The Worship Anew program is a weekly, 30-minute Lutheran broadcast worship service that includes music, scripture readings, prayers, and a unique sermon. Each program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Click here to receive our weekly worship program emailed to you on a weekly basis. To watch archived programs of Worship Anew, please visit our Vimeo page for a selection of programs.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
John 13:35
Relationships sustain us. They connect and support us. But sometimes the strength of the ties with family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and even our spiritual connection with God, becomes strained, tested, or lost. In the immediacy of our lives, witnessing misunderstanding, disappointment, betrayal, illness, and separation — through death or otherwise — can disconnect us from the perceived confidence upon which we once relied. Yet, planted in the disillusion and fear that rush in to fill the void, lies a seed of hope. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11). So, remember to fill adversarial situations with Christ’s love. Seek true beauty and joy along the sometimes rocky but blossoming path of personal connections.
Elizabeth CavanaughSouth Pasadena, CA