Let’s Get Ready
With Christmas less than two weeks away … and the number of “advent” calendars that actually talk about Advent decreasing … I suggest we do a little something together this week that is actually geared toward preparing our hearts for the coming (advent)…
Impact
I like the second definition of “impact” found in the Oxford dictionary (online): “have a strong effect on someone or something.” Merriam-Webster says it this way: “to impinge or make contact especially forcefully.” This one I do not like as much…
December 10, 2023 Bulletin
Adapted from the Advent Carol Service used at St. Paul’s Cathedral in England, today’s service is part of a long tradition of vivid Advent services whose purpose is to help us as we prepare for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, and for his…
P.T.
So, what comes to your mind when you hear the initials P.T.? Is it possibly Post Thanksgiving living? Perhaps you are a grammarian, and your mind goes to Past Tense. If you are a Leonard Cohen aficionado, “Passing Through” may be stuck in your head. …
Giving Tree
Remember to stop by the Giving Tree in the west entrance and select a card for a person who needs you to share Christ’s love this season. The cards are for our Great Start Readiness Program Preschool – 18 children and 25 children from Evergreen Lutheran…
November 26, 2023 Bulletin
Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for…
3-D Thanks
I am thankful for dalmatians, dominoes, and dixie cups. I am thankful for downtowns, driveways, and dentists. I am thankful for Decembers, decimals, and decorations. And one might say that this covers my 3-D Thanks – squared. But my mind is going in…
November 19, 2023 Bulletin
For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five…
November 12, 2023 Bulletin
Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light, as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him. Is…