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

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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 - November 2025

“Thank God!”

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Brothers and sisters in Christ,

This month we celebrate Thanksgiving. So let us take a moment to consider what it means to “give thanks”.

In February, 1537, Martin Luther suddenly became severely ill. Feeling that his end was near, he asked Katie to send some horses so he could die at home.
During the night on February 26th , he suddenly felt much better. In the early hours of February 27th , he wrote the following to Katie.

“… thank God and have the dear little ones, together with Aunt Lena, thank the real Father, for you certainly would have lost this father. … [last] night God has accomplished a miracle in me, and he continues to do it through the intercession of godly people.

Martin Luther recognized the importance of giving thanks when he wrote, “Thankfulness is a virtue characteristic of real Christians; it is their worship of God at its best. They thank God and do it with all their hearts.” He went on to write, “To thank with all your heart is an art—an art taught by the Holy Spirit. You need not worry that the man who can say, ‘Thanks be to God’ with all his heart will ever be proud, stubborn, or will work against God with his gifts.”

Sometimes being thankful is difficult. After Martin Luther’s thirteen year old daughter, Magdalena, died, Martin wrote, “I and my wife should joyfully give thanks for such a felicitous departure and blessed end by which Magdalena escaped … yet the force of our natural love is so great that we are
unable to do this without crying and grieving in our hearts, … therefore, give thanks to God in our stead. For indeed God did a great work of grace when he glorified our flesh in this way … God grant me and all my loved ones and all my friends such a death – or rather such a life.”

In Christ,

Pastor Mike