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2022, May 14 @ 1:10 PM
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2022, May 8 @ 11:30 AM
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2022, May 7 @ 1:30 PM
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Added 1920 x 1080 Service video to service date 2022/05/08 — Easter 4
2022, May 1 @ 11:30 AM
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2022, April 30 @ 12:40 PM
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2022, April 24 @ 11:20 AM
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2022, April 23 @ 12:40 PM
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2022, April 17 @ 11:25 AM
Added 1920 x 1080 Sermon video to service date 2022/04/17 — Easter Sunday
2022, April 15 @ 9:25 PM
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Added 1920 x 1080 Service video to service date 2022/04/17 — Easter Sunday
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2022, April 15 @ 9:05 AM
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2022, April 10 @ 2:10 PM
Added 1920 x 1080 Service video to service date 2022/04/15 — Good Friday
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2022, April 10 @ 11:20 AM
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2022, April 9 @ 4:00 PM
Added 1920 x 1080 Service video to service date 2022/04/10 — Sixth Sunday in Lent
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2022, April 4 @ 11:15 AM
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2022, April 3 @ 11:30 AM
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2022, April 2 @ 7:00 AM
Added 1920 x 1080 Service video to service date 2022/04/03 — Fifth Sunday in Lent
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2022, March 30 @ 8:05 AM
Added 1920 x 1080 Service video to service date 2022/03/30 — Fifth Midweek Lenten Vespers
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2022, March 27 @ 11:20 AM
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2022, March 26 @ 2:00 PM
Added 1920 x 1080 Sermon video to service date 2022/03/23 — Lent 4A
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Added 1920 x 1080 Service video to service date 2022/03/27 — Fourth Sunday in Lent
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2022, March 23 @ 9:15 AM
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2022, March 18 @ 3:20 AM
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2022, March 13 @ 11:30 AM
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2022, March 12 @ 9:30 AM
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2022, March 7 @ 9:10 PM
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2022, March 6 @ 12:20 PM
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2022, March 5 @ 1:30 PM
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2022, March 1 @ 5:30 PM
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2022, February 27 @ 11:20 AM
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2022, February 26 @ 7:30 PM
Added 1920 x 1080 Service video to service date 2022/02/27 — Transfiguration of Our Lord
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2022, February 20 @ 11:50 AM
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2022, February 19 @ 3:45 PM
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2022, February 13 @ 12:40 PM
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2022, February 12 @ 5:15 PM
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2022, February 6 @ 11:20 AM
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2022, February 5 @ 7:50 PM
Added 1920 x 1080 Service video to service date 2022/02/06 — Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
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2022/02/04 — James W Moore Memorial has been removed from our church website since it is for main services only, but is still available (and archived) on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/HdsHC9_SgKw
2022, February 3 @ 10:00 AM
Updated top video to the 1280 x 720 video for service date 2022/02/04 — James W Moore Memorial
2022, January 30 @ 11:30 AM
Added 1920 x 1080 Sermon video to service date 2022/01/30 — Epiphany 4
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2022, January 29 @ 3:20 PM
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2022, January 25 @ 8:10 PM
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2022, January 22 @ 1:00 PM
Added 1920 x 1080 Service video to service date 2022/01/23 — Third Sunday after the Epiphany
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2022, January 16 @ 11:30 AM
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2022, January 15 @ 6:30 PM
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2022, January 9 @ 8:00 PM
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2022, January 8 @ 5:00 PM
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2022, January 2 @ 11:20 AM
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2022, January 1 @ 12:05 PM
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2021, December 20 @ 9:20 PM
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2021, December 18 @ 9:50 AM
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2021, December 12 @ 12:45 PM
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2021, December 11 @ 6:35 PM
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2021, December 5 @ 11:35 AM
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2021, December 4 @ 8:15 PM
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2021, November 28 @ 11:25 AM
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2021, November 27 @ 5:40 PM
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Revelation 21:1-6
John 13:31-35
Acts 13:44-52
The risen Lord prepares his followers for his visible departure by giving a “new” command: Love one another.
On “Good Shepherd Sunday” our attention is fixed on Jesus the Good Shepherd of the sheep. His care and concern are recognized by those whom he has called as his sheep. Even in suffering, his sheep know his care for them and follow him.
With his perfect life, innocent death and glorious resurrection, Christ paid for all our sins and won for us eternal life. Therefore, it is our privilege to share this good news with the rest of the world.
The fact of Jesus’ resurrection is our assurance that we have eternal life. Our faith, based on our risen Savior, gives us what we need for this life and for the life to come. Through his Word we receive our faith and the strength it needs. In our risen Savior, we have the victory and want to live like people who know that.
On this most holy of days, we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord. Connected by grace, through faith, to our risen Lord, we rejoice in the victory of the resurrection and in full confidence of our own resurrection from the dead.
Tonight the church remembers the crucifixion of our Lord. Our remembrance, while solemn, is not a message of gloom, but the awe-filled adoration of the Son of God as he offers up his life as the Lamb of God. Good Friday is part of the larger celebration of the mystery of salvation begun yesterday (Maundy Thursday) and culminating at the celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord (Easter). Worship on Good Friday is not a funeral service for Jesus, but an austere time of reflection, intercession, adoration of the Lamb of God, and quiet meditation. We gather to celebrate the sacrifice of the cross.
Maundy Thursday ushers the believer into the “Three Holy Days” of Christendom. But something more than history is celebrated today: The holy sacrament that extends to the believer the very body and blood of the Savior and declares reconciliation through this most personal communion with Jesus. In him, with him, through him, believers are reconciled to God and to one another.
