, 2022 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Rather than start my email with some thoughts on this Sunday’s reading, I’m going to instead share some thoughts on all of the services coming up during Holy Week. Consider them “devotional introductions” […]
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ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH NEWS Friday, April 1, 2022 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, This Sunday we hear about Jesus hiding. His enemies want to destroy Him but it’s not His time to die yet. So He disappears from their midst. When it is His time, Jesus […]
Read moreZION LUTHERAN CHURCH NEWS Friday, March 18, 2022 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Redeemed Saints, When we point our fingers, it’s usually when we’re calling someone out. “She did it. It’s his fault. There’s the culprit.” When God points His finger, though, He doesn’t accuse, He saves. It was by God’s […]
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ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH NEWS Friday, March 11, 2022 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Do you ever feel like you pray and pray and nothing happens? As if God isn’t listening? As if He doesn’t care? It must have seemed that way to the Gentile woman who pleaded […]
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