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Dr. Martin Luther once said, So today, the Word itself, Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper are our morning stars to which we turn our eyes as certain indications of the Sun of grace. For we can definitely assert that where the Lord’s Supper, Baptism, and the Word are found, Christ, the remission of sins, and life eternal are found. Our congregation is named “Luther Memorial” not primarily to remember the great reformer, but rather because Luther called the church to repent and to once again find its hope and life in the presence of Christ in Word and Sacrament. This ongoing reformation of receiving Christ’s presence and His promised gifts of forgiveness is the beating heart of our deepest need. For that reason the weekly Divine Service is the beating heart of our congregational life.

We invite you to browse our Web-site for information on our congregational life, studies, activities, campus outreach and other mission and charitable endeavors. We also invite you to visit us for the Divine Service each Sunday at 9am and each Monday at 7pm. We are a congregation of the South Wisconsin District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.

Twenty Seventh Sunday A. Pentecost

Ready to Give an Account
Text- Matthew 25:14-30, Zephaniah 1:7-16, I Thessalonians 5:1-11
Preached by Vicar Amen

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
The cry of children on the playground, "It's not fair!" is never far from our lips. We look with envy on the good fortune that comes to our neighbor and may mumble, "It's not fair." Behind that judgment, of course, stands the assumption that God is not fair, that we deserve something more, something better than our classmate, our co-worker, or our neighbor.

The Gospel is not about fairness--it is not about our getting what we deserve. If it were, it surely would not be Gospel, good news. The Gospel is about the lavish grace of God in Christ Jesus-grace by which we are saved without any merit or worthiness on our part. Fairness would mean that we would get only the results of our sin. Fairness would mean that we get punishment rather than pardon, hell instead of heaven. God does a most "unfair" thing. He lays the punishment of our sin on the back of His Son and in exchange He lays the righteousness of His Son over our sin. If you insist on fairness from God, you demand damnation. Delete the category of "fairness" from your spiritual vocabulary.

All Saints Day

Text: I JOHN 3:1-3/MATT 5:1-12/REV 7:9-17
THE SAINTS ALL LOOK TO JESUS! WHAT WE WILL BE - IS FOUND IN HIM!
Preached by Rev. Kenneth W. Wieting

Dear saints of God in Christ Jesus our Lord; today we name our dead who are yet alive in Christ Jesus. Today we purposely recall that the church is not limited to one place and one time. Those of you who studied the Screwtape letters a few months ago recall that one of Satan’s chief temptations is to limit our view of the church to what we see around us now. Perhaps not so impressive! In our time mocked by Hollywood’s idols and society’s elite! Screwtape also teaches Wormwood (in chapter two) how to use faults in church members to pull Christians away from the faith. He clarifies, “I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.”

The Church Triumphant is invisible to us! Setting our mind on things above is not our default setting. Being in the world but not of the world is a test we miserably and perpetually fail. And to the degree that the Church Triumphant becomes unreal to us we are weakened in faith and in our perspective of reality. That’s why the communion liturgy leads us each week to speak of all the company of heaven. In part, that’s also why Jesus leads you to recall the unseen realm every day as you pray in the Lord’s Prayer, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Twenty Sixth Sunday A. Pentecost

Text: Matthew 25:1-13
WAITING WITH WISDOM FOR THE BRIDEGROOM
Preached by Rev. Kenneth W. Wieting

To the church at Luther Memorial Chapel and University Student Center in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ - Grace to you and peace (I Thess. 1:1). You will either hear Jesus’ words today as a “moron” (from the Greek in our text) or as a “thinker” – as one foolish or one wise - so give careful thought to His words. The parable of the ten virgins is not about avowed atheists or humanists or Buddhists or Mormons or any such known group. It is about Lutherans and other professing Christians! This parable is about those once given faith in Jesus Christ and the truth that He will come again. It is about those within the pale of the Christian Church who have some expectation that they will take part in heaven’s eternal feast because of Jesus.

Jesus said “The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.

Reformation Sunday

TEXT: JOHN 8:31-36/JEREMIAH 31:31-34/ROMANS 3:19-28
YOU WILL BE FREE INDEED!
Preached by Rev. Kenneth W. Wieting

Dear heirs of God’s Reformation of the Church through Dr. Martin Luther: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

If Luther had lived in our culture and believed its falsehoods – that truth is relative – that God’s wrath against sin is not real – the Reformation would never have happened! Luther was a man who believed what Scripture said about sin and its wages. He sought to deal with his sin using the churchly prescriptions of the Middle Ages such as penance and purgatory and privation. Yet with all his prayers and fasting and study, with all his monastic serving and solitude He came up empty! All his self-help steps; all his super-spiritual efforts failed! God, as it were, shut his mouth! St. Paul wrote, we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

When God shut Luther’s mouth by showing him the fullness of his accountability to God by way of the law, then God opened his heart and mind and mouth by setting him free through the Gospel of the forgiveness of sins in Christ Jesus. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law…the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.

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