Our midweek Advent schedule for this year will be”

Simple Supper at 5:30 PM

Vespers at 6:00 PM

November 30; December 7, 14, 21

Perhaps you say, I have listened to the Word enough. I have gone to church. But it seems all the more hopeless. I find so many omissions in precisely the questions about all this that I ought to do for all the multitudes who are in distress, sick, and old in my closest surroundings, isolated and forgotten and awkward family members—not to speak of the millions out there in the world who I have only bothered thinking about once. How many hundreds of times have I gone past my Lord Christ without seeing Him or once concerning myself to ask whether He was hiding in all this distress? Then the Word answers: Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved. He knows all there is. This is why He died for you. You do not receive God’s forgiveness through frequent and large payments. You receive forgiveness for the sake of Jesus, completely and wholly. Believe in Him and you will be saved.”

[Bo Giertz, a sainted bishop of Lutheran Church in Sweden, “A Year of Grace, v. 2,” p. 176 (1517 Publishing)]

Join us for Thanksgiving Eve Vespers – Wednesday, November 23rd at 6:30 PM.