Christ Lutheran Church, Pattison TX

 

Welcome to Christ Lutheran Church
Divine Service 10:30 am

We provide a traditional LCMS service using the Lutheran Service Book (LSB) every Sunday morning at 10:30am central time, preceded by Bible Study and Sunday School at 9:00am.  If you are unable to attend, the services can also be viewed online via Facebook Live. (Facebook account required.)

Activities

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  • September 20 service

    Brothers and sisters, God does some of His work through us. In our daily vocations whether parent or child, employer or employee, as brother or sister, in whatever job you may do to earn a living, in whatever roles and tasks you may serve, God will use you as His instrument to help and provide for your neighbor. Christians recognize we serve those vocations by God’s grace through faith in Jesus our Savior, who served us by dying for us to redeem us from sin. We assemble in church where He offers forgiveness and comfort for troubled souls. God wants you to receive. I encourage you to attend. 

    On Sunday, September 20, we will follow the liturgy of Divine Service Setting One beginning on page 151 in the LSB hymnal. Hymns chosen for the day are #538 Praise Be to Christ; #555 Salvation Unto Us Has Come; and #618 I Come, O Savior to Thy Table. I have chosen only three hymns since we will also sing a couple of verses of #555 as the closing hymn. 

    Scripture lessons assigned to the day in the three-year lectionary (Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 20) are Psalm 27:1-9, 14; Isaiah 55:6-9; Philippians 1:12-30; and Matthew 20:1-6.

     In our various vocations, serving our neighbor for God, we disciples are “laborers for his vineyard” (Matt. 20:1). Whatever our particular roles or stations in life may be, we are called to live and serve by faith in His promises fulfilled in Jesus. But we should know that our labors do not merit or earn anything before Him, for He is already generous to one and all without partiality. In mercy, God continues to call sinners to repentance and faith. That is to say, we are equal when it comes to salvation and the reward of heaven. Our “pay” is the same. “The last will be first, and the first will be last”. We receive heaven and its benefits only because God is merciful and Jesus has paid our entry fee. He died in order to pay your debt of sin, and broke down the sin barrier that separated you from God.  (Matt. 20:12–15). This way of the Lord is foolishness to the world and foreign to our thoughts. (Isaiah 55:6-9). God is not calling you work harder or longer. He is urging all people in all vocations to turn to His Son, Jesus, that He may “have compassion” and “abundantly pardon” each of them (Is. 55:7). We disciples ought to bravely share the good news of forgiveness and eternal life in Jesus Christ, “whether by life or by death” (Phil. 1:20), by “fruitful labor” (Phil. 1:22) or if called to suffer for His sake (Phil. 1:29) as St. Paul did. It is by God’s grace through faith in Jesus’ forgiveness that your manner of life is “worthy of the gospel” (Phil. 1:27).

    COLLECT: Lord God, Heavenly Father, since we cannot stand before You relying on anything we have done, help us at all times to trust in Your abiding grace and live according to Your Word; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.

    Please let me know if you have any prayer requests or questions about Sunday’s Scripture lessons. The Lord be with you. Pastor Boster

  • September 13 Service

    Greetings in the name of our Savior, Jesus. Psalm 122 is ascribed to be a psalm of David. It is also a psalm of ascents, the kind of song people would sing on their way going up the mountain preparing for worship. The lyrics do not express reluctance or weariness, but anticipation and joy.  The Psalm begins on a happy note, “I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”” Jerusalem, the city of David, located on Mt. Zion, and the place the tribes of God went to praise His name. The people of God looked forward to going there to be assured of His care for them. Divine Service at the church is also such a place; God distributes the gifts of forgiveness that Jesus earned for us. And we respond with praise. I invite you to attend this week’s worship so I can rejoice with you.

    Note a change in the service Sunday, September 13. We will be using the liturgy for Divine Service Setting One beginning on page 151 in the LSB hymnal. The hymns for the day are #812 Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs; #843 Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive; #611 Chief of Sinners, Though I Be; and #852 O God of Mercy, God of Might.

    Scripture lessons are Psalm 103:1-13, 22; Genesis 50:15-21; Romans 14:1-12; and Matthew 18: (15-20) 21-35.

    Jesus Christ, God’s begotten Son, died on a cross for you to pay for your sin. Jesus rose from the dead, opening heaven and eternal life to you. We receive His gifts through faith in Him. because Jesus has paid the cost of our sin, our heavenly Father does not act toward us with anger, but with compassion. He does not imprison us as our disobedience deserves, but He forgives all our debts and releases us (Matt. 18:23–27). Therefore, our Lord bids you also to have “mercy on your fellow servant” and “forgive your brother from your heart” (Matt. 18:33, 35). By the Lord’s forgiveness of our sins, we are free to forgive those who sin against us, because He has paid our entire debt with His lifeblood. As a result, whether we live or die, we “are the Lord’s” (Rom. 14:8). Since we all will “stand before the judgment seat of God,” we are not to despise our brother (Rom. 14:10), but gladly forgive him. The patriarch Joseph had been sold into slavery by his brothers. Joseph ended up in Egypt, and as God helps him he ends up being a government leader in charge of the nation’s food supply.. When a famine hits the region, the brothers travel to Egypt to ask for food. After so many years apart, they do not recognize Joseph. Joseph could have had them arrested or killed out of revenge for the mistreatment decades earlier. But Joseph forgives. He becomes an example of how we should forgive those who hurt us. We forgive by letting Jesus’ forgiveness flow through us. Lord, help us to forgive!!

