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📄 Download PDF Version The second distribution hymn in the 5:30 p.m. (Saturday) and 8:00 a.m. (Sunday) services this week is Hymn #425, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. At first glance, it might have you thinking something along the lines of: It’s the middle of August. Why in the world are we singing a…
📄 Download PDF Version St. John’s Lutheran Church (LCMS) August 16, 2026 — Twelve Sunday after Pentecost 901 W. Jefferson Ave. Effingham, IL. 62401 www.stjohnsLCMS.net | 217-342-4334 | office@stjohnsLCMS.net Pastors: Rev. Mike Burdick & Rev. Trey Dille Preschool: www.eaglesnestpreschool.com I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! — Rom. 11:1 Proclaim the…
📄 Download PDF Version The Eagle — St. John’s Weekly Newsletter August 9, 2026 This painting by Yongsung Kim is titled The Hand of God and it portrays Jesus as he reaches through the water to bring Peter back out of the water in this weekend’s Gospel Lesson from Matthew 14:28-31. The painting gives us…
📄 Download PDF Version St. John’s Lutheran Church (LCMS) August 9, 2026 — Sunday after Pentecost 901 W. Jefferson Ave. Effingham, IL. 62401 www.stjohnsLCMS.net | 217-342-4334 | office@stjohnsLCMS.net Pastors: Rev. Mike Burdick & Rev. Trey Dille Preschool: www.eaglesnestpreschool.com “This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but…
📄 Download PDF Version You’ll never meet a perfect man, except Jesus. Here at St. John’s we are blessed to have many men who are intent on growing in their calling to be godly men, masculine men, sacrificial men. Repentant, forgiven men. Men who, by God’s sufficient grace, will “Man Up!” Three years ago we…
📄 Download PDF Version St. John’s Lutheran Church (LCMS) August 2, 2026 — Tenth Sunday after Pentecost 901 W. Jefferson Ave. Effingham, IL. 62401 www.stjohnsLCMS.net | 217-342-4334 | office@stjohnsLCMS.net Pastors: Rev. Mike Burdick & Rev. Trey Dille Preschool: www.eaglesnestpreschool.com “This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God,…
📄 Download PDF Version The Eagle — St. John’s Weekly Newsletter July 26, 2026 Teach your children to leave you. At the right time. Not when they are 6 or 16. They need to be right beside you – a lot – in those days. But the goal of parenting is simple, says Rev Todd…
📄 Download PDF Version St. John’s Lutheran Church (LCMS) July 26, 2026 — Ninth Sunday after Pentecost 901 W. Jefferson Ave. Effingham, IL. 62401 www.stjohnsLCMS.net | 217-342-4334 | office@stjohnsLCMS.net Pastors: Rev. Mike Burdick & Rev. Trey Dille Preschool: www.eaglesnestpreschool.com “We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those…
📄 Download PDF Version THE EAGLE St. John’s Weekly Newsletter July 19, 2026 Here is something that almost every person reading The Eagle can agree with: it’s no fun to wait. It’s a fact! Very few of us like waiting in line. It doesn’t take much of a special circumstance to remind us of this.…
📄 Download PDF Version “Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.” Mt 13:43. ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCMS) JULY 19, 2026 EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 901 W. Jefferson Ave. Effingham, IL. 62401 www.stjohnsLCMS.net 217-342-4334 office@stjohnsLCMS.net Pastors: Rev. Mike Burdick & Rev. Trey Dille Preschool: www.eaglesnestpreschool.com Proclaim the Christ.…
