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[F] The Visitation
[F] The Visitation
July 2, 2025
Color: White\r\rOld Testament: Isaiah 11:1–5\rPsalm: Psalm 138; antiphon: v. 8a\rEpistle: Romans 12:9–16\rGospel: Luke 1:39–56\rGospel: Luke 1:39–45\rIntroit: 1 Samuel 2:1–2, 7–8; antiphon: Luke 1:46b–47\rGradual: Psalm 103:2; 105:5; 100:4\rVerse: Luke 1:45\r\rThe Visitation\r \rToday Zechariah’s house is prepared to sing: “The Lord God of Israel … has visited and redeemed his people” (Luke 1:68). For the Scriptures are being fulfilled: “There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit” (Is. 11:1). What could raise a king from a dead line? Only the Lord Himself! This is no son of man’s will, but the seed of the woman (Gen. 3:15). The Word of the Lord has done this, and so all are blessed in Him. The “greeting” of blessed Mary causes John to leap in Elizabeth’s womb (Luke 1:41). Both are delighted at what the Word has wrought: “Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord” (Luke 1:45). Likewise we, too, “rejoice with those who rejoice” (Rom. 12:12–15), for our joyful hope is in the Lord who has visited us to redeem us — not just a town in Judah but our entire fallen world. The Holy Spirit discloses where salvation is to be found: in the most blessed fruit of Mary’s blessed womb. And the whole Church rejoices, saying, “My beloved! Behold, he comes” (Song of Songs 2:8).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Third Sunday after Trinity
Third Sunday after Trinity
July 6, 2025
Color: Green\r\rOld Testament: Micah 7:18–20\rPsalm: Psalm 103:1–13; antiphon: v. 8\rEpistle: 1 Timothy 1:12–17\rEpistle: 1 Peter 5:6–11\rGospel: Luke 15:1–10\rGospel: Luke 15:11–32\rIntroit: Psalm 25:1–2a, 5b, 15, 20; antiphon: vv. 16, 18\rGradual: Psalm 55:22a, 16, 18a\rVerse: Psalm 18:1–2a\r\rJesus Receives Sinners\r \r“This man receives sinners and eats with them” (Luke 15:2). The Pharisees’ statement of judgment against Jesus is in fact a proclamation of Gospel truth. For our God is one who delights in mercy, who casts all our sins into the depths of the sea through the cross (Micah 7:18–20). “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Tim. 1:15). Those who refuse to be counted as sinners also refuse Jesus who came only for sinners. Those like the older son (Luke 15:11–32), who think they are righteous of themselves, will not join in the heavenly celebration over the sinner who repents and so remain outside of the Father’s house. Let us therefore be on guard against self–righteously trusting in our own merits. “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you” (1 Peter 5:6). Rejoice that Jesus receives sinners like us and that He still sits at table with us in the Holy Supper, bestowing His forgiveness and life.\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Bible Study @ Rudy's BBQ, Frisco
Bible Study @ Rudy's BBQ, Frisco
July 7, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Men's Study @ Rudy's BBQ Frisco
Men's Study @ Rudy's BBQ Frisco
July 9, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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Fourth Sunday after Trinity
Fourth Sunday after Trinity
July 13, 2025
Color: Green\r\rOld Testament: Genesis 50:15–21\rPsalm: Psalm 138; antiphon: v. 8b\rEpistle: Romans 8:18–23\rEpistle: Romans 12:14–21\rGospel: Luke 6:36–42\rIntroit: Psalm 27:3–4a, 5; antiphon: vv. 1–2\rGradual: Psalm 79:9–10a\rVerse: Psalm 9:4b, 9\r\rChrist’s Mercy Is Ours to Show to Others\r \r“Be merciful, even as your Father also is merciful” (Luke 6:36–42). The old Adam in us wants to condemn and seek vengeance. But the Lord says, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay” (Rom. 12:14–21). To condemn, to avenge yourself, is to put yourself in the place of God. It is to fail to trust that He is just. Ultimately, it is to disbelieve that Jesus suffered the full vengeance for all wrongs. Only Christ is merciful as the Father is merciful. He is the one who overcame all evil with the good of His cross, forgiving even His executioners. Jesus is our Joseph, who comforts us with words of pardon and reconciliation (Gen. 50:15–21). He is the One who does not condemn but gives life that runs over. Only through faith in Christ are we sons of the Father—being merciful, forgiving, doing good to our enemies. For in Christ we know that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us (Rom. 8:8–13).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Bible Study @ Rudy's BBQ, Frisco
Bible Study @ Rudy's BBQ, Frisco
July 14, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Men's Study @ Rudy's BBQ Frisco
July 16, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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Fifth Sunday after Trinity
Fifth Sunday after Trinity
July 20, 2025
Color: Green\r\rOld Testament: 1 Kings 19:11–21\rPsalm: Psalm 16; antiphon: v. 11\rEpistle: 1 Peter 3:8–15\rEpistle: 1 Corinthians 1:18–25\rGospel: Luke 5:1–11\rIntroit: Psalm 27:1a, 11–12, 14; antiphon: vv. 7, 9b\rGradual: Psalm 84:9, 8\rVerse: Psalm 21:1\r\rJesus Makes Fishers of Men\r \rThe Lord called fishermen to be fishers of men (Luke 5:1–11). The net they would use is the message of the cross, which is foolishness and a stumbling block to the world (1 Cor. 1:18–25). The power of God to save is not in spectacular signs like wind and fire and earthquakes (1 Kings 19:11–21), nor is it to be found in human intelligence and wisdom. The power of God to save comes in the still, small voice of the preaching of Christ crucified. In worldly darkness the disciples could catch nothing. But in the light of Christ, whose Word was attached to the water, the boats were filled with fish. So it is that in Baptism you have been drawn in to the ship of the Church. Though the nets are breaking and some who hear the Word do not believe, pastors continue to cast the net of the Gospel and the Sacraments, that Christians may abide in the boat of the Church and that we may be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks a reason for the hope that is in us (1 Peter 3:8–15).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Bible Study @ Rudy's BBQ, Frisco
