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“I don’t think the culture is as bad as it was in the days of Noah. The Bible makes it clear that only eight people went through the door of the Ark to be saved…. Now we do have rampant sin in our culture. And in many ways, I believe Romans 1 is a description of what is happening in our Western World…. [ 66 more words ] https://trinityh.org/37a-creation-not-as-bad-as-it-was/

"Of all the religious beliefs in the world, past or present, none have more thoroughly based themselves on history than Judaism and Christianity. the divine-human encounter in the biblical faith always involves claims about real people, living in real places, who acted in real events in the past, many of which are also cited in secular history. ...Judeo-Christianity's Scripture encompass a two-thousand-year-plus period--two millennia in which its holy books constantly interlaced themselves with history" ("In the Fullness of Time" by Paul L. [ 213 more words ] https://trinityh.org/gospel-reset-bible-class-pt-20-moving-forward-3/

The first work is that we should honor our own father and mother. This honoring does not consist in merely showing them all deference. It means that we obey them, have regard for what they do and what they say, esteem them highly, give way to them, and accept what they say. It means that we endure their treatment of us without complaint, so long as it is not contrary to the first three commandments, and, in addition, provide them with food, clothing, and shelter when they are in need. [ 226 more words ] https://trinityh.org/52-honor-is-more-than-love/

Dust off your Book of Concord and start reading. Sunday, September 1, we will begin a new 9-month Bible study on the Book of Concord. You keep saying that you are going to read through it. Well, here is your chance. I have provided a reading guide, so your new Adam can whack that recalcitrant old Adam with it each day. [ 226 more words ] https://trinityh.org/book-of-concord-bible-study-starts-september-1-2019/

With this class, we continue looking at the "Four Points Raised in John Warwick Montgomery’s article, 'Christian Apologetics in the Light of the Lutheran Confessions.'” Today's class looks at points three and four. 3. After the fall, man has a bound will in spiritual matters (Ephesians 2:1, "dead in trespasses and sins.") Nevertheless, man still has freedom of the will in non-spiritual matters. [ 464 more words ] https://trinityh.org/gospel-reset-bible-class-pt-19-moving-forward-2/

“No matter what’s going on in the culture, we need to be doing what God has clearly instructed us to do. We’re to be about the business of the King, preaching the Gospel, giving answers, and contending for the faith (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; 1 Peter 3:15; Jude 1:3). “…but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence (1 Peter 3:15, NASB).” (Gospel Reset by Ken Ham, p.85). https://trinityh.org/36a-creation-doing-the-lords-bidding/

In previous classes we have defined Apologetics as the scientific validation of the truth and absoluteness of the Christian religion against unbelief on the basis of human reason and science. We previously looked at 1 Peter 3:15 and Jude 1:3, but these came up short as proof texts to support apologetics. It would seem that the right use and limits for apologetics may be a bit more complex. [ 257 more words ] https://trinityh.org/gospel-reset-bible-class-pt-18-apologetics-moving-forward/

One of our dear members, + Clayton Westerman +, received the heavenly vision of his Savior, when he passed from this life last night(Monday, Aug 12). Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.

By soothing the Galatians this way Paul prepares their minds to bear the fatherly rebukes with filial feeling. This is like tempering absinthe or bitter medicine with honey and sugar to make it sweet again. Thus when parents have given their children a sound thrashing, they soothe them by offering them cookies, cakes, pears, apples, and such little presents, by which the children recognize that the parents meant it for their good, even though the punishment was severe. (Luther’s Works, v. 26 p.417) https://trinityh.org/51-after-a-sound-thrashing-cookies/

“In fact, it’s just the opposite! It’s when we find ourselves in the midst of a ‘crooked and perverse generation’ that we are to appear as ‘lights in the world’ (Philippians 2;15). Paul told the Romans that the truth about the coming of the Lord is motivation to ‘wake up’ and ‘put on the armor of light,’ not to sit around passively and let culture go to hell…. [ 33 more words ] https://trinityh.org/35a-creation-shine-more-brightly/

On the other hand, if one stubbornly insists on the force of the Greek word, namely, that κατὰ πρόσωπον, “according to face,” always means “according to appearance”—as in John 7:24: “Do not judge by appearances”—this still does not demand the conclusion that there was hypocrisy on Paul’s part. On the contrary, the sense will be this: Paul was indeed in earnest when he opposed Peter and rebuked him verbally, but he did not do so from a malicious heart. [ 179 more words ] https://trinityh.org/50-harsh-to-the-face-affectionate-in-the-heart/

