King of Kings Lutheran Church

 Worship time moves to 9:00am starting December 31

  To everyone who works this Christmas: THANK YOU. It is Saturday December 23, 2023. Early morning and I’m in my study with a coffee and advent/Christmas songs playing in the background. I ponder. To all the pastors serving and retired. Thank you. I fondly recall this time of year growing up with the church being an integral and central part of my life.   I always remember my mother having worked her last night shift before going back a few days later. She got home on the morning of December 24 and didn’t sleep. She got busy taking care of all the cooking for our family and friends coming over for our traditional no meat Christmas Eve dinner. But in the background, she was juggling all the smells of turkey, dressing, meatballs, gravy, vegetables, that creamy mashed potato all waiting to make their appearance on Christmas Day. My father would come home by four o clock (having set the table with all the fine crystal and chinaware the night before). Guests would be there for five

  December 24 - 9:30am - Fourth Sunday in Advent - Divine Service with Holy Communion December 24 - 7:00pm The Nativity of our Lord - Christmas Eve Candlelight Service December 25 - 10:30am The Nativity of our Lord - Divine Service with Holy Communion SERVICE TIME CHANGE BEGINNING DECEMBER 31 - Sunday worship moves to 9:00am starting December 31 Don't forget to check out the other pages on this blog.

  Amy Mantravadi asks if we should forgive others even if they are not repentant. Devotional Thought link

 A reminder this Thursday at 7:00pm is our Longest Night of the Year service! Invite family and friends including those you know who are having a blue Christmas this year. After service we will gather for some light refreshments!

 Our shut-ins have been enjoying their gifts from our Sunday School Children! You can see their joy in the photos TAB.

  We would like to enhance our sanctuary and nave area with the Christmas flower once again this year! You can bring a Poinsettia to church on December 24.

  December 24 - 9:30am Divine Service 4th Sunday in Advent/Christmas Vigil - with Holy Communion December 24  - 7:00pm   The Nativity of our Lord: Christmas Eve Candlelight Service December 25 - 10:30am The Nativity of our Lord: Christmas Morning Divine Service with Holy Communion

  The holiday season is hard for some of us. You are not alone. Join us for a different kind of service: of loss of comfort of healing Every year, there are some among us who, for one reason or another, simply cannot enter into the joy of the Christmas season. It could be many things: mourning someone who has died or who may die soon, coping with the aftermath of divorce, job loss, sickness—any of the different unfortunate and tragic circumstances the life sometimes serves up. Christmas parties and caroling are the last things some of us want. The Longest Night Service (or it sometimes called The Blue Christmas Service) is a way to acknowledge this reality, while still recognizing that part of the reason for Jesus' coming was to bring hope and comfort, to heal the sick, to seek the lost, to restore the broken and broken-hearted. We are offering a quiet, meditative worship service that makes time for remembering, sharing our hurting places with God, and preparing our hearts for the

  Every morning, the sun rises, alarm clocks sound, foggy eyes open, and then, at some point, we get dressed. Socks, underwear, pants, shirts, and shoes: we don clothing that rightly corresponds to our vocations, our culture, and even the weather outside. Our clothing serves as the marker that sets us apart as a species and as an indicator of societal and individual values and traits. As Mark Twain once said, “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” Twain may have been right on that first part, but his statement excludes the first naked people in history, Adam and Eve. And we would argue these two have had quite the influence on who we are and where we are going due to both their lack of clothes as well as their eventual attire. And so it follows that clothing in the Bible is more than a tangential detail. In fact, clothing often has significant implications for revealing God’s plan of redemption, for our Creator is also the first tailor, seamstress,