Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan

There are days when our lives seem so cracked and broken. Paul puts it this way, “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.” We carry around Jesus’ death. Perhaps you are thinking what in the world does this even mean? Because I carry Jesus’ death around with me, you cannot kill me. Not ultimately anyway. Because I carry Jesus’ death around with me, you can knock me down but not out; you can throw me into the deepest pit, but I will never be abandoned; you can do your level worst to me, but I have the security that makes me rise above it all. I carry around with me the worst thing that ever happened to anyone anywhere, the death of God’s own Son on a tree. So, the worst you can do to me still is not as bad as what happened to Jesus. I am baptized into Christ! Nothing will separate me from His love not even death! You are in Christ Jesus, and you will live! As the hymn writer put it: “In Thine arms I rest me; Foes who would molest me Cannot reach me here, Though the earth be shaking, Every heart be quaking, Jesus calms my fear. Lightings flash and thunders crash; Yet, though sin and hell assail me, Jesus will not fail me! Hence, all fear and sadness! For the Lord of gladness, Jesus enters in. Those who love the father, Though the storms may gather, Still have peace within. Yes, whate’er I must bear, Thou art still my purest pleasure, Jesus priceless treasure!” LSB #743 ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

While the mystery of the Trinity is incomprehensible to us, so is God’s love for us in Christ. Something that is incomprehensible is puzzling, unfathomable, beyond our ability to grasp. It is truly beyond our understanding that God would love the very people who destroyed everything He made. It is baffling that “God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16), but it’s true. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

While the mystery of the Trinity is incomprehensible to us, so is God’s love for us in Christ. Something that is incomprehensible is puzzling, unfathomable, beyond our ability to grasp. It is truly beyond our understanding that God would love the very people who destroyed everything He made. It is baffling that “God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16), but it’s true. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

While the mystery of the Trinity is incomprehensible to us, so is God’s love for us in Christ. Something that is incomprehensible is puzzling, unfathomable, beyond our ability to grasp. It is truly beyond our understanding that God would love the very people who destroyed everything He made. It is baffling that “God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16), but it’s true. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

“Son of Man, can these bones live?” That’s the question, isn’t it? Whether you’re standing in a valley of dry, dead bones, or in a cemetery, or when you’re standing at the bed side of a loved one who has just died. Is there any hope for life in the midst of sin and death? Jesus has answered that question for us once and for all! Jesus is the Son of God who became the Son of Man, to come and give us life again. Everywhere Jesus went there was life. Sinners forgiven, the diseased healed, lepers cleansed, the blind given sight, the deaf given hearing, the mute given voice, the paralyzed walking again, the demon-possessed restored, and the dead raised. Jesus came and entered those voids of sin and death and grave that are our creation, to give us an answer to that question once and for all. “Son of Man, can these bones live?” Easter is God’s resounding yes! Yes, these dry, dead bones can live. For in Jesus’ resurrection, we see there is One who has atoned for our sin, who defeated death, and who conquered the grave. And because He did, He is able to do the same for you. To pull you out of the void. To forgive your sins. To give you comfort and hope. To give you life. And not only on the last day, but already here and now. For Ezekiel’s vision was of the whole house of Israel, and that includes you. And so yes, for you too, your tired, old, dry, dead bones can live! ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

“Son of Man, can these bones live?” That’s the question, isn’t it? Whether you’re standing in a valley of dry, dead bones, or in a cemetery, or when you’re standing at the bed side of a loved one who has just died. Is there any hope for life in the midst of sin and death? Jesus has answered that question for us once and for all! Jesus is the Son of God who became the Son of Man, to come and give us life again. Everywhere Jesus went there was life. Sinners forgiven, the diseased healed, lepers cleansed, the blind given sight, the deaf given hearing, the mute given voice, the paralyzed walking again, the demon-possessed restored, and the dead raised. Jesus came and entered those voids of sin and death and grave that are our creation, to give us an answer to that question once and for all. “Son of Man, can these bones live?” Easter is God’s resounding yes! Yes, these dry, dead bones can live. For in Jesus’ resurrection, we see there is One who has atoned for our sin, who defeated death, and who conquered the grave. And because He did, He is able to do the same for you. To pull you out of the void. To forgive your sins. To give you comfort and hope. To give you life. And not only on the last day, but already here and now. For Ezekiel’s vision was of the whole house of Israel, and that includes you. And so yes, for you too, your tired, old, dry, dead bones can live! ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

