WOW~ what a wonderful difference the new outside lighting has made at TLS! Thank you to everyone who donated to this year’s Walk-A-Thon and helped us raise the funding needed to improve and add outside lights at TLS. We have also added lighting all around the campus and it has made parking lots and playground areas safer!

Let’s take a moment to prepare our hearts for worship this weekend together. Join us tonight at 6 PM and Sunday at 9 AM.

This weekend’s sermon, “Patience Is Hard,” is grounded in James 5:7–11, where the Lord calls His people to wait—not with clenched fists or anxious hearts, but with hope rooted in His promises.

James points us to the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, trusting that the rains will come in God’s time. Patience is hard, especially when suffering, uncertainty, or weariness press in. Yet this patience is not something we manufacture by sheer willpower. It is born from faith in a gracious and merciful Lord who keeps His Word.
As Lutherans, we confess that our hope does not rest in our endurance, but in Christ’s. Jesus is the truly patient One, who bore suffering, injustice, and the cross for us. In Him, we learn what it means to wait with confidence, knowing that “the coming of the Lord is at hand.”

As you prepare for worship, reflect on this:
• Where is the Lord calling you to wait?
• How might He be strengthening your faith through that waiting?
• How does the Gospel free you from despair when patience feels impossible?
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Come weary. Come waiting. Come trusting in the Lord who is “compassionate and merciful.” We look forward to gathering around Word and Sacrament, where God Himself comes to serve us with forgiveness, life, and salvation.

“Be patient, therefore, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord.” (James 5:7)