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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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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 - OCTOBER 2026

“Our Lutheran Identity Crisis”

2 Corinthians 5:17 17 Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence.

Brothers and sisters in Christ,

Who are you?! On occasion, curious people call or visit Holy Cross Lutheran Church and ask what kind of church we are. I usually answer that we are an independent Lutheran Church in the Texas tradition. But that doesn’t really answer the question.

Gerhard Forde wrote in an article, “Radical Lutheranism” the Lutheran shift from an ethnic and cultural denomination to a Church dedicated to the “radical” gospel of Jesus Christ.

But what makes the Gospel (the Good News of Jesus Christ) “radical”? In other words, what makes Lutherans different from the smorgasbord of Christian denominations in America today?

On the one hand, American Lutheranism has a history of belief in internal pietism. On the other hand, many Lutherans believe the work of the Holy Spirit is completely outside the human body/soul because our sinful selves cannot distinguish between the Holy Spirit and the work of the devil.

What type of Lutheran are we? Let us be radical Lutherans: not conservative nor liberal, not fundamental nor charismatic. May we understand the Gospel as Justification by faith (only!) without the deeds of the law.

What a radical idea!

In Christ,

Pastor Mike