Welcome to the website of Pilgrim Lutheran Church (LCMS), Kilgore, Texas! We are glad that … (more)
“God’s love and the world’s hate”
God and the world never both love the same thing nor hate the same thing. We are the objects of God’s love, and so we are the objects of the world’s hate. But, Jesus says that when people hate us because of Him we are blessed.
“The Church’s ‘birthday’ means gifts for you”
While there are varieties of gifts, there is only one Spirit and only one Baptism. That there is only one Baptism is hard to hold in the face of so much opinion to the contrary among other religious traditions so prevalent in East Texas.
“Only the Triune God can save you from your sins”
Whether or not Jewish, Muslim, Mormon, or Jehovah Witness teachers would admit it today, some ancient rabbis puzzled then over Trinitarian Old Testament passages.
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.
