August 15, 2021 Worship Service (Full and Foolish)

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9:00am service.

Our lives are so full. Our minds overflow with distractions. If we’re honest, our souls can be a little full of ourselves. But all this fullness means we have little room to receive the Bread of Life, Jesus. All our efforts to keep things under our control keep us from hearing the invitation of God’s Wisdom. In this sermon based on Proverbs 9:1-6 and John 6:51-58, Pastor Eric invites us to look at how full we are, and to consider how that fullness keeps us from receiving the life Jesus wants to give us.

Our daily devotions are “on hold” for now, but will return soon!

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

August 8, 2021 Worship Service (Food That Strengthens)

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9:00am service.

Christian discipleship calls us into a new kind of life. Following Jesus isn’t just a checklist of “do’s” and “do not’s” that you can tack onto your everyday routine. It’s a reordering of our souls, and Ephesians 4:25-5:2 describes it well. But how can that ideal ever become a reality for us? It’s beyond our ability. But if we are fed by the Bread of Life (John 6:25, 41-51), we are given strength beyond our own. When Jesus feeds us with his own presence, things are made new.

Our daily devotions are “on hold” for now, but will return soon!

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

August 1, 2021 Worship Service (The Bread That Satisfies)

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9:00am service.

Today’s reading from John 6:24-35 picks up after Jesus miraculously fed over 5,000 people with a boy’s small lunch of bread and fish. The crowd that enjoyed that feast pursues Jesus, seeking more bread. In this sermon, Pastor Paige points out the ways Jesus taught the crowd that he came to offer the world a whole lot more than one free meal. Jesus wants us all to know that he is the bread of life for all who believe in him.

Our daily devotions are “on hold” for now, but will return soon!

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

Worship for July 11, 18, and 25

We are glad you’re joining Reformation for worship! For the weeks of July 11, 18, and 25, our services will only be available directly from YouTube. We will stream at 9:00am as usual, and the recording of that live stream will remain online for “on-demand” participation.

As always, if you are able, we encourage you to invest in our ministry by clicking here to make an offering online. Your support enables us to share the Good News of Christ and to build a community that embodies his love for the world. Thank you, and God bless you!

July 4, 2021 Worship Service (How Can I Be Transformed?)

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9:00am service.

Life isn’t really about us. One of the things that can most hold us back from the transformation we long for and the spiritual maturity and freedom that would let us step into a hopeful, powerful future is that we are too stuck on ourselves. Today, Pastor Eric looks at Jesus sending his disciples out in Mark 6:1-13 and calls us to stop spinning our wheels and to trust in Christ, who is the only one who can get us moving to where we’re supposed to be.

Our daily devotions are “on hold” for the month of July, but will return in August!

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

June 27, 2021 Worship Service & Devotions (Interruption or Opportunity?)

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9:00am service.

In two interrelated healing stories from Mark 5:21-43, Jesus shows that he is never too busy to stop and help someone. During his ministry on earth, interruptions were an opportunity for Jesus to bring the power of God’s kingdom into the lives of ordinary people. In this sermon, Pastor Paige explores how the characters in these stories have faith in Jesus’ ability to heal their specific problems, and how Jesus ultimately will heal the whole world through his death on the cross and his resurrection to eternal life.

To continue your journey of faith throughout this week, we encourage you to click here to download this daily devotional guide that will lead you deeper into prayer and applying the Scriptures to your life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

June 20, 2021 Worship Service & Devotions (Into the Storm!)

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9:00am service.

You can’t avoid life’s storms. Sometimes, the world throws you into a tailspin and it feels like you’re going under. In Mark 4:35-41, we hear the story of Jesus and his disciples caught in a storm on the sea. Pastor Eric shows us how this story teaches us face life’s storms, and why we will never grow in faith if we expect God to always give us smooth sailing and blue skies.

To continue your journey of faith throughout this week, we encourage you to click here to download this daily devotional guide that will lead you deeper into prayer and applying the Scriptures to your life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

June 13, 2021 Worship Service & Devotions (Keep Going, Keep Sowing!)

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9:00am service.

