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Spiritual Inspiration

We also have a special resource for you. Lent isn’t just about fasting or taking a break from chocolate or other things we love. Part of the Lenten journey includes an invitation to embrace a spiritual discipline that deepens our faith and helps us repent (to turn back to God). Here you will find a Lenten daily devotional written by my weekly text study cohort: https://bit.ly/LentenDevotions2025

We hope it will be a helpful tool to enrich your time between now and Resurrection Sunday (Easter). Prints of this are available just outside the sanctuary.

Graphic of Bitmoji Pr. Paul with a keyboard and bible in the background. Adult Bible Study.

Adult Bible Study - Sundays, 9am in the council room

This Fall (2024) in the adult Sunday School class, we’ll be learning about our denomination’s social statements that help guide us in our shared faith. Dave Lenz and Pastor Paul will team lead conversations, beginning with an overview about these statements and how they connect with Scripture and our values as Lutherans. As the season progresses, we hope to read through some of them together and even look ahead to statements that are currently in draft form. Plan to join us if you can!

Archived lessons below:

First Sunday of Advent + Year A November 27, 2022

Christ the King Sunday + Year C November 20, 2022

Bible Study 2022 C Lectionary 33 November 13, 2022

All Saints Sunday + Year C November 6, 2022

10/30 - Group led class: Reformation Sunday + Year C October 30, 2022

10/16 - Sunday School Lectionary 29 C 2022

10/9 - Sunday School Lectionary 28 C 2022

The First Sunday After Lent 2021 (Lectionary 1B)

The Second Sunday of Advent
The Twenty-fourth Sunday After Pentecost 2020 (Lectionary 33 A)

The Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost 2020 (Lectionary 29 A)

The Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost 2020 (Lectionary 28 A)

Prayer for Racial Healing & Service of Prayer and Lament

A Special Message (below) from Pastor Paul: "Repentance and Racial Justice"

We invite you to to CLICK HERE to read Pr. Paul's message.

Commemoration of the Emanuel 9: Special service from 6/17/20

Five years ago today a stranger was welcomed into Bible Study at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC. After the study ended, he opened fire, killing 9 of the people present in the name of white supremacy. The gunman grew up and was confirmed in an ELCA congregation, and is indicative of the continued, required work needed for us to repent of the sins of racism and white supremacy.

Today, along with our entire denomination, we commemorate the martyrdom of The Emanuel Nine. We give thanks for their faithful witness, grieve their deaths, and confess our own complicity in these systems of sin and death.

Take a few moments this evening to light a candle, participate in the brief liturgy (CLICK HERE FOR BULLETIN), and remember the lives of these siblings in faith. The video is below.

~Pastor Paul

Peace and Blessings to you, Beloved Church.

Spiritual Inspiration

Adult Bible Study - Sundays, 9am in the council room

CONFIRMATION CLASS

Confirmation Class Videos

Confirmation Class Videos

Prayer for Racial Healing & Service of Prayer and Lament

A Special Message (below) from Pastor Paul: "Repentance and Racial Justice"

Commemoration of the Emanuel 9: Special service from 6/17/20

Installation of Pastor Paul Moody

Installation of Pr. Paul Moody - 8/12/2018

Archived Sermons

Pub Theology - 3/10, 3/24 & 4/28 at 6pm

Hello dear Theologians,

Cleveland’s East Side Pub Theology