Psalms Bible Study — This Coming Wednesday (8/27)
In the Psalms God speaks to us, His people. God speaks to us about many different topics in the Psalms like: His existence, the Messiah, forgiveness, doubt, thanksgiving and many more! Join us each Wednesday for worship at 2:00 p.m. followed by a 30 min. Bible Study (starting at 2:30 p.m.) as we study a different Psalm each week for a total of 12 weeks. God truly is speaking to us, come and hear what He is saying!
In the Psalms God speaks to us, His people. God speaks to us about many different topics in the Psalms like: His existence, the Messiah, forgiveness, doubt, thanksgiving and many more! Join us each Wednesday for worship at 2:00 p.m. followed by a 30 min. Bible Study hosted by Pastor Grimenstein (starting at 2:30 p.m.) as we study a different Psalm each week for a total of 12 weeks. God truly is speaking to us, come and hear what He is saying!
Pastor’s Corner
“Hey Satan, I Have Something to Say to You!”
I know we talk to God. We pray, we sing, we talk out loud to God in our homes and while we are driving. I think that is normal and expected of Christians. Let me ask you something maybe a bit unex-pected . . . have you ever talked to the devil? Now, I do NOT mean that you pray or sing or talk to the devil in the same way we talk to God. But, have you ever said anything to the devil?
Full disclosure: I have. I have not “talked” to the devil so much as I have basically “told him off.” I was thinking about this unusual phenomenon on Sunday when we were singing hymn #594 “God’s Own Child, I Gladly Say It.” This hymn has 5 stanzas to it. The 1st and 5th are proclamations of what Christ has done for us. But stanzas 2, 3 & 4 are not addressed to God. Stanza 2 has us speaking to “sin.” Stanza 3 has us speaking to “Satan.” And Stanza 4 has us speaking to “death.” But we are not talking to this unholy Trin-ity as we do a friend or God. Instead, we are “talking” to them by basically telling them that they have all utterly failed to separate us from Christ. Stanza 3, which is addressed to Satan, says this (and please note how YOU are the one doing the talking in this stanza!):
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“Hey Satan, I Have Something to Say to You!”
I know we talk to God. We pray, we sing, we talk out loud to God in our homes and while we are driving. I think that is normal and expected of Christians. Let me ask you something maybe a bit unex-pected . . . have you ever talked to the devil? Now, I do NOT mean that you pray or sing or talk to the devil in the same way we talk to God. But, have you ever said anything to the devil?
Full disclosure: I have. I have not “talked” to the devil so much as I have basically “told him off.” I was thinking about this unusual phenomenon on Sunday when we were singing hymn #594 “God’s Own Child, I Gladly Say It.” This hymn has 5 stanzas to it. The 1st and 5th are proclamations of what Christ has done for us. But stanzas 2, 3 & 4 are not addressed to God. Stanza 2 has us speaking to “sin.” Stanza 3 has us speaking to “Satan.” And Stanza 4 has us speaking to “death.” But we are not talking to this unholy Trin-ity as we do a friend or God. Instead, we are “talking” to them by basically telling them that they have all utterly failed to separate us from Christ. Stanza 3, which is addressed to Satan, says this (and please note how YOU are the one doing the talking in this stanza!):
Satan, hear this proclamation:
I am baptized into Christ!
Drop your ugly accusation,
I am not so soon enticed.
Now that to the font I’ve traveled,
All your might has come unraveled,
And, against your tyranny,
God, my Lord, unites with me!
Well, it looks like I am not the only one who has said something to Satan, all of us have! And what we have reminded Satan is that Christ has beaten him and united Himself to us in baptism (we also remind “sin” and “death” that they have also lost in the other stanzas).
Jesus Christ is doing such amazing things for you through His death and resurrection all of which have been poured over you in baptism. When you have a chance check out the other stanzas from hymn #594 and remind yourself of all the wonderful things Christ has done for you. And while you are at it, go ahead and have a conversation with “sin, Satan, and death.” Remind them they have lost and because of Christ, you have won!
-- Pastor Grimenstein
Zion’s “Bridge Builder” Event
South Fayette Township Community Day
Saturday, August 23 • 11:00 a.m.. to 5:00 p.m. at Fairview Park, South Fayette
Come participate in our first Bridge Builders event! Bridge Builders is Zion's initiative to reach out and further connect with our community and preschool families. We will host a booth at community day. There are opportunities to help with set up, clean up, or manning the booth. You can sign up for a time slot through our E-blast or website. This is a great opportunity to connect with our neighbors!
South Fayette Township Community Day
Saturday, August 23 • 11:00 a.m.. to 5:00 p.m. at Fairview Park, South Fayette
Come participate in our first Bridge Builders event! Bridge Builders is Zion's initiative to reach out and further connect with our community and preschool families. We will host a booth at community day. There are opportunities to help with set up, clean up, or manning the booth. You can sign up for a time slot through our E-blast or website. This is a great opportunity to connect with our neighbors!
ONLINE GIVING
In case you didn’t know, you can support Zion Lutheran Church using a secure, online donation method vs. weekly envelopes at zlcb.org/donate (A.K.A. eservicepayments.com). You can select options like:
Sunday Offering
Altar Flowers
Eternal Light
Memorial Contributions
If you have any questions or concerns, contact Mary Lou Rilee, Financial Secretary.
In case you didn’t know, you can support Zion Lutheran Church using a secure, online donation method vs. weekly envelopes at zlcb.org/donate (A.K.A. eservicepayments.com). You can select options like:
Sunday Offering
Altar Flowers
Eternal Light
Memorial Contributions
If you have any questions or concerns, contact Mary Lou Rilee, Financial Secretary.
VIDEO: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 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 for Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Worship Service: 2:00 p.m. with communion
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. - Psalm 32 with Pastor Grimenstein
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative
Visit our YouTube channel — Click the red “subscribe” box, and then click on the “bell” next to that box to receive Live Streaming notifications. You must be logged into YouTube to activate these features.
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of BULLETINS
AUDIO: Readings & Sermon for Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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 Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Worship Service: 2:00 p.m. with communion
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. - Psalm 32 with Pastor Grimenstein
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative
Visit our YouTube channel — Click the red “subscribe” box, and then click on the “bell” next to that box to receive Live Streaming notifications. You must be logged into YouTube to activate these features.
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of BULLETINS
2 Samuel 12:1-25
And the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. The rich man had very many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him. Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.” Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’” David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die. Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child who is born to you shall die.” Then Nathan went to his house.
1 Corinthians 12:1-13
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
The Ten Commandments
What is the eighth commandment?
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
What does this mean?
We should fear and love God so that we do not tell lies about our neighbor, betray him, slander him, or hurt his reputation, but defend him, speak well of him, and explain everything in the kindest way.
Bulletin: Wednesday, August 20, 2025
View the Wednesday Bulletin for August 20, 2025
Click to download the Wednesday Bulletin which includes all of the scripture readings and the Order of Service. Posted later in the day you will find an audio-only recording of the announcements (if there are any), readings and sermon. Also posted later in the day you will be able to view the entire service on our YouTube channel – broadcast live at 2:00 p.m. For an archive of bulletins visit: BULLETINS. For an archive of Sermons, visit SERMONS. For an archive of videos, visit VIDEOS.
View the Bulletin for Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Worship Service: 2:00 p.m. with communion
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. - Psalm 32 with Pastor Grimenstein
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative
Visit our YouTube channel — Click the red “subscribe” box, and then click on the “bell” next to that box to receive Live Streaming notifications. You must be logged into YouTube to activate these features.
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of BULLETINS