Dear Friends in Christ~ We’ve all heard of the twelve days of Christmas, but do you know what it really means? First of all, Christmas is more than a day. It is a season that begins on December 25 and ends on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany (the 12th day). Much like the […]
This week’s worship service is going to be a real treat! The Christmas Tableaux is a reverent, still-life, real-life, series of scenes, music, and scriptural readings depicting the story of the Lord’s birth, from the moment Zacharius is visited by an angel to Jesus’s return from Egypt as a young boy. Due to the foresight of […]
Dear Friends in Christ~ We are now entering the fourth week in Advent and this is traditionally the week of Love. On a silent and Holy night more than 2000 years ago, love was expressed in Luke 2:12-14 as God’s commitment to see an ancient promise through – a promise to right the wrongs of […]
Dear Friends in Christ~ This Sunday is the 3rd Sunday in Advent, and so we light the “joy” candle on the advent wreath, which symbolizes joy in the anticipated arriving of Jesus. The joy candle is often pink and is also referred to as the Shepherds’ Candle. The angels’ message to the shepherds was one […]
Dear Friends in Christ~ On the second Sunday of Advent, we light the 2nd candle on our advent wreath/log. This candle symbolizes peace. The Hebrew word for peace is shalom and appears in the Old Testament over 250 times. In the English language, the word peace tends to mean something like “the lack of war […]