Serving the Winchester, Virginia area and surrounding communities since 1981.
Our Savior Lutheran Church (OSLC) has served the Winchester, Virginia area and surrounding communities since 1981, creating a bond founded on our beliefs and our drive to contribute to others and help serve those in need. Part of our mission has been to create a “safe-feeling” environment that provides support for all of our church members and guests. We would love to have you come visit and join our growing church family!
Our Mission: To equip God's people to share the love of Christ and serve others.
OSLC Winchester Status
We are holding service on Sundays at 10am. Please check the Message Line page for further updates.
Sermons
The August 24th sermon, “Disciplined as Sons: The Blood, The Mountain and The Kingdom” (Hebrews 12:4-29) is now available.
Listen to Radio Station WINC-AM 1400 Sundays at 8:30 a.m. to hear God’s Word delivered by Pastor Cumbee. (Note: Messages are from the previous week).
Check out the LCMS Stewardship Ministry’s August 2025 newsletter article, “Rooted in Christ, Growing in Stewardship”
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2800 Millwood Pike, Winchester, VA 22602 - Located on US-17 / US-50 – 4 miles east of I-81
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Location & Worship Times
2800 Millwood Pike, Winchester, VA, 22602 | Sundays 10:00 am
Verse of the Week
Hebrews 12:4-29
God Disciplines His Children
4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,
“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
6because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”
7Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? 8If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. 9Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live! 10They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness. 11No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
12Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. 13“Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
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18 But which of them has stood in the council of the Lord to see or to hear his word? Who has listened and heard his word?
19 See, the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked.
20 The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand it clearly.
21 I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds.
23 “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away?
24 Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
25 “I have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in my name. They say, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
26 How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds?
27 They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship.
28 Let the prophet who has a dream recount the dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?” declares the Lord.
29 “Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?
30 “Therefore,” declares the Lord, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me.
31 Yes,” declares the Lord, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and yet declare, ‘The Lord declares.’
32 Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares the Lord. “They tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least,” declares the Lord.
Life Quote
August 24, 2025
“We stand together, one in mind and heart, and with one voice, in defense of the lives of our unborn children—God’s precious little ones. Yet, what we stand for is not only the lives of these precious unborn children but also the moms, the dads, the grandmas and grandpas, the young and the old, the healthy and the sick and dying. What we stand for is the very value—the very gift—of life itself.” Pastor Paul Clark, LFL of Michigan – A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life • lutheransforlife.org
