Join Us For Lenten and Holy Week Worship
Midweek of Lent 4 – March 13, 12:10 and 6:30 p.m. – Source of Life!
Jesus is the true life given by the Father to us. In Him and, is life forgiven, meaningful, renewed, and satisfied. In Jesus Christ, we have all that we need and more, every day and for eternal life.
Midweek of Lent 5 – March 20, 12:10 and 6:30 p.m. – Hope and Victory!
Christians remain hopeful even when life, trouble, and circumstances declare something opposite. The ultimate victory in Christ encourages us to remain strong even when sin, death, and trial oppose us.
Palm Sunday – March 24, 8:15 and 11 a.m. – From Jerusalem to Calvary!
We raise our palms and praises, sing Hosanna!, and follow Jesus up the Via Dolorosa to the cross.
Holy (Maundy) Thursday – March 28, 12:10 and 7 p.m. – The Lord’s Supper!
Jesus was baptized into death. On this night, we celebrate receiving the testament which our Lord inaugurated in the Lord’s Supper. Once again this year, we who are God’s people will appreciate how He pours out to us His forgiveness, life, and salvation in His sacraments.
Good Friday – March 29, 12:10 and 7 p.m. (Tenebrae) – The Old Rugged Cross!
Jesus’ cross brings peace, forgiveness, salvation and our lives are rescued, sweetened, and lightened.
Easter Sunday – March 31, 6:30, 8:15, and 11 a.m. – Welcome to the Promised Land!
As Joshua led the people of Israel across the Jordan River and into the Promised Land, so Jesus crossed the river of death by His death and resurrection and leads us to the promised land, which will never end. Although heaven is not ours fully, yet, it meets earth as Christ is risen from the dead!
Promised Treasures
This Lenten season, we are experiencing a fresh opportunity to embrace God’s amazing love for us, His baptized children, in new ways. St. Paul clearly says that “faith comes from hearing” (Romans 10:17), but the Gospel is also communicated through the physical senses of sight, smell, touch, and taste.
In Matthew 13:52 Jesus says that “every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.” So each Wednesday in Lent as well as during Holy Week and Easter, we are taking a weekly journey to concretely see, smell, touch, and taste a number of Biblical elements, connected to our Savior and the love He poured out for us and for our salvation.
Just as Israel wandered through the wilderness under Moses for forty years, awaiting the Promised Land, we await heaven in the wilderness of this life. Life as exiles in the wilderness of this world is not easy and pain-free. In this vale of tears, we await our real home, the new promised land of heaven. Until we enter our eternal promised land, however, the Lord calls us to be His light in this dark world.
All these beautiful Old and New Testament elements remind us of God’s eternal love in Christ, fill us with renewed hope, and increase our joy, knowing that because we are His baptized children, God is near to us now more than ever!
Rich blessings as together we journey through this season to Calvary’s Cross and the Open Tomb!
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Announcing Two Special Events
Brian Young (yes, he’s Dale’s brother) Director of Creation Instruction Association, and the Semisaurus Mobile Creation Museum
will lead Bible Classes and a Seder Meal at First Lutheran on Sunday, March 17! Watch for further details and please plan to attend
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