Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come into his presence with singing. Know that the LORD is God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, bless his name. For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations. (Psalm 100)
On this page, we invite you to explore the tenets of our beliefs.
We meet for worship every Sunday morning at 11 am . Our Contemporary Praise Service is being re-organized. Please come back later for new information.
Why Trinity Lutheran Church?
Because of the growing need of the Frankfurt area, dedicated Christian men and women have gathered to worship the Lord and make his name known. Our goal is to provide a worship home for the English-speaking people of Frankfurt and the Rhein-Main region.
What We Believe
Trinity is a Lutheran Christian mission congregation. As such, the foundation of our faith is our belief in the saving love of our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God has revealed His plan of salvation for mankind through the Holy Bible - the Word of God. In that Word, we find the truth about our need for God and His love for us. We believe that, because of our rebellion, we have fallen away from the love of God. It was for this reason that our Lord Jesus Christ became a man, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered, died and rose again from the dead in order to redeem us and bring us back into the proper relation with our Heavenly Father. By His Word and Sacraments, He daily strengthens us and gives us joy and peace. He empowers us to reach out to others. For this, it is our privilege to thank, praise, serve and worship Him.
A Psalm of David - Psalm 8
O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Sermon
Why does Christ found such a kingdom? Why doesn’t He just send the heavenly spirits and princes–like Gabriel or Michael, or any of the other Angels, who could offer strong resistance to the enemy and break his power? For the enemy is a strong and powerful spirit. He is prince and god of this fallen world, and has a strong and everlasting kingdom too (hell)! And many spirits under him, any of which is stronger than all the people on earth.
The answer is: Our Lord, our Master, our Christ, does not will it; it is not His will to use Gabriel or Michael for this purpose, but rather wills to ordain strength out of the mouth of babes and children. For because the enemy’s wickedness is so great and his wrath so fierce, it pleases our Maker to mock this wicked, vain, and furious spirit! And therefore, since He wills to ordain such strength in this way, He lowers Himself, is made man, and even makes Himself subject to men (as it is written in Psalm 22: “I am a worm; a reproach, and despised of people.”) He goes about in poverty as He says of Himself in Matthew 8. With such a weak body and such a poor appearance He attacks the enemy, and allows Himself to be crucified, and through His cross and through His death He overcomes the enemy.
Thus our Lord lays aside the great and mighty power of the angels in heaven and takes the most unlearned, simple and weak people on the earth and sets them over against the wisdom and power of the devil and all the world. Such are the works of God. For He is a God who raises the dead, He makes alive, and He calls that which is not, and makes it that which is. It is God’s nature that He shows His Divine Goodness and Mercy and Majesty and Power through Weakness. That is the way in which the Lord, our God, founds His Kingdom and His Church. It is carried on in weakness. And it is out of this weakness that His strength shall come!
Paraphrased from Dr. Martin Luther Sermons from the year 1537, W.A. 45. 218ff