worship

sUNDAYS

SERMONS

​Weekly Worship Schedule:
Sundays, (with Holy Communion)
8am and 10:15am
9:15am Sunday school

(9:15am Summer Worship)

Worship services are also posted on our YouTube channel: Lamb and Flag Ministries.

Sunday School is normally offered 9:15-10:05am during the program year for Toddlers - 7th Grade.

Special festival and midweek services occur during Advent/Christmas and Lent/Easter Seasons.

Worship is the activity of "prayer and praise". We are called to join with others in response to God's grace and love. In gratitude for that love and grace, Christians commit to the following basic principles when they join the church: 

As children of God and disciples of Jesus,

• we strive to remember our Baptism (when we were first welcomed as a “Christian”),
• we desire to hear the promises of God expressed in the Christian Bible and listen to a message of interpretation based on those readings (the sermon),
• we strive to make token offerings of ourselves and our resources to the ministry of the church (the offering collection),
• we look forward to sharing a greeting of peace with one another (the Peace),
• we desire to share in the meal of bread and wine that signifies and makes real Jesus’ eternal life-giving presence with His church (Holy Communion), and after several prayers and songs,
• we are sent back into the world to bear witness to the gifts of God in Jesus Christ for all people (through our personal vocations).

We encourage and we include the participation of children in worship.  Our sanctuary is also fully accessible by elevator.

E-links below are to a selection of sermons. All sermons are recorded and can be viewed as part of worship recordings on our YouTube page, "Lamb and Flag Ministries". (Click on a worship service and look for the sermon to start approximately 10 to 15 minutes into the service.)

Videos of Select Sermons
Video Sermon January 19, 2025
Video Sermon July 21, 2024
Video Sermon June 30, 2024
Video Sermon May 19, 2024
Video Sermon April 7, 2024
Video Sermon March 3, 2024
Video Sermon Feb 11, 2024
Video Sermon Feb 20, 2022
​Video Sermon Dec 24, 2021

Texts of Select Sermons  
Sunday March 3, 2024
Sunday August 21, 2022
Sunday Feb 6, 2022

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SERMONS

DEVOTIONS

The resources below are meant enliven your imagination as you continue to work on your own spiritual formation.

• The ELCA Worship Blog has been publishing weekly posts supporting worship in the home. These posts include the lectionary readings, hymn suggestions, and timely and relevant prayers of intercession written by Gail Ramshaw. These posts are published on Wednesdays, so that people may have them in preparation for worship on Sunday.
• The ELCA Worship Blog has also published a blog post compiling resources for daily prayer, as well as links to the daily lectionary and to publicly available hymns. The prayer PDFs in that blog post include Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Night Prayer. There is also a PDF of Prayers and Blessings for Daily Use.
• Prayer Ventures Daily prayers for the life and mission of the church.
• Guided Meditations from Mindfulness for Teens
• Praying in Color from Sybil Macbeth
• In Italy, I’ve Rediscovered the Power of Three Types of Prayer from Christianity Today
• Praying in a Pandemic from Jen Pollock Michel
• 7 of the Best Apps for Daily Christian Meditation from Just Disciple
• Heart of the Matter: A Ritual for Breaking Bread and Sharing From the Heart from Spiritual Care Encounters
• Pandemic Prayer from Carol Penner of Leading in Worship Blog
• Resources for Praying Without Words from DisAbilities Ministries of the United Methodist Church
• Pray as You Stay from Jesuit Media Initiatives’s Pray As You Go
• A Liturgy for Those Flooded by Too Much Information from Every Moment Holy
• Breath Prayers for Anxious Times from Sarah Bessey
• d365 Daily Devotions
• Themed Meditations from Taketime

"Jesus replied, 'You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.'" (Matthew 22:37)

Heart, soul and mind. We strive to make ourselves open to God's love, and at the same time ask God to open our hearts, souls and minds ever more widely to God's amazing grace. To help you with your personal journey of faith, consider the following links to blogs, ideas, and information.

Heart

• The 'Living Lutheran' Online Magazine

Soul

• Daily Bible Reading (ELCA website)
• Commentary and resources on Bible readings for Sundays

Mind

• ​The Journal of Lutheran Ethics (This resource is an online journal written by Lutheran scholars, teachers, and pastors, that seeks to engage the pressing issues of our day.)
• Pastor Linderman's blog, "Faithful Encounters"