St. Luke Lutheran Church, Fellowship Committee will host yard sale Saturday, October 12th at 9:00 am to 1:00 pm at 1200 Old Rixeyville Rd., Culpeper. Items for sale have been donated by the congregation. Park in lower parking lot, yard sale will be outside on basketball court. In case of rain, yard sale will be in the Fellowship Hall.
For 25 years, the ELCA has been a church deeply rooted in faith and in sharing its passion for making positive changes in the world.
To celebrate our anniversary and our church’s commitment to sharing God’s love with our neighbors, our congregation is taking part in a dedicated day of service on September 8 known as “God’s work. Our hands.” Sunday.
9am– Christian Education and Sunday School Classes for all ages
10am– Worship
11:15am– Community Meal in the Social Hall
12 noon– Pick a Service Project:
Email pastorkatecosta@gmail.com or sign up at church to RSVP and join in the good work!
But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.
What a challenge this week’s gospel gives us! To invite the outcasts- the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind to dinner. Outcasts. Strangers. Into our very homes. To have a meal with us, in our house, our private space. What a radical message Jesus has for us this week!
What does it look like to invite the kingdom of God into your home? Who are those outcasts in our society today? How do we invite them?
Sermon for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, Pastor Kate Costa
I heard this week that we have a team of golfers who will be going to play in a benefit tournament for Caroline Furnace Lutheran Camp. So, in their honor I have a golf joke for you this morning.
So begins the most well-known prayer on the planet. Many of us can recite it from memory. And yet, we often do so without thinking much about the prayer itself.
Martin Luther suggested we combat this tendency by praying it line by line, stopping at each phrase to consider how those particular words might apply for us in our own context.
For instance in the Small Catechism, Luther writes on the petition for daily bread:
What then does “daily bread” mean?
Everything included in the necessities and nourishment for our bodies, such as food, drink, clothing, shoes, house, farm, fields, livestock, money, property, an upright spouse, upright children, upright members of the household, upright and faithful rulers, good government, good weather, peace, health, decency, honor, good friends, faithful neighbors, and the like.
Readings for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost:
Genesis 18:20-32 and Psalm 138 , Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19) , Luke 11:1-13
On Friday, July 5 at 7:00 PM the Performing Arts Camp from Caroline Furnace Lutheran Camp will be presenting Revved Up and Ready to Go, a fast-paced musical that challenges us to get our hearts ready for the race of our lives. This car-racing theme helps us tune up our hearts through love, prayer, forgiveness and praise.
Join us in the Social Hall of St. Luke Lutheran Church for a great evening of fun!
The Upper Room was dedicated in memory of Mrs. Evelyn Estes, our longtime member and organist. The former reception office for the school, the room has been given new carpet, paint, furniture and curtains. It also has beautiful crown molding- a special feat of engineering by Les Davis due to its odd shape. It has a handsome solid wood cross created by David Brown, her son-in-law, on one wall and a print of Jesus at the crucifixion on the other. This room will be used for families to gather for special functions such as baptisms, weddings, funerals and for prayer throughout the year. We thank her daughters, Arline, Rae and Kyle, for the love they have poured into this room.
The Youth Group, with the help of the parents, held a delicious picnic following the worship service. The pulled pork BBQ was donated by Shawn’s Smokehouse and the chicken was donated by The Culpeper Cattle Company. The free will offering collected will help pay expenses for Synod Assembly and other youth trips. Due to chilly weather we held our picnic in the Fellowship Hall and still were able to enjoy an indoor game of corn hole.
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