Risen Savior Lutheran 2018 Church Pastor Art in the Lord’s House Key Our last stained-glass windows and additional wood carvings perhaps will be coming soon… Events The Lutheran Reformation did not simply destroy what came before it. The Confessions make it clear that we retain and preserve what we can according to the Gospel, as in these examples, which our congregations and Synod are still bound: Oct. 7 ➔ “We keep traditional liturgical forms, such as the order of the lessons, prayers, Oktoberfest vestments, etc.” (Apology XXIV). ➔ “Those ancient customs should be kept which can be kept without sin or without great Oct. 13 disadvantage. This is what we teach….We gladly keep the old traditions set up in the Highway church because they are useful and promote tranquility …the children chant the Psalms in order to learn.” (Apology XV). Clean-up ➔ “The [Service] is retained among us and is celebrated with the greatest reverence. Almost all the customary ceremonies are also retained.” (Augsburg Confession XXIV) Oct. 15 In many cases this applied to the visual arts as well. While Great Britain and Switzerland Blood Drive bear the scars of Reformed iconoclasm, many churches in Lutheran Germany still display the beauty of medieval Christianity. Art is like worship. In a practical, utilitarian world it seems rather useless and perhaps Oct. 28 even foolish, even a waste of money. Art is just pretty stuff, the things we hang up in our Festival of the homes to decorate the plain wall. It has meaning only so long as we choose it to and it is Reformation something we discard when we are over it or when our interests or tastes change. At least that is the estimation of the world. Oct. 31 We see in Scripture the Lord going to great lengths in cost, materials, craftsmen, design, Reformation Day to build a place where He comes to His people. Art in the church is not just pretty stuff we put in the church to decorate. Instead this art connects with the faith. Every symbol, carving, stained glass window or painting is a teacher and a voice that addresses us through our eyes in the same way words of the creed engage our mind. We see the faith with those eyes and we are instructed in that faith just as words teach our minds. But the goal here is not simply knowing for the sake of knowing but knowing so that we might believe and believing so that we might live the new life God has bestowed upon us in the living water that connects us to the death and resurrection of Christ. Faith sees not simply one dimensional but a message, a word, a voice that addresses us with the eternal Gospel and Church bids us to enter its mystery. Art is not sacrament but it might be said to be sacramental. It 913.724.2900 leads us past ourselves and our likes or preferences and into God's gracious actions that reveal His grace and favor. The art around the Church not only instructs but directs the Pastor Weinkauf wayward and wandering mind back to what is happening within the liturgy. [email protected] What we offer the world is not beauty for the sake of beauty but beauty that befits the 913.369.5942 Word and serves its noble purpose of engaging us with the saving work of Christ. In fact, Vicar Antonetti paintings and images can be fitting servants to the proclamation of God’s Word, presenting christopher.antonetti@ the doctrine of Christ to the worshiper’s eyes and further impressing it upon their heart. In ctsfw.edu preserving and upholding historic liturgical art, we sing with the Psalmist, “One thing have I 406.630.2283 desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His temple” (Psalm 27:4). Oktoberfest Sunday Oct. 7 First Sunday in October, our annual festival with German food and beverages, live German music, bounce houses, pumpkin decorating, face painting, entertainment, and more!!! . Ticket: Adults $12, Ages 5-11 $6, or Family rate $40. Biergarten, donation for a bottle of Oktoberfest Bier, Hard Cider $3. We will once again have pork schnitzel with gravy, brats, kraut, bierocks, red cabbage, German potato salad, strudel, and so much more! Put your dirndl or lederhosen on and join us. Last year almost 400 enjoyed this day at Risen Savior. Invite your family and friends. Reformation Day Oct. 31 Cookout 5:00 pm German meal. The Youth Group is hosting this event. There is no cost for this meal. Cookout Vespers 6:00 pm 5:00 pm Worship 6:00 pm Fireworks 6:40 pm Also, after the Service, you are invited to stay for fireworks, beverages around our firepits to enjoy the night