“Son of Man, can these bones live?” That’s the question, isn’t it? Whether you’re standing in a valley of dry, dead bones, or in a cemetery, or when you’re standing at the bed side of a loved one who has just died. Is there any hope for life in the midst of sin and death? Jesus has answered that question for us once and for all! Jesus is the Son of God who became the Son of Man, to come and give us life again. Everywhere Jesus went there was life. Sinners forgiven, the diseased healed, lepers cleansed, the blind given sight, the deaf given hearing, the mute given voice, the paralyzed walking again, the demon-possessed restored, and the dead raised. Jesus came and entered those voids of sin and death and grave that are our creation, to give us an answer to that question once and for all. “Son of Man, can these bones live?” Easter is God’s resounding yes! Yes, these dry, dead bones can live. For in Jesus’ resurrection, we see there is One who has atoned for our sin, who defeated death, and who conquered the grave. And because He did, He is able to do the same for you. To pull you out of the void. To forgive your sins. To give you comfort and hope. To give you life. And not only on the last day, but already here and now. For Ezekiel’s vision was of the whole house of Israel, and that includes you. And so yes, for you too, your tired, old, dry, dead bones can live! ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

As Jesus is about to lay down His life on the cross for His friends, for His enemies, for you and me, and for all people, He prays…for all of us. What do you do when you’re concerned for someone? You pray for them. Jesus prays, “Holy Father…I have given them your word.” In this prayer Jesus is saying to us, “You have my word.” To have Jesus’ word is to have God’s word. Jesus is saying, “You have my promise, God’s promise, that I will do what He has said.” Jesus gives us God’s Word and promise, to do three things - three things that we need, namely, to keep us from the evil one, to sanctify us, and to make us one. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

As Jesus is about to lay down His life on the cross for His friends, for His enemies, for you and me, and for all people, He prays…for all of us. What do you do when you’re concerned for someone? You pray for them. Jesus prays, “Holy Father…I have given them your word.” In this prayer Jesus is saying to us, “You have my word.” To have Jesus’ word is to have God’s word. Jesus is saying, “You have my promise, God’s promise, that I will do what He has said.” Jesus gives us God’s Word and promise, to do three things - three things that we need, namely, to keep us from the evil one, to sanctify us, and to make us one. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

As Jesus is about to lay down His life on the cross for His friends, for His enemies, for you and me, and for all people, He prays…for all of us. What do you do when you’re concerned for someone? You pray for them. Jesus prays, “Holy Father…I have given them your word.” In this prayer Jesus is saying to us, “You have my word.” To have Jesus’ word is to have God’s word. Jesus is saying, “You have my promise, God’s promise, that I will do what He has said.” Jesus gives us God’s Word and promise, to do three things - three things that we need, namely, to keep us from the evil one, to sanctify us, and to make us one. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

In a world that more and more seems to be overcoming the faith, Jesus says it is our faith in Him that overcomes the world. In a world more and more hostile to God, Jesus is still calling tax collectors and sinners His friends. In a world more and more going its own way and accelerating away from God, Jesus calls us to try a new way. Which is really not new at all, but old. His way. The way of love. How He created things in the beginning, before we were injected with a lethal dose of sin and death. So Jesus comes to make all things new again (Revelation 21:5). To make you new again, to live a new life, to live an old love as His friends. And you are. Because He said so. And what He says, happens. What He says, is. And one day He will say rise, and you will. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

In a world that more and more seems to be overcoming the faith, Jesus says it is our faith in Him that overcomes the world. In a world more and more hostile to God, Jesus is still calling tax collectors and sinners His friends. In a world more and more going its own way and accelerating away from God, Jesus calls us to try a new way. Which is really not new at all, but old. His way. The way of love. How He created things in the beginning, before we were injected with a lethal dose of sin and death. So Jesus comes to make all things new again (Revelation 21:5). To make you new again, to live a new life, to live an old love as His friends. And you are. Because He said so. And what He says, happens. What He says, is. And one day He will say rise, and you will. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

