This is our December 29, 2024 service. This Sunday, Pastor Hodge's sermon was entitled "Blessings from the Word becoming flesh". We pray you are blessed by it!
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our Christmas 2024 service, as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We pray you are blessed by it!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, as well as replays there, and on https://www.archive.org . Including this one, by cutting and pasting this link in your browser: https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-christmas-12-25-2024-service Merry Christmas, and have a blessed 2025!This is our December 22,2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on our Christmas theme "The Word became Flesh Bringing us Grace And truth". We pray you will learn the Christmas story, and see the beauty and how wonderful our Savior is!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and also on https://www.archive.org, including this one, which you can watch here by copying and pasting this link into your browser:This is our December 15, 2024 service. This week, we had our Children's Christmas program, and the baptism of Everett Timmerman. We pray you are blessed by it, and a Christmas sermon that reminds us of what God did for us!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and replays here and on https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch here:This is our December 8, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounds on how we walk in darkness, and how we can walk in the Light, and whose Light we walk in to walk in true light, and God's power. Watch our service today to find out how!
You can watch us live on Facebook and YouTube, as well as replays there and on https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This week, as we begin Advent, we begin the season of celebration of Christ, and him being born. But why? Why was the birth of Christ so important, and why do we celebrate it? Watch our service today, and you will indeed learn why we spend this time of the season to celebrate what Christ has done for us.
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and also replays there and at https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch here: https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-12-01-2024-service And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 13:44-52. Here we see that those who are not Jews are able to be saved. But what does that have to do with us today? Watch our service, and find out!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and replays can be found there, and on https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our November 17, 2024 service. This week, the Gospel was preached in a sermon entitled "A door God opened: Or, a lollipop, a van, and the Gospel". We pray you are blessed by it!
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This week, Mark Fagerstrom did our sermon on "Home", and we pray that this sermon will be a blessing to you as we worship our Lord this week!
Remember, we offer this service to those who are sick, or have a legitimate reason to not be here, or if you are tuning in and want to see what we are like. If that is you, welcome! Watch our services Live on our Facebook and YouTube pages/channels, as well as replays there and at https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our November 3, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 13:4-12, in a sermon entitled "National Enquirer does not fall to deception". We pray that you are blessed by it, and our service!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and replays here and on https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch here:
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This is our October 20, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge continued in the book of Acts, expounding on Acts 12:1-25, with a sermon entitled "Predicaments, prayers and predators". We pray you are blessed by it!
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
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This is our October 13, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge continues in the book of Acts, vs. 11:17-30. His sermon is very appropriate in today's world: "Responding to God's Word in a chaotic world".
Our world is anything but sane these days. How does God want us to respond? Listen to his sermon and learn from the Bible how to do this, today!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and replays can be found there, and on https://www.archive.org . Including this one, which you can watch right here:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our October 6, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 11:19-26. Follow along as we learn "What's in a name?". We pray you will be blessed by it!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and on YouTube, and replays there and at https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch here: https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-10-06-2024-service For those who couldn't be at George Rumpf's funeral today, here is the replay of the service.
Credit to Shawn Blobaum for video, lighting, graphics and camera,, and Mark Fagerstrom doing audio.
https://youtube.com/live/Z563kr5Uxks
This is our September 29, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 11:1-18, "Baptism of the Spirit and the repentance that leads to life". We pray you are blessed by it!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and our replays live there and on https://www.archive.org , including this one, by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our September 22, 2024 service. This week, we had a service for confirming Clarke Storey, and then Pastor Hodge expounded on 2 Corinthians 5:14-17, on what confirmation is. We pray this service is a blessing to you!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and our replays can be found there, and also at https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our September 15, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 10:34-38, continuing in his series in the book of Acts. We pray you are blessed by it!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and watch our service replays there, and at https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our September 8, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge continued in his series through the book of Acts, specifically verses 10-33, with a sermon entitled "A great meeting planned by God". We pray that you are blessed by it!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and replays there and on https://www.archive.org, including this one, by copying and pasting this into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our September 1, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 10-9:16. We investigate the prejudices of the past, and how, Biblically, we can overcome any and all prejudices we have against those we don't like, those of a different ethnicity, race, or religion by pointing ALL to the one and the only one who can save, Jesus Christ our Lord. We pray you are blessed by our service!
And, you can watch our services live on our Facebook and YouTube channels, and watch our replays there, and on https://www.arvchive.org, including this one, which you can watch by copying and pasting this link into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our August 25, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 10:1-8, with a sermon entitled "God's mysterious call". We pray it is a blessing to you!
You can watch our services live on Facebook, and on YouTube...with replays there, and on https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch here:
https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-08-25-28-2024-service
And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our August 18, 2024 service. As Pastor Hodge continues in the book of Acts, specifically Acts 9:32-43, we learn about how to be servants in Christ with a sermon entitled "Consistent servants in the body of Christ". We pray it will be a blessing to you! You can copy and paste this link into your browser to watch the replay here:
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And you can watch ALL of our services live on Facebook and YouTube, with replays there and on https://www.archive.org, including this one.
