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Adult Bible Study ~ 9:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.

Sunday Service ~ 10:30 A.M. to 11:30 A.M.

Youth Sunday School ~ 9-9:30 A.M.

Communion ~ 1st and 3rd Sundays

Welcome Winter Texans

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Please join us. All are welcome.

We believe, teach, and confess the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe, teach, and confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the gospel as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe in him.

*Jesus Christ is the Word of God incarnate, through whom everything was made and through whose life, death, and resurrection God fashions a new creation.

*The proclamation of God's message to us as both law and gospel is the Word of God, revealing judgment and mercy in the person and work of Jesus Christ through whom God was pleased to reconcile all things to himself.

*The canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God. Inspired by God's Spirit speaking through their authors, they record and announce God's revelation centering in Jesus Christ. Through them God's Spirit speaks to us to create and sustain Christian faith and fellowship for service in the world.

We believe, teach, and accept the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the sole authoritative source and norm of our proclamation, faith, and life.

We accept the Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of the scriptural faith we believe, teach, and confess.

We believe, teach, and accept the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and the Small Catechism as true witnesses to the Word of God, normative for our teaching and practice. We acknowledge that we are one in faith and doctrine with all churches that likewise accept the teachings of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession.

We believe, teach, and confess the other confessional writings in the Book of Concord namely, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles, the Treatise, the Large Catechism, and the Formula of Concord, as further valid expositions of the Holy Scriptures.

We believe, teach, and confess the gospel, recorded in the Holy Scriptures and confessed in the ecumenical creeds and Lutheran confessional writings, as the power of God to create and sustain the priesthood of all believers for God's mission in the world.

Pastor Michael Giese

Phone: 361-205-3317

Email: mrgiese1990@gmail.com

Office: Tue, Wed & Fri

9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

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PASTOR’S LUCID RAMBLINGS - March 2026

“Institutional Church or Missional Church?”

Ephesians 4:12 “[Church leader’s] purpose is to prepare God’s people, to serve, and to build up the body of Christ.

Last month, at our Church Council Retreat, I showed the Council a YouTube video titled, “The Lutheran Collapse: America’s Quietist Church Crisis” This video documented the decline in the Lutheran Church starting in the 1990’s.

The video summarized the Lutheran Church’s problem as this: Individual churches focused on the church institution have lost focus of the Church’s Mission.

Let me put it this way. When Jesus said, “…I can guarantee that on this rock (Greek: petros) I will build my church.” (Matthew 16:18b) Jesus wasn’t saying that He’s building a church building. He’s building the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ (Church) wasn’t established solely as a place for Christians to gather and worship God. Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus that the Church is a place where Christians go to be equipped to serve
others and carry out the Great Commission.

This doesn’t mean that Holy Cross Lutheran Church doesn’t need maintenance. What it means is that Jesus’ Great Commission is now the top priority. It means that HCLC will continue to repair and improve our beautiful church facility, BUT, our focus is changed to being more mission focused.

This may cause members of HCLC some anxiety. I pray that our Heavenly Father will grant us peace to make this transition more smoothly.

In Christ,
Pastor Mike