Jesus teaches about the Kingdom of God in Mark 4:26-34 with the images of a bountiful harvest from scattered seeds, and a magnificent shrub that grows from a tiny mustard seed. In this sermon, Pastor Paige points out how Jesus’ parables encourage us today as we watch for glimpses of God’s kingdom breaking into our ordinary lives. God’s power is always at work, and we get to participate in it as citizens of his kingdom. What’s more, when plant small seeds of love and serve our neighbor, God takes our small efforts and makes them grow beyond what we could ever expect.

To continue your journey of faith throughout this week, we encourage you to click here to download this daily devotional guide that will lead you deeper into prayer and applying the Scriptures to your life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

June 6, 2021 Worship Service & Devotions (Escaping Blame & Shame)

It’s a familiar story: we mess up, and rather than deal with it, we blame everyone else. It’s also an old story. Today, learn how it can change!

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9:00am service.

In Genesis 3:8-15, we hear the story of Adam and Eve hiding from God in shame over their disobedience, and then blaming each other for their predicament. Don’t we do the same thing? Don’t we blame other people for what’s going on inside of us? Don’t we try to keep God at arm’s length? Pastor Eric leads us to find hope and healing in God’s simple question: “Where are you?”

To continue your journey of faith throughout this week, we encourage you to click here to download this daily devotional guide that will lead you deeper into prayer and applying the Scriptures to your life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

May 30, 2021 Worship Service & Devotions (Senior Quilt Presentation)

On this Holy Trinity Sunday, we celebrate Reformation’s graduates and welcome Pastor Gordon Simmons as guest preacher.

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. [This recording, of our 11:00 service, is only from one “wide angle” camera perspective. Due to a technical glitch (not the fault of the live stream operator!), the 9:00 service, with multiple camera angles, did not record locally. Once we are able to get that version off of YouTube’s live stream servers, we will replace this version with the better one. We appreciate your patience!]

Reformation is pleased to welcome Pastor Gordon Simmons as our guest preacher today. He is with us in his capacity serving the Delaware Lutheran Office for Public Policy, and calls us to reflect on how our Christian faith informs our understanding of public policy.

Please watch beyond the end of today’s service to see the presentation of Senior Quilts to our two graduating high school seniors, as well as a slide show to tell you about our high school and college graduates. We are proud of them, and look forward to seeing where God will continue to lead them!

To continue your journey of faith throughout this week, we encourage you to click here to download this daily devotional guide that will lead you deeper into prayer and applying the Scriptures to your life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

May 23, 2021 Worship Service & Devotions (Atheists Are Right??)

You might think I’m kidding, but most atheists are right. Huh?

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9am Sunday service.

In Acts 2:1-21, we hear the amazing story of the coming of the Holy Spirit to transform the group of Jesus’ disciples into the earthly temple of God’s presence. That’s what the Church is! We have been re-created, in our baptisms, to be the place where God dwells and can be found. But when the Church does not live up to this high and holy calling, we fail to show the world who God is. And so the world gets a smaller picture of God, one that atheists are right to reject. This is why we need the Holy Spirit!

To continue your journey of faith throughout this week, we encourage you to click here to download this daily devotional guide that will lead you deeper into prayer and applying the Scriptures to your life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

May 16, 2021 Worship Service & Devotions (From Followers to Leaders)

“I’m not a leader…” Or are you? How has Jesus put you in a position to influence the world with his grace?

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9am Sunday service.

In John 17:6-19, Jesus prays for his disciples before he completes his mission of dying on the cross and rising again to save the world. He asks God to fill his followers with joy, and to shape them into leaders to carry on his work of bringing hope, healing, and peace to all. Pastor Paige invites listeners to let Jesus’ prayer transform them from followers to leaders, so more and more people may experience God’s love and grace through us.

To continue your journey of faith throughout this week, we encourage you to click here to download this daily devotional guide that will lead you deeper into prayer and applying the Scriptures to your life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

May 9, 2021 Worship Service & Devotions (The Joy of God)

Is there anything to the idea that religion is about rules, but Jesus is about love?

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9am Sunday service.

All you need is love, right? It’s a common stereotype to talk about religion as being all about rules, but Jesus was just about love. Well, what happens when love is hard? It turns out that we need something more than love, if we are to love others. But it isn’t more guilt or fear; rather, it is the joy of God. Our sermon today comes from John 15:9-17 and draws on 1 John 5:1-6.

