Our New Year’s Eve Service for the upcoming year of 2016 will be at 5:00 PM on December 31. Since December 31 is also the Eve for the Circumcision and Name of Jesus, that celebration will also be part of the Service.
The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
December 30, 2015 by
It’s only been a few days since we celebrated Jesus’ birth. But already, we’ve leaped forward 40 days to Jesus’ presentation at the Temple. And Jesus, as a 40-day-old infant, at the Temple overflows with prophetic fulfillment and significance. For the entire Old Covenant had come to its focal point in this little Child. He […]
What Jesus’ Incarnation Means for Us
December 30, 2015 by
Being Brought into the Old Covenant Genesis 17:9-14: God also said to Abraham, “As for you, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep my covenant…. Every male among you is to be circumcised…. On the eighth day after birth, every male in every generation must be circumcised… If any male […]
John 1:1-14: The Word became Flesh
December 25, 2015 by
We heard many words in our Christmas Gospel, telling us of Jesus. He is the Word. He is God and Creator, even Life and the Light of all people, shining in the darkness. He is the one-and-only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. Such beautiful and truth-filled words for our Savior, which […]
Jesus, our Brother, has Come into the Flesh
December 24, 2015 by
Now in those days, it came to pass that a decree went out from the Prince of Darkness, the Prince of this World, that all the world should be taxed. And this was the first taxing when Adam chose to become Lord of his life and master of his soul. For when he ate of […]
Christmas Day Service: The Service of Christ’s Mass
December 20, 2015 by
Our Christmas Day Service will be a “Christ’s Mass” service, which is a Service of the Sacrament of our Lord’s Supper. The service time will be at 10:00 AM. As we celebrate Jesus becoming incarnate for our salvation in His birth, so also will we celebrate Him becoming “incarnate” for us in His body and […]
Christmas Eve Service of Carols and Candlelight
December 20, 2015 by
Our Christmas Eve Service will be at 7:00 PM. It will be a service a carols, matched to the Gospel readings for the Nativity of our Lord. The service will finish with the singing of Silent Night by candlelight.
Micah 5:2-5: The Fruitful House of Bread
December 20, 2015 by
Today, we heard Micah prophesy of God coming to His people. “As for you, Bethlehem of Ephrathah, although you are small among the clans of Judah, from you, one will emerge who will rule over Israel for me. His existence has been from of old, even from eternity.” So, little Bethlehem is not so little […]
2 Corinthians, Lesson 17: True Apostles versus False Apostles
December 20, 2015 by
Dealing with the false teachers who have inserted themselves at Corinth, with approval of some of the congregation, Paul and Timothy said that those teachers used their own standard of measure to assess themselves, not “the Rule” (ho kanon; 2 Corinthians 10:13, 15; “influence, ESV). Although we don’t know what that “rule” was, we find […]
2 Samuel 7:1-17, Isaiah 11:1-10: God Prunes His Family Tree
December 20, 2015 by
In our first midweek Advent service, we heard how God planted the Seed of His Savior to defeat sin, death, and the devil. He would do this through His Promised Seed, who would come to crush that serpent Satan. That prophesied Seed, Jesus, would come to graft us back into life with Him. Last week, […]