Here is the culmination of our Lenten journey. Here is the final preparation for the Paschal Mystery. Our hearts have been prepared to ponder anew the passion of our Lord and his glorious triumph over death. With repentant hearts, we join his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, confident in his everlasting rule, hailing him as our eternal King. Also we remember that he is our King because he is the Messiah, the promised Son sent as the sacrificial Lamb of God. Blessed is he!
On our journey to the cross and tomb: we have seen our Savior’s battle waged against temptation; we have found confidence in his resolution to carry out the Father’s plan; we have turned to him at his invitation to draw near with repentant hearts; we have rejoiced in his loving and forgiving embrace. In these last hours before Holy Week, we put our past ways behind us and strive for that for which Christ has laid hold of us.
At its heart, our Lenten journey must be one of Spirit-wrought repentance. Here is the Lenten invitation: turn from sin fully confident of the Lord’s deliverance.
The Son of God, full of grace and truth, came into our world to rescue us from slavery to sin and the devil. Through his life, sufferings, and death, he has set us free. Now we live in the freedom and light of the truth — the truth of salvation only by God’s grace and only through the work of Jesus Christ.
Each of us battles with temptations every day, and the results are too obvious to mention. Christ was no stranger to temptation, either. He battled, yet was without sin… for us and for our eternal righteousness. This message of victory gives us confidence as we journey through the wilderness of sin in true repentance.
Sinful people’s response is to try to minimize their sin. Such self-righteous thoughts lead to eternal death. We need the Spirit to give us repentant hearts. As we begin the season of Lent, we remember that death will one day reduce us to ashes — and our hearts need to be reduced to ashes in repentance now.
Jesus Christ, who humbled himself to come into this world to save us, never lost the glory he has as the Son of God. We see his glory shining in his saving message of salvation, and that glory reflects off us and shines to others as we share the Good News.
Jesus asks us to befriend our enemies, to love those who hate us, and to repay evil with good. Logic would say that is a recipe for being walked all over. Yet, have we not seen this tactic work? When we were Christ’s enemies, he loved us to the point of death. He repays our daily evil with the daily goodness of his mercy. In doing so, he has won us for himself. Following the strategy Jesus lays out is not a capitulation to evil. It is a means of conquering it.
In Jesus’ kingdom, everything seems upside down. But when we see life from the perspective Jesus’ kingdom affords, we are seeing life as it really is. As Martin Luther wrote, “A theology of glory calls evil good and good evil. A theology of the cross calls the thing what it actually is” (Heidelberg Disputation, Thesis 21).
Our sinful inclination is to listen without faith. This can only lead us to the brow of a cliff and throwing Jesus out of our lives. But the Savior of the nations comes with his gracious words of redemption and membership in his body. The Word of the Lord is proclaimed through the revelation of his Anointed One. In him faith is rooted, love flourishes, and salvation is known from generation to generation.
Jesus reveals himself as the Anointed One with the Father’s authority to proclaim himself as fulfillment of prophecy. The Word made flesh points to the Word and boldly proclaims, “Fulfillment.” This bold proclamation carries joy to the very heart of the body of Christ and emboldens its members to proclaim the same.
Jesus comes as the invited guest to reveal the splendor of his glory. As we behold his glory, we delight in our bridegroom. For he delights in us, bringing to us his righteous deliverance, the strength of his Spirit, and the divine dimensions of his immeasurable love.
The long-expected Christ has arrived; the waiting is over as the Son of David is anointed. The Father’s approval sounds from heaven and book-ends the season of Epiphany, when with the Holy Spirit and with power it thunders again on the Mount of Transfiguration as the Son is revealed in glory.
The Son of God came into this world to serve as our Substitute under the law of God. As our brother in humanity, Christ did what we cannot — he perfectly kept that law of God, and he freed us from the guilt and power of sin.
God’s Word for us this day raises us up above the cute and the trite and the trivial; for so many people that is all that Christmas is about. But there is nothing trite or trivial in what has happened today: The deepest lowliness is but the mask for the greatest glory, the glory of him who came to be our Savior!
“But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Just as Mary, on the very first Christmas, we too meditate on the mystery of Christmas. Christ was born in order to live, die and rise from the grave for us! The Word became flesh and through faith we see his glory! Glory to God in the highest!
This last Sunday of Advent, we celebrate together the promise and fulfillment of the One born Immanuel, “God with us.” As we get closer and closer to Christmas, we ask God to prepare our hearts to receive the baby born in Bethlehem as his wonderful gift of salvation.
In this season of Advent (Coming) we focus on the three “comings” of Christ: his coming into this world as a baby to put himself in our place and to pay for our sins, his coming in glory at the last day to take us into the full enjoyment of our salvation, and his coming into our hearts through the power of his word which gives us faith and makes that salvation our own. And all three of these comings lead us to REJOICE....
Since Jesus’ coming is sure and so important, he sends out forerunners in the footsteps of John the Baptist who help us to make proper preparation for his coming. They do that with a message not their own. They do it with the message that he himself has given. Pay close attention to those heralds of the coming Lord, the prophets and apostles, and to the pastors and teachers in our midst who have succeeded them to get us ready for his coming.
Keep watch! The unexpectedness of Christ’s coming doesn’t change its certainty. We know he is coming with judgment on the unbelieving world and grace and rescue for his people. We are filled with hope, with love, and with light. With anticipation in our hearts, we long for the fulfillment. “Come, Lord Jesus! Amen!”
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