December 5, 2021 - Advent Devotion - THE SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT
ANNOUNCEMENT: Face masks are required once again for everyone through the new year; thank you!
Today:
Sunday, December 5, 2021:
Join us for The Second In Advent
Faith Quest Meets this morning and rehearses for the Christmas Program next week
Worship this Sunday includes The Presenting Of The Greens
This Week
Tomorrow, Monday, December 6, 2021:
Veteran’s Dinner Tomorrow Night; Still time To Volunteer; Begin Arriving at 5 p.m.
Sunday, December 12, 2021:
Join us for “Get Ready, for the Real Story,” a Lord of Life children’s Christmas program!
Share this event with family and friends so they can join us in person or live stream from the broadcast on Lord of Life LIVE, right in the event page!
No more let sin and sorrow grow
Nor thorns infest the ground
He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found
Far as the curse is found
Far as far as the curse is found
“He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins . . . ”
Do you have guests coming this Christmas?
Maybe you have one of those homes where everything is always clean and everything is always in its place. To be so organized and so clean, would be an answer to a little prayer!
John The Baptist came proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
Getting ready for Christmas, getting ready for Christ, means getting things cleaned up. As we bring him all our dirt and sin, we see in grace: "No more let sin and sorrow and grow ... far as the curse is found!"
Do not be afraid to welcome Jesus into your home and heart this year! In the waters of Holy Baptism, in God's grace, in Jesus Christ; the cleaning has been done. Indeed joy has come to the world, He has come, His blessings flow, and heaven and nature sing!
Let us pray: God of grace and mercy, today I confess to you, there are things not in their proper place, and I cannot clean up my life by myself. I bring my sin and dirt to you. I long for the day sin no longer grows, for the day thorns no longer infest the ground I walk. In repentance, come and be my guest in my heart and home, wherever, and as far, as the curse is found. Clean me beyond expectation and imagination. I pray your blessings flow like never before this Advent and Christmas as I get ready for your birthday and your promised return. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
