This Sunday’s image of how the risen Christ shares his life with us is the image of the vine. Christ the vine and we the branches are alive in each other, in the mystery of mutual abiding described in the gospel and the first letter of John. Baptism makes us a part of Christ’s living and life-giving self and makes us alive with Christ’s life. As the vine brings food to the branches, Christ feeds us at his table. We are sent out to bear fruit for the life of the world. Our service will be live streamed from Cross of Glory Lutheran Church starting at 10:45 AM. Click on the image above to watch the live stream. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yo3T1pDspNgLDEaq8RvjSDefk8enCKCb/view?usp=drive_link

Worship with Cristo Rey

This Sunday’s image of the life the risen Christ shares with us is the image of friendship. We are called to serve others as Jesus came to serve; but for John’s gospel, the image of servanthood is too hierarchical, too distant, to capture the essence of life with Christ. Friendship captures the love, the joy, the deep mutuality of the relationship into which Christ invites us. The Greeks believed that true friends are willing to die for each other. This is the mutual love of Christian community commanded by Christ and enabled by the Spirit. Our service will be live streamed from Cross of Glory Lutheran Church starting at 8:30 AM. Click on the image above to watch the live stream. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nL-z7hzvd5jFA6EEr8R_jQNLgdV35ubV/view?usp=drive_link

This Sunday’s image of the life the risen Christ shares with us is the image of friendship. We are called to serve others as Jesus came to serve; but for John’s gospel, the image of servanthood is too hierarchical, too distant, to capture the essence of life with Christ. Friendship captures the love, the joy, the deep mutuality of the relationship into which Christ invites us. The Greeks believed that true friends are willing to die for each other. This is the mutual love of Christian community commanded by Christ and enabled by the Spirit. Our service will be live streamed from Cross of Glory Lutheran Church starting at 8:30 AM. Click on the image above to watch the live stream. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nL-z7hzvd5jFA6EEr8R_jQNLgdV35ubV/view?usp=drive_link

La imagen de este domingo de la vida que Cristo resucitado comparte con nosotros es la imagen de la amistad. Estamos llamados a servir a los demás como Jesús vino a servir; pero para el evangelio de Juan, la imagen del servicio es demasiado jerárquica, demasiado distante, para captar la esencia de la vida con Cristo. La amistad captura el amor, el gozo y la profunda reciprocidad de la relación a la que Cristo nos invita. Los griegos creían que los verdaderos amigos estaban dispuestos a morir el uno por el otro. Este es el amor mutuo de la comunidad cristiana ordenado por Cristo y habilitado por el Espíritu. Nuestro servicio comienza al mediodía desde la Iglesia Luterana Atonement. ¡Esperamos verte ahí!

The gospel for Easter’s seventh Sunday is always taken from the long prayer Jesus prays for his followers in John’s gospel on the night before his death, and always includes Jesus’ desire that his followers will be one as he and the Father are one. This oneness is not mere doctrinal agreement or institutional unity, but mutual abiding, interpenetrating life, mutual love, and joy. This oneness is the work of the Spirit whom we have received but also await. Come, Holy Spirit! Our service will be live-streamed from Atonement Lutheran Church starting at 10:45 AM. Click on the image above to watch the live stream. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aqq8-i4CEx2XzYZ6eq_vlcq0kQ1TaMbg/view?usp=drive_link

The gospel for Easter’s seventh Sunday is always taken from the long prayer Jesus prays for his followers in John’s gospel on the night before his death, and always includes Jesus’ desire that his followers will be one as he and the Father are one. This oneness is not mere doctrinal agreement or institutional unity, but mutual abiding, interpenetrating life, mutual love, and joy. This oneness is the work of the Spirit whom we have received but also await. Come, Holy Spirit! Our service will be live-streamed from Atonement Lutheran Church starting at 10:45 AM. Click on the image above to watch the live stream. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aqq8-i4CEx2XzYZ6eq_vlcq0kQ1TaMbg/view?usp=drive_link

El evangelio del séptimo domingo de Pascua siempre se toma de la larga oración que Jesús hace por sus seguidores en el evangelio de Juan la noche antes de su muerte, y siempre incluye el deseo de Jesús de que sus seguidores sean uno como él y el Padre son uno. Esta unidad no es un mero acuerdo doctrinal o unidad institucional, sino una vida mutua, amor y alegría interpenetrantes. Esta unidad es obra del Espíritu que hemos recibido pero que también esperamos. ¡Ven, espíritu santo! ¡Únase a nosotros para la adoración desde la Iglesia Luterana Atonement a partir de las 12:00 p. m.!

Fifty days after Easter, we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. Crossing all boundaries that would separate us, the Spirit brings the wideness of God’s mercy to places we least expect it—to a crowd of strangers of different lands and tongues, to dry bones, to our weak hearts. Jesus promises his disciples that they will be accompanied by the Holy Spirit, and that this Spirit reveals the truth. We celebrate that we too have been visited with this same Spirit. Guided by the truth, we join together in worship, and then disperse to share the fullness of Christ’s love with the world. Our service will be live-streamed from Cross of Glory Lutheran Church starting at 8:30 AM. Click on the image above to watch the live stream. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CpdEOObDvq3xKeZG_pFb-olHlsfSrad2/view?usp=drive_link

Fifty days after Easter, we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. Crossing all boundaries that would separate us, the Spirit brings the wideness of God’s mercy to places we least expect it—to a crowd of strangers of different lands and tongues, to dry bones, to our weak hearts. Jesus promises his disciples that they will be accompanied by the Holy Spirit, and that this Spirit reveals the truth. We celebrate that we too have been visited with this same Spirit. Guided by the truth, we join together in worship, and then disperse to share the fullness of Christ’s love with the world. Our service will be live-streamed from Cross of Glory Lutheran Church starting at 8:30 AM. Click on the image above to watch the live stream. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CpdEOObDvq3xKeZG_pFb-olHlsfSrad2/view?usp=drive_link

Cincuenta días después de Pascua celebramos el derramamiento del Espíritu Santo en Pentecostés. Cruzando todos los límites que nos separan, el Espíritu trae la amplitud de la misericordia de Dios a los lugares que menos lo esperamos: a una multitud de extraños de diferentes tierras y lenguas, a los huesos secos, a nuestros corazones débiles. Jesús promete a sus discípulos que serán acompañados por el Espíritu Santo, y que este Espíritu revela la verdad. Celebramos que nosotros también hemos sido visitados por este mismo Espíritu. Guiados por la verdad, nos unimos en adoración y luego nos dispersamos para compartir la plenitud del amor de Cristo con el mundo. Únase a nosotros para el culto a partir de las 12:00 p. m. en la Iglesia Luterana Atonement en New Brighton.

When we say God is the triune God, we are saying something about who God is beyond, before, and after the universe: that there is community within God. Our experience of this is reflected in Paul’s words today. When we pray to God as Jesus prayed to his Abba (an everyday, intimate parental address), the Spirit prays within us, creating between us and God the same relationship Jesus has with the one who sent him. Our service will be live streamed from Cross of Glory Lutheran Church starting at 9:30 AM. Click on the image above to watch the live stream. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qyYZkzT0YLU1t2TQHwFN8AqdMrgJBm-W/view?usp=drive_link