Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026: Ash Wednesday w/ Holy Coummunion and the Impostion of Ashes @ 7pm
Wednesday, Feb. 25th: Lenten Service @ 7pm
Wednesday, March 4th: Lenten Service @ 7pm
Wednesday, March 11th: Lenten Service @ 7pm
Wednesday, March 18th: Lenten Service @ 7pm
Wednesday, March 25th: Lenten Serivice @ 7pm
Sunday, March 29th: Palm Sunday (Easter Egg Hunt and Potluck)
March 29 - April 4th: Holy Week
Thursday, April 2nd: Maundy Thursday w/ Holy Communion @ 7pm
Friday, April 3rd: Good Friday
Sunday, April 5th: Easter Breakfast @ 8:45am
Sunday, April 5th: Easter Sunrise @ 7:30am & Easter Celebration @ 10am. Both with Holy Communion.
“For us” is not simply a pithy line to use because it is easy to repeat. It is a confession of who God is and what He brings in giving us His Son. It helps us understand why God would send His Son to die for us.
Our Lenten services will focus on the hymn “O Love, How Deep” (LSB 544) which was originally a twenty-three-stanza poem written in the fifteenth century by an unknown author. In the nineteenth century, an Anglican cleric named Benjamin Webb translated the hymn into English and then chose six stanzas for use in English.
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” is that kind of hymn.
The most pointed and beautiful language in the hymn is expressed in the phrase “for us.” The phrase is reminiscent of the language of the Nicene Creed: “Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven.” Please join us as we examine how this hymn and the Scriptures point us toward the truth of Christ's enduring sacrifice "for us."
Lent Midweek - Ash Wednesday
Oh Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High
This Ash Wednesday, we begin our Lenten journey with a look at the ancient hymn “O Love, How Deep” (LSB 544). This hymn, written in the fifteenth century, contemplates the love of God in becoming man, taking on our life, dying our death, and rising again, all for us. But for us to understand and appreciate this love, we must first examine ourselves and our lives to see how we have failed in thought, word, and deed. While we may try to get credit for our so-called good works, we all still die with nothing to show for them. But God’s love is not like our love. Our love is self-centered and fickle. God’s love is steady, deep, and beyond all understanding (Ephesians 3:14–19). This love of God will have no end.
Midweek Lent 1 - The Robe of Human Frame
Why did Jesus have to come among us as a human being? Why didn’t He come as an angel or some other kind of being that is stronger and more powerful than us? While angels may be a source of endless fascination to the Christian and to the world, they have no power to save us. In this week’s sermon, we will hear why taking on the “robe of [our] human frame” ( Hebrews 1) was not only a good idea but also necessary for our salvation. Angels are wonderful, but they are not Jesus. He came as one of us so that He could redeem us as His own.
Midweek Lent 2 - Done for Us
God’s character, His nature, is self-giving love. Everything Jesus does, He does “for us.” This phrase will be introduced this week in the series hymn. Pro nobis, or “for us,” appears again and again in the series hymn. Jesus is baptized, fasts, is tempted, overcomes temptation, and, in doing so, begins His work of undoing the power of the devil (Mark 1:9–13). It is especially worth noting that because Jesus suffered when tempted, He can “help those who are being tempted” (Hebrews 2:18). He not only helps us in our weakness, but His love for us extends all the way into the grave.
Midweek Lent 3 - For Us He Seeks
Jesus talks all about seeking us in our texts this week (Mark 1:35-39). He does not wait passively until we get up the gumption to ask Him for help. Nor does He act out of selfish gain. Praying, teaching, working. In all these things, Jesus seeks us out and looks for ways to help us. This work is often overlooked because it is so ordinary. Water, bread and wine, the folly of preaching. In all these ordinary works, Jesus continues His ministry among us. This ministry of forgiveness means that Jesus continues to strengthen and help us.
Midweek Lent 4 - Healing from Demons
We talked about angels during Midweek of Lent 1. Tonight, we will talk about the darker side of the story—demons. Demons are fallen angels who rebelled against God and His giving of Himself to us. Demons, with Satan chief among them, seek to undermine everything God is and does, even today. In our message tonight, we will hear how Jesus heals a man with a demon (Mark 5:1–13) and how that work of healing continues today.
Midweek Lent 5 - For Us Betrayed
Jesus foretells His own betrayal, death, and resurrection in today’s text (Mark 8:31–9:1). This shows us that the way of salvation only comes through the path of suffering (Hebrews 2:10)....Jesus’ suffering. His Passion, does not simply mean that He sympathizes with us. Rather, it means that He participates in our suffering, and we in His. His betrayal, the crown of thorns, the shameful cross—all of these lead to how Jesus “gave His dying breath,” as we sing in the series hymn. In the Passion reading, we will also hear how He dies (Mark 15:33–47) and what that means for us today.
Maundy Thursday - For Many Means For You
After focusing on the phrase “for us,” tonight we will hear about the phrase “for many” as Jesus gives His own body and blood for the forgiveness of sins (Matthew 26:26–28). Jesus and the disciples are celebrating the Passover, but Jesus does something new. We hear echoes of how Moses and the elders saw God (Exodus 24:3–11), recognizing that the sacrifices of old will not satisfy (Hebrews 9:11–22). When Jesus says the phrase “for many,” He is clearly pointing the disciples to the fact that His death was not only for them alone, but for the sins of the world. Because you are a part of the many, “for us” still holds true.
Good Friday - His Dying Breath
Jesus is betrayed into the hands of sinners. He is mocked while wearing a purple robe and a crown of thorns. He must carry His own cross to Golgotha, the Place of a Skull. All of this happens until the last, when “for us He gave His dying breath” (LSB 544:5). It is completed. Salvation has been won for us. It is finished; He has loved us to the end.
Easter Sunday - The Resurrection of Our Lord
For Us He Lives on High to Reign
Sin brings separation and death. That sin separates us from God and divides us from one another. But in Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, we are united with (reconciled to) God once again. As we hear in Jeremiah, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued My faithfulness to you” (31:3). Nothing will separate you from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord (Romans 8:39). Thanks be to God for the victory in Jesus Christ!