📄 Download PDF Version St. John’s Family, I write to you with the words of St. Paul to the church in Thessalonica: “We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is…
📄 Download PDF Version St. John’s Lutheran Church (LCMS) September 2, 2026 — Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost “Love is the fulfilling of the Law.” Romans 13:10 901 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. Grow the Family. Love…
📄 Download PDF Version In the Psalm for this weekend, we find these words: “O Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.” (Psalm 26:8) They are words that we say often at church. We hear them in different orders of service, and we find them in the…
📄 Download PDF Version St. John’s Lutheran Church (LCMS) August 30, 2026 — Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost “O Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.” (Psalm 26:8) 901 W. Jefferson Ave. Effingham, IL. 62401 www.stjohnsLCMS.net 217-342-4334 office@stjohnsLCMS.net Pastors: Rev. Mike Burdick & Rev. Trey Dille…
📄 Download PDF Version Jesus was an infant, born into Mary and Joseph’s family. Years later He took infants into His human arms and blessed them. Then He stretched out His arms upon the cross to redeem infant sinners and college sinners and retired sinners. The only way we come into the Kingdom of God…
📄 Download PDF Version St. John’s Lutheran Church (LCMS) August 23, 2026 — Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Beginning of the Sunday School Year 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 Jesus said, “Let the children come to me…” — Luke…
📄 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…