So, the end of the Church Year is good for us. It gives us glasses to correct our near-sightedness and enable us to look ahead, to look forward to the end and Jesus coming again. And to triage our lives rightly, and know what really matters, and what does not. And to know that when that day comes, it will be a day of joy. The day we have been looking forward to. 
For the same Jesus who comes to us now, here, hidden in water, words, and bread and wine, will be the Jesus who comes then, in glory. And all the family of God will be home. Our brothers and sisters in Christ from the beginning of time to the end of time, and from every people, tribe, nation, and language. That day will be all the holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Easter, birthdays - all rolled into one big celebration. A joy unlike any other.-----Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person!
Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​
Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A
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So, the end of the Church Year is good for us. It gives us glasses to correct our near-sightedness and enable us to look ahead, to look forward to the end and Jesus coming again. And to triage our lives rightly, and know what really matters, and what does not. And to know that when that day comes, it will be a day of joy. The day we have been looking forward to. 
For the same Jesus who comes to us now, here, hidden in water, words, and bread and wine, will be the Jesus who comes then, in glory. And all the family of God will be home. Our brothers and sisters in Christ from the beginning of time to the end of time, and from every people, tribe, nation, and language. That day will be all the holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Easter, birthdays - all rolled into one big celebration. A joy unlike any other.-----Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person!
Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​
Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A
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Advent isn’t just about preparing for the celebration of Christ’s birth in the manger—He’s already come, some 2,000 years ago. Instead, this sacred season is about readying our hearts for the return of our Lord in glory as King and Judge on the Last Day.
To prepare for that day, we need the voice of John the Baptist. His powerful call to repentance is as urgent now as it was then:"Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."
These words may feel unsettling—but they should stir our hearts. Are we bearing the fruit of repentance, love, and good works that our Lord calls us to? Or are we, like many, caught in the easy traps of self-love, anger, and indifference?
John the Baptist's message doesn’t let us remain comfortable. It confronts our sinful nature with the hammer of God’s Law. But through repentance, we are also pointed to the ultimate gift: the cross of Christ, where sin is defeated, and the joy of salvation is given.
This Bible study will help you reflect on the season of Advent through the lens of John the Baptist’s preaching. Join us as we explore how his words prepare us for Christ’s return and stir our hearts to live out the Gospel faithfully.
👉 Watch now and prepare your heart for the coming of our King!💬 We’d love to hear your thoughts! Share in the comments: What does Advent mean to you?📖 Dive deeper into God’s Word—subscribe for more Bible studies and Lutheran teachings.
-----Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person!
Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​
Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A
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“O Lord, open my lips and my mouth will declare Your praise,” writes the psalmist (Psalm 51:15).  The Lord opened the lips of a whole “multitude of his disciples” at His first advent, disciples who had seen Jesus make the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and who had just witnessed the raising of Lazarus from the dead.  As Jesus entered Jerusalem on a lowly donkey, they “began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen.”  Likewise, today in His advent among us on the lowly “donkey” of mere words, the Lord opens our lips, and our mouths declare His praise for the forgiveness, life, and peace He comes to bring here, into His church, for us and for the life of the world.-----Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person!
Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​
Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A
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“O Lord, open my lips and my mouth will declare Your praise,” writes the psalmist (Psalm 51:15).  The Lord opened the lips of a whole “multitude of his disciples” at His first advent, disciples who had seen Jesus make the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and who had just witnessed the raising of Lazarus from the dead.  As Jesus entered Jerusalem on a lowly donkey, they “began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen.”  Likewise, today in His advent among us on the lowly “donkey” of mere words, the Lord opens our lips, and our mouths declare His praise for the forgiveness, life, and peace He comes to bring here, into His church, for us and for the life of the world.-----Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person!
Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​
Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A
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Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person! Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​ Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A #LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

