Eight youth from Zion along with three adults are attending the SHOW-ME LUTHERAN TEENS ENCOUNTER CHRIST retreat in St Louis. It should be a great 3 day event experience. Keep them in your prayers as they travel to and from St Louis and for them during the event.

We are celebrating Trinity Sunday this week as we are reminded of the wonder and mystery that is the Trinity Father, Son & Holy Spirit. 

Preparations are under way for our 2023 VBS.  If you walk through the basement you will see the beginning of a marketplace and other exciting places that the children will experience during this years VBS.  Prayer for the teachers, staff and Kristin as they get all the preparations in place.

The sermon this week examines the Trinity.

“We Believe in the Triune God”

Romans 8:14-17

Everyone likes a good mystery.  We read a mystery novel, and then sometimes we find it hard to put it down.  Today, on this Trinity Sunday, we have one of those things that are very essential teachings of our Christian faith--the teaching of the Trinity--Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Now we know as we study that teaching of Scripture and try to reason it out, that there are three persons, yet one God. It is hard to make sense of that according to human reason.  So Scripture calls it a mystery.  Yet, without believing that mystery, there is no salvation at all because it is a fundamental doctrine of Christianity itself.  Those who do not believe in the Triune God certainly do not believe in the true God and certainly will not have eternal salvation.  Believers are led by the Spirit. By God’s Spirit and the washing of water with the Word makes us His children.  It is by God’s power and grace that we are children of God and are led by the Spirit.  Our Father loves believers. We know how much our parents love us and sometimes it takes a long time to understand that.  God tells us though that this hardly compares to the love that He has for us.  Rather than push us away at the moment of our sinfulness, the Lord draws us back and says, "I am your Father.”  Believers are heirs with God’s Son. We are told that the kingdom of glory is ours.  It is an inheritance that God has given to us.  On this Trinity Sunday, we see the power of God.  We are reminded of God’s love for us.  

Questions:

1.    What is the greatest mystery for Christians?

2.    How is the Trinity central to the Christian faith?

3.    How are we made heirs to the kingdom?