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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.  This Sunday's service will be live-streamed from Cross of Glory Lutheran Church starting at 8:30am. Click on the image above to join us via our live-stream. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kCS2O3tBFqeQQt5u8eaRFgCjIlMQQq8J/view?usp=sharing

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.  This Sunday's service will be live-streamed from Cross of Glory Lutheran Church starting at 8:30am. Click on the image above to join us via our live-stream. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kCS2O3tBFqeQQt5u8eaRFgCjIlMQQq8J/view?usp=sharing

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 live-stream will begin at 10:30am from Atonement Lutheran Church. We invite you to click on the image above to watch our live-stream. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FkJEJ7p7nXj92skgxRyeBHtmhcQH1Trt/view?usp=sharing