Welcome to the website of Pilgrim Lutheran Church (LCMS), Kilgore, Texas! We are glad that … (more)
“Receiving or not receiving Jesus and those whom He sends”
When the Lord provides a faithful shepherd to comfort and deliver us, we may not receive him and listen to his words. We may feel harassed and helpless because we reject the means to make us otherwise.
“Confessing Christians stick-out their necks”
The German princes who presented the Augsburg Confession in 1530 reportedly said that, before they would let anyone take the Word of God and ask them to deny their God, they would kneel and
let the emperor cut off their heads.
“Not snatched but wiggled-free from the Father and Son’s hand”
Not all of the lost sheep gathered are willing to stay in the Good Shepherd’s hand; some can and do wiggle free, and so Jesus gives real warnings against falling away and being lost.
Our Mission Statement
The mission of Pilgrim Lutheran Church is to glorify God by receiving the forgiveness of sins by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and sharing that salvation through word and deed with those in our midst, in our community, and throughout the world.
The mission of Pilgrim Lutheran Church is to glorify God by receiving the forgiveness of sins by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and sharing that salvation through word and deed with those in our midst, in our community, and throughout the world.
