Introduction & Welcome Alleluia! Christ is risen. Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia! The gospel for the third Sunday of Easter is always one in which the risen Christ shares food with the disciples, meals that are the Easter template for the meal we share each...
Introduction & Welcome Alleluia! Christ is risen. Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia! The Easter season is a week of weeks, seven Sundays when we play in the mystery of Christ’s presence, mostly through the glorious Gospel of John. Today we gather with the disciples...
Easter Sunday/The Resurrection of Our Lord Introduction & Welcome Alleluia! Christ is risen. Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia! Christ is risen! Jesus is alive, and God has swallowed up death forever. With Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and...
Introduction & Welcome Welcome to worship today, God’s gift to us because God is good! all the time! and all the time! God is good! This week, the center of the church’s year, is one of striking contrasts: Jesus rides into Jerusalem surrounded by shouts of glory,...
Introduction & Welcome Welcome to worship today, God’s gift to us because God is good! all the time! and all the time! God is good! God promises Jeremiah that a “new covenant” will be made in the future: a covenant that will allow all the people to know God by...
Fourth Sunday in Lent Introduction & Welcome Welcome to worship today, God’s gift to us because God is good! all the time! and all the time! God is good! The fourth of the Old Testament promises providing a baptismal lens this Lent is the promise God makes to...
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Toledo, Ohio A congregation of the Northwestern Ohio Synod The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Sunday, March 7, 2021 Third Sunday in Lent Introduction & Welcome Welcome to worship today, God’s gift to us because God is...
Introduction & Welcome Welcome to worship today, God’s gift to us because God is good! all the time! and all the time! God is good! The second covenant in this year’s Lenten readings is the one made with Abraham and Sarah: God’s promise to make them the...
Introduction & Welcome Welcome to worship today, God’s gift to us because God is good! all the time! and all the time! God is good! On Ash Wednesday the church began its journey toward baptismal immersion in the death and resurrection of Christ. This...
Introduction & Welcome Welcome to worship today, God’s gift to us because God is good! all the time! and all the time! God is good! The Sundays after Epiphany began with Jesus’ baptism and end with three disciples’ vision of his transfiguration. In Mark’s...
Introduction & Welcome Welcome to worship today, God’s gift to us because God is good! all the time! and all the time! God is good! In Isaiah the one God who sits above the earth and numbers the stars also strengthens the powerless. So in Jesus’ healing work...
Introduction & Welcome Welcome to worship today, God’s gift to us because God is good! all the time! and all the time! God is good! In Deuteronomy God promises to raise up a prophet like Moses, who will speak for God; in Psalm 111 God shows the people the...
Introduction & Welcome Welcome to worship today, God’s gift to us because God is good! All the time! And all the time! God is good! As we continue through the time after Epiphany, stories of the call to discipleship show us the implications of our baptismal...
Introduction & Welcome All the baptized have a calling in God’s world. God calls not just pastors and deacons but also the youngest child, like Samuel. The story of the calling of Nathanael plays with the idea of place. Nathanael initially dismisses Jesus because he...
Introduction & Welcome Our re-creation in baptism is an image of the Genesis creation, where the Spirit of God moved over the waters. Both Mark’s gospel and the story in Acts make clear that it is the Spirit’s movement that distinguishes Jesus’ baptism from...
Introduction & Welcome Within the gospel reading’s profound words lies the simple message that God is revealed in a human person. Though we may try to understand how the Word existed with God from the beginning of time, the wonder we celebrate at Christmas is that the...