UP COMING EVENTS

Sunday, January 15 – Second Sunday after the Epiphany

Worship, 9:30am + + Sunday School & Confirmation, 11:00am

All the baptized have a calling in God's world. God calls not just the clergy but also the youngest child, like Samuel.

The story of the calling of Nathanael plays with the idea of place. Nathanael initially dismisses Jesus because he comes from Nazareth.

But where we come from isn't important; it's where—or rather whom—we come to.

Jesus refers to the story of the vision of Jacob, who called the place of his vision "the house of God, and ... the gate of heaven" (Gen. 28:17).

Jesus says he himself is the place where Nathanael will meet God. **

Sunday, January 22 – Third Sunday after the Epiphany

Worship, 9:30am + + Sunday School & Confirmation, 11:00am

Stories of the call to discipleship continue as the Time after Epiphany plays out the implications of our baptismal calling to show Christ to the world.Jesus begins proclaiming the good news and calling people to repentance right after John the Baptist is arrested for preaching in a similar way.

Knowing that John was later executed, we see at the very outset the cost of discipleship.

Still, the two sets of fisherman brothers leave everything they have known and worked for all their lives to follow Jesus and fish for people.**

Sunday, January 29 – Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany

Worship, 9:30am + + Sunday School & Confirmation, 11:00am

In Deuteronomy God promises to raise up a prophet like Moses, who will speak for God; in Psalm 111 God shows the people the power of God's works.

or the church these are ways of pointing to the unique authority people sensed in Jesus' actions and words.

We encounter that authority in God's word, around which we gather,

the word that trumps any lesser spirit that would claim power over us, freeing us to follow Jesus.**

Speaker Series: Tuesday, January 31, 7:30pm

Nanotechnology: What is it? What does it mean for us?

Thorsteinn Adalsteinsson

** Reprinted from Words for Worship, copyright 2010 Augsburg Fortress.

Used by permission of Augsburg Fortress.