Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song and Praise

This is a special musical performance of Run, Mary Run by the Faith Lutheran Chancel Choir.

Yes, there is always an Emmaus.  Christ joins himself to us as we are traveling on the way and we, too, begin to feel our hearts burning within us.  Opening our hearts and our minds to God’s presence, we then can live out in our time what he lived and died to prove.  As we share the broken bread, it nurses our broken faith and nourishes our courage to leave our grave-clothes behind and vacate the vault of our defeated and broken dreams.  Renewed by the resurrected Christ, we respond by moving from where we are to meet the world head on, ready to face the risk and change that God’s presence allows.  As our hearts burn within us, this burning becomes a light that empowers us to reveal God’s love to others, continuing God’s ministry through our acts of compassion and mercy, welcoming and caring for all others, and living into God’s dream of justice for this broken world. 

Yes, there is always an Emmaus.  Christ joins himself to us as we are traveling on the way and we, too, begin to feel our hearts burning within us.  Opening our hearts and our minds to God’s presence, we then can live out in our time what he lived and died to prove.  As we share the broken bread, it nurses our broken faith and nourishes our courage to leave our grave-clothes behind and vacate the vault of our defeated and broken dreams.  Renewed by the resurrected Christ, we respond by moving from where we are to meet the world head on, ready to face the risk and change that God’s presence allows.  As our hearts burn within us, this burning becomes a light that empowers us to reveal God’s love to others, continuing God’s ministry through our acts of compassion and mercy, welcoming and caring for all others, and living into God’s dream of justice for this broken world. 

This is a special musical performance of I am sending you by Mary McDonald performed by the Chancel Choir at Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan.  

This is a special musical performance of I am sending you by Mary McDonald performed by the Chancel Choir at Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan.  

Earth Day Sunday is a day to celebrate God's creation. When God created the world, God blessed it and called it very good.  In today's gospel, Jesus reveals himself to Thomas.  God is continually revealing God's self to us.  As we celebrate the Creation God has given us, we find God is revealed through the beauty, power, abundance, and mystery of the natural world.  Through wind and flame, water and wilderness, creatures and seasons, God is continually present and active in the world.  So, on this Earth Day Sunday, we, a community of people who believe that all of Creation praises the Creator, commit ourselves to become more deeply involved in Creation care as an integral part of our faith and love for God and neighbor. For the human family, our home is the Earth, the environment that God the Creator has given us to inhabit with creativity and responsibility.

Earth Day Sunday is a day to celebrate God's creation. When God created the world, God blessed it and called it very good.  In today's gospel, Jesus reveals himself to Thomas.  God is continually revealing God's self to us.  As we celebrate the Creation God has given us, we find God is revealed through the beauty, power, abundance, and mystery of the natural world.  Through wind and flame, water and wilderness, creatures and seasons, God is continually present and active in the world.  So, on this Earth Day Sunday, we, a community of people who believe that all of Creation praises the Creator, commit ourselves to become more deeply involved in Creation care as an integral part of our faith and love for God and neighbor. For the human family, our home is the Earth, the environment that God the Creator has given us to inhabit with creativity and responsibility.

This is a special performance by the Faith Lutheran Chancel Choir of the Easter Echo Carol with brass quartet members: Sho Dembinski, Shannon Sheldrick on Trumpet and Drew Kilpela and Kyle Tilstra on Trombone.

This is a special performance by the Faith Lutheran Chancel Choir of the Easter Echo Carol with brass quartet members: Sho Dembinski, Shannon Sheldrick on Trumpet and Drew Kilpela and Kyle Tilstra on Trombone.

The Service of Tenebrae has a rich tradition in the church dating back to the eight century. Tenebrae is a word derived from Latin meaning "darkness." Through word and music, this service dramatizes the suffering, death, and burial of Jesus Christ. 

As the service moves from light into darkness, the diminishing light symbolizes the fading devotion of the apostles as well as the gradual dying of our Lord.