Season after Pentecost - A Time for Contemplative Action
Compassion and Justice for All God has Made

September 20, 2020
"Lutherans Restoring Creation"

September 13, 2020
"Forgiveness"

September 6, 2020
"Owe no one anything, but to love one another."

Sunday, August 30, 2020
​"Who is the Messiah?"

Season after Pentecost - A Time of
Growth and Contemplation

​July 12 - August 23, 2020

In this six-week worship series, adapted from the Worship Design Studio,
​we will dwell with the God of Divine Goodness, deeply in love with us, and practice ways to return that love as we fall more deeply in love with creation and with one another.
One thing I ask of you, [Divine Goodness],
one thing I seek:
that I may dwell in your house all the days of my life,
​to gaze on your beauty
and to meditate in your Temple.
- Psalm 27:4 (Inclusive Bible)
In preparation for this worship series, take a look at the resources below.  The At Home Preparation document outlines suggestions for setting aside space for worship, creating items to support your senses, and offers weekly reflection activities for all ages to do during the week.

​Follow the Nurturing Faith Resources button for additional resources to cultivate a life of contemplation and compassion for all ages.  This is where you will find the links to interviews with Wendy Farley that go more deeply into the themes raised in worship.  Wendy Farley is a professor of spirituality and her book (the title of this worship series) will be available this Fall.

"From Beauty to Compassion and Justice"
Week 6
​August 23, 2020

"The Beauty of a World Without a Why"
Week 5
August 16, 2020

Wednesday Evening Prayer
​August 12, 2020

"Abyss, Mystery, and Wonder"
Week 4
August 9, 2020 

August 2, 2020 @ 11:00 a.m.

This Sunday, we are invited to join with the larger church in worship, live.  An email with the Zoom invite will arrive by August 1.  If you do not receive it, contact Pastor Lori at flcpastorlori@icloud.com.  Note the change of time.  FLC fellowship will happen on Zoom at 10:00 a.m., then we will shift to join our sister synod in Tanzania for prayer and worship at 11:00 a.m. PDT.  If you do not have access to Zoom, use the morning prayer service to guide your worship this morning as you lift up the ministries we share as a synod and with the UKD.
​"Awakening to Beauty, Falling in Love with the World"
​Week 3​
July 26, 2020​

"You Are Made for the Beloved"
​Week 2

July 19, 2020

"Beauty, Contemplation, and Radical Compassion" 
Week 1
​July 12, 2020

Holy Hilarity Sunday - July 5, 2020

Martin Luther’s thermometer for detecting the health of your faith, was by the measure of laughter.  Or as he put it, “You have as much laughter as you have faith.”
So, in celebration of our freedom in Christ and as a means of strengthening our faith, we join a long-held festival of the church: Holy Hilarity Sunday (usually celebrated the Sunday after Easter).  “The custom was rooted in the musings of early church theologians (like Augustine) that God played a practical joke on the devil by raising Jesus from the dead.”
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May this service renew you, so you may continue to answer the call to meet the needs of the world with hope and compassion.

Online Worship Services: March 22 - June 28, 2020