WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Organist Sunday, January 12, 2025 Baptism of Our Lord ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE THANKSGIVING The Lord be with you. And also with you. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give him thanks and praise. PROFESSION OF...
WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Organist Sunday, January 5, 2025 Second Sunday of Christmas ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE BRIEF ORDER OF CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Blessed be the holy Trinity, ☩ one God, whose steadfast love is everlasting. Amen. Let us confess our sin in the presence of...
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Think about all that that one single sentence says. In the beginning, the Word was with and also was God. I can think of nothing else in the...
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WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Organist Sunday, December 29, 2024 First Sunday of Christmas ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE BRIEF ORDER OF CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Blessed be the holy Trinity, ☩ one God, whose steadfast love is everlasting. Amen. Let us confess our sin in the presence of...
Jesus increased in wisdom and years, in divine and human favor. How can that be so if Jesus is both fully human and fully God? I suppose that this statement refers only to Jesus’ humanness. As a human, he might have room to increase in...
As if out of a scene from Call the Midwife, two pregnant women converse in Poplar. One of them has traveled from the modest home of her husband’s family in the West End of Judea to a village in East London to call on kin,...
WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Organist Sunday, December 22, 2024 Fourth Sunday of Advent ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLE Holy are you, God of steadfast love and faithfulness; you made a covenant with your chosen ones to establish the throne of...
‘Tis the season of Advent, a season of not only quiet anticipation for Jesus’ arrival, but specific time set aside for us to prepare for Jesus’ coming by doing things we haven’t yet thought about. How about that? Are there things you haven’t yet thought about...
WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Organist Sunday, December 15, 2024 Third Sunday of Advent ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLE Holy are you, God of the brokenhearted and oppressed; your chosen one offers a garland instead of ashes to whoever mourns; your...