Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

This is a special musical performance of Lamb of God, What Wondrous Love (Faure, arr. Petker) with the Faith Lutheran Chancel Choir and members of Okemos Presbyterian Church choir. 

This is a special sermon from Pastor Alice Townley from Okemos Presbyterian Church as we celebrate Ash Wednesday. 

This is a special musical performance of Polonaise by Bach by the Flutes of Faith of Faith Lutheran Church of Okemos, Michigan.

This is a special musical performance of I Love To Tell The Story by the Flues of Faith of Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan.

This is a special musical performance of We Will Glorify by Schrader from the Chancel Choir of Faith Lutheran Church of Okemos, Michigan.

This is a special musical performance from the Joyful Noise Childrens' Choir of Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan

This is a special musical performance of Just As I Am, Without One Plea by Barry and Van Valey and performed by the Joyful Noise Childrens' Choir and with Gwynne Kadrofske on Flute.

Last Tuesday at our noon Bible Study, when we were talking about this gospel reading, Elaine Harrison mentioned that the “dazzling white” description of Jesus’ clothing stuck out as we read today’s passage.   These words made her think of the multiple Tide Ad commercials shown during the Super Bowl last Sunday.  The ads were quite funny as each showed brilliant white clothing which supposedly had been washed in Tide.  While this was very humorous, and we had a good laugh because of it, I think there is a connection to what is really happening in this passage.   You see, the gospel writer is telling a story that says something about the dazzling light of God’s presence shining through to us and around us as we daily live our lives.  It is a light we often do not see as we go about the ordinariness of daily life. When we look at all that is happening in the world around us, I have a feeling many of us tend to ask, “Where is God in all of this?”  We live in a culture in which we think God is out there somewhere.

This is a special musical performance of They Shall Soar Like Eagles by the Chancel Choir at Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan.

This is a special musical performance of Morceau Symphonique a Baritone solo with Sam Kadrofske and accompanied by Kathy Richardson.

Shalom!  Shalom is the Hebrew word for peace.  Shalom is used as a word of greeting and farewell.  Shalom is not only about peace, it is about a healing wholeness, completeness and well-being.  The peace of shalom is not limited to the political domain and it is not a peace that is just about the absence of war.  It is not limited to the social domain and is not only about the absence of quarrel and strife.  Shalom is about a peace that covers many contexts and includes this cosmic principle – the manifestation of divine grace.  Shalom is the blessing of well-being and wholeness God desires for all people.  Shalom is all about God’s dream for this broken world.  As I have been thinking not only upon the experience of our mission trip, but also current events in our present culture and all that is happening around the world, I am again reminded of how desperately this world needs to hear of God’s healing grace, God’s healing love, God’s healing peace, and God’s healing message of shalom.  Healing was a major f

This is special music, The First Song of Isaiah by Jack Noble White performed by the Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos Michigan's Chancel Choir.

This is a special musical performance of I Am For You by the Chancel Choir of Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan

Come and hear the sermon that was shared by Pastor Darrel Neeves this morning at Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan

This is a special musical presentation of Come to the Banquet by the Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan's Chancel Choir.

Come and hear the words of John in this powerful sermon presented by Darrell Neeves and inspired by the Bible passages from John 1: 43-51.

Today, we hear the beginning verses of Mark’s gospel as the gospel writer presents his version of the Jesus story.   And, in this gospel, we do not hear stories about shepherds and angels, about wise men and a stable, or even a word about Mary and Joseph as we do in Luke’s gospel.  There is no listing of ancestors and a birth story as we find in Matthew.  And, there is no cosmic, out of this world beginning as we read in the Gospel of John.  Mark’s version of the Jesus story is very stark, far more ordinary and rather abrupt as it begins at the river when God breaks into this broken world through the person of Jesus.   “In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.”  Mark’s telling of the Jesus story begins as Jesus enters the river with others to be washed in the baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.  This gospel begins with Jesus’ baptism.  It begins with Jesus entering the historic waters of the Jordan River and doing so in solidarity with sinners, a

This is a special musical trombone performance of Silent Night by Drew Kipela at Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan

This is a special musical trumpet performance by Walter Cano at Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan

This is a special musical performance of This Little Babe by the Faith Lutheran Church Chancel Choir