Here is our pastor’s newsletter article for February 2023, which tells of our Lenten Midweek services. With a few blinks and the sun dwindling on the horizon, Lent will soon be upon us, arriving on February 22nd. Each Lenten season provides us another opportunity to relearn the value of repentance and turn away […]
Thanksgiving Eve Service
November 22, 2022 by
Our annual Thanksgiving Eve Service is Wednesday, November 23th at 7:00 PM–a time to reflect on the blessings in our lives. Besides thanksgiving hymns and prayers, we will ponder the ancient text of Deuteronomy and learn anew why God values us remembering.
The Story of Esther
September 19, 2022 by
Our pastor’s newsletter article for October, 2022. In history’s long arc, the exilers of Jews, Babylon, suffered a humiliating defeat by the Persians in 539 BC. With Jews now free to return home, many still chose not to and remained living within a diaspora. Around 60 years pass, and we learn of a Jewish man, […]
New Year’s Eve Service
December 31, 2021 by
Our annual New Year’s Eve Service is on Friday, December 31 at 5:00 PM. This will be a time to reflect on the past year and lean forward into the new.
Shepherd of the Hills Online Services
December 22, 2021 by
If you are unable to participate in one of our services in person, we are recording our services and posting them here. Please subscribe, so you don’t miss any of our services. May the service be edifying, as we also wish for your safe return to worship with us in person.
Thanksgiving Eve Service
November 23, 2021 by
Our annual Thanksgiving Eve Service is Wednesday, November 24th at 7:00 PM–a time to reflect on the blessings in our lives. Besides thanksgiving hymns and prayers, we will also learn from Jesus healing a man and how his response and attitude are helpful for us, centuries later.
Certainty Amid our Uncertainties
October 26, 2021 by
Here is our pastor’s article for our church newsletter for November 2021. Rich, poor, man or woman, major and minor setbacks befall each and all. How can they not, since we are crestfallen creatures living in a sin-corrupted world? Whenever these certitudes come, events force us to pick up the pieces and start afresh. […]
Eyes and Ears, Old and New
October 19, 2021 by
“Whatever we ask of you, teacher, we want you to do” (Mark 10:35). So, Jesus must again reorient His twelve toward a kingdom opened by His suffering, which He described as drinking from a cup (Matthew 20:22). In God’s kingdom, greatness comes in lowliness, where God gives His grace to the humble. Almost every Apostle […]
Funeral for Betty Krause
August 29, 2021 by
Betty’s funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday, August 30, 2021, at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, Kimberling City, Missouri. A graveside service will follow at Pine Crest Cemetery in Lampe, Missouri. Her obituary: Betty Jane Krause, 90 Betty passed peacefully August 23, 2021, at Point Lookout Nursing Home & Rehab Center […]
Lest the Darkness Define Us
May 4, 2021 by
Imperfect copies of imperfect copies are we. The fall into sin introduced not only death but also physical decay and disease. Every Sunday, we admit as much in our Confession of Sin, “We are by nature sinful” (LSB 151, 167). All this means we are in a death spiral. Like “sin entered the world through […]
