Special upcoming Services
Ash Wednesday (Feb 17), 7 PM, imposition of ashes and Holy Communion.  Lenten meals 5:45 p.m.  Potluck

Midweek Lenten Services each Wednesday in Lent.  Feb 24, Mar 3, Mar 10, Mar 17, and Mar 24 services at 7 PM, Lenten meals provided at 5:45 p.m.

Maundy Thursday (April 1), celebrating Holy Communion, 7:00 p.m.

Good Friday (April 2), 7 p.m.

Easter Sunday, April 4, 10:15 a.m. celebrating Holy Communion

Other Announcements

OUR RESPONSE TO THE ELCA VOTE!
On Friday, August 21, 2009, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in convention, ruled that homosexual sex is moral, allowed its congregations to bless gay marriages and opened its clergy roster to non-celibate gays.  These decisions on the part of the ELCA are sins against God’s Word and are NOT indicative or typical of Lutheranism.
Because Our Redeemer Lutheran Church is located in a region of the country where there are few Lutherans and little is known about Lutheranism, it should be pointed out that not all Lutheran church bodies are the same.  Neither do they hold to the same spiritual beliefs and public policies.
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church is a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) rather than the ELCA.  Please follow these LCMS summaries concerning our beliefs “About Homosexuality” and “The Differences between the LCMS and the ELCA.”  For those who would like to further look into both issues, please click on the “Our Beliefs” and “Writings” sections.
In Christ,
Reverend Matthew W. Vesey (Pastor)
 

• LCMS President’s address to the ELCA convention.
   
• The Sunday morning Bible class will be studying “Angels and Demons” starting on the 3rd of January.  Please join us at 9 A.M.
   
• “Congregation at Prayer” has been discontinued but please check out our link on our CAP page. 
   
• Bible Class and the Lutheran Liturgy.  It is a DVD series by Dr. Arthur Just, Professor at the Ft. Wayne Seminary.  The entire lesson sheets and answers are available here or type the URL, liturgy.orlutheran.com 
   
• The Issues, Etc. is back on the air. God’s  people have responded to that decision by raising tens of thousands of dollars to get the program back on the air under independent management. The show airs  on weekdays, Monday-Friday. The program will be webcast around the world for two  hours, 4:00-6:00 (Eastern), on the Internet at the Pirate Christian Radio website: The second hour, 5:00-6:00, will be broadcast in the  St. Louis area on AM 1320. If you want to contribute to the cause you can do so  at the web site listed above
   
• A new effort to promote Lutheranism and to  help support Issues, Etc. was launched this week. The Brothers of John the Steadfast is a new Lutheran men’s club being started by a fifteen member  steering committee representing Lutheran churches from coast to coast. They have  already had over 50 requests for their chapter start-up kits. You can read more about this group at their web site: www.SteadfastLutherans.org .
   
• Sermons uploaded.  Check out our SERMONS page.  Want to get to the Sermons page faster, type “sermons.orlutheran.com”
   

Our Redeemer Lutheran Church is a member congregation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. Standing within the heritage of the 16th Century Lutheran Reformation, grounded in the Holy Scriptures, we believe, teach, and confess the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the pure Word of God as it is faithfully confessed in the Book of Concord, 1580. We preach Jesus Christ, true God and man, crucified for our sins, risen from the dead, the only Way to heaven. We are evangelical, stressing the Gospel of justification by grace through faith alone, but also catholic, that is, our faith is one with the ancient Christian Church. With the ancient Church and the Lutheran Reformation we believe that Christians must be concerned about what we believe as well as how we live. There can be no pious life without pure doctrine.

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