During this Thanksgiving month in our worship and life we are focusing on what it means to respond with gratitude for all that God has done for us and all He gives to us. Our worship services this month are featuring special testimonies about how the speakers have been blessed and what they did in… Read More
Lord, have mercy, Christ, have mercy, Lord, have mercy. Once again, Holy One, we cry, how long, O Lord? We gasp, when will it end? Receive and hold our shock, sorrow, and anger in your eternally compassionate heart. God of life, whose presence sustains us in every circumstance, As the sound of gunfire echoed across our neighborhoods,… Read More
Transition times like what we’re in here at First Lutheran Church are times of liminality. “Liminality” comes from the Latin limen, meaning “threshold.” It is like standing on the threshold between one room and another. It is an evolving state of an individual, place, organization, or institution, in the space between and an ending and… Read More