We gather for worship on Wednesdays in Lent at 6:30pm around Holden Evening Prayer, with Prayer around the Cross and Candlelighting. Our Lenten theme for 2025 is All We Need, using resources from Barn Geese Worship. All are welcome.

Join us at Quest to discuss The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs by Bible professor Peter Enns. (HarperOne, ISBN: 978-0062272096) We will gather on Tuesday evenings for 9 weeks, beginning February 18, via Google, 6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Signup on the portable bulletin board in gathering space at church, or email kathy@ourredeemerlacrosse.org (address for meet link).

We gather for worship on Wednesdays in Lent at 6:30pm around Holden Evening Prayer, with Prayer around the Cross and Candlelighting. Our Lenten theme for 2025 is All We Need, using resources from Barn Geese Worship. All are welcome.

Join us at Quest to discuss The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs by Bible professor Peter Enns. (HarperOne, ISBN: 978-0062272096) We will gather on Tuesday evenings for 9 weeks, beginning February 18, via Google, 6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Signup on the portable bulletin board in gathering space at church, or email kathy@ourredeemerlacrosse.org (address for meet link).

We gather for worship on Wednesdays in Lent at 6:30pm around Holden Evening Prayer, with Prayer around the Cross and Candlelighting. Our Lenten theme for 2025 is All We Need, using resources from Barn Geese Worship. All are welcome.

Join us at Quest to discuss The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs by Bible professor Peter Enns. (HarperOne, ISBN: 978-0062272096) We will gather on Tuesday evenings for 9 weeks, beginning February 18, via Google, 6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Signup on the portable bulletin board in gathering space at church, or email kathy@ourredeemerlacrosse.org (address for meet link).

The Celebration of Holy Communion, with Imposition of Ashes

Friends in Christ, today with the whole church we enter the time of remembering Jesus’ passover from death to life, and our life in Christ is renewed.

We begin this holy season by acknowledging our need for repentance and for God’s mercy. We are created to experience joy in communion with God, to love one another, and to live in harmony with creation. But our sinful rebellion separates us from God, our neighbors, and creation, so that we do not enjoy the life our creator intended.

As disciples of Jesus, we are called to a discipline that contends against evil and resists whatever leads us away from love of God and neighbor. I invite you, therefore, to the discipline of Lent—self-examination and repentance, prayer and fasting, sacrificial giving and works of love—strengthened by the gifts of word and sacrament. Let us continue our journey through these forty days to the great Three Days of Jesus’ death and resurrection. (ELW, “Ash Wednesday”)

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Isaiah 58:1-12 (alternate); Psalm 51:1-17; 2 Corinthians 5:20b--6:10; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Join us at Quest to discuss The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs by Bible professor Peter Enns. (HarperOne, ISBN: 978-0062272096) We will gather on Tuesday evenings for 9 weeks, beginning February 18, via Google, 6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Signup on the portable bulletin board in gathering space at church, or email kathy@ourredeemerlacrosse.org (address for meet link).

The Transfiguration of our Lord, with the “burying of our Alleluias” for the Season of Lent

Witnesses to the glory of God in the face of Jesus reflect that glory in the world. It was true for Moses. It was doubtless true for Peter, James, and John. We pray that it will be true of all of us who see God’s glory in the word and in the supper and who are being “transformed into the same image” by God’s Spirit.

Exodus 34:29-35; Psalm 99; 2 Corinthians 3:12--4:2; Luke 9:28-36 [37-43a]

Join us at Quest to discuss The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs by Bible professor Peter Enns. (HarperOne, ISBN: 978-0062272096) We will gather on Tuesday evenings for 9 weeks, beginning February 18, via Google, 6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Signup on the portable bulletin board in gathering space at church, or email kathy@ourredeemerlacrosse.org (address for meet link).

Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany

Mercy. Mercy. Mercy. Joseph lives it in Egypt. Jesus preaches it in the gospel. The Spirit guides us into merciful lives with the power of forgiveness to reconcile what is fractured and divided. Such merciful living is the baptismal blessing of having put on Christ. It is the gift of the life-giving Spirit. It is a reflection of God’s glory revealed in Christ.

Genesis 45:3-11, 15; Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40; 1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50; Luke 6:27-38

Join us at Quest to discuss The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs by Bible professor Peter Enns. (HarperOne, ISBN: 978-0062272096) We will gather on Tuesday evenings for 9 weeks, beginning February 18, via Google, 6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Signup on the portable bulletin board in gathering space at church, or email kathy@ourredeemerlacrosse.org (address for meet link).

Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany

Blessings and curses abound on the sixth Sunday after Epiphany. We would do well to listen closely to whom the “blessed ares” and the “woe tos” are directed and to find our place in the crowd among those who desire to touch Jesus. The risen Christ stands among us in the mystery of the holy supper with an invitation to live in him, and offers power to heal us all.

Jeremiah 17:5-10; Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 15:12-20; Luke 6:17-26

Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany

The fifth Sunday after Epiphany continues to highlight unlikely instruments and circumstances appointed to reveal God’s glory. “Who will go for us?” God asks. A person of unclean lips, a former persecutor of the church of God, and three fishermen who couldn’t catch a thing. More surprising still, perhaps, is that we are also called.

Isaiah 6:1-8 [9-13]; Psalm 138; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11

Anyone interested in Quilting is invited to join our Quilting Group in the lower level Fellowship Hall.

All are welcome!

The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany

The glory of God is often revealed when and where it is least expected. God uses our lips to declare that glory, inexperienced and hesitant though they may be. God uses our love to demonstrate that glory and so urges us to exercise it. God uses Jesus of Nazareth, water and the word, bread and wine, to reveal God’s glory where and when God chooses. Take heed, lest the glory of God slip through our midst unnoticed.

Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30