Church Year: Pentecost 14:
Date: September 14, 2025
Theme: The Mountain Range Of God’s Holiness
1. Mt. Sinai – the terrifying place of our disgrace ( TLH 287: 1 )
2. Mt. Zion – the heavenly place of God’s great grace ( TLH 61 3:2 )
– Hebrews 12:18-24
– Pastor: John Hein
Bulletin: Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p. 5 ff.
Hymns:
TLH 479 : Zion, Rise, Zion, Rise
TLH 268 : Zion Mourns in Fear and Anguish
TLH 469 : Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
TLH 469 : Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
TLH 44 : Ye Lands, to the Lord Make a Jubilant Noise
Scripture Readings:
Isaiah 66:18-24 Luke 13:22-30Theme: The Mountain Range Of God’s Holiness
1. Mt. Sinai – the terrifying place of our disgrace ( TLH 287: 1 )
2. Mt. Zion – the heavenly place of God’s great grace ( TLH 61 3:2 )
Hebrews 12:18–24 (Listen)
A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken
18 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest 19 and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. 20 For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” 21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
(ESV)