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Lent Wednesday Services - 5:30 p.m.

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

Dress ~ Casual

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 - February 2025

“Attracting Attention”

Matthew 6:1 “Be careful not to do your good works in public in order to attract attention. If you do, your Father in heaven will not reward you.”

On Valentine’s Day, Holy Cross Lutheran Church held its first ever “Mother’s Day Out”. We offered to watch children, for free, while their parents had an evening out.

The event was a huge success! Mind you, we certainly had a learning curve. We had five children who were high energy. What we thought might entertain them was not necessarily the case.

Some people might say that it wasn’t a successful event because we only HAD five children. We were putting on this event to attract young families to the church and we didn’t attract any families that were completely outside the church.

I disagree with this premise. Holy Cross Lutheran Church shouldn’t put on events just so that we can be seen by the public. Our outreach should always be focused on the needs of the community. Jesus teaches in Matthew 25:40 “Whatever you did for one of my brothers and sisters, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did for me.” This teaching is for us today!

We should do outreach so that the love of Jesus can be shared with those who don’t know Him. We didn’t reach families in the community this time and that’s fine! Five children were shown the love of Jesus and their parents were given a little peace in a world that offers chaos. In this case, the event was a God pleasing success!

In Christ, Pastor Mike