Messiah Lutheran Church • 5200 Mayfield Rd., Lyndhurst, OH 44124 • 440-442-6941
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Here you will find Pr. Paul's message from the monthly Grace Note, along with sermons from various Sundays and Adult Bible Study. Also, the special service for the Emanuel 9 is now on this page, along with the bulletin and the prayer for Racial Healing.
Beloved Church,
“I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth; do you see it?”
God spoke these words to the people of Israel in exile in Babylon, but there is no reason to believe God isn’t saying the same thing to the church today!
Do you wonder what the Lutheran Church of the 21st century will look like? Are you concerned about the future of our congregation or neighboring congregations?
This Spring, Bishop Barbins and our Northeastern Ohio Synod Staff are inviting every congregation to send four people to a Project Isaiah 43 event. On Sunday, April 21, at 2pm at Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Chagrin Falls, we will gather for a brief presentation time followed by engaging conversations to help us think together about the future of Lutheran Christianity in Ohio and beyond. Does this sound like something that would be life-giving for you? Let me know and we can go together!
Information gleaned from these Project Isaiah 43 events will be shared with the whole Northeastern Ohio Synod in preparation for our annual Synod Assembly in June.
c/o Pastor Paul
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)
We invite you to to CLICK HERE to read Pr. Paul's message.
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
August 12, 2018
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