Meet Our Partners

Goldie Friedrich, 

Trinity Lutheran Church

This week we meet Goldie Friedrich from Trinity Lutheran Church. I hope you enjoy this opportunity to get to know her better.

Goldie Friedrich

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What’s your favorite food?
Brats & hot dogs

Mmm ... good German food!  And your favorite drink?
Diet Coke

Do you have a favorite movie?
Love Story and The African Queen

Christ Finds Us

Like Mary Magdalene on that first Easter morning, many of us have been frustrated because no matter how much we search for Jesus we cannot find him.

The Resurrection story reminds us that it is not we who find Christ, but rather it is Christ who finds us.

Just like he came to find Mary as she stood weeping in the garden that first Easter morning.
And just like he came to find the disciples as they cowered in fear behind the locked door.

Our Resurrected Lord comes to find us.

• Acts 10:34-43  • 
 
• Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24  • 
 
• Colossians 3:1-4   • 
• John 20:1-18

For You

As we contemplate the gruesome and senseless death of our Lord tonight.  We might well ask ourselves: Why?

Why did Christ suffer like this? Why did God let himself be beaten, mocked, and murdered?

And the answer of course is, he did it for you.

• Isaiah 52:13-53:12  • 
 
• Psalm 22  • 
 
• Hebrews 10:16-25 or Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9  • 
 
• John 18:1-19:42

It is I

When he took the bread and gave thanks and broke it and gave it to His disciples, he said, “It is I given for you”.

And then when he took the cup and gave it for them to drink, he again said, “It is I given for the forgiveness of your sins.”

And with these simple statements, Jesus took what is ours and gave us what is his.

• Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14  • 
 
• Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19  • 
 
• 1 Corinthians 11:23-26  • 
 
• John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Meet Our Partners

Kermet & Nancy Sheppard, 

Peace Lutheran Church

This week we meet Kermet & Nancy Sheppard from Peace Lutheran Church. I hope you enjoy this opportunity to get to know them better.

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What’s your favorite food? 
Nancy: Hamburgers 
Kermet: Steak

And favorite drink? 
Nancy: Unsweetened tea 
Kermet: Anything cold

What kind of movies do you like? 
Nancy: Any old black and white 
Kermet: Any Western

Do you have a favorite color? 
Nancy: Blue 
Kermet: Red

And what about a favorite song or hymn? 
Nancy: Jesus Loves Me 
Kermet: The Old Rugged Cross

Do you have any favorite sports teams? 

Dying & Rising with Christ

In baptism, Christ pulls us into his own death and resurrection and teaches us how to die and rise again. As his disciples he encourages us to practice this pattern of dying and rising.

Each time we humble ourselves and confess our sins and receive Christ’s forgiveness, we die and rise again. We humbly put to death our old, sinful self so that the new life of Christ might rise in us.

• Isaiah 50:4-9a  • 
 
• Psalm 31:9-16  • 
 
• Philippians 2:5-11  • 
 
• Matthew 26:14-27:66

Meet Our Partners

Clarence & Evelyn Petrowsky, 

Grace Lutheran Church

This week we meet Clarence and Evelyn Petrowsky from Grace Lutheran Church. I hope you enjoy this opportunity to get to know them better.

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What’s your favorite food? 
Evelyn: Ice cream 
Clarence: All kinds; Evelyn is a great cook! Perhaps fried potatoes!

And your favorite drink? 
Evelyn: Coffee
Clarence: Coffee

Do you have a favorite movie? 
Evelyn: It's a Wonderful Life with James Stewart and Donna Reed
Clarence: Fiddler on the Roof

What about your favorite color? 
Evelyn: All bright colors - blue, green & red
Clarence: Blue

Lazarus Was Dead

Lazarus was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.
His sisters knew he was dead. The people who'd buried him 4 days ago knew he was dead.

There is no doubt that Lazarus was dead. This must be distinctly understood or nothing wonderful can come of the story in today's Gospel.

• Ezekiel 37:1-14  • 
 
• Psalm 130  • 
 
• Romans 8:6-11  • 
 
• John 11:1-45