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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

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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 - August 2025

“We Are One in Christ”

John 14:6 Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the father except through me.”

Brothers and sisters in Christ,

With the amount of division in the Church (as well as the world) that there is today, sometimes we have to remind ourselves “who” we are and “to whom” we belong.

Last Sunday, we held a special congregation meeting where we voted unanimously to dual roster with the Augsburg Lutheran Churches (ALC). Questions were asked about “why” we should dual roster? I pointed out how we are members of the LCMC and that means something. I reinforced the fact that nothing changes in regard to who we are as Lutherans. The one thing that I forgot to mention is that the ALC was a non-geographical district of the LCMC until it withdrew and became an independent micro-synod in 2003.

Anyway, with a common mission and its emphasis on autonomy of the congregation, the ALC seems like it will be a comfortable fit for Holy Cross Lutheran Church. Our Mission Statement: “To Know and Joyfully Share the Love of God in Christ” will not change. Our beliefs and understanding of the Lutheran Confessions will not change. We will continue to know Jesus through the words of Martin Luther, “The cross alone is our theology.”
(1 Corinthians 2:2)

May HCLC joyfully share God’s love.

In Christ, Pastor Mike