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WHY I GIVE THROUGH THE CHURCH

1/9/2017

 
+Because it is in the church when I can each week hear God’s Word preached and taught and receive His body and blood at the Lord’s table.
 
+Because it is in the church where I was baptized, confirmed, married and will someday have my funeral.
 
+Because it is in the church where I’m blessed to have fellowship with fellow believers.
 
+Because it is in the church where I have the opportunity to use my time and abilities to serve the Lord.

LUTHER'S LIFE...DID YOU KNOW...

12/19/2016

 
+On the heels of this change in his understanding – that God gives us righteousness – came others too!
 
+Salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ and His merits, not our own!
 
+Faith for Luther, no longer consisted of asserting to the Church’s teachings, but of trusting the promises of God in and through Christ’s sacrifice.
 
+What followed was not just an explosion, but more like a long but powerful chain reaction.
 
+It started on All Saint’s Eve, October 31, 1517, when Luther formally protested church action and teaching by posting 95 Theses for debate on the Wittenberg Church front door.
 

LUTHER'S LIFE...DID YOU KNOW...

12/5/2016

 
+The young Luther could not live by faith because he was not righteous-and he knew it

+The critical turn in Luther’s life came when Staupitz (his Supervisor) ordered him to obtain his doctorate and become a professor of the Bible at Wittenberg University

+There, a revolution in his theological thinking occurred in his lecture hall and study from
1513-1519

+Who could be righteous? Luther came to teach increasingly that God gives us righteousness!

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LUTHER’S LIFE…Did you know?

11/28/2016

 
+Though the initial fears and anxieties left Luther during his first year in the Cloister, they later began to intensify and he felt increasing terror of the wrath of God
 
+His supervisor ordered him to undertake the study of theology in order to become one of the Order’s teachers.  This enabled him to investigate his struggles intellectually.
 
+It was slow going at first since his teachers had taught that God demanded an absolute righteousness (perfect living) to be saved
 
+During his early years, whenever Luther came to the famous “Reformation text” – Romans 1:17 – his eyes were drawn not to the word faith, but to the word religious
 
+Who, after all, could “live by faith”? Only those who were already righteous

OUR OWN ECEC (EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER)

11/7/2016

 
+that we have been collecting loose change for the local Salvation Army….our goal is to stuff our pumpkin full!
 
+that we celebrate Thanksgiving annually with a school-wide Thanksgiving Feast.  This year we will be sharing a Thanksgiving Blessing Mix with everyone.  
 
+that was have annual programs on Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.  We invite all to
 attend – see the online calendar for dates and times.
 
+ each year at Christmas, we give a child in each age-level class a crèche scene to be
 displayed in their home.

LUTHER'S LIFE

10/31/2016

 
+Upon his return from a home visit, as Luther fought his way through a severe thunderstorm, a bolt of lightning struck the ground near him
+”Help me, St. Anne” the frightened Luther screamed, hoping to escape the lightning. “I will become a monk!”
+In July, 1505, as required on entering monastic life, Luther gave away all his possessions, even his prized book
+By all evidence, Luther was extraordinarily successful as an observant Augustinian, just as he had been a student
+He did not simply engage in prayer, fasts and ascetic practices (including going without sleep, enduring bone-chilling cold, and flagellating (whipping) himself, he pursued them earnestly

LUTHER'S LIFE

10/31/2016

 
+Despite common origins, two things set young Luther apart:
    -First, Hans sent Martin to Latin school at age 14 and then on to the University of Erfurt.
    - Second, Luther proved to be extraordinary, intelligent, earning his bachelor’s at age
        19 and his master’s at 22-the shortest time allowed by the University. This earned  
         him the nick-name “The Philosopher.”A pleased Hans gave his son the costly gift of
         the central text for legal studies at the time, the Corpus Juris Civilis.
+Unfortunately, the promising law student soon had doubts about the status of his soul and about his career his father had securely set before him.
 

LUTHER'S LIFE

10/31/2016

 
+Luther was born on November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, Germany (about 120 miles southeast of modern Berlin), where both parents may have worked as domestic servants?
+Hans, Luther’s father (spelling his last name Luder), quickly climbed to member of the city council?
+Luther remembered his childhood in part for (in today’s terms) its physical abuse?  Both
his mother and his father beat him in frightening ways
+He became so estranged from his father on one occasion that Hans sought his
forgiveness?
+But Luther also remembered, “He meant well by me.” Strict physical discipline was normal
in the era                 

LUTHER AND THE REFORMATION...DID YOU KNOW...

10/10/2016

 
+We are celebrating 500 years of the Reformation?
+Most scholars agree that the medieval church was in dire need of reform?
+Could complete schism have been avoided?
+Martin Luther and his fellow reformers stripped away the veil obscuring the good news of
            grace through Christ alone?
+The Reformation that followed came at a high price: decades of warfare, political turmoil,
            and social upheaval?
                       
How should we think about our divisions today in light of Jesus’ passionate prayer that his followers be “one”?

REFORMATION CELEBRATION

10/3/2016

 
+Did you know that next year we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation?
+Did you know that five hundred years ago an obscure German monk published 95 theses (theological points for debate) and posted them on the community church door in Wittenberg?
+Did you know that the Lutheran Church traces its beginning roots back to this event?
+Did you know that the obscure German monk was named Martin Luther?
+And did you know that act by Luther unwittingly set off a revolution that continues to
shape the church and the world to this very day?!?
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