And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our August 11, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge continued in the book of Acts, in chapter 9, with a sermon entitled "validating one's faith". Here, we see the Apostle Paul beginning his ministry to share the Gospel to the world...with help with some of his friends. See how Biblical fellowship and friendship is so critical in the life of every Christian, and it helps others to validate your faith!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, with replays there and on https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch here:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our August 4, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded in the book of Acts, specifically Acts 9:3-19, with a sermon entitled "The Gospel is Good News for the hopeless". We pray you are blessed by it!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and replays there and on https://www.archive.org, including this one, which you can watch here:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our July 28, 2024 service. This week, Wild Bill Hickok joins us! Well, not really, but Pastor Hodge does, and talks about the faith he had in God We pray it is a blessing to you!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and on YouTube, and also replays there and on httpas://www.archive.org, including this one, which you can watch here:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our July 21, 2024 service. This week, Jim Mistry gave his sermon entitled, "The Kinsman Reedemer". We pray that you are blessed by it!
You can watch our services live via Facebook and YouTube, and our replays on https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our July 14, 2024 service. This week, Mark Fagerstrom delivered a sermon entitled "Freedom In Christ". We see how we are free in Christ, but we must no longer be slaves to sin and evil. Listen to how we can be transformed by listening to his sermon, and enjoy and be blessed by the rest of the service!
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our July 7, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded in the book of Acts, specifically Acts 8:25-40. Here, we see God directing his people to share the Gospel, and the Hoy Spirit should be directing us to read His Word, and do His will. See how this happens today!
Our services are streamed live on Facebook and YouTube, and replays can be seen there, and also on https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can see here by cutting nd pasting this link into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our June 30, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts chapter 8, verses 18-24. His sermon this week continues from last week, with "A look at Simon the Sorcerer, or, deception seeks to enter the church. This is part 4 in his series, and we pray it is a blessing to you!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and on YouTube, and our replays at https://www.archive.org, including this one, which you can watch by cutting and pasting this link into your browser: https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-06-30-2024-serviceThis is our June 16, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge talked about the importance of fathers on Father's Day. How can you be a father who glorifies God in this extremely important aspect of your life? What if you had a bad experience with your earthly father? Listen how Pastor Hodge describes how we can become great fathers to our children!
You can watch our services live on YouTube and Facebook, as well as replays there and on https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch right here:
https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-06-16-2024-service
And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our June 6, 2024 service. this week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 8:1=8, with a sermon entitled "The persecuted church expands". Watch how God uses the church to preach the Good News, and how we can do it today, to bring the saving message of the Gospel to the nations today.
You can watch our services live on Facebook, and on YouTube. And, you can watch our replays there, and at https://www.archive.org as well. Including this service, which you can watch right here, by cutting and pasting this link into your browser: https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-06-09-2024-serviceThis is our June 2, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge preached a sermon on "The devotion of the early church, corporate and personal". Here, we understand why in the true believer, fellowship and going to church isn't optional, but much more than that, it is a necessity to grow in our walk with Christ, both privately and publicly.
You can watch our services live on YouTube and Facebook, and watch our replays there and on https://www.archive.org, including this one, by cutting and pasting this link into your browser: https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-06-02-2024-service And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!This is our May 26., 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge focused on baptism, what it is, and why we do it. Ultimately, we are called to repent, or turn from our wicked ways, and trust Christ as our Savior, Lord and Master. When we do this, the Bible commands us to be baptized. Why? Watch our service and our sermon to find out!
And, you can see all of our services live on Facebook and YouTube, with replays there and on https://www.archive.org, including this one, which you can watch here by copying and pasting this link into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our May 19, 2024 service. This week is Pentecost Sunday, and Pastor Hodge, and Pastor Hodge preached from the book of Acts. Why was this day significant, and what does this mean to us today? Watch and find out!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and our replays can be seen there, and at https://www.archive org, including this one, which you can view by clicking here:
https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-05-19-2024-service
And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our Mother's Day 2024 service. Pastor Michael Hodge shows us through the Bible how important Godly mothers are to a child, and to the family, and the community. We pray you are blessed by it!
You can watch our services via Facebook and YouTube, and replays can be found there, and at https://www.archive.org, including this one, which you can watch here.
https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-05-12-2024-service
This is our May 5, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 7:54-60. In this sermon, entitled "From Martyr to Glory", we see Stephen put to death for preaching the Good News, and hated for it, to the point where he is put to death. But, God uses this to glorify Himself. How? Watch and learn!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and also see our replays there and on https://www.archive.org, including this service, by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:This is our April 28, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on the book of Acts, chapter 7. Here, we see the boldness of Stephen, telling the truth about the religious leaders of the day. What does this mean for us today? How are we to proclaim the Christ, in timidity or in truth? Watch his sermon and learn how!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, as well as replays there and on https://www.archive.org. Including this one, which you can watch here by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:This is our April 21, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge continues in the book of Acts as we see Stephen's faithfulness causes him to be falsely accused, and worse. We must remain strong when we are persecuted in our faith, as we will be richly rewarded as Stephen was. Watch this sermon to learn how we can be strong in our faith when persecution comes!
