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828 W. Main St., Grass Valley • (530) 273-9631
A Congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Peace Lutheran Church in Grass Valley, CA, welcomes you to this Weekday Advent video worship experience. This time of worship combines two parts, a Musical Meditation, followed by Holden Evening Prayer, which is a setting by Marty Haugen for Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat and renewal center located near Lake Chelan in the Northern Cascades […]
During this Advent season, we anticipate and focus on the coming of Jesus among us and in the world. Stir up your power, and come! On this First Sunday of Advent, the psalmist’s plea in Psalm 80:2 has become familiar to us in the Advent prayers. Isaiah wants God to rip the heavens open. Both […]
“Am I pregnant?” “Am I a handmaid of God?” “Is God so real and alive in me that God is ready to spring forth?” “Has God gotten inside me?” How about you? Are you pregnant with God? Is the good news of God’s love bursting inside you? Has God gotten close to you?
It is still Advent…we are not ready because there is yet a mystery-“Among you stands one you do not know.” This is Signs and Season: Who stands before us?” It’s the mystery that John invokes as he preaches a baptism for the forgiveness of sins. It is the root of my question for “Signs and Season”, “Who (or what) stands before us?
Advent is about waiting. Advent is about a journey into the darkness (almost literally as we approach the shortest day of the year) so that we can be ready for the Light of Christ. Advent is about waiting both for eternity, and waiting for the first light that God sent into the world in Jesus. Advent is all about waiting.