Service Folder (.docx) Service Folder (.pdf) Sunday is Trinity Sunday. It is the custom of the Church to confess the Athanasian Creed on this day. While we will sing a hymn version of Athanasian Creed, the sermon will quote the following from it: “Whoever will be saved shall, above all else, hold the catholic faith…. and the true Christian faith is this,…
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Service Folder This Sunday is Pentecost, one of the three great festivals in the Christian Church. Pentecost happens to coincide with Memorial Day weekend this year. On Memorial Day we remember the fallen who served our country so that we can live in peace. That is a reflection of the Holy Spirit, who was poured out on Pentecost to bring to remembrance…
Service folder (.docx) Service folder (.pdf) The Church is living during the time in between. It is the time in-between Jesus’ ascension which occurred 40 days after Easter and Jesus’ return on the Last Day to bring his Church home. During this time in between the Church finds herself in an unfriendly world. (John 16:1-4) Though she does, Jesus provides a safe…
Service Folder “The Singing Church” is captured by Psalm 98:1, “Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! For he has done marvelous things.” The marvelous things of which the Church sings Sunday after Sunday are Jesus’ Good Friday and Easter triumph over our spiritual enemies.
Service Folder The people of God are pilgrims and sojourners in this world, looking ahead to a destination yet to come (1 Peter 2:11–20). We are those who wait on the Lord. “The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him” (Lam. 3:25). Jesus tells us that the wait is just a little while. “A…
Service Folder The second Sunday of Easter has traditionally been called “Quasimodo Geniti” (pronounced KWAsi-MOdo- JENetee) Sunday. (The literary character from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, “Quasimodo,” got his name from this Sunday.) It is Latin for the first two words of today’s Introit: “Like newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the Word. The Word joined to Water, that is, Baptism,…
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