Pilgrim Worship Sunday March 30, 2025

 

Pilgrim Lutheran Church

The Fourth Sunday in Lent

March 30, 2025

We're thankful you've come here to watch our service and to worship the one true God!

This was another exciting Sunday at Pilgrim Lutheran Church!  Once again, we had lots of great activities going on, starting with our Adult Bible study at 9:15 am, then our 10:30 am Worship service.  Afterward, we gathered for food and conversations, while the children enjoyed Sunday School.  These classes are full of activities and teaching, so the children learn how much God loves them!

If you live in the Burton area, please consider joining us on Sunday mornings!  Anyone can watch our services live on Facebook or later on Pilgrim's website.

Here is information about this worship service:

SCRIPTURE READINGS

   Old Testament: Isaiah 12:1–6

        Psalm: Psalm 32

       Epistle: 2 Corinthians 5:16–21

              Gospel: Luke 15:1–3, 11–32

THEME FOR WORSHIP

The season of Lent is a time of penitence, a season of reflection on our sinful condition.  The Holy Spirit draws us to focus on specific sins by which we have grieved our heavenly Father.  Our reflections bring us to realize that we deserve nothing but punishment.  But God, in His abundant mercy deals with us according to His steadfast love, and He blots out all our transgressions.

We are God’s prodigal children, wandering off into sins of all kinds, but we’ve been reconciled to the Father for the sake of His one faithful Son, who endured the cross on our behalf.  The Father welcomes you back into His open arms, because Jesus saved you with His open arms!

To watch the video of today's service, please click HERE.

Your servant in Christ,

Pastor Mark

Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS    Burton, Michigan

office:  810.744.1188   

We are Pilgrims with a Purpose:  
       Sharing God’s Love & Mercy with Each Other & the World.

Pilgrim Website           Pilgrim Facebook page

Soli Deo Gloria

"Restore us, O God, let Your face shine, that we may be saved!"  Psalm 80:3 

Thursday Psalms: Free & Forever Forgiveness!

 

Today's psalm is one of six penitential psalms, which speak about our confession of our sins and the forgiveness which God gives to us.  David speaks of this daily rhythm in our lives:  sinning, confessing, and being forgiven. Every day you drown your old sinful self in the waters of your baptism and by God's forgiveness, your new self rises up, clean & ready for the new day coming.

Psalm 32:1:7  

¹ Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,

      whose sin is covered.

² Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,

      and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

³ For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away

      through my groaning all day long.

⁴ For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;

      my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.

⁵ I acknowledged my sin to You, and I did not cover my iniquity;

      I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”

           and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.

⁶ Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to You at a time when You may be found;

      surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach Him.

⁷ You are a hiding place for me;

      You preserve me from trouble;

     You surround me with shouts of deliverance.

Each one of us knows the guilt & shame from our sins, which build up, burning within us.  As long as we keep silent, we groan and feel the convicting hand of God resting upon us.  Eventually we come to our senses and exclaim with David “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”.  Then, like a fever which finally breaks, we feel the cooling rush of God's forgiveness.  Once again we know how blessed we are to be a loved and forgiven child of God.

Give thanks to God that He has given you faith to trust in Him, faith which draws you to humbly confess your sins and receive God's free and forever forgiveness!

Your servant in Christ,

Pastor Mark

Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS    Burton, Michigan

office:  810.744.1188 

We are Pilgrims with a Purpose:  

     Sharing God’s Love & Mercy with Each Other & the World.

Pilgrim Website       Pilgrim Facebook page

Soli Deo Gloria

"Restore us, O God, let Your face shine, that we may be saved!"  Psalm 80:3  

Pilgrim Worship Wednesday March 26, 2025

 

Pilgrim Lutheran Church

Wednesday Lenten Vespers

March 26, 2025

We're thankful you've come here to watch our service and to worship the one true God!

Here is information about this worship service:

SCRIPTURE READINGS

   Old Testament:   2 Kings 5:1-14

                Psalm:   Psalm 103

               Epistle:   Acts 3:1-10

               Gospel:   Matthew 8:1-17

OUR THEME FOR WORSHIP:  The Hand of the Lord Who Heals the Sick

The outstretched hand of Jesus is willing to reach out to the lives of the untouchable. The leper asking if the Lord willed that he be clean is greeted not only with a yes but also with the hand that touches the unclean. No one is out of the reach of Jesus. In Jesus, the unclean become clean.

In Christ’s cross, He “took our illnesses and bore our diseases” (Matthew 8:17; see also Isaiah 53:4). He who did not know sin even became sin for us in order to make us righteous (2 Corinthians 5:21). In reaching out to us, touching the unclean, our Lord has taken our infirmities to the cross and given us His perfect forgiveness and life.

To watch the video of today's service, please click HERE.

Your servant in Christ,

Pastor Mark

Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS    Burton, Michigan

office:  810.744.1188   

We are Pilgrims with a Purpose:  
       Sharing God’s Love & Mercy with Each Other & the World.

Pilgrim Website           Pilgrim Facebook page

Soli Deo Gloria

"Restore us, O God, let Your face shine, that we may be saved!"  Psalm 80:3