Baptism works repentance and forgiveness of sins by joining us to the death and resurrection of Jesus. Therefore, the baptized live a constant life of repentance, returning in confession, being forgiven, and bearing the fruit of repentance.
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Wednesday, 6:00 pm: Faith, Family, Food, & Fellowship @ Christ the King Free Lutheran Church in EGF
7:45 pm: Confirmation class
Thursday, 2:00 pm: WMF Bible study & meeting
Sunday, 10:00 am: Service of the Word
11:15 am: Sunday school
Monday, January 15, 7:00 pm: Council meeting
Thursday, January 18: Annual reports due
Sunday, February 4: Annual meeting following worship
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Upcoming Events
Wednesday, 6:00 pm: Faith, Family, Food, and Fellowship at Christ the King, EGF
7:45 pm: Confirmation
Thursday, 2:00 pm: WMF Bible study & meeting
Sunday, 7:30 am: “Behold His Glory†on KNOX 1310 & 107.9
10:00 am: Service of the Word
11:15: Sunday School
Monday, January 16, 1:00 pm: Quilting
7:00 pm: Council meeting
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Wednesday, 6:00 pm: Confirmation
7:00 pm: Youth group
7:00 pm: Bible study (Ecclesiastes)
Sunday, 7:30 am: “Behold His Glory†on KNOX 1310/107.9
10:00 am: Divine worship (special offering for AFLC World Missions)
11:00 am: Sunday School
Monday, January 17: Annual reports due
Wednesday, January 19: WMF Bible study 7 meeting
Monday, January 24, 1:00 pm: Quilting begins
Sunday, February 6: Annual meeting following worship
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Sunday, 7:30 am: “Behold His Glory†on KNOX 1310/107.9
9:30 am: Sunday school (preschool - adult)
10:30 am: Divine worship
Wednesday, 7:00 pm: Bible study (1 Peter)
Monday, January 18, 6:30 pm: Deacons meeting
7:00 pm: Council meeting
Sunday, February 7: Annual meeting following worship
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Romans 6:1-11
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2Â By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Â Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4Â We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
5Â For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6Â We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7Â For one who has died has been set free from sin. 8Â Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9Â We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10Â For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11Â So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. (ESV)
Ephesians 1:3-14
3Â Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4Â even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5Â he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6Â to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7Â In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8Â which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9Â making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10Â as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
11Â In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12Â so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13Â In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14Â who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
John 3:1-17
1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.†3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.†4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?†5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.â€
9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?†10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? 11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.â€