The WORSHIP SERVICE WITH HOLY COMMUNION Worship begins at 10:30 am.
Our service includes great music accompanied by our original Furst Pipe Organ.
Most people use the rear entrance off the parking lot for convenience. Christ Lutheran Church is Handicap Accessible with an elevator to all floors from the parking lot entrance, ADA restrooms on all floors, and Telex Assisted Listening Devices available upon request. The sanctuary is warm in the winter and air conditioned in the summer months for your comfort. Click the 'Contact Us' tab for directions to CLC.
The First Lesson for June 29, 2025, is found in Isaiah 65: 1 - 9, Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Sunday is found in Acts 12: 1 -11 The Second Lesson for June 29, 2025, Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Sunday is found in II Timothy 4: 6 - 8, 17 - 18 The Psalm for June 29, 2025, Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Sunday is found in Psalm 87: 1 - 2, 4 - 6 The Gospel for June 22, 2025, Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Sundayis found in John 21: 15 - 19
Today’s Meditation in Preparation for Worship We have no good apart from God. That makes Jesus’ call to follow him an invitation to freedom. This is freedom to revel in the Spirit’s fruit: love, joy, peace, and patience. This is freedom to not be imprisoned by anything that would keep us from the fullness of the life God has given us. This is the path of life.
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE GOSPEL With this passage Luke begins to narrate Jesus’ last journey to Jerusalem, where he will be “taken up,” that is, arrested, crucified, risen, and ascended. This travel narrative is unique to Luke and important to the gospel’s structure and meaning. Luke opens this second-third of his gospel with the rejections of some Samaritans. By Jesus’ time, Samaritans were primarily Gentile peoples descended from those who had not been deported, who had replaced the exiled Jews, and thus who had become alienated from full-blooded Jews. Luke’s Semitic phrase “set his face” connotes turning towards hostility. In Luke, Jesus refuses to punish the unbelievers with fire. Luke’s openness to people in poverty is enhanced by the depiction of Jesus as himself homeless. Indeed, the gospels say nothing about Jesus working for a living. A wide range of interpretations have been offered for Jesus’ stark comment “let the dead bury their dead”: Luke means spiritual death; “bury my father” meant to live at home until one’s father died; not even one’s parent’s funeral should interfere with the call to proclaim the kingdom.
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Our Church Organ Church Organ—A Brief History Originally a Moller Organ and a Bar Chest organ, (the part that the pipes sit on) it was probably built in the late teens-early 1920’s. The actual workings of the organ were composed of small leather pneumatic pouches located in bars, low voltage DC chest magnets, relays, and other electrical parts. After removed from its original location by Fred Furst (we don’t know where it came from originally), it was rebuilt and installed in CLC by Furst Church Organs, York, PA in the 1940’s. The existing console (the keyboard that Virginia sits in front of) was built by Furst Church Organs for this installation and is not the original Moller console. In 1997, Taylor Miller Organ Company in York PA did a major rebuild of the instrument. The Furst console was rebuilt using new solid state technology. New wind chests were installed that are electric action and a new rank of “Trumpets” was added, as well as other updates like new Chimes and Chime Action and a new organ blower. An interesting fact is that during the war years organ parts were hard to come by so Fred Furst would use low voltage relays and other parts made by Lionel Train Company for some console relays.
Please come visit with us and let the elegant sound of this beautiful instrument fill your soul and enhance your worship