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December 2024

Dec 4 - Advent Wednesdays - Come, Lord Jesus!

Join us Wednesdays (3:30 or 6:30) for our mid-week Advent services.  This Advent season our Wednesday Worship theme is "Come, Lord Jesus!"  Our prayer may be short and simple, but Jesus' answer means blessing forever! 

After our early service, we supper.  To help our hosts, feel free to bring a dessert or to help with the clean up!

Dec 19 - Enrolling for 2024-25 School Year!

St. John Lutheran School - serving children in preschool (age 3) through grade 8 - is still accepting enrollment applications for the 2024-25 school year.  Pre-3 has a waiting list, but we do have room in our other rooms.  Please consider scheduling a personal tour to hear about the blessings that St. John Lutheran School has to offer.  Please contact us today:  847-362-4424 or info@stjohnslib.com.

Dec 24 - Christmas - The Gift of God

When a father puts gifts under the Christmas tree, it is not to compensate his children for doing their chores. That would make whatever is inside that wrapping paper a wage, not a gift. A gift is given voluntarily simply so the giver can show favor to the one receiving the gift, without any expectation of repayment. In the season of Christmas, we receive the gift of God. That does not simply mean we receive the gifts God gives. When we look into the manger, we see that God is the gift.

In the person of Jesus, God gave us himself. And because our God became true man and did everything necessary for our salvation, he is able to give us so many other Christmas gifts: forgiveness, hope, peace, a place in his family, eternal life in paradise. “That is too much!” you object. “I don’t deserve any of it!” True enough. However, none of these things are wages. We could not and need not earn them. Because they are gifts, given by our gracious God to show us his favor.

Join us this Christmas for The Gift of God.

 

Dec 25 - Christmas at St. John

Join us Christmas Eve at 5 for our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service.  Join us Christmas Day for our Christmas Day Festival Service at 9.  That's right!  God has so much Good News for us at Christmas that we have different services, different messages, different hymns on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! 

Dec 31 - New Year's Eve Worship

Join us New Year's Eve at 5 for a simple service of lessons and hymns with the Lord's Supper.  After our service, we Game Night - bring along a snack or family beverage to share and a favorite game.