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President’s Perspective
Let's Take a Little Walk ...
Hopefully, you've all had a nice summer! The activity at your church is really picking up as usual now that Preschool is getting back in session and our Sunday School is about to start a new year. Rally Day is September 8th with the All Church Picnic to follow. Hope you all can make it. We are blessed.
Once the north wing project is over, (hopefully it should be by the time of this printing), the Trustees will throttle back a bit and cruise into the autumn in a lower gear. If you see a Trustee, or our custodian, Jim, give them a well-earned "thank you" for all that has been done at Zion.
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Let's Take a Little Walk ...
Hopefully, you've all had a nice summer! The activity at your church is really picking up as usual now that Preschool is getting back in session and our Sunday School is about to start a new year. Rally Day is September 8th with the All Church Picnic to follow. Hope you all can make it. We are blessed.
Once the north wing project is over, (hopefully it should be by the time of this printing), the Trustees will throttle back a bit and cruise into the autumn in a lower gear. If you see a Trustee, or our custodian, Jim, give them a well-earned "thank you" for all that has been done at Zion.
We're looking for a few good members to step up to the plate in the coming elections for church officers . Specifically, we'll be needing a new President, Vice President and Chair of the Board of Education when we vote on October 20th at the Regular Quarterly Voters Meeting. If you're interested, please talk to Tom Erbrecht or myself in the coming weeks. Don't wait. Let the Spirit move you and raise your hand. You can find out more about these positions by accessing our website and taking a look at the Constitution, or contacting Tom or me. We could also welcome a few more Trustees if anyone is interested in helping out with the maintenance and operations of the campus facilities.
If you're not attending Adult/Teen Bible Class these days, you're missing a really nice study and discussion of the book of Romans, a very important book to our Christian doctrine. Bible Class is right in between the services so it's convenient. If you're an 8AM church attendee, what's another hour of your time to enjoy hearing some foundational instruction on our doctrine and faith? How difficult is it to show up an hour early to enjoy fellowship with your brothers and sisters before you partake of Word and Sacrament at the late service? The Word is the armor and the way things are going in our society and the world, we cannot get enough of "truth" and love through hearing and considering what our God is trying to have us believe. You have to make the effort and make the first move. The opportunity is at Zion to strengthen your faith and fight the foe!
In James 4:7...10, it's written: "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you ... Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will exalt you." In Micah 6:8, we read, "He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"
Take a little walk to Bible Class and draw nearer to the Word. Watch that devil flee from you. Pray for the Christians on this orb, our LCMS, our District, Circuit and of course---your home here at Zion. Amen.
– Paul Klemash
New Events Page
Zion has a new EVENTS PAGE on the website. It features:
You can even add EVENTS that interest you to your Google Calendar
More events are being added on a regular basis!
Zion has a new EVENTS PAGE on the website. It features:
You can even add EVENTS that interest you to your Google Calendar
More events are being added on a regular basis!
VIDEO: Sunday September 15, 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.
AUDIO: Announcements, Readings, Sermon and Choir for Sunday September 15, 2024
This audio-only file includes all the readings from scripture, along with the sermon — and when available, the announcements, adult choir, men’s choir, and/or bell choir. Also posted along with the audio file is the text for all the scripture readings, and a link to the current bulletin, and our YouTube channel if you prefer to watch the LIVE Stream.
View the bulletin for Sunday, September 15, 2024
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
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Old Testament Reading -- Isaiah 50:4–10
The Lord God has given me
the tongue of those who are taught,
that I may know how to sustain with a word
him who is weary.
Morning by morning he awakens;
he awakens my ear
to hear as those who are taught.
The Lord God has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious;
I turned not backward.
I gave my back to those who strike,
and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;
I hid not my face
from disgrace and spitting.
But the Lord God helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
He who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
Behold, the Lord God helps me;
who will declare me guilty?
Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment;
the moth will eat them up.
Who among you fears the Lord
and obeys the voice of his servant?
Let him who walks in darkness
and has no light
trust in the name of the Lord
and rely on his God.
Epistle Reading -- James 3:1–12
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. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark, the ninth chapter
When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to [Jesus] and greeted him. And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.” And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.” And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” And Jesus said to him, “If you can! All things are possible for one who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.” But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”
Chili Cook-Off Fundraiser at Zion
Zion Lutheran Youth Group Presents a Chili Cook-Off Fundraiser and Steeler’s Watch Party
Sunday, September 29, 2024 starting at 11:30 a.m. with Steeler Kick-off at 1:00 p.m.
All members are invited to enter a crockpot of chili.
Sign up in the Narthex to enter and/or attend!
Hot prizes for the best chilis!
Vote with your dollars!
Cash donations benefit the Zion Youth Gathering trip in July 2025
Don’t confuse Zion’s Youth Group Fundraiser with the South Fayette Chili Cook Off held in October 2024
Zion Lutheran Youth Group Presents a Chili Cook-Off Fundraiser and Steeler’s Watch Party
Sunday, September 29, 2024 starting at 11:30 a.m. with Steeler Kick-off at 1:00 p.m.
All members are invited to enter a crockpot of chili.
Sign up in the Narthex to enter and/or attend!
Hot prizes for the best chilis!
Vote with your dollars!
Cash donations benefit the Zion Youth Gathering trip in July 2025
Don’t confuse Zion’s Youth Group Fundraiser with the South Fayette Chili Cook Off held in October 2024
Bulletin: Sunday September 15, 2024
Download/view the latest bulletin. It’s filled with our hymns, the order of service, all the readings from scripture, prayer requests for family & friends, service participants, communion statement, about our worship, the schedule of events for this coming weeks, along with announcements, news updates, happenings, and more!
View the bulletin for Sunday, September 15, 2024
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of Bulletins
THIS WEEK AT ZION
Saturday September 14
No Event’s Scheduled
Sunday September 15
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 Game Night (additional details)
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Monday September 16
6:00 p.m. - Grace Bell Choir Practice
6:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class - 2nd year
7:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class - 1nd year
Tuesday September 17
6:15 p.m. - Faith Bell Choir Practice
7:15 p.m. - Adult Choir Practice
Wednesday September 18
2:00 p.m. - Mid-Week Worship Service with Communion
2:30 p.m. - 30 min. Bible Study - The Book of “Hebrews”
(Each Bible study session starts with a review of the previous Bible Study)
(The 2:00 p.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Thursday September 19
6:00 p.m. - Adult Confirmation Class (additional details)
6:00 p.m. - Deaconess Welcome Dinner at Atria’s in Peters Township (DETAILS)
Friday September 20
6:00 p.m. - CLM Power of the Purse Fundraiser (DETAILS)
LWML Woman’s retreat at Pioneer on the Lake (DETAILS)
Saturday September 21
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Private party in the Fellowship Hall
LWML Woman’s retreat at Pioneer on the Lake (DETAILS)
Sunday September 22
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 Game Night (additional details)
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
LWML Woman’s retreat at Pioneer on the Lake (DETAILS)