King of Kings Lutheran Church

 Pastor Jan will be at Italian Bakery's Mercato on Tuesday April 7th at 10:00am. If anyone would like to join him, that is where you will find him. (120 Bellerose Dr.)

 Palm Sunday - March 29 at 9:00am with Holy Communion Maundy Thursday - April 2 at 7:00pm with Holy Communion Good Friday - April 3 at 10:30am The Resurrection of our Lord Sunday - April 5th at 9:00am with Holy Communion

 On Sunday March 8 Rev. Mark Dressler, principal of St. Matthew Lutheran Christian Academy thanked the congregation for their prayers and financial donation which will be used to create more learning space for students at the academy.

 Join us for Ash Wednesday service on February 18th at 7:00pm. The service will include Holy Communion Ash Wednesday begins the 40 days of Lent. Symbolically this 40 day period, not counting Sundays, parallels Christ’s 40-day retreat into the wilderness. Rightly understood, the use of ashes at the beginning of lent is an ancient and meaningful tradition, with roots going back to Bible times. Even Christ refers to ashes (Matthew 11:21 ). Until about the year 100 the wearing of sackcloth and ashes was a sign of repentance for a gross and public sin – a murder, or unfaithfulness, or armed robbery.   Lent was the time when those who were guilty of public and serious sin publicly repented. This ceremony was even more austere than the one for the catechumens.   Wearing coarse clothing, going barefoot, fasting, living in confinement (in a monastery or cave), the penitents, one by one, were led into the church, sprinkled with holy water, and touched with ashes. Then they read...

 Congregational Meeting - Sunday February 1st following worship.

  I always imagined dying a faithful death for Christ would mean burning at the stake. Now, I suspect it will mean dying in my bed of natural causes. The assisted dying movement gained momentum recently when the New York State Assembly and the UK House of Commons both passed laws paving the way for patients to die with the help of the medical community. Pending final approval, they will join nations such as Canada, The Netherlands, most of Australia, Spain, and Switzerland, as well as twelve U.S. jurisdictions. The push to legalize what is often termed “Medical Assistance in Dying” is a major sign of what philosopher Philip Rieff called “the triumph of the therapeutic”: the belief that for everything there must be a therapy, a remedy, a provision of comfort. Not only every aspect of our lives, but now even our deaths must be therapized. It is also significant that assisted dying has gained acceptance in countries where individual choice and freedom of action are valued the highest....