Bulletin: Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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2:00 p.m. - Worship Service
2:30 p.m. - Bible Study (Galatians)

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Mardi Gras Lunch and Bingo
Sunday, February 15th starting at 12 Noon
Bring the whole family to eat Jambalya and Po’boys and play bingo
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Wednesday Service Schedule for Lent

We will have two Lenten services each week on Wednesdays
An afternoon 2:00 p.m. service, and an evening service at 7:00 p.m.

• Ash Wednesday February 18th @ 2:00 & 7:00 p.m. 

• Wednesday, February 25th @ 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.

• Wednesday March 4th @ 2:00 & 7:00 p.m. 

• Wednesday, March 11th @ 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.

• Wednesday March 18th @ 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.

• Wednesday, March 25th @ 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.

  About this year’s Lenten Theme
  "Some hymns tell a story, others teach, and still others create pictures in our minds of the great works of God. Some hymns do all three, weaving together a tapestry that is beautiful yet simple, wondrous yet easy to understand. ‘O Love, How Deep’ (LSB 544) is that kind of hymn.” Journey through the history and hymn text for “O Love, How Deep” to see the depth, breadth, and height of God’s love for us, His creation. “For us” is encompassed in how God is beyond our comprehension, yet He took on the most accessible form to walk with us. Meditate on this historical hymn throughout the season of Lent to see how God’s love is steady, deep, and has no end.

  Pick up your free copy of “Daily Devotions for Lent & Easter” at both entrances to church

President’s Perspective

A Year in Review! 
So many exciting and meaningful things took place during 2025! From our beautiful Christmas services to the children joyfully sharing the story of Christ’s birth through their Christmas video. We are truly blessed to have our young children proclaiming this message to all of us. We are deeply grateful to our dedicated Sunday School teachers for their faithful commitment each week, teaching and sharing the love of Jesus. 

This past year, our congregation has been richly blessed with many opportunities to hear and share the Gospel, grow in fellowship, and serve our community. Here are just a few examples: 

• Sunday Adult/Teen Bible study (approx. 60 attending) 

• Bridge Builders ministry kickoff 

• Confirmand public questioning/reception and Rite of Confirmation 

• Men's fellowship outings 

• Women’s ministry activities, e.g., Christmas ornament exchange, craft nights, Bunco, etc. 

• LWML zone and national participation 

• Music ministry -- Choir, Men’s Choir, Bell Choir 

• Technology enhancements such as a digital bulletin board in Narthex 

• Events committee fellowship, e.g., Paint & Sip, ReforFest, Easter breakfast, etc. 

• Preschool with 160+ students 

• Bridgeville Area Foodbank -- Volunteer support and donations 

• Trustees stewardship of facilities and grounds with dozens of projects completed 

• Vacation Bible School: 82 children 

• Youth Group -- monthly fellowship, LCMS Youth Gathering participation summer 2025 

We encourage everyone to prayerfully consider how they might get involved and serve our brothers and sisters at Zion. 

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 1 Peter 4:10 

In Christ, 
Bob Schmidt 
Congregational President 

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Old Testament Reading -- Isaiah 58:3–9a 
“‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,
and oppress all your workers.
Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.
Is such the fast that I choose,
a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the Lord?
“Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Then shall your light break forth like the dawn,
and your healing shall spring up speedily;
your righteousness shall go before you; 
the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’” 

Epistle Reading -- 1 Corinthians 2:1–12 
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. 

Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, 

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”— 

these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 

The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, the fifth chapter
[Jesus said:] “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. 

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. 

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” 

Men’s Choir -- O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (8:00 a.m.)

DELAYED Audio: Readings & Sermon for Wednesday, February 4, 2026

The technical problem that we had on Wednesday, February 4th has been solved. With that said, here is the delayed recording.

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Job 1:1-22 
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. 

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. The LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?” Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.” And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD. 

Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” 

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. 

John 1:1-18 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. 

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; God the only Son, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known. 

The Sacrament of Holy Baptism – Second Part 

What benefits does Baptism give? 
It works forgiveness of sins, rescues from death and the devil, and gives eternal salvation to all who believe this, as the words and promises of God declare. 
Which are these words and promises of God? 
Christ our Lord says in the last chapter of Mark: “Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.” (Mark 16:16)