Holy Week Links UncategorizedThursday Service (Click here for link): Maundy Thursday, Jesus commands us to love. This service ends with the stripping of the altar preparing for the grief ahead. Good Friday noon service (Click here for link): The eight ELCA churches of Eau Claire join together to reflect on the seven last words of Jesus. Good Friday […] Read More
Eau Claire ELCA members devotions for Lent Uncategorized40 devotions written by Lutherans in Eau Claire to accompany you through Lent! 2021 Lenten Devotions Read More
Lessons and Carols 2020 UncategorizedChristmas Eve Lessons and Carols Program (click here to open pdf ) Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols Program Prelude O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Cecelia McDowall Carol Once in royal David’s city stood a lowly cattle shed, where a mother laid her baby in a manger for his bed: Mary was that mother mild, Jesus […] Read More
Gifts that Keep on Giving Pastor Phil's Thoughts for the DayWho were the people who made you who you are? Who loved you so much that your life unfolded in fulfilling directions? With All Saints Day yesterday we remembered those whom our church entrusted into God’s hands during this past year. The number was so high this year. But we remembered them and reclaimed the […] Read More
Out of the Boat Summer Sermon SeriesOut of the Boat This week our guest preacher will be the CEO of Grace Lutheran Communities, Raymond Weiss. He will be preaching on Matthew 14:22-33, the story where Peter steps out of a boat in the middle of a storm and walks toward Jesus until he sinks. I am not sure where Raymond will […] Read More
George Floyd. Listen to his name. Say his name aloud. Hear yourself saying his name. Pastor Phil's Thoughts for the DayGeorge Floyd. Listen. Listen to his name. Say his name aloud. Hear yourself saying his name. The spiritual practice I am working hardest on right now is listening. Specifically I’m listening to the pain expressed in the voices of black people. I am attempting to hold what I think I know about things as lightly […] Read More
Education for Life (Part 6) Pastor Phil's Thoughts for the DayFew areas of human thought have involved more questioning in the last three hundred years than the relationship between religion and science. It may have first appear when we learned in a science class that the world’s beginning was not a seven day affair as the first chapter of the bible seems to declare. For […] Read More
Education for Life (part 5) Pastor Phil's Thoughts for the DayMany of us find ourselves asking tough questions of God during these difficult times. Rethinking our faith need not undermine it. The process of examining one’s deepest convictions is not without turmoil and anxiety. The intellectual rearranging of your mind’s floor plan may be a constant reality as you ask deeper and deeper questions. Some […] Read More