St. Thomas Lutheran Church

The Advent-Christmas Season has arrived. Celebrated in tandem, we find ourselves waiting and watching for the coming Messiah while rejoicing in the Divine One who came down from heaven to be our Lord, Immanuel. This sets the stage for our continued life in Christ who’s coming is near for God is always with us.

We hope you will join us for our Advent Mid-week series based on Michael Horton’s devotional Heaven Came Down. In it, Horton suggests, “We often look for God in the spectacular, but Advent reminds us he came in the ordinary.” He encourages us “to see the wonder of Advent: the Almighty veiled in flesh, present with his people not to terrify but to save. The God whose glory no sinner could endure came near in humility in Jesus – Emmanuel, God with us – so that we might draw near without fear.”​​​

Remembering the eternal gift of God made flesh, may your hearts and minds rejoice with gladness this most blessed Advent-Christmas Season.​​

Blessings,

Pastor Wynemah +

Martin Luther must have had similar thoughts in mind when he composed the familiar Christmas Carol “From Heaven Above.” As verse 8 reads:

“Welcome to earth, O noble Guest, through whom this sinful world is blest!

You turned not from our needs away, how can our thanks such love repay?”​

​The Rev.  Wynemah​ Hinlicky

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

… And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.” John 1: 1 & 14

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