Welcome! Thank you for joining us for worship today. In our services we gather before our almighty God to receive his gifts and to offer him our worship and praise. Through God’s powerful Word and Sacraments he renews our faith and strengthens us to serve in joy.

There are two different types of followership in the Church: the half-hearted and the committed. Jesus is uninterested in followers who pay attention to his Word but only when their other pursuits provide the time. Jesus wants followers who love him above all things, who would be willing to leave everything else behind if necessary to be with him. We don’t have it inside us to produce that level of commitment, but in the gospel we see how Jesus committed that much and more for our salvation. As we witness the way Jesus made our eternal blessing the focus of his undivided attention, the Spirit creates within us the very commitment that Christ seeks.