here! Plenty of desserts and left-overs too. If your children desire to trick or treat there is still plenty of time and a great nearby neighborhoods. The Board of Elders presents the ballot at the November Quarterly Voter’s Assembly. Terms are for 2 years. We have elections for the following: - Vice-President -No Incumbent - Board of Elders (4 of the 7 positions) - Secretary -No Incumbent - Treasurer -No Incumbent - Board of Trustees (2 positions) -No Incumbents - Board of Fellowship -No Incumbent - Board of Outreach - Cemetery Board (2 of the 3 positions) If anyone is interested in serving, please consult the Church Constitution for duties. Please contact: [email protected] or any Elder. Thank you for your prayerful discernment in serving. The Silesian Job Vicar Antonetti Johann Heermann (1585-1647) was one of the great Lutheran Sunday pastors, hymn writers of the time right after the Reformation, commonly called the Age of Orthodoxy. Living in Silesia (now School southwest Poland and part of Czechia), he experienced so much Kim Dunn, Board of Education sorrow and anguish that one of his contemporaries called Heermann “The Silesian Job,” in reference to the righteous Sunday School is off to a wonderful suffering Job of the Bible. start this Fall! At seventeen, Heermann began his pastoral training in Fraustadt under famous pastor, theologian Valerius Herberger, Parents, thank you for making this serving as a writing assistant. Heermann was known for his educational hour a priority. poetry and crowned Latin poet laureate of the Holy Roman Empire at the age of 23. Ordained in 1612, he became a popular preacher in Koeben, but within five years he would have to Singing! weather a plague in the region, a great fire in the city, and the October 28 at 10:30 Service, death of his first wife. He remarried and had four children, but Festival of the Reformation. during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) Koeben was plundered four times by armed forces and hit again with plague in 1631. Then we will be practicing Christmas By 1634 Heermann was too sick to even read his own sermons Songs starting November 18. and he retired in 1638. In 1640, his son, Samuel, converted to Roman Catholicism. Heermann wrote his son a heartfelt letter to return, and his son eventually did become Lutheran again in 1643, dying shortly thereafter. Heermann died in 1647. Heermann has six hymns in translation in our Lutheran Service Book. “Jesus, Grant that Balm and Healing” (LSB 421) is a Lenten hymn that focuses on the healing given by Jesus not only for “pains of body and of mind,” but to fight sin and temptation, and give comfort found in “life and light and resurrection.” Another Good Friday-type hymn “O Dearest Jesus, What Law Hast Thou Broken” (LSB 439) examines how “the We have 22 children in our Home sinless Son of God must die in sadness; the sinful child of man School Cooperative for Pre-K - High may live in gladness,” ultimately that despite our great School. If you have questions, please weakness and sin Christ “Surely has borne our griefs and carried see Pastor, Susan Muntzel, or Amy our sorrows.” (Isaiah 53:4). “If Your Beloved Son, O God” (LSB Maurer. 568) also focuses on Christ’s atoning work, without which “this poor wretched soul of mine in hell eternally would pine” but “true righteousness by faith I gain; Christ’s work is my salvation.” In “O God, My Faithful God” (LSB 696) Heerman, even in his sickness, confessed that God gives “a healthy frame” and Youth Group “strength to do…what ever You command, my calling here High School Youth fulfilling,” but still the ultimately focuses on “that final day when Oct. 14 all the dead are waking.” “Feed Thy Children, God Most Holy” - 1 week later due to Oktoberfest, (LSB 774) is a short hymn that confesses the “Bread of Life” (John 6) in Word and Sacrament sustains us in our afflictions. 6:00-8:00 pm Finally, in “O Christ, Our True and Only Light” (LSB 839), we Invite any friends. pray for those outside of the true doctrine that they all may be united with us again like Heermann’s son, Samuel. See you at Dare Johann Heermann wrote more hymns than these six, but even 9:15 Sunday! these demonstrate how the Christian finds strength in affliction higherthings.org to be by trusting in Christ’s death and resurrection. These treasures of Lutheran the church are perfect to use in daily prayer and devotion. Sorrow in this life is temporary, “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth” (Job 19:25).