Bulletin: Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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!
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2:00 p.m. - Worship Service
2:30 p.m. - Bible Study: Nurturing Your Faith, Patient Urgency
7:00 p.m. - Worship Service
Join us for a Lenten Supper: Wed. March 18th
Join us for a Lenten Supper on Wednesday, March 18th at 5:30 p.m.
All Zion Members are Invited!
Sponsored by Zion Women’s Ministry.
A free will offering will be gathered to benifit the Eastern Distric Deaf Ministry
Join us for a Lenten Supper on Wednesday, March 18th at 5:30 p.m.
All Zion Members are Invited!
Sponsored by Zion Women’s Ministry.
A free will offering will be gathered to benifit the Eastern Distric Deaf Ministry
New Resource for our Bible Study “Patient Urgency”
A new resource for our Bible Study “Patient Urgency” is now available on the website.
It’s the Gospel of Mark as both a text file, and an audio file.
Each of the text files are broken down into individual chapter readings. The audio file is read by acclaimed actor Max McLean, who is the narrator of the Listener’s Bible. Courtesy of Fellowship for the Preforming Arts. The audio file(s) are also broken down into chapters, but there is also a complete recording option available which is 1 hour, 31 min.
A new resource for our Bible Study “Patient Urgency” is now available on the website.
It’s the Gospel of Mark as both a text file, and an audio file.
Each of the text files are broken down into individual chapter readings. The audio file is read by acclaimed actor Max McLean, who is the narrator of the Listener’s Bible. Courtesy of Fellowship for the Preforming Arts. The audio file(s) are also broken down into chapters, but there is also a complete recording option available which is 1 hour, 31 min.
VIDEO: Sunday, March 1, 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, March 1, 2026
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 -- Genesis 12:1–9
The Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.
Epistle Reading --Romans 4:1–8, 13–17
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.” . . .
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the third chapter
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
Men's Choir -- Glory be to Jesus (8:00 a.m.)
Bulletin: Sunday, March 1, 2026 + This Week at Zion
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THIS WEEK AT ZION
Saturday, February 28
11:00 a.m. Bible Study with Deaconess Joanna Lee - Nurturing Your Faith: Patient Urgency
2:00 p.m. - Men’s Bowling Fellowship (additional details)
Sunday, March 1
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)
Monday, March 2
6:00 p.m. - 1st Year Confirmation Class
7:00 p.m. - 2nd Year Confirmation Class
7:00 p.m. - Trustees’ Meeting
Tuesday, March 3
6:15 p.m. - Bell Choir
7:15 p.m. - Adult Choir
Wednesday, March 4
Lent Week 2
2:00 p.m. - Lent Worship Service
2:30 p.m. - Bible Study Nurturing Your Faith: Patient Urgency
7:00 p.m. - Lent Worship Service
(Service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Thursday, March 5
7:00 p.m. - Elders’ Meeting
Friday, March 6
No Events Scheduled
Saturday, March 7
No Events Scheduled
Sunday, March 8
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)
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