You can watch our services live here on Facebook and YouTube. And you can watch replays there and on https://www.archive.org, including this one, by cutting pasting this link into your browser: https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-04-21-2024-serviceThis is our April 14, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 6:1-7, where the leaders of the church show that they must devote themselves to the church in prayer and teaching. But they also realize they need to serve the poor, so they appoint 7 men to lead the effort in helping the poor and widows. Watch how the early church (and the church today) can function in Jesus name while the Pastor and Elders can deal with the affairs of the church in their ministry.
You can watch our services live on Facebook, and on YouTube. Replays are also available there and at https://www.archive.org, including this service.This is our April 7, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 5:33-42. In his sermon, we see that no matter how badly people try to suppress the Gospel, God will always do His will, even though we may suffer for it. Listen to this encouraging sermon today!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and watch our replays there and on archive.org. Including this one, whereby you can watch it by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:This is our Easter 2024 service from March 24, 2024. Christ has risen!
So what? Well, watch our service and see why it is important to
everybody walking the face of the Earth today. We pray you are blessed
by the service!
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our March 24, 2024 Palm Sunday service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounds on Matthew 21:17, and tells us the importance of this event, leading to Christ's crucifixion and death later in the week.
We pray you are blesses by this service!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and see replays there and at https://www.archive.org, including this service, by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our March 17, 2024 service. This week. his sermon focused on Acts 5:17-32, with a title of "The truth affirmed in spite of opposition". Today, the truth is being attacked everywhere. How are we to stand up for it? Why should we? Watch and learn why this is so important today!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and on YouTube. and our replays there and on https://www.archive.org as well. Including this one, which you can watch right here:
This is our March 10, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 5:12-16. Here, Pastor Hodge expounds on what a mature church or maturing church should look like in our day. Is it a large size? Big lights and sounds, or other things? The book of Acts reveals how His church is to mature today, and always. Listen and find out how!
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This is March 3, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 5:1-11. We must be careful in our giving! We must not let others know we are giving, to the extent possible. Watch in these verses how two people, Anninias and Sapphira did the opposite, and it dearly cost them. But should we have that same fear? Watch today and find out!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and replays there and on archive.org, including by copying and pasting this link into your browser:This is our February 25, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 4:32-37, with a sermon entitled "The beneficence among believers". We learn who and how charity begins in Christ with us, and why we need to take care of each other.
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and see our replays there and also on https://www.archive.org as well. Including this service, which you can watch here:This week, Pastor Michael Hodge expounded on Acts 4:13-31, in a sermon entitled "Boldness in spite of ridicule". We pray you are blessed by it!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and our replays there and on https://www.archive.org. You can watch this one by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:
https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-02-18-2024-service
And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our February 11, 2024 service. We pray you are blessed by it!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and on YouTube, and watch our replays there and at https://www.archive.org, including this one. You can watch it again by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on the book of Acts, chapter 4, verses 11-26. His sermon this week is entitled "A second wake-up call", It is a call to repentance and faith in Christ, and the Word shows us how this occurs.
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and replays there and at https://www.archive.org as well, including this one, by cutting and pasting this link into your Web browser:
https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-02-04-2024-service
And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This is our January 28, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded in the book of Acts 3:1-10, with a sermon entitled "On the way to church something unexpected can happen, or, walking leaping, and praising God". We pray you are blessed by it!
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and see the replays there and at https://www.archive.org, including this one, by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:This is our January 21, 2024 service. This is Right To Life Sunday, and pastor Hodge expounded on Scriptures which show how much God values all human life. Without this, we cannot have a proper understanding of how important life is, how great God is, and how we severely harm ourselves and devalue God when we don't value life.
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, with replays at https://www.archive.org.
Including here, at this link that you can copy and paste into your browser:
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And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
This was the funeral service for Donna Seldal, a beloved member of our church, with the service beginning at 2 PM on January 13, 2024..
The link to it is here:
https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-funeral-of-donna-m-seldal-01-13-2024
This is our January 14, 2023 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on Acts 1:12-26 with a sermon entitled "The Apostolic Beginnings: The Church Begins to Function". We pray you are blessed by this service!
You can watch us live on Facebook and YouTube, and watch our replays there, and also on https://www.archive.org , and by copying and pasting this link into your browser:This is our January 7, 2024 service. This week, Pastor Hodge expounded on the book of Acts. verses 1:-11. His sermon is entitled "Holding the Proof of our Spiritual Birth Certificate". Pastor Hodge shows us who we are in Christ, and our proof of spiritual birth.
You can watch our services live on Facebook and YouTube, and replays as well here and on https://www.archive.org, including this one, by cutting and pasting this link into your browser:
https://archive.org/details/grace-free-lutheran-de-kalb-illinois-01-7-2024-service
And we pray you have a great week in Christ Jesus!
