It isn’t always easy to make it to a service during the week. If you are one of the folks who couldn’t find the time today, take 5 minutes now to click the link below, read through the service and reflect on the scripture. What does it mean to you? Download PDF
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Devotional Materials for the Advent Season
The season of Advent begins Sunday, December 2 and includes the following three Sundays. As the culture urges us to celebrate through over-spending and over-consuming, the Church attempts to break through with the message of preparing for the birth of the Christ Child. This year we offer devotional material for individuals and families to use...
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Lutheran Class
Steve Slepecki serves as facilitator for the continuation of the study of Luther’s Small Catechism on Sundays at 10:30AM. For nearly five centuries, this Catechism has served as the basic instruction book for the Lutheran Church. Steve serves as CLC’s Minister of Visitation to our homebound, and is exploring the path toward ordained ministry.
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Adult Studies at CLC
John Curry is teaching a Bible study on the Gospel of Luke at 4:00PM on Sunday afternoon. Luke’s Gospel is the most broad-minded and the most forgiving. Every chance he gets, Luke has Jesus forgiving people, right up the good thief on the cross. Luke sees God as generous, merciful, and inclusive. Presently, John serves...
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Attention All Youth and Parents and Families of Youth!
As you know, our Youth ministry (high school age young adults) has stagnated in recent months. Our congregation’s Social Media Director, Aaron Jackson, has expressed an interest in possibly taking over the function of planning youth outings, activities and events. Aaron is a pastor’s son himself and currently studying Media and Communications at Point Park,...
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The Luther Seal
The most enduring symbol of the Lutheran Reformation is the seal that Luther himself designed to represent his theology. By the early 1520s, this seal begins to appear on the title page of Luther’s works. Here is how Luther himself explained its meaning: First, there is a black cross in a heart that remains its...
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Reformation Sunday
Reformation Sunday remembers Martin Luther’s commitment to practicing Christianity in Jesus. October 31, 1517 was the day the German monk nailed his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany, an Electorate of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire. Available data suggests that October 31 was when Luther sent his...