connecting individuals to Jesus
“How are you today?” How often is that the greeting you hear from people you encounter every day? Is it just a greeting, like hello, or does the person really want your honest response? How will you express your feelings? What will you say?
We are here to serve our community. As you worship with us online, the Lord Jesus is at work, uniting us as friends and family. If you are curious to learn more out ministry in the community, go to www.stl-eastpointe.org, or like us on Face Book.
This Sunday we will complete the seven-week sermon series “Heart Issues are Hard Issues.” For me it has been a time of personally experiencing “the greater the challenge the greater the growth potential”. I found the challenge pressing on me from three primary directions.
Are you looking for the perfect appetizer to prepare you for a day stuffed with family and football, turkey and pumpkin pie? STL is inviting you to join us in any of three Thanksgiving Eve worship settings. Whether you join us in person at noon or at 7:00 p.m., or online at 7:00 p.m. or afterwards, your experience will be the same as we give praise and thanks to our generous and merciful God.
Recently, Lutherans for Life of Michigan president Rev. Paul Clark wrote a brief article for this blog here notifying readers that the petition to ban the mid-to-late term abortive procedure of Dilation and Evacuation has failed.
I fell into a rut a few weeks ago – perhaps even many weeks ago. I think the minimal face-face contact with people was getting to me. I started contacting a few people to make a couple home visits but had to really push myself just to “dial” the phone. This week, however, after the third straight visit ended with the individual saying to me, “Thanks, I really needed this,” I felt God raising me out of the rut.
We are here to serve our community. As you worship with us online, the Lord Jesus is at work, uniting us as friends and family. If you are curious to learn more out ministry in the community, go to www.stl-eastpointe.org, or like us on Face Book.
Please join us at Hope Lutheran Church of Warren on Saturday, October 31st from 6-8 pm for an outdoors Trunk n Treat. Masks and social distancing are required. Volunteers are decorating their cars or camping flies, and providing individual packages of candy. Packaged donuts, apple juice and cider cups will be available.
2020 has been particularly difficult for everyone who has lost a loved one, either through COVID-19 or for other reasons. STL will be using our worship services on Sunday, November 22 to address our grief with the hope we have in Christ. Along with listing the names of loved ones lost in 2020, all who worship with us in-person will be invited to place a carnation on the altar during a special time of meditation and prayer in the service.