O Lord, open my lips and my mouth will declare Your praise,” writes the psalmist (Psalm 51:15).  The Lord opened the lips of a whole “multitude of his disciples” at His first advent, disciples who had seen Jesus make the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and who had just witnessed the raising of Lazarus from the dead.  As Jesus entered Jerusalem on a lowly donkey, they “began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen.”  Likewise, today in His advent among us on the lowly “donkey” of mere words, the Lord opens our lips, and our mouths declare His praise for the forgiveness, life, and peace He comes to bring here, into His church, for us and for the life of the world.-----Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person!
Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​
Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A
#LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

So, the end of the Church Year is good for us. It gives us glasses to correct our near-sightedness and enable us to look ahead, to look forward to the end and Jesus coming again. And to triage our lives rightly, and know what really matters, and what does not. And to know that when that day comes, it will be a day of joy. The day we have been looking forward to. 
For the same Jesus who comes to us now, here, hidden in water, words, and bread and wine, will be the Jesus who comes then, in glory. And all the family of God will be home. Our brothers and sisters in Christ from the beginning of time to the end of time, and from every people, tribe, nation, and language. That day will be all the holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Easter, birthdays - all rolled into one big celebration. A joy unlike any other.-----Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person!
Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​
Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A
#LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

So, the end of the Church Year is good for us. It gives us glasses to correct our near-sightedness and enable us to look ahead, to look forward to the end and Jesus coming again. And to triage our lives rightly, and know what really matters, and what does not. And to know that when that day comes, it will be a day of joy. The day we have been looking forward to. 
For the same Jesus who comes to us now, here, hidden in water, words, and bread and wine, will be the Jesus who comes then, in glory. And all the family of God will be home. Our brothers and sisters in Christ from the beginning of time to the end of time, and from every people, tribe, nation, and language. That day will be all the holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Easter, birthdays - all rolled into one big celebration. A joy unlike any other.-----Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person!
Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​
Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A
#LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

So, the end of the Church Year is good for us. It gives us glasses to correct our near-sightedness and enable us to look ahead, to look forward to the end and Jesus coming again. And to triage our lives rightly, and know what really matters, and what does not. And to know that when that day comes, it will be a day of joy. The day we have been looking forward to. 
For the same Jesus who comes to us now, here, hidden in water, words, and bread and wine, will be the Jesus who comes then, in glory. And all the family of God will be home. Our brothers and sisters in Christ from the beginning of time to the end of time, and from every people, tribe, nation, and language. That day will be all the holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Easter, birthdays - all rolled into one big celebration. A joy unlike any other.-----Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person!
Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​
Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A
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There are times in your life when you don’t know what to say. Given the disciples’ questions, that was certainly the case when Jesus told them that the magnificent buildings they had just admired would be destroyed. Jesus also told them that there would be a time when they would stand before authorities who would seek their demise, and that not if, but when that happened, they should not be anxious about what to say. The Holy Spirit would give them the Lord’s words to say. So it is with you when you don’t know what to say amid the trials and tribulations of life in this fallen world. The Holy Spirit will give you the words of the Lord to say, words that are filled with His Spirit and life.-----Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person!
Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​
Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A
#LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService

There are times in your life when you don’t know what to say. Given the disciples’ questions, that was certainly the case when Jesus told them that the magnificent buildings they had just admired would be destroyed. Jesus also told them that there would be a time when they would stand before authorities who would seek their demise, and that not if, but when that happened, they should not be anxious about what to say. The Holy Spirit would give them the Lord’s words to say. So it is with you when you don’t know what to say amid the trials and tribulations of life in this fallen world. The Holy Spirit will give you the words of the Lord to say, words that are filled with His Spirit and life.-----Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care have been "Making Known the Love of Christ" in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and throughout the world since 1853 as a congregation gathering around God's Word and Sacraments to receive forgiveness and life everlasting. Trinity is located in downtown Sheboygan, only one block from the Mead Public Library and the Weill Center for the Performing Arts. We invite you to visit us in person!
Trinity Lutheran Sheboygan is a proud member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit their website: https://www.lcms.org/​​​​
Music for this production was obtained through a licensing agreement with One License, LLC. The copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs is acquired through ID Number: 730195-A
#LCMS #Lutheran #DivineService