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A Congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
This bread comes from God’s spirit! Jesus is bread? We eat him?? Jesus understood that his words can be hard to understand. For some, they are even harder to accept. But he promises they are true! Jesus is more nourishing than regular bread, because this “bread” comes directly from the source of all life – […]
Let God’s Spirit feed you! Nourish yourself lately? Yeah, it’s OK to enjoy the material things. Our human bodies and minds need some of that. But they leave you hungry and thirsty, sooner or later. That’s because the material goodies don’t feed your spiritual self. And you know that’s true! So God invites you to […]
ONE Worship service today @ 10am! Forever – that’s how long you’ll get the nourishment God gives. Bread has long been the western world’s most basic food. People called it “the staff of life.” In today’s stories, bread symbolizes all the deeper things that we hunger for – food of the spirit. This food comes […]
Eat your fill of God’s bread here! Bread plays both a real and a symbolic role in two stories today. In the first, the prophet Elisha feeds 100 people with 20 loaves of barley and a sack of fresh grain. In the second, Jesus – God’s own Son! – feeds 5,000 people with even less: […]
He’s a leader of healing and compassion! Today’s readings offer two visions of leadership among God’s people. Jesus is the best of all leaders. Because he is God’s own Son, he sees his people with God’s eyes. That’s why he has compassion for us! Jesus had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without […]
Embrace God’s word with us at PEACE! Today’s readings offer two ways to respond to God’s word. People either embrace it, or they don’t. But God promises an abundant “inheritance” for those who do, adopting us as his own children. Anything we’ve done wrong, any way in which we’re less than perfect, it doesn’t matter! […]
Need faith? Worship with us! Today we have ONE WORSHIP SERVICE at 10 a.m. A congregational meeting will follow the worship service, after coffee and baked goods in our Fellowship Center. Jesus said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well.” – Mark 5:34 Faith forms the central story in the Gospel message you’ll […]
Congregational lunch to honor Pastor Eileen! ONE WORSHIP SERVICE today @ 10am Our spiritual leader for the past three years, the Rev. Eileen Smith Le Van, will soon follow a heartfelt call to begin training in a chaplain ministry program this fall. So we gather one last time to worship with her in ONE WORSHIP […]
Jesus had his own opinion! The word “Sabbath” comes from the Hebrew verb “sabat,” meaning “to rest.” God gave His people a day of rest – in part for a needed day off from their labors, in part so they would have time to worship Him. God knows what we need: Rest for our bodies […]
It’s Holy Trinity Sunday! Today, we ponder this remarkable and baffling truth about God: He is Father, Son and Spirit, all one, all together. That’s why we call God a “trinity” – “three” in “unity.” Yet throughout history, we humans experience God working in us and in the world in these three distinct ways. It […]