Sunday, November 30, 2014

HOPE
"A New Light is Shining"

O Come All Ye Faithful, gather around the advent wreath. Light the candles one by one and remember. Remember that so long ago God came to live among us and comes again each and every day. What better way to enter our lives than as a tiny, helpless yet cherished symbol of hope - an infant child. What joy we find in the expectant lives of Mary and Elizabeth who knew the miracle of life within themselves. What peace we find in the promise of salvation to the desperate and frightened. Love came to change the world and continues to enlighten our lives. We join together each Sunday in worship to remember the story that offers us hope, joy, peace and love.

November 30 - Hope
December 7 - Peace
December 14 - Joy
December 21 - Love

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Sunday, November 23, 2014



"Christ the King"
Here on the cusp of a new year in the life of the church we once again proclaim “Christ the King.” Yet we’re are challenged to understand this vast disparity between common notions of “kings” and what we see in Jesus. This is a different kind of king. And he calls all of those who would enter into his kingdom to a different kind of loyalty and obedience. He says things like, “the one who would be ruler of all must become the servant of all.” The one who would “rule over all the kings of the earth,” clothes himself like a household slave and washes feet. And he calls us to do likewise. He challenges everyone who is chasing after divine proofs and evidence as a basis for faith to seek him in the faces of the hungry, the suffering, the stranger and the prisoner. Taunts of kingship will be shouted at his mock trial, and will hang in ridicule above his head on the cross. And yet, this is the one God sends to redeem the world, to make all things new; the one whose “kingdom shall have no end.” Today we embrace the true kingship of God’s Christ, and the kingdom he is calling forth in the world.


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Sunday, November 16, 2014


"Saved for Works" 
"Always New"

In 2017 the Lutheran Church world-wide will celebrate its 500th anniversary. Martin Luther began a movement that continues yet today for a church that is not reforming and renewing is - dying. What in our history drives us to our future? What is a "Lutheran" really? What do we celebrate? How are we "always being made new"?

November 23 - Christ the King

Join us for worship Sunday morning - 8:30 & 11:00 am.
Education Hour for all ages at 9:45 am.

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Sunday, November 9, 2014


"Saved by ..."

In 2017 the Lutheran Church world-wide will celebrate its 500th anniversary. Martin Luther began a movement that continues yet today for a church that is not reforming and renewing is - dying. What in our history drives us to our future? What is a "Lutheran" really? What do we celebrate? How are we "always being made new"?

November 16 - Saved for Good Fruits
November 23 - Christ the King

Join us for worship Sunday morning - 8:30 & 11:00 am.
Education Hour for all ages at 9:45 am.



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Sunday, November 2, 2014

"A Cloud of Witnesses"

 "Festival of All Saints!" 

All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, is a day of remembrance.  Historically in the church it was a time to celebrate the lives of saints of the faith who had gone to glory.  Their spiritual presence among the living at this annual festival has given rise to all kinds of folk traditions and customs.  But Scripture is quite clear in naming all the vast host of believers – especially those living today – as the “saints.”  Paul says it is the “great cloud of witnesses” that are the “holy ones,” the saints of God.  So our celebration is expanded with remembrance of those who have gone before us, those of the living Body of Christ today, and the generations to come, as well.  Today we remember, we hallow, and we give thanks for this cloud of witnesses of which we are a vital part.

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