Bulletin: Sunday January 12, 2025
Download/view the latest bulletin. It’s filled with our hymns, the order of service, all the readings from scripture, prayer requests for family & friends, service participants, communion statement, about our worship, the schedule of events for this coming weeks, along with announcements, news updates, happenings, and more!
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THIS WEEK AT ZION
Friday January 10
No Events Scheduled
Saturday January 11
10:00 a.m. - Christmas Decoration Take-Down (Additional Details)
Sunday January 12
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Adult/Teen Bible Study & Sunday School
10:30 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Monday January 13
6:00 p.m. - Confirmation
6:00 p.m. - Grace Bell Choir Practice
7:00 p.m. - Confirmation
7:00 p.m. - Board of Education Meeting
Tuesday January 14
6:15 p.m. - Faith Bell Choir Practice
7:15 p.m. - Adult Choir Practice
Wednesday January 15
2:00 p.m. - Mid-Week Worship Service with Communion
2:30 p.m. - 30 min. Bible Study
6:30 p.m. - Women’s Book Club in Church Conference Room (Details)
(Service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Thursday January 16
No Events Scheduled
Friday January 17
No Events Scheduled
Saturday January 18
10:00 a.m. - SPECIAL Prayer Breakfast with the Still Remembered Project (Details)
Sunday January 19
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Adult/Teen Bible Study & Sunday School
10:30 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
6:00 p.m. - Youth Group Bowling Night
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
CLICK THE UPCOMING EVENTS GRAPHIC to go directly to our UPCOMING EVENTS page
Sunday School Class for Babies and Toddlers
This Sunday, we will start a Sunday School class for babies and toddlers under the age of three (there is no minimum age). A parent is encouraged to attend the class with their child. We will meet at 9:15 in Classroom 207 in the Preschool wing.
This Sunday, we will start a Sunday School class for babies and toddlers under the age of three (there is no minimum age). A parent is encouraged to attend the class with their child. We will meet at 9:15 in Classroom 207 in the Preschool wing.
Saturday January 11th - Taking Down the Christmas Decorations
CHRISTMAS DECORATION TAKE DOWN
Join us Saturday January 11th @ 10:00 a.m.
to take down Christmas decorations in the Sanctuary and Fellowship Hall. Your help is much appreciated, as many hands make light work!
CHRISTMAS DECORATION TAKE DOWN
Join us Saturday January 11th @ 10:00 a.m.
to take down Christmas decorations in the Sanctuary and Fellowship Hall. Your help is much appreciated, as many hands make light work!
Make Church Part of Your Weekend Plans
Share the “Good News” with friend and Family
Zion Lutheran Church, Bridgeville, PA
Sunday Services at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
Bible Study and Children’s Sunday School at 9:15 a.m.
MISSION STATEMENT:
Zion equips, educates, and encourages believers in Christ, sending them into the world to share the Gospel.
Share the “Good News” with Friend and Family
Zion Lutheran Church, Bridgeville, PA
Sunday Services at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
Bible Study and Children’s Sunday School at 9:15 a.m.
MISSION STATEMENT:
Zion equips, educates, and encourages believers in Christ, sending them into the world to share the Gospel.
Don’t Forget to Check Out Our Events Page
Zion has a new EVENTS PAGE on the website. It features:
You can even add EVENTS that interest you to your Google Calendar
More events are being added on a regular basis!
Zion has an EVENTS PAGE on the website!
You can even add EVENTS that interest you to your Google Calendar
More events are being added on a regular basis!
VIDEO: Wednesday January 8, 2025 - Complete Service
Each service at Zion Lutheran Church (normally the first of our two services) is streamed LIVE on our YouTube channel. This includes Sunday’s, Wednesday’s, Lenten, Advent and special services. The entire service is streamed from beginning-to-end. Weddings and Funerals can also be streamed, if requested in advance.
View the Bulletin for Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Worship Service: 2:00 p.m.
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. (focusing on the Old Testament book of Malachi)
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative
Visit our YouTube channel — Click the red “subscribe” box, and then click on the “bell” next to that box to receive Live Streaming notifications. You must be logged into YouTube to activate these features.
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AUDIO: Readings & Sermon for Wednesday January 8, 2025
This audio-only file includes all the readings from scripture, along with the sermon — and when available, the announcements, adult choir, men’s choir, and/or bell choir. Also posted along with the audio file is the text for all the scripture readings, and a link to the current bulletin, and our YouTube channel if you prefer to watch the LIVE Stream.
View the Bulletin for Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Worship Service: 2:00 p.m.
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. (focusing on the Old Testament book of Malachi)
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative
Visit our YouTube channel — Click the red “subscribe” box, and then click on the “bell” next to that box to receive Live Streaming notifications. You must be logged into YouTube to activate these features.
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Ezekiel 2:1—3:11
And he said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.” And as he spoke to me, the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me. And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day. The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’ And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that a prophet has been among them. And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions.[b] Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. And you shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house.
“But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.” And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, a scroll of a book was in it. And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.
And he said to me, “Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat. And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.
And he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them. For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel— not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you. But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.” Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. And go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ whether they hear or refuse to hear.”
Romans 1:18-32
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
The Lord’s Prayer - The Third Petition
What is the Third Petition?
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
What does this mean?
The good and gracious will of God is done even without our prayer, but we pray in this petition that it may be done among us also.
How is God’s will done?
God’s will is done when He breaks and hinders every evil plan and purpose of the devil, the world, and our sinful nature, which do not want us to hallow God’s name or let His kingdom come; and when He strengthens and keeps us firm in His Word and faith until we die.
This is His good and gracious will.