ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH Friday, July 3, 2020 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Last week we heard the stories of Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin teach us that God is merciful to sinners. This week we hear Jesus’ call to us to be merciful in that […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH Friday, June 26, 2020 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Members and Friends of Zion, Jesus can’t help those who can save themselves. The righteous, the “good people,” the well-behaved, the ones full of their own virtue and rightness. Those are the people who look down on the “sinners,” […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH Friday, June 19, 2020 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Members and Friends of Zion, The Lord throws a party and everyone is invited! That’s how Jesus pictures the kingdom of God. What’s surprising in the story is how many people didn’t want to come. Or the guy who […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH Friday, June 12, 2020 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, As part of the ongoing conflict and discussion going on lately, the problem of “poverty” and “the poor” always seems to come up. In America, it is often argued that the poor should help […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH Friday, June 5, 2020 Click to open this email in your browser Attention Everyone: HAPPY 4TH ANNIVERSARY of Pastor Buetow’s Installation at Zion!! From the Zion Staff Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, One God. Three Persons. Father. Son. Holy Spirit. The Father sends His Son into the world, in the flesh, […]

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 […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH  Friday, May 29, 2020 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,   On Pentecost, 50 days after Easter, the Holy Spirit was poured out on the church in a special way: rushing wind, tongues of fire, and everyone hearing the Good News in their own […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH  Friday, May 15, 2020 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We don’t pray because we’re trying to get God to do what we want. Prayer teaches us to entrust ourselves to the Lord and rely upon His promises to give us all good things […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH Friday, May 8, 2020 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, What is truth? That’s what Pontius Pilate asked Jesus. I think we’ve asked that question more than once as we read and hear stories about the virus, the government, the economy, and what is […]