Bulletin: Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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WorshipService: 2:00 p.m. with communion
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. - Psalm 118 with Pastor Grimenstein
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative
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View the Bulletin for Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Worship Service: 2:00 p.m. with communion
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. - Psalm 118 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.
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Free Daily Devotionals for Advent
Free Advent Devotional Booklets
As a part of the 2025 Advent series, Every Heart Prepare, these daily devotions connect our common Christmas decorations with our anticipation of Jesus’ birth. From December 1st to January 6th, take time to ponder these profound readings featuring Scripture, a short message, and a prayer.
Free copies available at the entrances to Zion Lutheran Church, Bridgeville, PA.
Free Advent Devotional Booklets
As a part of the 2025 Advent series, Every Heart Prepare, these daily devotions connect our common Christmas decorations with our anticipation of Jesus’ birth. From December 1st to January 6th, take time to ponder these profound readings featuring Scripture, a short message, and a prayer.
Free copies available at the entrances to Zion Lutheran Church, Bridgeville, PA.
VIDEO: Life Together Digest with the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison
In this Life Together Digest, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, reflects on the Reformation’s rediscovery of the Gospel. Martin Luther was plagued by a “disturbed conscience,” a term found in the preface to the Book of Concord. He knew that he could not gain God’s favor based on his own actions, nor could he find solace in the works righteousness taught by the church of his day. Instead, Luther realized that he did not have to be perfect, because Jesus Christ took all his sins to the cross. “The Gospel is the source of a good conscience,” Harrison says, “and that’s what the Lutheran Reformation is all about — even to this very day.” View this month’s Life Together Digest at https://mailchi.mp/lcms/life-together...
Life Together with Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison
In this Life Together Digest, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, reflects on the Reformation’s rediscovery of the Gospel. Martin Luther was plagued by a “disturbed conscience,” a term found in the preface to the Book of Concord. He knew that he could not gain God’s favor based on his own actions, nor could he find solace in the works righteousness taught by the church of his day. Instead, Luther realized that he did not have to be perfect, because Jesus Christ took all his sins to the cross. “The Gospel is the source of a good conscience,” Harrison says, “and that’s what the Lutheran Reformation is all about — even to this very day.” View this month’s Life Together Digest at https://mailchi.mp/lcms/life-together...
President’s Perspective
As hard as it is to believe, the end of 2025 is quickly approaching. November is a special time when we pause to give thanks not just for the comforts and joys of life, but most importantly, to thank God for His countless blessings. Every breath we take, every relationship we cherish, and every provision we receive is a gift from His gracious hand.
As we look ahead to the Thanksgiving holiday, many of us eagerly anticipate gathering with loved ones to enjoy traditions like turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, and the warmth of togetherness. Yet beyond the familiar flavors and cherished memories, Thanksgiving offers a sacred opportunity to pause and reflect on God’s faithfulness throughout the past year.
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As hard as it is to believe, the end of 2025 is quickly approaching. November is a special time when we pause to give thanks not just for the comforts and joys of life, but most importantly, to thank God for His countless blessings. Every breath we take, every relationship we cherish, and every provision we receive is a gift from His gracious hand.
As we look ahead to the Thanksgiving holiday, many of us eagerly anticipate gathering with loved ones to enjoy traditions like turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, and the warmth of togetherness. Yet beyond the familiar flavors and cherished memories, Thanksgiving offers a sacred opportunity to pause and reflect on God’s faithfulness throughout the past year.
We invite you to join us on Wednesday, November 26, at 2:00 and 7:00 pm as we come together in gratitude to worship and give thanks to our Heavenly Father. Let us reflect on His blessings, our health, our relationships, and even the trials that have drawn us closer to Him.
This season also calls us to live out our gratitude through action. Many of us will spend the day volunteering, donating food, or sharing meals with those in need. As followers of Christ, let us be especially mindful of those who may be struggling. May we embody the love of Jesus by reaching out in kindness, generosity, and compassion.
Let us “give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever” (Psalm 107:1). May this Thanksgiving be filled with joy, reflection, and an overflowing sense of gratitude for all that God has done.
God’s Blessings,
Bob Schmidt Congregation President
VIDEO: Sunday, November 16, 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: Readings & Sermon for Sunday, November 16, 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 -- Malachi 4:1–6
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and just decrees that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
Epistle Reading -- 2 Thessalonians 3:1–13
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate. For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.
The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, the twenty-first chapter
While some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, [Jesus] said, “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” And they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?” And he said, “See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them. And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end will not be at once.”
Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake. This will be your opportunity to bear witness. Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer, for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. You will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your lives.
“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
Spiritual Conversations: Part 1 of 4 Videos
PART 1 of 4
The Eager Conversationalist/Spiritual Conversation Curve WorkshopsDrawing on Barna Group data contained in the 2018 monograph Spiritual Conversations in the Digital Age, Lutheran Hour Ministries is offering two workshops: the first, Eager Conversationalists, examines spiritual conversations. It offers insights to help us become more intentional-more eager-to engage in spiritual conversations with others. The second, The Spiritual Conversation Curve, offers help in getting past conversational hurdles. This is possible when we focus on someone’s “spiritual posture,” so as not to impose a conversation that’s forced or ill-timed.
Download: Eager Profile Inventory
PART 1 of 4
The Eager Conversationalist/Spiritual Conversation Curve Workshops
Drawing on Barna Group data contained in the 2018 monograph Spiritual Conversations in the Digital Age, Lutheran Hour Ministries is offering two workshops: the first, Eager Conversationalists, examines spiritual conversations. It offers insights to help us become more intentional-more eager-to engage in spiritual conversations with others. The second, The Spiritual Conversation Curve, offers help in getting past conversational hurdles. This is possible when we focus on someone’s “spiritual posture,” so as not to impose a conversation that’s forced or ill-timed.
Download: Eager Profile Inventory