Holy Week and Easter are such a special time that I am still glowing with an emotional high nearly a week later. It is partially the nearly 400 people who worshiped with us on Easter (when you add together Sunrise, Festival, and 144 online views) – the most we have had in a single day since before the pandemic.
Saint Thomas and Christ the King are having a combined Vacation Bible School this summer (June 20-24)! At VBS we’ll learn about Jesus, our Savior, through five Bible stories, meet new friends, do fun activities, sing great songs, make crafts, play games, eat snacks, and more! It’s going to be fun, but it would be more fun with you there. Can you join us?
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We join today in singing eternal alleluias with innumerable angels in festal gathering, with the assembly of those who have gone before us, those gathered with us around the globe this day, and with all those who will follow, bringing these petitions before You, dear Father
April 17, 2022 Bulletin Read Post »
What an 8-day week this is – more good to great stuff than one often finds in a couple months! It starts with Palm Sunday, one of my favorite annual celebrations. Then comes our Maundy (Holy) Thursday Journey to the Cross at noon and in the evening (check out the virtual experience here and then make plans to join the live-better-than-virtual experience today: https://www.stl-eastpointe.org/2022/04/04/welcome-to-journey-to-the-cross/).
Behold the Lamb who bears our sins away, slain for us, and we remember the promise made that all who come in faith find forgiveness at the cross. So we share in this Bread of Life, and we drink of His sacrifice as a sign of our bonds of peace around the table of the King.
April 10, 2022 Bulletin Read Post »
Thirty or forty years ago – or perhaps even longer – Roy Odgers (no, not Roy Rodgers) told me that “church work is slow.” Over the years it was often repeated to me by John H Smith (no, not John L Smith). Yet, still today, I have to keep repeating it to myself on a regular basis. Patience rightly is a fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5.22) for which I regularly need pray be produced in my life.
An interactive online worship service
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Saint Thomas Lutheran of Eastpointe cordially invites you to join us for the most important week of the year.
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As Holy Week draws near and our annual journey with Jesus to the cross reminds us of how Jesus “for the joy set before him endured,” so the reading leading up to today’s sermon text reminds us that “being found in Christ” changes everything. Please listen as we pick up Philippians 3 with verse 8.
April 3, 2022 Bulletin Read Post »
As I was making a variety of home visits over the past couple days, I started thinking about how privileged I am – that you have entrusted me to serve as your representative, and our Savior’s ambassador – in all I do as pastor of STL.
