• Boxes filled with 89 quilts, 31 school bags, and 16 fabric kits going to the Lutheran World Relief trucks to be shipped
  • Christ Is Risen! Alleluia!!
  • Easter Sunday 2023
  • Good Friday
  • The Forty Days of Lent at Living Grace Lutheran Church
  • Christmas/Baptism of Our Lord - 2023
  • Advent at Living Grace Lutheran Church
  • God's Work, Our Hands - digging the pollunated garden
  • Working on the pollunated garden - God's Work, Our Hands
  • Pollunated garden - God's Work, Our Hands
  • Pollunated garden - God's Work, Our Hands
  • Good work - Pollunated Garden finished - God's Work, Our Hands
  • Food Drive for NETWorks and FreeFridge Program
  • Food Drive for NETWorks and FreeFridge Program
  • Easter Sunday 2022
  • Live Music at the Community BBQ
  • Community BBQ-Cooking
  • Honey Samples from Heifer International
  • Community BBQ-Enjoying fun and fellowship
  • Community BBQ-Enjoying food and fellowship
  • Community BBQ-Enjoying food and fellowship
  • Community BBQ-Enjoying food and fellowship
  • Community BBQ-Enjoying food and fellowship
  • Community BBQ-Enjoying food and fellowship
  • Community BBQ-Childfren at play
  • Community BBQ-Children at play
  • FreeFrig Program - Empty shelves before the delivery of groceries from Living Grace
  • Free Frig Program - Filled up shelves with soups, etc. from Living Grace
  • Welcome to Living Grace Lutheran Church
  • The Rev. David E. Hardy, D.D., Pastor of Living Grace Lutheran

LIVING GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH

WELCOMES YOU

 

 

THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

3 December

 

Stir up your power, and come! The psalmist’s plea in Psalm 80:2 has become familiar to us in the Advent prayers. Isaiah wants God to rip the heavens open. Both cry out for an apparently distant, angry God to show up, to save, to restore. When we hear Jesus describing the coming of the Son of Man with stars falling from heaven, it can sound dire and horrible, not like anything we would ever hope for. But when we really look at the suffering of people God loves, we can share the hope that God would tear open the heavens and come.

Prayer of the Day

Stir up your power, Lord Christ, and come. By your merciful protection awaken us to the threatening dangers of our sins, and keep us blameless until the coming of your new day, for you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.

First Reading: Isaiah 64:1-9

This lament comes from a people who have had their hopes shattered. The visions of a rebuilt Jerusalem and a renewed people of God, spoken of in Isaiah 40–55, have not been realized. Instead, the people experience ruin, conflict, and famine. This lament calls God to account—to be the God who has brought deliverance in the past.

Psalm: Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19

Let your face shine upon us, and we shall be saved. (Ps. 80:7)

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9

As the Christians in Corinth await the advent of Jesus, Paul reminds them how the Lord has already enriched them through spiritual gifts and will continue to strengthen them until the coming day of the Lord.

Gospel: Mark 13:24-37

Jesus encourages his followers to look forward to the day when he returns in power and glory to end all suffering.

 

(from 2023 sundaysandseasons.com)