    COLLECT: O all-knowing and almighty God, without Your grace and blessing we cannot please You. Mercifully continue to grant us Your Holy Spirit to direct and govern our hearts in all things ; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.

     Please let me know if you have any prayer requests or questions about Sunday’s lessons. God bless you. Pastor Boster

  • September 6 service

    Greetings in the name of Jesus. This is Labor Day weekend. For many the holiday marks the end of summer. Unfortunately our temperatures are not agreeing with that designation. Labor might seem like a burden at times, rather than something to celebrate. Since the Fall of Adam and Eve, labor has been accompanied by struggle, sweat, and hazards. But we still have reason to give thanks to God for all the vocations He works through to provide us all we need for this body and soul. I encourage you to be in church Sunday to receive the gifts of forgiveness and comfort that God is distributing there.

    On Sunday, September 6 we will follow the liturgy of Divine Service Seeting Three that begins on page 184 in the LSB hymnal. Hymns chosen for the day are #820 My Soul, Now Praise Your Maker; #614 As Surely As I Live, God Said; # 634 The Death of Jesus Christ, Our Lord; and we will close with a few verses of #609 Jesus, Sinners Doth Receive.

    Scripture lessons assigned to the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18, are Psalm 32:1-7; Ezekiel 33:7-9; Romans 13:1-10; and Matthew 18:1-20. 

    The gospel lesson begins (Matthew 18:1) with a question the disciples ask of Jesus, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Jesus gives one answer to that question in Chapter 20, “Whoever wants to be great among you shall be your servant”, serving others in a way that expresses the humble sacrificial life of Jesus who served by giving His life as a ransom for many. But here in Chapter 16, Jesus answers the question about greatness by using children as an object lesson. “Unless you turn and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” This leads to a question, ‘what is it to be like a child?’ What characteristics of children are we supposed to imitate? Some would suggest it means to listen to authority, be obedient, and well-behaved. But this better describes what children should be, not what they actually are. In fact, children are not innocent in the sense of sinless; they can often be selfish tyrants concerned only for themselves. Rather, what children are is immature, lacking wisdom, unable to care for themselves, dependent on someone who is able to help. Jesus is encouraging His disciples to let go of any thoughts of self-sufficiency or worldly standards of power, and instead to recognize they have nothing of greatness to offer in heaven. The humble and poor in spirit, who recognize their dependence on Jesus, will be those who receive God’s eternal blessings. Jesus is redefining greatness. Jesus includes instruction for His disciples that they not cause others to sin, not despise others who are weak and needy, and to work toward forgiveness and reconciliation with those who offend. As we receive these needy, we are receiving Jesus.

    Though in our sin we deserve to be “drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matt. 18:6), we have instead been drowned (“buried”) with Christ in Baptism and then raised to the new, humble life of a child of God. As we read in the Old Testamnet lesson, God sends watchman to warn us with a word from His mouth, calling us to repent in order that we may not die in our iniquity but be turned from our pride and selfishness to live (Ezek. 33:7–9). Thus, we live in humility and faith before God as well as in love for our neighbor, which “is the fulfilling of the law” (Rom. 13:10). In the reverent fear of God, we do no harm to our neighbor, but we “pay to all what is owed to them” (Rom. 13:7) and we “owe no one anything, except to love each other” (Rom. 13:8). 

    COLLECT: O God, from whom all good proceeds, grant to us, Your humble servants, Your holy inspiration, that we may set our minds on the things that are right and, by Your merciful guiding, accomplish them; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.

    Please let me know if you have any prayer requests or questions about the Scripture lessons. God bless you. Pastor Boster

  • Annual Church Outing
    Once a year, the Ladies’ Group sponsors an outing for Church Members and guests.  This year we visited the Bluebell Creamery and Almost Heaven restaurant in Brenham.  A great time was had by all.
  • LWML District Conference
    In June, two of our ladies’ group members, attended the bi-annual conference in Austin.  It was wonderful worshiping and singing together.  The members also selected recipients of this biennium’s recipients.  Our Zone (group of churches) sponsored the Jesus Signs Deaf Ministry.  It was voted the first place mission grant.  We were so excited!  You can find information on their activities here:  https://www.deafoutreachtexas.org/activities-and-events.