VIDEO: Sunday, September 7, 2025 - Complete Service
Each service at Zion Lutheran Church (normally the first of our two Sunday services) is streamed LIVE on our YouTube channel. These streams are for 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 & Choir for Sunday, September 7, 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.
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Old Testament Reading -- Deuteronomy 30:15–20
“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
Epistle -- Philemon 1–21
Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,
To Philemon our beloved fellow worker and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints, and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required, yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment. (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.) I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel, but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will. For this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me. If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account. I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self. Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, the fourteenth chapter
Now great crowds accompanied [Jesus], and he turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
“Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Adult Choir -- Assurance (8:00 a.m. service)
Food Bank Sunday: Sunday, Sept. 14th
The September collection for the Bridgeville Area Food Bank is Sunday, September 14th. The “items of the month” are PERSONAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS.
Items may be placed in the wicker bin in the narthex near the coat rack. Thank you for supporting this vital community service!
At the August distribution, 106 families were assisted which included 39 children, 84 adults and 78 of the elderly.
The September collection for the Bridgeville Area Food Bank is Sunday, September 14th. The “items of the month” are PERSONAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS.
Items may be placed in the wicker bin in the narthex near the coat rack. Thank you for supporting this vital community service!
At the August distribution, 106 families were assisted which included 39 children, 84 adults and 78 of the elderly.
Where do you fit? … The Board of Trustees
WHO:
Any adult man or woman who is a member of Zion.
WHAT:
Maintain all the buildings (interiors and exteriors) and grounds of the church campus.
WHERE:
Tasks and oversight of physical property are conducted throughout the church campus. Meetings held in Conference Room
WHEN:
Tasks are performed throughout the month as needed. Meetings are the first Monday of the month at 7 PM.
WHY:
As stewards of the physical property God has entrusted to Zion, Trustees seek to ensure the church campus is functional, attractive, and safe to support and enhance congregational use and outreach.
HOW:
Utilize board members’ time and talents when possible to perform tasks
Establish and utilize professional services when warranted
Encourage congregational participation through all-church workdays and TO DO LIST sign-ups as needed
Contact Trustee Chair Mike Debowski: mike.j.debowski@gmail.com
WHO:
Any adult man or woman who is a member of Zion.
WHAT:
Maintain all the buildings (interiors and exteriors) and grounds of the church campus.
WHERE:
Tasks and oversight of physical property are conducted throughout the church campus. Meetings held in Conference Room
WHEN:
Tasks are performed throughout the month as needed. Meetings are the first Monday of the month at 7 PM.
WHY:
As stewards of the physical property God has entrusted to Zion, Trustees seek to ensure the church campus is functional, attractive, and safe to support and enhance congregational use and outreach.
HOW:
Utilize board members’ time and talents when possible to perform tasks
Establish and utilize professional services when warranted
Encourage congregational participation through all-church workdays and TO DO LIST sign-ups as needed
Contact Trustee Chair Mike Debowski: mike.j.debowski@gmail.com
RALLY DAY is Sunday September 7, 2025
Join us for Rally Day at Zion Lutheran Church
Sunday, September 7, 2025 starting at 9:15 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall
Coffee, juice, cinnamon rolls, sausage, yogurt, fruit, donut holes, and breakfast sandwiches will be served!
Each child will receive a Rally Day goodie bag!
Student age 3-11 will meet their teachers and be dismissed to their Sunday School classrooms.
Adults/teens will stay in the Fellowship Hall for Bible Study.
Join us for Rally Day at Zion Lutheran Church
Sunday, September 7, 2025 starting at 9:15 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall
Coffee, juice, cinnamon rolls, sausage, yogurt, fruit, donut holes, and breakfast sandwiches will be served!
Each child will receive a Rally Day goodie bag!
Student age 3-11 will meet their teachers and be dismissed to their Sunday School classrooms.
Adults/teens will stay in the Fellowship Hall for Bible Study.
Bulletin: Sunday, September 7, 2025 + This Week at Zion
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 7, 2025
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THIS WEEK AT ZION
Saturday September 6
No Events Scheduled
Sunday September 7
RALLY DAY
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Rally Day Opening; 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)
Monday September 8
6:00 p.m. - Confirmation 1st Year, Parents and Students meeing
5:00 p.m. - Events Committee Meeting
7:00 p.m. - Board of Education Meeting
7::00 p.m. - Trustees Meeting
Tuesday September 9
6:16 p.m. - Faith Bell Practice
7:15 - 8:15 p.m. - Adult Choir Practice
Wednesday September 10
2:00 p.m. - Midweek Worship with Communion
2:30 p.m. - Bible Study (30 min.) Psalm 124 & 67 (More Details)
(Wednesday’s service will be streamed on our YouTube channel)
Thursday September 11
No events scheduled
Friday September 12
No events scheduled
Saturday September 13
No Events Scheduled
Sunday September 14
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)
CLICK THE UPCOMING EVENTS GRAPHIC to go directly to our UPCOMING EVENTS page
Psalms Bible Study — This Coming Wednesday (9/10)
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!