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Tuesday, 10 November 2009 15:15 |
Good Shepherd Ev. Lutheran Church
Wisconsin Ev. Lutheran Synod
3040 North 7th Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85013
Sunday Worship: 9:00 a.m.
Sunday School and Bible Class. 10.20 am.
Rev. Terry A. Deters, Pastor
Church Office: 602-265-7130
WELCOME! We are happy that you have been led by our Lord to worship with us, and we pray that you will be blessed richly and refreshed spiritually during this time you spend in his house with your brothers and sisters in Christ.
If you are a VISITOR and would like more information about our church, please contact the Pastor. If you are presently without a church-home, we invite you to make our congregation your own. Please enter your name and address in our Guest Book before you leave. COME AGAIN!
We will follow THE ORDER OF SERVICE that is printed in the bulletin. The numbered hymns are found in the pew hymnals.
A MOTHER'S ROOM is located in the back of the church for the convenience of parents whose little ones may become disruptive to the worship of others or who may need changing during the service. Please be considerate of your fellow worshipers and use this room as the need arises. Thank you.
You will find LARGE PRINT HYMNS for today's worship service on the table in the church entry. AUDIO AND VIDEO TAPES of the worship service are also available upon request. Please speak with our Usher Captain prior to the service if you would like one. For those who may be first-time visitors in our congregation, THE REST ROOMS are located in the Education Building directly across the courtyard from the church.
WE PRAY that the Lord will bless us with the Holy Spirit in our worship this morning so that the good news of his mighty deliverance in Jesus will drive darkness from our hearts and fill us with joy and peace.
After Sunday Morning services refreshments will be served in the parish hall, You are all invited to join in this Christian fellowship.
Morning Adult Bible Class will meet on Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. We invite all who are able to join us for this very relevant Bible study.
OUR NIGHTTIME ADULT BIBLE STUDY will meet at 7:00 p.m. Wednesdays. Come and join us!
PLEASE feel free to join us for any of Good Shepherd’s services.
A message from our Pastor:
FEBRUARY 2012
IT'S HARD TO FORGET YOUR SAVIOR!
"As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins... While we were
still sinners, Christ died for us, " (Ephesians 2:1, Romans 5:8).
The sun had just risen on a hot August day in 1944 in the small village of Plelo in
German-occupied France. The 15-year-old boy didn't know why he and the other citizens of Plelo had been lined up before a firing squad in the middle of the town square. Perhaps
they were being punished for harboring a unit of Marquisards, the French underground freedom fighters. Perhaps they were merely satisfying the blood-lust of the German commanding officer who, the night before, had routed a small group of Marquisard scouts. All the boy knew was that he was about to die.
As he stood before the firing squad, he remembered the carefree days of his early childhood before the war, when he went about roaming the countryside. He though about all he would miss by never growing up. Most of all, he was terrified by the thought of dying. "How will the bullets feel ripping through my body?" he wondered. He hoped no one could hear the whimpering coming from deep in his throat every time he exhaled.
All of a sudden, the boy heard the sound of exploding mortar shells coming from beyond the limits of his little village. Quickly moving tanks could also be heard. The Germans were forced to abandon the firing squad and face a small unit of American tanks and twenty GI's, led by Bob Hamsley, a corporal in Patton's Third Army. A Marquisard
captain had asked Hamsley for help. After three hours, fifty Nazis were dead, and the other fifty had been taken captive.
In 1990, the town of Plelo honored Bob Hamsley on the very spot where dozens of the town's citizens would have been slaughtered if it were not for him. The man who
initiated the search for Bob Hamsley all those years later and set up the ceremony honoring him was the former mayor of Plelo....that same 15-year-old boy whom Hamsley had saved. He had determined to find the man who had saved his life and honor him. "It's hard to forget your savior," he said.
Brothers and sisters, don't we have an even greater reason to celebrate than the people of Plelo, France? "As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, " the Bible says of each one of us. Because of our sins, we too were standing in from of a firing squad, so to speak, but "while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. " Just as Satan was ready to claim us, mortar shells fired from the cross on Calvary saved the day. Our hero
Jesus would not allow our souls to be bloodied, but offered himself in our place.
What, then, is the only proper response to such an act of love? The citizens of Plelo held a ceremony in honor of their hero. How should we also honor and thank our "Hero"? Well, here are six suggestions:
1) Never forget who saved you and thank him in prayer every day.
2) Commit yourself to a daily reading about your Hero in the Bible.
3) Constantly ask your Savior who you can do for him.
4) Consistently tell others about who saved you and that he has saved them too.
5) Live as if you once faced certain death, but were miraculously saved by Christ, who loved you enough to take your place.
6) Take time to commemorate and celebrate our Hero on Wednesdays by attending our midweek Lenten Vesper worship services, which will be held at 5:00 and 7:00 p.m.
Blessed by the love of Jesus,
S/ Pastor Terry |
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Saturday, 18 July 2009 19:37 |
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Apostles' Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty.
From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Christian Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
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Written by Jack Thrash
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 02:29 |
 NICENE CREED
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is,
seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation, he came down from heaven,
was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary,
and became fully human.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate.
He suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who in unity with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
We believe in one holy Christian and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come. Amen.
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Tuition Assistance & ALA Scholarships |
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Written by Jack Thrash
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Friday, 10 July 2009 12:53 |
 Since we will not be able to provide an elementary school of our own as a tool to assist our parents with their God-given responsibility to provide Christian education for their children next year, the Church Council has approved providing tuition assistance for members of our congregation who are interested in sending their children to one of our WELS sister congregations' schools.
This assistance would come in the form of paying the difference between what those congregations are asking in tuition from their own members and those from sister WELS congregations. This assistance will not be part of our budget for the fiscal year of 2009/2010, but would come from donations by our members to the Arizona Tuition Tax Credit program in behalf of those children.
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Pastor's Word: Ascension Comfort |
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Written by Pastor Deters
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Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:21 |
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MAY 2009 Ascension Comfort (Jesus said) "And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the age," (Matthew 28:20). There is an apocryphal story about a jet airliner which took off from Chicago for Los Angeles. It supposedly was controlled by a fantastic computer and was programmed to fly without any human crew aboard. The plane took off, hurtled above the clouds, and leveled off at 38,000 feet. Then a voice came over the intercom which said, "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard! This is flight 595, a totally computerized jet aircraft, a symbol of man's ability to solve all of his problems. This plane has no pilot, no co-pilot, no flight engineer, and no flight attendants. You have taken off from Chicago electronically; you are now flying electronically; you will land in Los Angeles electronically. But don't worry, ladies and gentlemen, nothing can go wrong .... can go wrong can go wrong can go wrong " How would you have felt if you had been a passenger on that plane? In our world today there are many people who live with a hopeless and frightening feeling like that - people who feel alone and adrift on a sea of human technology where everything has gone wrong and God has been shoved out of the picture. |
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