Holy Week

Its great to see the children walking into the church waving their palm branches and singing hosanna!  Our King has come and this week of the passion we celebrate the victory over sin and death.  The Messiah make his way to the cross.  John 12:15 "Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!  Christ's entrance into Jerusalem was a sign of a King but not one coming to conquer but one who is coming to bring peace to his people!  And he does that for each of us He brings us peace by taking away our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.  What a joyous time for us knowing that he makes us holy and so that is what we are! 

Prayer

 Prayer is such an important part of the Christian life.   Jesus told us to pray often, the Holy Spirit prays for us and intercedes for us.  Its our way of speaking to God.  So as we approach Lent we are going to be going through a Bible study call "Prayer We Speak to God".  Its by John Kleinig who is the author of "Grace upon Grace".  We as a church having been praying for God's guidance as we are working on how we move Christ Lutheran forward in ministry here in Breckenridge.  Its one of the blessing and gifts that God gives us in that we can talk to him, and he promises to listen.  So as we journey through Lent together I hope you can join us on Sunday mornings as we learn more about talking to God.

Happy New Year!

Greetings in Christ,
2012 is a new year of hope and joy for us who trust in the mighty Savior born to us to redeem us from all our sins.  As we move through each day that God blesses us with we begin to ask how can we be more effective this year.  How can we reach the lost with the hope of the Gospel.  How will God use us to bring his kingdom forward.  Christ Lutheran has been working through a series of workshops that we hope will provide a guideline for changes in our ministry that we hope will have a greater impact on our community and our world for the sake of Christ. 
We have studied a book called "they like Jesus but not the church" Through a series of lectures we have tried to understand people who were not raised in the church, who probably don't even know a Christian personally.  How we can do things that put people off with out even knowing it.  We have made some small changes to help us be able to speak to people from different walks of life to begin a conversation and allow us to share the hope that gives us the reason to celebrate the year a head and the life we have in Christ.  I hope that God continues to challenge me and all of us to find new ways to love our neighbor in the year 2012.  As Christ Lutheran moves through this year as we ask questions and look at our values, may we be lead by God's gracious hands to live for him and call others to know him. 

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving eve service will be held on Wednesday night at 7 PM
We are collecting canned food items to take to FIRC in Summit county to help feed the needy in our community.  Please place food items in the basket in the narthex.

Bible Class and Sunday School

There are many changes that are going on around church these days and we want to invite you to our Sunday morning Adult Bible class and Sunday school.  We meet at 9:15am and hope you can join us.

Please Join us for a great Vacation Bible school adventure in the BIG JUNGLE. We meet at Christ Lutheran Church near Farmers Korner from 9 am to Noon July 20,21,22. We want to invite all the children you know ages 4 to 12.

He is Risen! Alleluia!

Christ has risen! What a beautiful thing. God has brought new life into the world by the death of him most beloved Son. His perfect Son who lived a holy righteous life that we could not live and he calls us to remember his works in our lives. He gives us eternal life by faith in his name. By trusting in the promises God makes to us not in the broken promises we fail to keep for him. So remember he died FOR YOU to take away your sins. And now as we celebrate his rising from the dead we know that death has no claim on those who live in Christ Jesus.

Pastor C