Our mission is:
"To reach all people with the message of forgiveness and eternal life through Jesus Christ, and serve one another in Christian Love"
in Grande Prairie and surrounding areas.
"To reach all people with the message of forgiveness and eternal life through Jesus Christ, and serve one another in Christian Love"
in Grande Prairie and surrounding areas.
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Sunday's Sermon: "Saints Alive!" Revelation 7:13–17
Dear friends in Christ.
Today we observe All Saints Day. What’s All Saint’s day anyways? And what do we Lutheran Christians do with All Saints’ Day? How should we celebrate it? In earlier days, the Church emphasized the bold witness of the martyrs, those who gave their lives because they were followers of Jesus Christ. Today, the Church emphasizes all saints—those who celebrate life eternal in God’s presence in heaven and the followers of Jesus Christ on earth. So what do we do with All Saints’ Day? Surely, it’s a day to remember with gratitude the lives of those who have gone before us in the faith. Surely, it’s a day to share the loss of those whose loved ones have passed away and are now, in the words from the reading of Revelations chapter seven, “… they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat…” And no, when people die, they don’t turn into angels. Many times, we hear somebody or read a comment about somebody’s passing that heaven has won a new angel now. No we wouldn’t turn into angels, the Bible tells us something else... (Continue) |
