Office Hours: 8:30 am to 1:30 pm Wed.-Fri.
828 W. Main St., Grass Valley • (530) 273-9631
A Congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Ash Wednesday for the busy believer! For people who don’t have time to get to church for the traditional start to Lent on Feb. 14, PEACE Lutheran Church in Grass Valley offers a solution: Ashes to go. Commuters and folks on their lunch breaks can drive to the church at 828 W. Main St. and […]
Holy Week starts with Palm Sunday! Today begins the highest holy days of the Christian church. (And no, it’s not Christmas!) We lead up to Easter on April 16 with a rollercoaster of drama and emotion. We’ll start by raising up palm branches at both worship services today – 8:30 and 11 a.m. Gather with […]
Will you choose death or life? God already chose you a long time ago. You can choose to turn away, and that’s OK. But if you open your heart to God, guess what? You get life – and bunches of it! Life and death – and God’s life-giving Spirit – run through all of today’s […]
Jesus invites you to get lit! When someone says, “that’s lit,” these days it means something is cool or pleasing or maybe even exciting. A somewhat older meaning is that a person is quite drunk, as in, “wow, he was really lit.” Both these meanings have in their background the idea of light, of shining […]
Are you looking for a new beginning? There was this guy, Nicodemus, who was beginning to wonder about Jesus. Nicodemus was a high-level man in the most influential Jewish circles of the time. Educated and analytical, steeped in the scriptures, Nicodemus wondered about this wandering preacher, Jesus, who was transforming crowds with his strange talk […]
Even Jesus faced temptation! So what does that mean for me? Temptation comes to Jesus right after the amazing moment when he is baptized and revealed as God’s Son. Then, the Holy Spirit leads him into the wilderness, where Jesus fasts for 40 days. (What a contrast that must have been!) The Devil comes to […]
God’s promises are forever: God’s love for us always takes us to a better life – if we’re willing to face who we are, acknowledge our responsibility for where we are, and look to the cross of our salvation! During this season of humility and hope, we consider how we are like our faith ancestors […]
God’s promises are forever: God’s love for us is as abundant as the stars in the night sky! Abraham & Sarah are faith ancestors who received an amazing promise – and then ran into trouble when they tried to “help” God along. Their story speaks to us today. Amid the reflection and humility underlying the […]