Keeping Holy Week with Children
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Keeping Holy Week with Children

Children are always welcome in worship at St. Luke’s, including during Holy Week. In childhood faith formation, practicing faith at home is just as important as being involved in a faith community. Here are some additional suggestions for keeping Holy Week together with children…

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Welcome to Holy Week 2025
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Welcome to Holy Week 2025

Holy Week is the church’s annual experience of the heart of the Christian faith. There ought to be no immersion into suffering without the gift of the resurrection, and there ought to be no Easter without Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. This three-day worship is sometimes called by its Latin name, the Triduum. Whether this is your first or hundredth Holy Week, St. Luke’s warmly welcomes you as we keep these special days together…

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Dismantle | Lent 2025
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Dismantle | Lent 2025

Dear friends, Lent is the season where we journey with Christ to the cross. It is common practice to give up something or to engage in more prayer. This season, we are inviting our community to wrestle with white supremacy. To reflect on how it shows up in our communities and to give it up — work toward to eradication of this concept in a way that makes the most sense for us as individuals and community…

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A Living Catechism | Worship in Time after Epiphany
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A Living Catechism | Worship in Time after Epiphany

Worship in the Time after Epiphany (January 12 through February 23) explores A Living Catechism, in a series designed by Savanna Sullivan. This is a creative reimagining of 7 aspects of Lutheran faith, theology, and identity for the 21st century.  These concepts and principles have been developed in collaboration with diverse communities across the United States and remain intentionally open to interpretation, imagining, and reflection…

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Christmas 2024
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Christmas 2024

Join St. Luke’s and our friends at Grace Church as we celebrate the Nativity of Our Lord on Tuesday, December 24th at 5:30 p.m. Our worship on Christmas Eve will include special storytelling for children, carols old and new, preaching, communion, and candlelight. All are welcome.

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Advent 2024 — How does a weary world rejoice?
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Advent 2024 — How does a weary world rejoice?

Our theme for this year’s Advent observance is “How does a weary world rejoice?” The theme alludes to a line in the familiar Christmas hymn, “O Holy Night.” Joy is often a companion to many other emotions. We can feel joy in addition to feeling many other things at once: grief, anticipation, anxiety, excitement, disappointment, exhaustion. Our joy is rooted in the truth that we belong to God…

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