Bulletin: Sunday March 17, 2024
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THIS WEEK AT ZION:
Saturday March 16
No Events Scheduled
Sunday March 17
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Adult/Teen Bible Study & Sunday School
10:30 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
6:00 p.m. - Youth Group Top Golf Outing (Additional Details)
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Monday March 18
6:00 p.m. - 1st Year Confirmation Class
6:30 p.m. - Faith Bell Choir Practice
7:00 p.m. - 2nd Year Confirmation Class
Tuesday March 19
6:15 p.m. - Grace Bell Choir Practice
7:15 p.m. - Adult Choir Practice
Wednesday March 20 (Lent Week 5)
2:00 p.m. - Worship Service with Communion, the 2:30 p.m. Bible Study might not happen this week
7:00 p.m. - Worship Service with Communion (No Bible Study)
Thursday March 21
No Event’s Scheduled
Friday March 22
5:00 p.m. - Preschool Ice Cream Social in Fellowship Hall
Saturday March 23
No Events Scheduled
Sunday March 24
PALM SUNDAY
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Adult/Teen Bible Study & Sunday School
10:30 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Life Thoughts in the Church Year
March 24 – Palm Sunday/Passion of Our Lord – Sinful nature prizes popularity, property, and power. It despises dependence and discards aging or gestating neighbors because of it. But Jesus proves that God has designed humankind to rely on Him and each other. His salvation comes about by humbly and happily entrusting oneself to an Almighty Father (Philippians 2:6-8). We need not take life and death into our own hands when we can rest upon His.
March 31 – Resurrection of Our Lord – The Scriptures do not limit the sanctity of human life to a few isolated passages. Almighty God has made survival and salvation, abundant and everlasting, the point of the whole story. He intends His resurrection to encompass and affect every member of our race and every moment of our existence, from fertilization to forever. This is nothing less than the Gospel of the Lord (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)!
March 24 – Palm Sunday/Passion of Our Lord – Sinful nature prizes popularity, property, and power. It despises dependence and discards aging or gestating neighbors because of it. But Jesus proves that God has designed humankind to rely on Him and each other. His salvation comes about by humbly and happily entrusting oneself to an Almighty Father (Philippians 2:6-8). We need not take life and death into our own hands when we can rest upon His.
March 31 – Resurrection of Our Lord – The Scriptures do not limit the sanctity of human life to a few isolated passages. Almighty God has made survival and salvation, abundant and everlasting, the point of the whole story. He intends His resurrection to encompass and affect every member of our race and every moment of our existence, from fertilization to forever. This is nothing less than the Gospel of the Lord (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)!
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Woman’s Book Club - Saturday April 20th
Woman’s Brunch & Book Club
NEW DATE AND TIME … There’s still time to read!
Based on historical fact, this novel, written by a beloved LCMS author, portrays Pilate’s rise to power, his politicking with national and religious leaders, and his pronouncement of a verdict that changed the world.
Saturday, April 20, 2024 @ 10:30 a.m. in Zion’s Fellowship Hall
Book available at Amazon or CPH
Woman’s Brunch & Book Club
NEW DATE AND TIME … There’s still time to read!
Based on historical fact, this novel, written by a beloved LCMS author, portrays Pilate’s rise to power, his politicking with national and religious leaders, and his pronouncement of a verdict that changed the world.
Saturday, April 20, 2024 @ 10:30 a.m. in Zion’s Fellowship Hall
Join us for Easter Breakfast!
Join us for the … ZION EASTER BREAKFAST!
Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024
Join us in the Fellowship Hall in between Services
Where do you fit?
Volunteers are needed: Make egg casseroles (recipe & pan provided), make fruit salad (bowl provided), help set up, help clean up, help serve.
Sign up in the Church Narthex or email events@zlcb.org
Join us for the … ZION EASTER BREAKFAST!
Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024
Join us in the Fellowship Hall in between Services
Where do you fit? Volunteers are needed:
Make egg casseroles (recipe & pan provided), make fruit salad (bowl provided), help set up, help clean up, help serve.
Sign up in the Church Narthex or email events@zlcb.org
Bingo anyone?
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Zion Events Committee Co-Chairs Megan Pasquini and Deborah Sterba, along with the team, kicked off the new year with good fun, fellowship, and food. More than 60 members and guests came out for Zion's Bingo & Potluck Night on Friday, March 1st. It was a rousing good time with Pastor G as Bingo Caller! The lucky winners posed with their prizes at the end of the festivities. A great time was had by all!
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Zion Events Committee Co-Chairs Megan Pasquini and Deborah Sterba, along with the team, kicked off the new year with good fun, fellowship, and food. More than 60 members and guests came out for Zion's Bingo & Potluck Night on Friday, March 1st. It was a rousing good time with Pastor G as Bingo Caller! The lucky winners posed with their prizes at the end of the festivities. A great time was had by all!
COMING UP SOON:
Our next Zion Event will be Easter Sunday Breakfast! Check the narthex posters to sign up to attend and/or bring food.
See you there!
VIDEO: Wednesday March 13, 2024 - Complete Service
Each service at Zion Lutheran Church (normally the first of our two services) is streamed LIVE on our YouTube channel. This includes Sunday’s, Wednesday’s, Lenten, Advent and special services. The entire service is streamed from beginning-to-end. Weddings and Funerals can also be streamed, if requested in advance.
View the Bulletin forWednesday, March 13, 2024
2:00 p.m. - Worship Service with Communion
2:30 p.m. - 30 min. Bible Study following the 2:00 p.m. service
7:00 p.m. - Worship Service with Communion
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative
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AUDIO: Readings & Sermon for Wednesday, March 13, 2024
EMPTY WORDS (from today’s bulletin)
You are daily assailed by empty words: idle small talk, advertising slogans, and news reports that play on your fears. Political and business leaders spew cant, clichés, and spin. Perhaps even your friends and family get in on the act, betraying you with flattery and falsehoods. King David was only too familiar with such afflictions: “When one comes to see me,” he said, “he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity; when he goes out, he tells it abroad” (Psalm 41:6). Our Lord’s powerful Word was David’s refuge from vain and malicious talk. It is your refuge too. In Baptism, Jesus Christ has lifted you out of the verbal cesspool and placed you firmly on the rock of His Word. That Word is never empty, but it shall accomplish that which He purposes for you.
View the Bulletin forWednesday, March 13, 2024
2:00 p.m. - Worship Service with Communion
2:30 p.m. - 30 min. Bible Study following the 2:00 p.m. service
7:00 p.m. - Worship Service with Communion
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative
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First Reading -- Psalm 52:1-9
Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
You love evil more than good,
and lying more than speaking what is right.
You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch and tear you from your tent;
He will uproot you from the land of the living.
The righteous shall see and fear,
and shall laugh at him, saying,
“See the man who would not make
God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”
But I am like a green olive tree
in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
forever and ever.
I will thank You forever,
because You have done it.
I will wait for Your name, for it is good,
in the presence of the godly.
Second Reading -- James 3:1-10
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things.
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Third Reading -- Matthew 26:57-62
Then those who had seized Jesus led Him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. And Peter was following Him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end. Now the chief priests and the whole Council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might
put Him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’” And the high priest stood up and said, “Have You no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against You?”