Services

Ocean Sunday We worship this Sunday with the oceans of Earth, created by the Wisdom of God. With the Psalmist we call the sea to roar with songs of praise. We sing with the seven seas and celebrate the wondrous creatures of the watery deep. With our Creator, we rejoice with whales, dolphins and other […]

Earth Day Worship Lutherans Restoring Creation is a grassroots movement promoting care for creation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We accomplish this by cultivating a community of dedicated stewards of earth and neighbor who proclaim God’s promise of hope and healing for all.

Happy Easter! Christ is risen, and we gather in astonishment and joy. Christ is risen, and we have been set free from the bonds of death. Christ is risen, and we are forgiven. Christ is risen, and with the women at the tomb and Peter, we are amazed. Let us rejoice: Christ is risen indeed! […]

Today we follow Christ from triumphal entry to the cross, each waypoint of the journey marked by Jesus’ compassion for those who would betray, mock, accuse, or do violence to him. Though persecuted and beaten, Jesus the Son of God is not disgraced; instead, he asks forgiveness for those who put him to death. We […]

Fear can keep a person or community in a state of striving, causing us to grasp onto what we already have, to operate with a sense of scarcity, and it often makes us unwilling to take risks or explore new options. Fear closes our will. On the other hand, cultivating an Open Will leaves behind […]

Attending during times of liminality entails being fully present with an Open Heart – attentive here and now – to God, oneself, and the whole community. Cultivating an Open Heart involves freeing ourselves from the barriers that block us from being fully present which requires being aware of these barriers within ourselves and our community. […]