St. John's Lutheran Church, Greenpoint, NY
We are a Jesus loving, neighbor serving community of faith.
Sunday Service | 15th Sunday after Pentecost | Year B | September 1, 2024
Jesus protests against human customs being given the weight of divine law, while the essence of God’s law is ignored. True uncleanness comes not from external things, but from the intentions of the human heart. Last week Jesus told us “the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life” (John6:63). Now James says God has given us birth by the word of truth. We who were washed in the word when we were born in the font return to it every Sunday to ask God to create in us clean hearts.
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Sunday Service | 14th Sunday after Pentecost | Year B | August 25, 2024
In today’s gospel many people take offense at Jesus’ invitation to eat his flesh and drink his blood; even many of Jesus’ disciples peel off. This is the backdrop in John’s gospel for Peter’s confession of faith. “To whom can we go?” asks Peter, in words we sometimes sing just before the gospel is read. “You have the words of eternal life.” In order to take such a stand, as Peter and Joshua did, Paul tells us to arm ourselves with the word of God. We pray in the Spirit that we might be bold ambassadors of the gospel.
Sunday Service | 13th Sunday after Pentecost | Year B | August 18, 2024
Wisdom prepares a feast, sets her table, and invites all to come and eat her bread and drink her wine. The first chapter of John’s gospel owes much to the biblical tradition that imagined Wisdom as existing before anything was created and having a role in the work of creation. Christ, the wisdom of God (1 Cor. 1:24), today invites us to eat his flesh and drink his blood. John’s gospel includes no account of the institution of the Lord’s supper, but here we can't help hearing Jesus’ words as an invitation to the meal of bread and wine we share.
Sunday Service | 12th Sunday after Pentecost | Year B | August 11, 2024
Jesus says that the bread he gives for the life of the world is his flesh, and whoever eats this bread has eternal life now and will be raised on the last day. In Ephesians Paul tells us what this life Jesus gives us looks like, this life we live as those marked with the seal of the Holy Spirit in baptism. We live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us. The whole purpose of life is giving yourself for the other.
This is the church, always reforming.
Here's a few shots of the progress of the work at St. John's from what it looked like on June 30th until this morning.
Yall, Adena Abik and I got to visit our rock star Ruth C. Haupert-Lengemann today after church
Sunday Service | 11th Sunday after Pentecost | Year B | August 4, 2024
Apparently not satisfied by Jesus’ feeding of thousands, some who were there press him for a sign of his power; perhaps it is daily manna they want. As always in John’s gospel when people want a sign, Jesus offers himself. He is the bread come from heaven to give life to the world. He calls us to come to him and believe in him, and through that relationship to know the one who sent him.
Sunday Service | 10th Sunday after Pentecost | Year B | July 28, 2024
Today is the first of five Sundays with gospel readings from John 6, the first four of which focus on Jesus as bread of life. Today Jesus feeds thousands of people with five loaves and two fish. What we have, what we bring to Jesus’ table, seems like it is not nearly enough to meet all the needs we see around us. But it is not the adequacy of our supplies or our skills that finally makes the difference: it is the power of Jesus working in the littlest and least to transform this world into the world God desires, a world where all the hungry are satisfied.
Sunday Service | 9th Sunday after Pentecost | Year B | July 21, 2024
Mark’s gospel makes clear how great is the press of the crowd, with its countless needs to be met, on Jesus and his disciples. Yet in today’s gospel Jesus advises his disciples to get away and rest, to take care of themselves. Sometimes we think that when others are in great need we shouldn’t think of ourselves at all; but Jesus also honors the caregivers’ need. We are sent from Christ’s table to care for others and for ourselves.
Sunday Service | 8th Sunday after Pentecost | Year B | July 14, 2024
When Amos reports his vision of God judging Israel for its mistreatment of the poor, he becomes a threat to the power of the priests and the king. John the Baptist also speaks truth to power, and Herod has him killed. In Herod’s fear that Jesus is John returned from the dead, we may hear hope for the oppressed: all the prophets killed through the ages are alive in Jesus. We are called to witness to justice in company with them, and to proclaim God’s saving love.
Hi Yall! We are in week 2 of SINNERS REPAINT!!!!
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Sunday Service | 7th Sunday after Pentecost | Year B | July 7, 2024
Jesus does great deeds of power and gives his disciples authority over demons. Yet none of this power is unilateral; it all must be received by faith. Jesus asks his disciples to go out without money or supplies, so that they will be dependent on how others receive them. When we are sent from the assembly to witness and to heal, we are asked to be vulnerable, to be dependent on the reception of others. The Spirit always operates in the “between”: between Jesus and his Abba, between Jesus and us, between you and me, between us and those to whom we are sent.
📣 SUNDAY SERVICE UPDATE 📣 Please note our updated location and time for Sunday worship while our church is being repainted.
So much happened at St. John's today! We received Genevieve and Claire as members!
Sunday Service | 6th Sunday after Pentecost | Year B | June 30, 2024
A woman finds healing by touching Jesus’ cloak, and a girl is restored to life when he takes her by the hand. In both cases a boundary is crossed: in Jesus’ time the hemorrhaging woman was considered ritually unclean, polluting others by her touch, and anyone who touched a co**se also became unclean. In Mark’s gospel Jesus breaks down barriers, from his first meal at a tax collector’s house to his last breath on the cross as the temple curtain is torn in two. We dare to touch Jesus in our “uncleanness” and to live as a community that defines no one as an outsider.
SINNERS REPAINT CONCERT was AWESOME! See yall tomorrow for SINNERS REPAINT AND WRITE ON THE WALLS! !
If you need anymore evidence to help motivate you to come.ro SINNERS REPAINT CONCERT on Saturday or to SINNERS REPAINT AND WRITE ON THE WALLS! On Sunday, here's some photos of what we're dealing with.
Getting everything we can prepped to start the renovation work July 1st. You never know what you'll find cleaning out St. John's Lutheran Church, Greenpoint, NY . Thank Heather Murphy for all the help today
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