While our homeless and hungry neighbors are being provided with bags of staples, produce and bakery items each Saturday morning at Trinity Lutheran Lynnwood, now that the colder weather is upon us some of our neighbors are also struggling to keep warm and dry. Neighbors in Need is asking for some basic clothing necessities for […]
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Choosing to be baptized into Christ’s death and resurrection — and to reaffirm that deed and those promises — is to choose to live the life of a peacemaker, one who knows God’s reign is close at hand. It’s to choose to hunger and thirst for what is right and to mourn our collective brokenness and to be comforted and filled because it doesn’t have to be this way. It is not this way.
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Aspen Perry is a member of the Bishop’s Committee at St. Hilda St. Patrick, and is a senior in high school. She read a sermon by the Rev. Cn. Anna Sutterisch, who is the Canon for Christian Formation in the Diocese of Ohio, working with children, youth and young adults and serving as the Chaplain at Bellwether Farm Camp.
October 25th: Proper 25, the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost Read More »
Whether we’re us in the United States or the Hebrews wandering the desert processing their generational trauma and learning how to follow God God hasn’t left us and doesn’t leave us.
October 18th: Proper 24, the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Read More »
November 3, 20207 p.m. Join — via Zoom or YouTube Live — the people of St. Hilda St. Patrick as they pray for the United States during its 2020 election. The service will feature responsive prayers, readings from the Bible, poetry, and prayers for the community, elected officials, and all manner of government. Join the
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Monday, November 2, 2020, 7 p.m.Online While the New Testament refers to all of Jesus’ followers as saints, the Church through time has set aside certain people as exemplars of Christian faith. All Souls Day, or the Feast of All Faithful Departed offers a time to reflect on all who have died as they move
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In this passage about judgment Matthew emphasizes first and foremost that God’s gift of salvation is available to all. He also nudges us to remember that we should live lives worthy of our calling and of the gospel. Claiming to be a Christian isn’t going to be enough when it’s time for judgment if we’ve acted in ways that are antithetical to whatever is true, honorable, and just.
October 11th: Proper 23, the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Read More »
The sermon for Sunday, October 4, was written by the Rt. Rev. Greg Rickel, Bishop of Olympia, read by the vicar from the below manuscript. The texts for the day were for Proper 22.
October 4th: Proper 22, the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Read More »
2020 Transgender Day of Remembrance will be a YouTube Premier on Saturday, November 21, at 7 p.m. Pacific Time. Check back here for that page or visit the church’s YouTube page. We celebrate the lives of Transgender People, lost to hate, and bring together the whole community in support of LOVE, INCLUSIVENESS, DIVERSITY, and UNDERSTANDING.
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Jesus doesn’t need the last word, doesn’t need to be right. God’s love for humanity poured out in Jesus’ life and death, makes Jesus higher than the emperor. His amazing humility is how he is raised to have the name above all names. Jesus’ humility conquers death itself, opening to all of creation the newness of life. This Paul tells us today is the life we are called to live, a life worthy of the gospel he says elsewhere in the letter.
September 27th: Proper 21, the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Read More »