St. Paul’s would like to congratulate our 2024 Confirmation Class! This past Sunday – May 19th – our confirmands confirmed their faith before God and St. Paul’s congregation. Blessings to you all as you continue down the path that God has set before you! Below is a list of our confirmands and their accompanying bible verse: Alexis Paige Andrews John 10:27-28 Kamden…
This is the day the Lord has made! We praise God for Pentecost Sunday and our eight eighth graders who today will confirm their Baptismal birthday and make their vows to be faithful Christians. May the Holy Spirit be upon us all! Link to Service video on Vimeo Link to service bulletin
The Seventh (and final) Sunday of Easter holds a unique position in the salvation story, as it is the only Sunday in the ten-day window after the ascension but before Pentecost. This reality is reflected as every year the Church reads the account of Matthias succeeding Judas (First Reading, Acts 1:12–26), which did indeed immediately follow the ascension (Acts 1:6–11) and did…
In today’s Gospel, from the middle of Jesus’ farewell message to His disciples (Jn 13:31–17:26), our Lord emphasizes love: His Father’s love to Him, His love for His disciples, and His disciples’ love for one another. And His sacrifice is the greatest love. Let us love as Jesus loves us. Link to Service video on Vimeo Link to service bulletin
In the Sundays of Easter, we see that the resurrected Jesus changes lives. How dramatically that is demonstrated in the life of Philip, who in our First Reading receives the call to “go” (Acts 8:26) in the power of “the good news about Jesus” (8:35). As God’s faithful people, we are also to go and come alongside others (8:29) with the same…
In the Sundays of the Easter season, we celebrate the truths and promises of what the resurrected Christ offers. We are loved by God the Father, whose plan from eternity was to redeem and restore lost sheep. This is notably expressed on Good Shepherd Sunday. Our risen Christ authenticates the truth that He truly is the Good Shepherd who lovingly cares for…
Easter is here again this Sunday. There are three things to observe. First, Jesus demonstrates that He really is alive, in the flesh, by pointing to His hands and feet and by eating some fish. Then He demonstrates the significance of Easter from the Scriptures as the basis for proclaiming repentance and the forgiveness of sins. Finally, He commissions His hearers as…
The Day of the Resurrection of our Lord, the First Sunday of Easter, is the climax of the church year. This fifty-day season proclaims the victory of Christ, who overcame sin, death, and the devil. It follows the forty-day season of Lent that reveals the weight of humankind’s sin, the need for repentance, and the saving work of Christ’s death on the…
In today’s Epistle (Phil 2:5–11) the apostle Paul manages to capture the mystery and majesty of this day in one simple sentence: “And being found in human form, Jesus humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (2:8). The humility of Jesus is also accented through the preaching of Zechariah in today’s Old Testament Reading…
The Propers for the Fifth Sunday in Lent take us to the heart of our Lord’s saving work on behalf of the whole world. In the Old Testament Reading, the prophet Jeremiah succinctly lays out the Lord’s promise of a new covenant. From this new covenant flows a gracious promise: “For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no…