Holy Cross Lutheran Church

Sunday Worship | April 18

Jesus notes that if your brother or sister sins against you repeatedly, and repents repeatedly, you must forgive them. Why? Why must we forgive them? At the heart of Jesus’ command is a clear sense of who forgiveness benefits most. Is it for the person receiving forgiveness or the one granting it? In both cases, it’ll require an increase in faith. Today we explore the beneficiary of forgiveness. 

Sunday Worship | April 11

A part of the prayer Jesus teaches his followers to pray deals specifically with forgiveness: as something both received and given. Lots of us LOVE to receive forgiveness but struggle to practice it with others. Yet, Jesus makes clear that forgiveness from God goes hand-in-hand with our forgiveness to others. Today we explore how to keep these two postures together.

Sunday Worship | April 4

The inevitable end...isn't. It isn't the end. Death does not get the last laugh. In fact, Jesus' death is really just the beginning. Easter Sunday radically changes the end of His story, your story...it changes the WHOLE story.

Matthew’s gospel records “And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from Heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.” 
An earthquake? Rocks shook other rocks in anticipation of the grave being opened. Easter is a day when the gravestone would have much to say. Let the Rocks cry out - Christ is risen!! He is risen, indeed! Alleluia.

Good Friday Worship | April 2

John’s gospel proclaims, “In [Jesus] was life, and the life was the light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” Yet, one can’t argue with the complete darkness of a grave. The complete and utter darkness as the stone is rolled in place; engulfing the body of a once triumphant king. All the hopes of humanity swallowed up by gravestones. What would those rocks say?

Maundy Thursday Worship | April 1

It had been a night of intimacy and communion. A night of serving and savoring. It was a Passover like no other. After the meal was over, after the revelry of God’s faithfulness to his people, Jesus went out into the garden to pray. And there, Jesus came face to face with the Father’s will - the hard reality which lay before him for the sake of humanity. There, as he knelt upon the rocky ground, tears and bloody sweat met the earth. What would those rocks say?

Podcast Ep. 30 | Lenten Devotion 7

Sunday Worship | March 28

As Jesus prepared to enter Jerusalem, fulfilling the prophecy of Zechariah 9, the disciples, along with crowds, raised their voices in praise. Rebuked by the Religious elite, Jesus warns that even if you silenced all these people - rocks would cry out!! And what would they cry?

 

Podcast Ep. 29 | Lenten Devotion 6

Sunday Worship | March 21

Hope is an anchor for the soul. What happens then when hope is nowhere to be found? What happens when all feels lost? What happens when there is nothing to anchor us in the crashing waves of life? Without hope - we are depressed. As we look around our community (and at statistics), hope seems to have left the building. It’s gone and can’t be found. When we’ve lost hope, we should grieve.

Podcast Ep. 28 | Lenten Devotion 5