In a world that more and more seems to be overcoming the faith, Jesus says it is our faith in Him that overcomes the world. In a world more and more hostile to God, Jesus is still calling tax collectors and sinners His friends. In a world more and more going its own way and accelerating away from God, Jesus calls us to try a new way. Which is really not new at all, but old. His way. The way of love. How He created things in the beginning, before we were injected with a lethal dose of sin and death. So Jesus comes to make all things new again (Revelation 21:5). To make you new again, to live a new life, to live an old love as His friends. And you are. Because He said so. And what He says, happens. What He says, is. And one day He will say rise, and you will. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

Little by little it seems our culture is moving from being centered on the family with its focus of love for one another to tribalism, where membership is based not on love, but on grievance. An episode of the iconic 90’s sitcom Seinfeld has a humorous example of this as one of the characters in the show decides to make up his own secular holiday to replace Christmas. He called it Festivus. “Festivus for the rest of us.” Instead of sharing gifts put under a Christmas tree and celebrating the love of God in Jesus Christ, the family gathered around an aluminum pole for an activity the character, Frank Costanza, called, “The airing of grievances.” It seems, at least to me, that this humorous episode of the fictional Seinfeld has captured something that is happening more and more in real life where the focus has become not love, but grievance. As grievance culture replaces a culture of love emanating from the love of God and expressed in the family, things are not so funny anymore. Apart from God in Christ, we are left with just the oppressed and the oppressors. The antidote for this comes not from us, but from God. “God is love,” and He has manifested Himself to us by sending “his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.” As we “abide in him and he in us” we become instruments not of grievance, but of love. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #advent #LCMS #Lutheran #divineservice Seinfeld Clip is property of NBCUniversal and is used for educational purposes: https://www.youtube.com/c/SeinfeldTV

Little by little it seems our culture is moving from being centered on the family with its focus of love for one another to tribalism, where membership is based not on love, but on grievance. An episode of the iconic 90’s sitcom Seinfeld has a humorous example of this as one of the characters in the show decides to make up his own secular holiday to replace Christmas. He called it Festivus. “Festivus for the rest of us.” Instead of sharing gifts put under a Christmas tree and celebrating the love of God in Jesus Christ, the family gathered around an aluminum pole for an activity the character, Frank Costanza, called, “The airing of grievances.” It seems, at least to me, that this humorous episode of the fictional Seinfeld has captured something that is happening more and more in real life where the focus has become not love, but grievance. As grievance culture replaces a culture of love emanating from the love of God and expressed in the family, things are not so funny anymore. Apart from God in Christ, we are left with just the oppressed and the oppressors. The antidote for this comes not from us, but from God. “God is love,” and He has manifested Himself to us by sending “his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.” As we “abide in him and he in us” we become instruments not of grievance, but of love. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #advent #LCMS #Lutheran #divineservice Seinfeld Clip is property of NBCUniversal and is used for educational purposes: https://www.youtube.com/c/SeinfeldTV

Little by little it seems our culture is moving from being centered on the family with its focus of love for one another to tribalism, where membership is based not on love, but on grievance. An episode of the iconic 90’s sitcom Seinfeld has a humorous example of this as one of the characters in the show decides to make up his own secular holiday to replace Christmas. He called it Festivus. “Festivus for the rest of us.” Instead of sharing gifts put under a Christmas tree and celebrating the love of God in Jesus Christ, the family gathered around an aluminum pole for an activity the character, Frank Costanza, called, “The airing of grievances.” It seems, at least to me, that this humorous episode of the fictional Seinfeld has captured something that is happening more and more in real life where the focus has become not love, but grievance. As grievance culture replaces a culture of love emanating from the love of God and expressed in the family, things are not so funny anymore. Apart from God in Christ, we are left with just the oppressed and the oppressors. The antidote for this comes not from us, but from God. “God is love,” and He has manifested Himself to us by sending “his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.” As we “abide in him and he in us” we become instruments not of grievance, but of love. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #advent #LCMS #Lutheran #divineservice Seinfeld Clip is property of NBCUniversal and is used for educational purposes: https://www.youtube.com/c/SeinfeldTV

In a world full of “I don’t care”, what joy to hear and see and touch and taste our Good Shepherd’s “I care”. And to rest confidently in that, no matter what rages around us in this world. No matter the disappointments, the failures, the problems, the guilt, the danger, the lack, the fear – whatever satanic attack. For none of that can change this truth – the truth of the cross, of your Good Shepherd, of His death and resurrection for you, of His forgiveness, and of His constant care. You are Jesus’ little lamb. Today, tomorrow, and forever. ----- Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService