📄 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…
📄 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…