Well before Christmas 2016, someone well known and loved here at Resurrection wanted to do something special for Strength for the Journey. She took it upon herself to send out her own handmade costumes so these impoverished children and families in the Dominican Republic could re-enact the nativity. Sending them out in plenty of time, it was still a nail-biting, down-to-the-wire experience waiting to hear if/when they received these boxes. Fortunately, they DID receive them by December 19th. Not too late for Lindsay Kaufman, a retired school teacher moved from Ohio to the Dominican Republic, to take on the challenge of preparing for this task! Strength for the Journey is an organization of dedicated volunteers; dedicated to helping kids that find themselves in absolute poverty with little likelihood of overcoming their situation.

As you can see, we’ve made a lot of changes to make things more streamlined for ease of use and hopefully, you’ll agree, more appealing to the eye! Everything you need will be right at your fingertips. Calendar of events, descriptions of what we offer, visual and audio sermons, as well as bringing back our “Resurrection Reflection” in a more modern format! We hope you will check back on a regular basis to see what we have going on. More importantly, we hope to see you for a service or two soon!

 

 

“BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD”

      

Text – PSALM 23:4 and JOHN 1:29—34

GRACE BE UNTO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER AND FROM OUR CRUCIFIED AND RISEN LORD AND LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD AND THEIR POWER.

Last Sunday, we confessed with the Psalmist David, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for Thou art with me.  Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.” Of course, our ultimate enemy in our

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GRACE BE UNTO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER AND FROM OUR LORD AND SAVIOR – JESUS THE CHRIST.

Several weeks ago, we looked at the dawn of our faith in Christ as we were called out of our common sheepfold world through Holy Baptism and fell into step behind Jesus with a cadence of life which proclaims “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” In the weeks since, we have seen physical and emotional hunger, thirsts, and fatigue taken care of by The Shepherd Who: “makes us lie down in green pastures and leads us beside still waters” and Who “restores our soul and leads us in paths of Righteousness for His Name’s Sake.”

Our text today has the feel of late afternoon – almost evening. The hot sun is

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“THE SHEPHERD WHO RESTORES OUR SOULS AND LEADS US IN PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS”

 

Text – PSALM 23:3

 

GRACE BE UNTO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER AND FROM OUR CRUCIFIED AND RISEN DIVINE SHEPHERD – JESUS CHRIST. 

 

The past two weeks, we have thought of how many human wolves in shepherd’s clothing beckon us to follow them - pagan agendas, idolatrous religions like Islam, fallacious political correctness, the basest of human desires and temptations, addiction, greed, loss of purpose, loss of identity as members of our Divine Shepherd’s human flock. In the media, in the halls of higher education, in political arenas, even in the church itself – they all beckon

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