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Devotion for December 31, 2020 from Pastor Tia Pelz of Christ the King: “Between the years” is what Germans call the time squeezed between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. It is this precious space in-between. Time is strangely weightless, haphazard, timeless during these days. At least, that’s how I always feel about it.  These are […]

Devotion for December 29, 2020 from Pastor Tim Huff of Holy Trinity: Blessing by Brother David Steindalrast. May you grow still enough to hear    the small noises earth makes in preparing for the long sleep of winter,       so that you yourself may grow calm and grounded deep within. May you grow still enough

Hi, Everybody: This Sunday, December 20, is the 4th Sunday of Advent, which means Christmas is dangerously tantalizingly close.  It is also traditionally our Sermon-in-Song Sunday, when the choir takes over the Sermon slot in the service with a short program of seasonal songs, usually linked (sometimes tenuously) by a theme.  Of course, with COVID restrictions preventing us from rehearsing and performing,

Devotion for December 17, 2020, from Pastor Tia Pelz of Christ the King: Mary was a perfectly normal girl, a perfectly normal woman, like you and me. Well, Josef wouldn’t agree with that, of course. After all, he fell in love with her and no other. Anna and Joachim would certainly see it differently, their

Devotion for December 15, 2020 from Pastor Tim Huff of Holy Trinity: The Spirit of Justice and Joy  The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,

Hi, Everybody: Thanks to all who voted last Sunday on the HTLC constitutional changes.  40 members drove by and safely voted and everybody voted “yes.”  Now we can hold a virtual Annual Meeting! (you knew there would be a down side) This Sunday, December 13, is the 3rd Sunday of Advent.  Besides the usual online worship service

Devotion for December 10, 2020 from Pastor Barbara Caine of Holy Redeemer:  Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her  womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And why has this happened to

Devotion for December 08, 2020 from Vicar Anand Darla of Good Shepherd South Asian Ministries: The God’s Family No Christian questions the origin of the family. The Bible lays it out before us in unambiguous terms. God created the family. But why? God answered that question in the Old Testament long before any New Testament writers took up

Devotion for December 2, 2020 from Pastor Tia of Christ the King: Today, I want to introduce you to Pastor Johann Hinrich Wichern and his wife Amanda. The two of them ran the Rauhe Haus in Hamburg, Germany, the city I lived in before coming to the States. There they took care of boys and

Hi, Everybody: This Sunday, December 6, is the 2nd Sunday in Advent.  Online Worship Service and Zoom Coffee Chat/Communion are as usual, but there is no Adult Forum.  Instead, HTLC members please come by the church from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for our Drive-By Voting.  According to our constitution, we need to vote with in-person written ballots to change our