Dear Pastors, Principal, Chairman, and members of St. Stephen’s Ev. Lutheran Church: Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! On March 28th I was extended the call to teach in the upper grades and be Music Coordinator for St. Stephen’s. I am honored and humbled that [...]
Watch video of our worship services live streaming at 8:00 on Facebook or later this morning on YouTube. Follow along with this week’s worship folder: https://2021bulletinpdfs.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2021-04-04_Easter+Day.pdf Welcome Visitors If you are visiting today, we welcome you in our Risen and Living Savior, Jesus! Please let us know you worshiped with us [...]
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. John 20:19,20 Loved [...]
“Don’t be alarmed,” the angel said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, [...]
Watch our Holy Week Services Online! Palm Sunday https://youtu.be/goamKdGCMZo Follow along with the Palm Sunday worship folder: https://2021bulletinpdfs.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2021-03-28_Palm+Sunday.pdf Read the Palm Sunday sermon: https://ssbdwels.com/th_sermon/jesus-knows-what-he-is-doing/ Holy Week Tuesday https://youtu.be/pkd2FnbjIwQ Follow along with the Holy Week Tuesday worship folder: https://2021bulletinpdfs.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2021-03-30_Holy+Week+Tuesday.pdf Holy (Maundy) Thursday https://youtu.be/xGELpUmqp48 Follow along with the Holy Thursday worship folder: [...]
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are [...]
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from [...]
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been [...]
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human [...]
Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, “Hosanna!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!” Mark 11:9,10 Sing Hosanna to Our Savior King Daily Devotion – March 29, 2021 Devotion [...]
