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Devotion from Pastor Tim Huff of Holy Trinity for November 5, 2020: Authentic  This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.  Matt 15:8  Early one evening as I as working in the front yard I saw a hummingbird (you will recall in an earlier devotion that we have hummingbirds […]

Devotion from Pastor Tia Pelz of Christ the King for November 3, 2020: Happy Hallowen!  I have long fought Halloween. Because it’s on Reformation Day and that means worship services in Germany. Usually in the evening, when everyone is out trick-or-treating. Pastors will hand out “Luther candy” and carve pumpkins with Luther’s rose. As a

All Saints Worship Service, November 1, 2020 We’re glad you could join us for today’s worship service for All Saints Sunday, Nov. 1. Please see our bulletin if you’d like to follow along and participate in the service. There will be a place in the service where you are invited to light candles at home to remember your

Hi, Everybody: So much special stuff going on tomorrow night, October 31st.  Of course, it’s Halloween (the popular costume this year is anything with a mask), and Reformation Day (when the ghost of Martin Luther nails 95 Reese’s to the doors of good little Lutheran boys and girls), but most importantly, it’s time to turn your clocks back one

Devotion from Pastor Barbara Caine of Holy Redeemer for October 29, 2020: Humankind was created as God’s reflection:  in the divine image God created them; female and male, God made them…..God looked at all of this creation, and proclaimed that this was good—very good.  Evening came, and morning followed—the sixth day. Genesis 1:27, 31 Inclusive

Devotion from Vicar Anand Darla of Good Shepherd South Asian Ministries for October 26, 2020: 1John 2:15 Christ minded Christian by Vicar Anand Darla GSSAM   Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  When you love money and things,

Thanks for joining us on Reformation Sunday! We’re glad you could join us for today’s worship service for Sunday, Oct. 25, Reformation Sunday. This is the Sunday we celebrate Martin Luther kicking off the Protestant Reformation by nailing his 95 theses about church reform to the Wittenburg church doors back in 1517. It’s our tradition

Hi, Everybody: This Sunday, October 25, is Reformation Sunday!  It’s the Sunday we celebrate Martin Luther kicking off the Reformation by nailing his 95 theses about church reform to the Wittenburg church doors back in 1517 (actually, on October 31st!).  Be sure to wear red when watching the Online Worship Service or tuning in to Zoom Coffee Chat at 9:15 (drinking

Devotion from Pastor Tia Pelz of Christ the King, October 22, 2020: The other day I met God at the grocery store.  I have never enjoyed grocery shopping much. But there were definitely times when I liked it more than these days. Like when the kids were really little and going grocery shopping was my

Devotion for October 20, 2020 – Pastor Tim of Holy Trinity ?? Choices ??  Making wise decisions isn’t always an easy task. We’re faced with decisions every day.Decisions that keep us up at night. Some are life-threatening, or life-changing and those kinds of decisions are scary and hard!  Take this job or that job?  Say