Newsletter
St. Paul Lutheran LCMS
Julesburg, CO
970.474.2592
web site: www.stpauljulesburg.org
The Pathlight
Your word is a lamp to my feet and
A light to my path
Ps 119:105
Zion Lutheran LCMS
Big Springs, NE
308.289.5148
November 24, 2024
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11172024 Vol.5 Issue 50
We Too Are Servants by Vocation
Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him. (Ephesians 6:9)
It’s interesting to think about the language used to describe things in the Bible and then the Catechism (1500 years later) and compare those descriptions to those of today.
For example, the Bible speaks of farm and ranch life. A man’s wealth was his sheep, his olive orchard, and his water wells. At the time of the writing of the Catechism, the titles used for people and their vocations included master and servant. Even the word slave had meanings that ranged from household servants to indentured servants to those slaves captured as booty in times of war.
We don’t use those words today. Not masters and servants. Today we have titles like CEO, CFO, Executive, administrative assistant, clerk, shift supervisor, project engineer, janitor, owner, or associate. I am sure you can add many of your own.
Titles change just as a farmer now rarely plows a field but uses ecofallow practices instead with a tractor rather than a pair of oxen. Nevertheless, we can still understand our Lord’s desire for us. He says that we should love our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:30-31). How do we love our neighbor? Love for neighbor flows from a heart of faith— faith that clings to Jesus’ love and mercy for the sinner and then bears the fruit of that faith in words and deeds of love toward one another.
Love for neighbor actually produces results. Our hearts and hands produce actual day-to-day benefits. This is how Luther explained our various vocations in life. Whatever the vocation, we are the Lord’s servants to our neighbor. So, if we are employees, we serve our vocation by rejoicing in our work and being useful employees. If we are employers or supervisors, then we serve our neighbors by treating our employees with respect, honoring our agreement with them, and helping them to be productive in their vocation.
The language really has changed since the days of speaking of masters and servants, but the Lord’s desire has not changed. He still uses us in our varied vocations to provide for our neighbors. We know that the Lord is using our lives, our minds, and hands, to provide for others whom He also loves. Yes, Jesus loves our neighbor too!
Pastor Christensen
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 1 Cor. 13:12
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THANK YOU
THANK YOU to all Circle members and congregation members who helped with sale items or purchased items at the Hippodrome Fair sale on Saturday, November 9th. The gross amount from the sale was $985.00. May God bless you all!
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THANK YOU!
Thank You, dear Lord, for being my friend.
Thank You for giving me life without end.
Thank You for loving me, calling me…claiming me,
Thank You, once again, for forgiving me… saving me,
Thank You for every day walking bedside me,
Thank you for sending Your spirit to guide me!
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Last Sunday of the Church Year
The revelation of a new heaven and earth will be dramatic in the tumultuous last days. But God’s salvation will prevail, lasting forever, through the reign of the Alpha and Omega-Jesus Christ, our Lord. He alone will judge with equity and truth, righteousness and grace. For this Last Day, we anticipate and watch, ceaseless in prayer, kept in God’s love, waiting for the final revelation of God’s mercy. “Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!” Rev.22:20
Last Sunday of the Church Year – Setting three pg. 184
OPENING HYMN #683 “Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me”
OLD TESTAMENT READING: Isaiah 51:4-6
EPISTLE: Jude 20 - 25
HOLY GOSPEL: Mark 13:24-37
APOSTLES CREED pg192
HYMN #658 “Preserve Your Word, O Savior”
SERMON
OFFERING
OFFERTORY pg.192
PRAYER OF THE CHURCH
LORD’S PRAYER
SALUTATION
HYMN #516 “Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying”
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SERVANTS for November 24 -2024
ST. PAUL
USHERS / GREETERS – Les Ebke / Dwight Ebke
ORGANIST – Jeanie Boehm
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Calendar
November 21- Circuit Pastors meeting at Amherst
November 24 -8:00 Sunday School
9:00 Worship Service
November 27- 7:00 Thanksgiving Eve Service
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Nor height, nor depth, nor other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:39
December Birthdays
12/04 Brian Boehm, Anna Aulston
12/05 Hudson Brownlow
12/06 Gayle Newth, Arline Lanckriet
12/09 Marla Race
12/11 Ashley Law, Darlene Ford
12/12 Jeanie Boehm
12/16 Irene Abts
12/18 Lois Hagemann
12/23 Curtis Hensley
12/25 Eric Alcala
12/27 Jules Hoschouer
12/29 Carol Stephens
12/30 Natalie Lanckriet, Christian Scherbarth
12/31 Lorrie Christensen
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Happy Anniversary
Dayton and Jodi Christensen
12/03
Arno and Caila Botha
12/07
Trenton and Joline Christensen
12/11
Mike and Judy Soper
12/27
Rex and Louann Nicolaus
12/28/96
Marvin and Wanda Trennepohl
12/11/10
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving Day
November 28, 2024
Believe Hope Pray