November 23, 2025

(Apostles’ Creed)

Preaching: Pastor Brad Lenzner

Call to Worship: Psalm 67:1-2

Invocation: Psalm 67:3

“Let the peoples praise you, O God;”

“Let all the peoples praise you!”

Reading of the Law: 1 John 2:15-17

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Old Testament Lesson: Esther 7:1-10

So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.” 3 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. 4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.” 5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?” 6 And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

7 And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king. 8 And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face. 9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman's house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.” 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.

New Testament Lesson: Revelation 18:1-8, 20

After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory. 2 And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.  3 For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”

4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; 5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6 Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed. 7 As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.’ 8 For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!”

Sermon: “They Hanged Haman on the Gallows”

Hymn #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – 67-A) “O God, to Us Show Mercy” 

Hymn #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – 372) “Christ, above All Glory Seated”   

Hymn #3 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – 75) “We Give You Thanks, O God” 

The Afternoon Catechism Service

Prayer Requests Received from the Congregation

Prayer for Requests Given

*Call to Worship: Psalm 113:1-3

*God’s Greeting

*Psalm #1 Psalm of the Month: (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 1-A) “That Man Is Blest”

*Prayer for Illumination

*Old Testament Lesson: Exodus 20:1-2, 7 [sermon text vv. 7]

*New Testament Lesson: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Confessional Reading: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 36

Sermon: “The Name of the LORD Your God" 

Prayer of Application

*Psalm #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – 113-A) “Hallelujah! Raise, O Raise"