Bible Study @ Rudy's BBQ, Frisco
July 21, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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[F] St. Mary Magdalene
[F] St. Mary Magdalene
July 22, 2025
Color: White\r\rOld Testament: Proverbs 31:10–31\rPsalm: Psalm 73:23–28; antiphon: v. 1\rSecond Reading: Acts 13:26–31\rGospel: John 20:1–2, 10–18\rIntroit: Psalm 30:1a, 2–3, 12b; antiphon: Psalm 31:1a\rGradual: Psalm 45:10; John 10:11b, 10b, 3b, 16c\rVerse: John 20:18a\r\rSt. Mary Magdalene\r \r“An excellent wife who can find?” (Prov. 31:10). The Lord’s love does not search out what is lovely. Instead, His love seeks out sinners and dies for them, washes them clean, and presents them to Himself as a spotless bride (Ephesians 5). Christ had no wife on earth; His bride is the Church — the assembly of forgiven sinners rescued by His death and resurrection. Among them is St. Mary Magdalene, one “who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem” (Acts 13:31). The Lord rescued her from the power of seven demons, and she provided for Him out of her means (Luke 8:2–3). Christians have traditionally connected her with the unnamed penitent woman who was forgiven much by faith and thus “loved much” by anointing Jesus’ feet (Luke 7:36–50). She was there at Christ’s death, present at His burial and honored as the first witness of His resurrection. She would have clung to Him there in the garden, but the Lord had “not yet ascended” to His Father and our Father (John 20:16–18) to “fill all things” (Eph. 4:10). For now He is heard in the Word of His witnesses and is here bodily in His Supper, not just for Mary, but for all penitents “who [fear] the Lord” (Prov. 31:30), so that grace may abound “all the more” (Rom. 5:20).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Men's Study @ Rudy's BBQ Frisco
July 23, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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[F] St. James the Elder, Apostle
[F] St. James the Elder, Apostle
July 25, 2025
Color: Red\r\rFirst Reading: Acts 11:27—12:5\rPsalm: Psalm 56; antiphon: v. 4\rEpistle: Romans 8:28–39\rGospel: Mark 10:35–45\rIntroit: Psalm 89:1, 5, 15–16; antiphon: Psalm 119:46\rGradual: Romans 10:15b, 18b; Isaiah 52:7b, alt.\rVerse: Mark 10:45\r\rSt. James the Elder, Apostle\r \rThe sons of Zebedee ask for seats at Jesus’ “right hand and … left, in your glory” (Mark 10:37). But they do not know what they are asking (Matt. 20:22), for God’s kingdom is not of glory and power but the cross. We will bear ours after Him. “For [His] sake we are being killed” and “regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” But “in all these things we are more than conquerors through him” (Rom. 8:36–37), for Jesus’ death is unique. He alone is baptized with our sin and drinks the cup of God’s wrath against it (Mark 10:38). We live in service to our neighbors after His example; He alone is “the Son of Man,” who came “to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). Today the Church commemorates the fulfillment of Christ’s prophecy about James, killed with Herod’s sword (Acts 12:2). He is honored as the first apostle to be “conformed to the image of [God’s] Son” (Rom. 8:29). But what is that when “Christ Jesus is the one who died — more than that, who was raised — who is at the right hand of God … interceding for us”? Nothing (not even a sword) can “separate” James and “us from the love of Christ” (Rom. 8:34–35).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Sixth Sunday after Trinity
Sixth Sunday after Trinity
July 27, 2025
Color: Green\r\rOld Testament: Exodus 20:1–17\rPsalm: Psalm 19; antiphon: v. 8\rEpistle: Romans 6:3–11\rEpistle: Romans 6:1–11\rGospel: Matthew 5:20–26\rGospel: Matthew 5:17–26\rIntroit: Psalm 28:1–2, 7; antiphon: vv. 8–9\rGradual: Psalm 90:13, 1, 2b\rVerse: Psalm 31:1\r\rOur Only Hope Is in Christ’s Righteousness\r \r“Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 5:20). God demands nothing less than perfection and holiness from you in regard to His commandments (Ex. 20:1–17). Your only hope, then, is not in your own goodness but in the goodness of Christ, who did not come to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfill them for you. In Christ, your righteousness does indeed exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees. For you have been baptized into Christ’s death and your sinful nature crucified. Therefore, he who has died has been freed from sin (Rom. 6:1–11). You are now raised with Christ to walk in newness of life and to share in His resurrection on the Last Day. Christ has brought you through the baptismal sea “out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Ex. 20:2). Therefore, “consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 6:11).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Bible Study @ Rudy's BBQ, Frisco
Bible Study @ Rudy's BBQ, Frisco
July 28, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Men's Study @ Rudy's BBQ Frisco
Men's Study @ Rudy's BBQ Frisco
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