St. John's LCMS
Cordova, Nebraska
Welcome to St. John's Lutheran Church
"Serving Christ in our communities, nation, and world."
The Sunday Divine Services
The
Divine Service is the center of our life of faith in Christ. At the
heart of our Lutheran Worship sits God’s action, His giving to us.
Therefore, our worship does not revolve around our work, but His.
We celebrate and recieve these gifts of His Word and Sacraments each Sunday at 9:00 a.m.
May our Lord continue to bless you this week. We will see you on Sunday!
“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and
I will give you rest.” - Matthew 11:28
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A Note from the Elders
November: We all know what this month brings - Thanksgiving! A time for our nation to pause and give thanks to God, our Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer, for His many blessings: family, friends, good health, employment, food, shelter, and the freedom of democracy, including its opportunity to elect leaders that represent us in fruitful service to each other as good neighbors. These and countless other everyday gifts are blessings we often take for granted. Yet, as Lutherans, we recognize that even these wonderful gifts barely begin to impart the immeasurable depth of God’s mercy, grace, and forgiveness.
We also know that earthly life also brings circumstances for which giving thanks is not so easy: health concerns, financial struggles, broken relationships, disappointments, overwhelming responsibilities, and uncertainty about the future. Even the lengthening process of our calling a new pastor may test our patience. Should we give thanks during these difficult times, too?
The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18, “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (ESV). (Continue here...)
Updated: 11.1.26
Have We Forgotten God?
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has grown.
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole of the American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens." — Abraham Lincoln, 1863 proclamations of a National Day of Fasting and a National Day of Thanksgiving
Updated 11.1.26
Worship Services
Sunday morning Worship services at St. John's are regularly scheduled for 9:00 a.m. On Sunday's, Communion services are held on the odd numbered weeks each month with non-communion services held on the even numbered Sundays. (Seasonally adjusted Service Times...)
- Sunday Morning - 9:00 a.m.
- Wednesday Evening - (Held during the Advent and Lenten Season - See Calendar during those months for service times.)
Sunday Bible Class
Join us on Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. after Worship for adult Bible Class and Sunday School where a variety of Christ centered topics are covered.
Jesus Christ brings the Gospel (from older English, "Good-spel," "good news") to the world. He announces that in His person the kingdom of God has come to mankind and that through faith in Him people might find new and eternal life. He is Himself the Good News, or Gospel.