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Christmas Bulletin Downloads
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Download The Christmas Bulletins Below. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] Dec 21, 7PM Worship for the Longest Night on YouTube, prepared by the Southwestern Texas Synod, ELCA. In this service there is room for our grief, sadness, loneliness or confusion when these emotions oftentimes feel out of place during the holidays.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1608319360619{padding-top: 75px !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1608598009145{padding-top: 75px !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] Dec 24, 7PM Christmas Eve Service of the Word on YouTube for all generations: The Advent Themes of Hope, Love, Joy and Peace…
Worship for the Longest Night on YouTube, 7pm December 21, 2020
Prepared by the Southwestern Texas Synod, ELCA. In this service there is room for our grief, sadness, loneliness or confusion when these emotions oftentimes feel out of place during the holidays.
Church Decline in Context
Church Decline in Context The church was never static and eternal. Theology changes at it seeks answers on how to understand God’s will and how to live a life worth living. And the concepts the church generates and the ideas that drive its practice differ widely depending on the challenges time and context. At the moment the church experiences significant change. It struggles with decline in church attendance and the relevance of its theology in a more and more secular…
My New Year’s Resolution
My New Year’s Resolution No more New Years’s Resolutions. Change happens when it’s necessary or it won’t happen. New Year or not does not matter. on the move… Pastor’s Vlog Please check out our video ministry 1517 Grace Guerrilla https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv2aB-i9zHPqgh3NjUJ5-lg Please like and share the video and subscribe to our channel.
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
Spirituality This is a great book for studying spirituality. I would like to focus one chapter, chapter 17. It presented me with some new thoughts about living. It starts with one of the best teachers in all of life, and that turns out to be death. The chapter is not morbid in any sense, but describes the importance of death in daily living. ‘What are you doing in life,” death asks you? I found some completely new thoughts reading this chapter.…
Seven Wonders of the Muslim World
Seven Wonders of the Muslim World is one of five DVD’s in the PBS Great Religions Series. Approximately 24% of the global population is Muslim, roughly 1.8 billion believers as of 2015. In the United States there are approximately 3 million Muslims. In today’s world it becomes ever more important to learn about and understand the beliefs of others through their own words. The Muslim Faith Through the Eyes of Believers This DVD gives one the opportunity…
Messy Church: Jesus Calms the Storm
Jesus Calms the Storm Messy Church is a Christ-centered event for families of all shapes and sizes. Meal is included. This Messy Church focuses on a story in Mark 4:35-41: Jesus Calms the Storm. Jesus and his friends and students cross the lake on a boat. A huge storm comes up, and all are very afraid. But Jesus says: Peace! Be Still! He calms the storm and his disciples are in great awe. Next Messy Church: JAN 24, 2018, 5:00pm…
Here I stand I can do no other.
Here I stand I can do no other. “Hier stehe ich und kann nicht anders,” said Martin Luther at the diet of Worms in 1521. “Here I stand I can do no other.” Luther has caused quite an uproar in the empire with his rebellious writings. The foundations of the status quo started to crack everywhere as sedition and rebellion festered throughout the empire. Revolt was in the air. Seditious princes smelled delicious opportunities to advance themselves by backing the…
Reformation History: Charles V
Reformation History: Emperor Charles V plunders America, fights the Turks and Martin Luther Charles, the V, became emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1519. That was shortly after Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg. Charles is not just the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, but also the King of Castile and Leon, King of Aragon and Sicily, King of Naples, King of the Romans, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant Limburg,…
The Cleaning Power of Fire
The Cleaning Power of Fire. Luther burns the papal bull; the pope returns the favour and burns Luther’s books. The relationship between Luther and church leaves the realm of academic, theological argumentation and enters the dangerous territory of power politics. If some monk challenges the authority of pope and church, what do you think all those power-hungry princes will do to the finely tuned structure of the Holy Roman Empire? If the pope can’t control a measly German monk, the…
Papal Bull against German Boar
Papal Bull against German Boar A papal bull is not a special farm animal intended to provide a good meal for the pontiff. A papal bull is an official decree of the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. It is named after the seal – the bulla – that authenticates it. Exsurge Domine is one of the papal bulls the world still chews on. It was issued by pope Leo X and promulgated in June 15, 1520. It is all…