What Are You Waiting For?

Sunday, February 9th, 2020 This year, Jazz @ Emmanuel brings you music and meditations related to Decisions — as only Jazz @ Emmanuel can. September 8.     Edge of the Water October 13.         Ebb and Flow November 10.   Tumultuous Times December 8.      Being Human / Stepping Back January 12.        Reborn…

Reborn

Sunday, January 12th, 5:00 pm Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, that person is a new creation. The old has gone, the new is here! ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17  For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ~1 Peter 1:23 THE GOOD NEWS is…

Why I Come to the Communion Table

  I come, not because I am worthy, but because I have sinned and fallen short of what, by God’s help, I might have been. I come, not that there is any magic in partaking of the symbols of Christ’s body and blood, but because the Lord’s Supper is a memorial to Him and a…

Santa Baby or Baby Jesus?

Don started off his sermon today, the Sunday before Christmas, with a few of the words from a popular, secular Christmas song, “Santa Baby.”  It is pretty tongue in cheek, but it does get right to the American heart of making a Christmas list of wishes that defy gravity. Contrast that, Don suggests, with another…

Being Human – Stepping Back

Jazz — Sunday, December 8 @ 5:00 pm “Being Human/Stepping Back” …though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,   but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. Philippians 2:6-7 And He withdrew about a stone’s…

Christ the King Sunday

Christ the King Sunday culminates our church calendar year. Don explained that we start the year with Advent celebrating his coming as King and end the year celebrating his forever reign as King. Some of us may have a hard time thinking of Jesus as our King since we don’t live under a king’s rule…

Seminarian Joins Emmanuel Family

Welcome, Will Robbins! I Have a Call, No I Don’t, Yes I Do? From age 5 or 6 William Anthony Robbins, whose name has the unfortunate, but sweet association with a Disney tale or a late comedian, told people he wanted to be a minister when he grew up. “I grew up in a church…

Tumultuous Times

Sunday, Nov. 10 @ 5:00 pm “Tumultuous Times”To whom or what do you turn in tumultuous times? This year, Jazz @ Emmanuel brings you music and meditations related to Decisions — as only Jazz @ Emmanuel can. September 8.    Edge of the Water October 13.   Ebb and Flow November 10.   Tumultuous Times December 8.   Being Human…

Last Week for Harvest Giving

Sunday, November 10th after Jazz is the last opportunity to donate to Harvest Giving! Donations will be taken to the food pantry at Northside Common Ministries In Thanksgiving for Abundant Blessing Place items in the box near the church entrance. Please make sure all donations are non-perishable items. Thank you! Harvest Giving Chair: Patty Veal-Cislon…

Daylight Saving Ends This Weekend

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is ending This Weekend.  Saturday, November 2nd, the sun will come up at 7:51 am and when 6:14 pm comes, it will go down. BUT, Sunday morning, November 3rd, it will come up at 6:51 and go down at 5:13 pm. Remember to set your clocks BACK one hour this Saturday…