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Advent/Christmas Services
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Christmas Eve, December 24 @ 6:30pm
Christmas Day, December 24 @ 9am
Advent/Christmas Devotions
Concordia Publishing House Christmas Gift Guide Catalog
Readings for:
December 8, 2024
Second Sunday of Advent
First Reading
Malachi 4:1-6
Second Reading
Romans 15:4-13
Gospel Reading
Luke 21:25-36
Liturgical Color
Blue
Stewardship
Luke 21:28 – “Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” When the world starts to fall apart, when things go badly, when nation rises against nation, Jesus tells us to lift up our heads because redemption is nigh. What a wonderful reminder that we Christians really do have nothing to fear! Jesus has conquered and He will deliver the full victory to us in His second Advent. Therefore we are free to live godly, generous, faithful lives here and now, for we have nothing to be afraid of.
Life Message
“If heaven had been our home, would we have wanted to enter a world of grief and pain, of evil and death? Yet enter it Jesus did to give us His home to be ours forever. So, He loved us in undeserved grace. And so will we sing in the heavenly Jerusalem a refrain like that of our choirs: Hail, thou ever blessed morn, Hail redemption’s happy dawn, Sing through all Jerusalem: ‘Christ is born in Bethlehem.’ Alleluia.” Richard Gurgel, President, Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minnesota - A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life www.lutheransforlife.org
What About Life
- www.word-of-hope.org
- LCMS Life Ministries
- Lutherans for Life
- The Gospel - Forgiveness (PDF)
- unPLANNED - book