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Jesus Only

• "Jesus Only" (Mark 9:8)

Sunday Morning Worship - 2/11/2018

This day ends the Epiphany season and prepares us for Lent. Jesus has been revealing His true nature through His words and actions, and on the Mount of Transfiguration three disciples see His glory revealed as transfiguring light. Moses and Elijah appear with Him, talking about His departure in Jerusalem. But our Lord then commands the disciples not to tell about the event until after Easter. Because we live after His resurrection, Paul writes in the Epistle, we recognize Jesus’ true glory in going to the cross for us, for God has “shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6).

Please join us for Sunday worship at 8:20 AM or 11:00 AM.  Pastor Joshua Bauman's message is titled “Jesus Only” based on Mark 9:8.

Sunday's bulletin can be found at this Bulletins Link.

The Main Thing

• "The Main Thing" (Mark 1:29-30)

This is God's Son, Listen to Him

• "This is God's Son, Listen to Him" (St Mark 1:26)

Sunday Morning Worship - 1/28/2018

When the Israelites were about to enter the Promised Land and Moses was about to die, he announced that the Lord had promised another prophet to follow him. While the people saw Joshua as that prophet, centuries later, Jesus was the complete fulfillment of the prophecy. When He spoke, all creation—including unclean spirits—obeyed, to the amazement of the people in today’s Holy Gospel. Unfortunately, as Paul reminds us in the Epistle, we do not always hear a clear command from our Lord as we deal with one another. But Jesus’ sacrifice for us frees us to put our neighbor’s needs above our own.

Please join us for Sunday worship at 8:20 AM or 11:00 AM.  Pastor Joshua Bauman's message is titled “This is God's Son, Listen to Him” based on St. Mark 1:26.

Sunday's bulletin can be found at this Bulletins Link.

Our Hope

• "Our Hope" (1 Peter 3:15)

Sunday Morning Worship - 1/21/2018

Peter, Andrew, James, and John were fishermen by trade. Jesus invited them to follow Him, promising He would make them fishers of men. What could this possibly mean? The prophet Jonah may provide a clue. Swallowed, and then regurgitated by a great fish after running from God, Jonah was given another chance to cast a Gospel net for the people of Nineveh. With only the lure of Jonah’s brief, Law-heavy sermon, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”, God reeled in a bountiful Kingdom-catch, saving more than 120,000 people and animals in that city. Jesus’ own preaching announces the fullness of time, the presence of God’s reign, and invites repentance and faith in the Good News from God, which He embodies and enacts. This message—proclaimed and sacramentally enacted —is the net by which Holy Spirit calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies people under God’s gracious reign.

Please join us for Sunday worship at 8:20 AM or 11:00 AM.  Pastor Joshua Bauman's message is titled “Our Hope” based on 1 Peter 3:15.

Sunday's bulletin can be found at this Bulletins Link.

God Gives the Greatest Gift

• "God Gives the Greatest Gift" (John 1:43-51))

Sunday Morning Worship - 1/14/2018

“Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.” With this invitation, the prophet Samuel opens himself to receive God’s Word for His people. In the Epistle, Paul reminds us that we are not our own. Rather, we belong to the Lord because we have been bought with the price of Jesus’ precious body and blood given and shed for the forgiveness of sins. This Jesus is God’s first and final Word to all humanity—the Logos incarnate. Born in Bethlehem and heading for Golgotha, Jesus invites people to follow Him. From one disciple to another, the invitation is to come and see the One whom Moses and the prophets foretold—Israel’s Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, our Lord and our God.

Please join us for Sunday worship at 8:20 AM or 11:00 AM.  Pastor Cory J. Rajek's message is titled “God Loves Me Dearly” based on John 1:43-51.

Sunday's bulletin can be found at this Bulletins Link.

Pastor Rajek in Hong Kong