Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The True Light - Part 5\n John 1:1-5\n 01\/09\/2026\n\n\n 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was\n with God, and the Word was God.\n 2 He was in the beginning with God.\n 3 All things were made through him, and without him\n was not any thing made that was made.\n 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of\n men.\n 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness\n has not overcome it. (ESV)\n\n As the Christmas season ends and the Church enters the\n Epiphany season, we ponder the words of Saint John:\n In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with\n God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning\n with God. All things were made through him, and\n without him was not any thing made that was made. In\n him was life, and the life was the light of men. The\n light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not\n overcome it.\n\n\n Last Sunday the Church prayed:\n Almighty God, You have poured into our hearts the true\n Light of Your incarnate Word. Grant that this Light\n may shine forth in our lives; through the same Jesus\n Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with\n You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.\n\n\n The Church exists, not to be morality police, not as the\n gathering place for the holy, but to bring the light of life into\n this sin-darkened world. As members of Christ's Church, we seek\n to reflect the love of God which has called us from eternal death\n into the promise of heaven.\n\n All we do is a response to Christ Jesus, in light of the\n message, salvation is by grace through faith for His sake. He\n promises to be with us. We find Him where He promises, in the\n Word which is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path; in\n Baptism where we are buried with Him and rise with Him; in the\n Lord's Supper where we receive His true body and blood under the\n bread and wine; and in absolution where He pronounces our sins\n forgiven.\n\n Please join us this coming Sunday, and every Sunday, at\n Trinity Lutheran Church at 9:00 a.m. to hear the good news of our\n Savior. May our Lord grant you the light of His grace. Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 9, 2025 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}