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| HOLY COMMUNION FIRST AND THIRD SUNDAYS | Theological Axioms collected by Walther. This month's theme: secular government and household ranks. | Commandments to not get people to believe the truth, nor is any compromise possible when it comes to the truth. (Balser) | 7 p.m. Bible Study John&Maia McCulloch |
Eli Levorson | Not for the spread of religion, but for its defense, can a war be waged by a lawful government.(Gerhard) | INDEPENDENCE DAY. Thank the LORD for religious freedom. | |||||||
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| Trinity 4 Psalm 31 |
If the government is made up of believers who are members of the church, they extend the call (to the preacher), not | because they are the government, but because they are members of the church. (Luther) | 7 p.m. Bible Study Rowan Levorson |
James Utterback | Val McMullen | Rogers private memorial service at the church. | |||||||
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| Trinity 5 Psalm 71 Council |
Secular rule has to do with far different matters than the gospel does: its power is not to protect souls, but | body and goods against exernal forces by using the sword and physical punishments. (Augsburg Confess.) | 7 p.m. Bible Study | You should argue your legal case in such a way that you are not arguing against your own heart. (Gerhard) | Diane Tjernagel | Craig&Julie Knutson | |||||||
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| Trinity 6 Psalm 143 Voters |
To change the government and to improve the government are two different | things, as far from one another as heaven form earth. (Luther) | 7 p.m. Bible Study | An oath to do what is not righteous is not binding. | Joel&Denise Franzen Aiden Firmstone |
The household ranks are the nursery for the ecclesiastical and civic ranks. (Gerhard) | |||||||
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| Trinity 7 Psalm 34 |
The subjects are bound to vindicate their beliefs when the governmen so | commands, but are not bound by a command to believe. (Dannhauer) | 7 p.m. Bible Study | The bishop, as a prince, can impose whatever he wants upon his (Christian) subjects and | give them commands, insofar as they are subjects, and what he commands is | pious and just, for they are then obeying, not as the church, but as citizens. (Luther) | |||||||
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| The good people in the worldwide church are by no means pleased when anyone, | even a heretic, is made to feel the wrath of the death penalty. (Augustine) | [This refers especially to acts like those of the Inquisitions.] | The bishops and teachers cannot represent the church by themselves, | since the very idea of a church includes those who listen to them. (Gerhard) | The reasons for the war must be acknowledged not only by the government under whose | oversight the war is waged, but also by the soldiers with whose help and service they wage it. (Arcularius) | |||||||