Another passage used to support the task of apologetics is Jude 1:3, "...Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly (ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι) for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints." In context, the way in which we contend for the faith is by a Scriptural defense of the faith, and not an exhortation to make a scientific defense of the Christian faith by natural knowledge and human reason. [ 195 more words ] https://trinityh.org/gospel-reset-bible-class-pt-17-apologetics-2/

“It’s a worldview issue that flows out of your foundation, either from God’s Word or man’s word. It’s a spiritual issue. Those with a man-based foundation will have a different worldview from those whose foundation comes from Scripture. This is why we view moral issues differently. What morally ‘right’ to one will not necessarily be ‘right’ to the other. Christians with a moral foundation coming from the God’s Word will often clash with those whose foundation is built on human reasoning” (Gospel Reset by Ken Ham, p.77-78). https://trinityh.org/34a-creation-different-worldview/

Those who encourage apologetics almost always cite First Peter 3:15, "... always be ready to give a defense{ἀπολογίαν} to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you...." The Greek word, apologia {ἀπολογία}, simply means to give a defense against objections. In context, there is nothing to suggest anything other than a defense by means of Scriptural evidence. [ 59 more words ] https://trinityh.org/gospel-reset-bible-class-pt-16-apologetics/

It is the duty of good parents to instruct their children from childhood in the fear of God on the basis of sound literature of Christian women. Here we see that a pig will train a pig, but that human parents do not know anything. Such a man is not even pagan; he is beastly. Matrons, Paul wants to say, have no need to wear themselves out with foolish and self-chosen works. [ 85 more words ] https://trinityh.org/49-fathers-do-not-neglect-your-own-household/

“Many in my generation would never have though there would be a time in our Western world when the Bible would be accused of being a book of hate speak and be so ‘outlawed’ from a culture. And yet, this is starting to happen in our Western world…. In these nations, when Christians speak up against gay ‘marriage,’ gender fluidity, or abortion, it is considered ‘hate speech,’ and attempts are being made to try to outlaw such speech” (Gospel Reset by Ken Ham, p.76). https://trinityh.org/33a-creation-hate-speech/

On Wednesday nights, Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL) offers to both children and adults an opportunity for teaching with Learn-by-Heart at 6:30 PM and a catechetical service at 7:00. In this video from June 26, 2019, we learned stanza 3 of “My Inmost Heart Now Raises" (The Lutheran Hymnal #548) and the Morning and Evening Prayer. This service is designed to prepare God’s people for the theme of the upcoming Sunday Divine Service. [ 37 more words ] https://trinityh.org/catechesis-on-trinity-two-st-luke-1619-31/

Thus he instructs matrons to be good teachers and to train younger women to love their husbands and children. I have said what it means to love one’s husband, namely, not merely to cohabit with him but to respect one’s husband, to regard him as lord, to submit to him in all things, not to be domineering. This is a rare quality in a woman, for the female sex inclines naturally toward what is forbidden to it; it wants to reign, to rule, and to judge. [ 118 more words ] https://trinityh.org/48-matrons-train-younger-women-to-love-their-husbands-and-children/

The several descriptions of American culture given in the book, Gospel Reset, imply that the former cooperation between public schools and the church (e.g. the Bible, prayer and Christian worldview, see page 17) gave American society a foundational knowledge for understanding morality and salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. Page 14 says, "... many in our culture simply don't have any foundation to comprehend the message of Christ, ever since the Bible and Christianity have been kicked out of schools and replaced with the godless religion of secular humanism" (p.14). [ 273 more words ] https://trinityh.org/gospel-reset-bible-class-pt-15-not-confusing-the-estates/

“Coming generations, for the most part, don’t understand the holiness of God and what sin really is. They are all confused. That’s why many think that if you are a good person, you can get to heaven. Many won’t oppose gay ‘marriage.’ They are so used to taking man’s ideas like ‘millions of years’ and adding that to God’s Word, so they take man’s ideas about marriage and add that to God’s Word as well They have been taught that one’s feelings determine truth, and it’s all about love. [ 34 more words ] https://trinityh.org/32a-creation-truth-and-holiness/

There were many scary dinosaurs at the Creation Museum. With Karin Henson

A little practice after Matins, but before the Divine Service.

The beginning of the Service of Light at Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL) on Saturday, April 15, 2017.

Our organist, LeeAnn Byrne, has graciously allowed Jacob Henson who is taking organ lesson this year to jump in and play a hymn and postlude for our Easter service. Here he is practicing.

Almost all of the choir practicing for the Divine Service at 10:15 AM.

Kyrie, Eleison (Lord, have mercy) at the Children's Christmas Program 2015

We are practicing for the Children's Christmas Program tomorrow December 13 at 3 pm

The Light of Christ Processional at Easter Vigil 2015

Deacon Gary Harroun and Pastor Michael Henson

The killer whale show. Most impressive.