July 5 Worship Service & Daily Devotions

During these troubled times, have you been searching for peace for your heart and soul? In today’s message from Matthew 11:16-19 & 25-30, Jesus invites all of us to come to him, hand over our heavy burdens, and receive his gift of rest.

After the service, please fill out an online response card here. You can download a daily devotional for the coming week here.

Finally, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation by clicking here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

June 28 Worship Service & Daily Devotions

Are we as free as we'd like to think? This is a challenging question. In today's sermon from Romans 6:12-23, Pastor Eric explores what the Scriptures can tell us about freedom, and how Jesus can lead us into freedom.

After the service, please click here to fill out an online response card. It's a great way to help us connect better with you! We encourage you to download a daily devotional for the coming week here. Finally, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation either electronically or through the mail by clicking here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

June 21 Worship Service & Daily Devotions

Are you feeling worn down? Has the pandemic, the racial injustice, and the social unrest got you to the point where you are tired of taking the high road, or maybe you just want to bury your head in the sand? Then today's service will have a lot of encouragement for you! In a sermon from Romans 6:1-11, Pastor Eric explores where we can find strength and freedom to redefine this moment, rather than letting this moment define us.

We will also take some time during the service to honor four of Reformation's young adults who are graduating this spring!

After the service, please click here to fill out an online response card. If you are able, we invite you to support our ministry by clicking here to give electronically or find instructions to send offerings to the church by mail. And you can find a Bible and prayer guide for the coming week by clicking here.

Finally, we want to wish a happy Father's Day to all dads, grandfathers, godfathers, and those who give fatherly love and care. God bless you!

June 14 Worship Service & Daily Devotions

Jesus transforms his followers into apostles in today’s message from Matthew 9:35-10:8. He gives them a new purpose as he invites them to join in the work of God’s Kingdom. In these unsettling times, we can find our purpose as Jesus’ apostles by embodying the love of Jesus for our neighbors, and sharing the peace of God with all. After the service, please click here to fill out an online response card. You can download daily devotions based on the Scriptures for this Sunday here.

June 7th Worship & Daily Devotions

This Sunday, Reformation is participating in the DE-MD Synod’s online worship service, which includes a special Holy Trinity sermon from The Rev. Elizabeth Eaton, the Presiding Bishop of the ELCA. We hope everyone who normally takes part in our online services will take advantage of this opportunity.

You can find a bulletin for the service now, and on Sunday morning you can find the service itself, at https://demdsynod.org/digital-worship/, and the service will also be available Sunday at 10:00am at the synod’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/DelawareMarylandSynod/ and YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS7Ybv7zZqMFsYe3Vt5t0Lg. 

Reformation’s daily devotions for the coming week can be downloaded by clicking here.

We look forward to sharing another Reformation Sunday service with you on June 14th!

The Trinity, the Image of God, & the Sin of Racism

It's not easy to talk or hear about racial injustice. Even as our hearts break over the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, we may not want to think about it. But it is a spiritual matter; a religious matter. Human beings are created in the image of God, and when that image is denied, then those who claim to speak for God have an obligation to speak out. I don't claim to have all the answers; I probably don't even raise all the right questions. This doesn't deal with every dimension or every nuance. But it is a witness, even if it is faltering. Send your Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, and heal our land. Amen.

Stick with Love (Psalm 23)

Here is a meditation on love from Pastor Paige, inspired by the familiar words of Psalm 23. It is a reflection on embracing all of God’s children and treating all people with care, dignity, and respect. It is my humble and hopeful offering for the young and young-at-heart, in response to recent national events exposing racism and injustice.

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” --The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Love is patient, love is kind.” --1 Corinthians 13:4

May 31, 2020 Pentecost Worship Service

The festival of Pentecost celebrates the sending of the Holy Spirit, as told in Acts 2:1-21. This dramatic story of wind, fire, and accusations of drunkenness gives us encouragement for growing in faith and mission, even when we can't enter our house of worship together. Because of the Spirit's coming, God's dwelling is not in a building, but in the community of Christians.

After the service, we encourage you to go to www.rlcmilford.com/respond to fill out an online response card and let us know that you were "with" us! You can download a Bible reading and prayer guide for the coming week by clicking here.

May 24th Sunday Worship Service

What is God up to in the middle of this pandemic? The answer may surprise you. And it will give you reason for great hope. We are so glad you are with us online. We hope that you are encouraged by what you encounter here!

After you participate in this online worship service, please fill out an online response card so we can know more about who is connecting with us! Update: We got the file format issue straightened out, and daily devotions for this week are finally available here! Thank you for your patience.

May 17th Worship Service

Today we hear the Apostle Paul speaking to a crowd in Acts 17:22-31 and sharing the good news of Jesus' death and resurrection. Paul preaches in a way that meets his hearers right where they are. At the same time, the Apostle challenges them to turn away from false gods and turn toward the one true God, so they can find the abundant life, hope, and peace they are seeking. After the service, please go to rlcmilford.com/respond to fill out an online response form and to stay in touch. You can also click here to download devotions for the coming week. UPDATE: Sorry the video wasn’t showing up here at first; I’ll try to figure out what went wrong this week.

May 10, 2020 Worship Service

On this fifth Sunday of Easter, we hear John 14:1-14, one of the most theologically dense passages of Scripture. But it speaks powerfully to us in real life. Be challenged, encouraged, and renewed in your faith with us! After the service, we encourage you to click here to fill out an online response card. You can also find online devotions here to keep you growing spiritually through the week!

We also want to wish a happy Mothers’ Day to all mothers, grandmothers, godmothers, and those who give motherly care. Even if you can’t be with your family in person, we hope your day is blessed.

What Should I Be Doing? (Faith in Quarantine - Gardening & Vocation)

What should we be doing right now, as individuals or families? Some of us have ten times the obligations on us we did before the coronavirus. Some of us have had life grind to a halt. For some of us, it's a mix of both plus some added layers of chaos thrown in! This video in the series "Faith in Quarantine" uses the biblical image of gardening to shed some light on how we can think about what to do during these very strange times.

April 26, 2020 Worship - Discovering Our Purpose

If you're searching for purpose during this unprecedented time, you'll want to hear what the risen Jesus says to you today. When Jesus appears to his disciples after his resurrection, he gives them hope. He tells them they have important work to do. So do you.

Be sure to continue cultivating your spiritual growth this week by clicking here to download our daily devotions for the coming week.

Daily Devotions

I think it is safe to say that for most of us, our daily rhythms, the structure for our time, has been thrown off. “What day is it?” is a pretty common question. With everything up in the air, now is a perfect time to create a habit of structuring your time with God’s Word and prayer. Every week, we are publishing a daily devotional guide. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, it has reflections on the previous Sunday’s assigned Bible readings. For each day, there are psalms and prayer guides.

This is a powerful way to take a difficult time and allow it to strengthen your life of faith! Click here to download the booklet of devotions for this week.

The Mission of Reformation Lutheran Church: Invite, Engage, Equip, Embody


Invite our neighbors as Jesus has invited us; Engage in a community of graceful discipleship; Equip our members for growth in faith and ministry; Embody the love of Jesus for the world around us.