To continue your journey of faith throughout this week, we encourage you to click here to download this daily devotional guide that will lead you deeper into prayer and applying the Scriptures to your life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

May 2, 2021 Worship Service & Devotions (Shaped by Grace or Glass?)

Are you shaped more by the grace of God, or by the glass of your screens?

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service. This is a recording of our 9am Sunday service.

In our Gospel reading from John 15:1-8, Jesus uses the beautiful image of a vine and branches to describe our relationship to him. When we are connected to him, his life and love and truth flow into us. But if we give more of our attention to the messages of anxiety and selfishness that come through all the screens in our life than we give to Jesus, then those messages will shape us more than Jesus will. This is our challenge. But the grace of Jesus is greater than the glass of our screens.

To continue your journey of faith throughout this week, we encourage you to click here to download this daily devotional guide that will lead you deeper into prayer and applying the Scriptures to your life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

April 25, 2021 Worship Service & Devotions (How Can I Have A More Abundant Life?)

How can I have a more abundant life?

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service.

With the pandemic causing so many disruptions, we can all likely name aspects of our lives that feel stagnant or depleted. That reality makes the good news of the Easter season all the more meaningful, especially on this Sunday as we celebrate Jesus being our good shepherd, who lays down his life for us, his sheep. In this sermon on Psalm 23 and John 10:10b-18, Pastor Paige suggests practical ways to help us discover and live out the abundant life Jesus offers, and to share it with others.

This is a recording of our 9am Sunday service, followed by a recording of a joyful baptism held on Saturday, April 24. We hope you will watch the baptism and witness this act of God’s grace, as social distancing requirements keep us from celebrating baptisms in our regular Sunday service for the time being.

To continue your journey of faith throughout this week, we encourage you to click here to download this daily devotional guide that will lead you deeper into prayer and applying the Scriptures to your life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

April 18, 2021 Worship Service & Devotions (How Can Things Change?)

Christ is risen! We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and faith. This video is a recording of the live stream of our 9am service.

There is much to cause us to lament in the news. Mass shootings (again), the deaths of Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, and George Floyd. Leaders who seem to want to stoke division. It is the call of Christians to lament when others suffer. But we also have good news to challenge the powers of sin and death. In this sermon from Luke 24:36-48, Pastor Eric invites us to discover the hope and power of the resurrected Jesus. Even when it looks like nothing can be repaired, there is hope and healing in his grace!

To continue your journey of faith throughout this week, we encourage you to click here to download this daily devotional guide that will lead you deeper into prayer and applying the Scriptures to your life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

Online Worship for April 11, 2021

For April 11, the Second Sunday of Easter, our online worship service is provided by the DE-MD Synod, and can be found on the synod’s YouTube channel or Facebook page. Our live stream will return to YouTube on Sunday, April 18 at 9:00am, and the recording of the live stream will be available here on our web site that afternoon.

Easter Sunday Worship Service (April 4, 2021)

Christ is risen! We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and faith. This video is a recording of the live stream of our 9am service.

The story of Jesus’ resurrection in the Gospel of Mark, Mark 16:1-8, is short and packed with good news. The women who first hear of the resurrection react in a curious way. They were prepared to encounter Jesus’ lifeless body, and instead they were told he was no longer in the tomb. He was alive! In this Easter sermon, Pastor Paige invites listeners to receive the gift of Jesus’ resurrection with joy, and to follow their risen Lord with hearts full of hope.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

Good Friday Worship (Why Did Jesus Die? April 2, 2021)

Why did Jesus die? What comes to an end at the Cross? Whose fault is it? On Good Friday, we hear the story of Christ’s Passion, or his suffering and death, in John chapters 18-19. It is hard to hear. But it is the story of our salvation. Hope is at the cross. Mercy is at the cross. When we see Jesus dying, we see the source of our life.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card at www.rlcmilford.com/respond. Finally, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation at www.rlcmilford.com/give. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

Easter Sunday online worship will be live streamed at 9:00am here.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!

Love in Action (Maundy Thursday Worship, April 1, 2021)

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! We hope that this time of prayer, song, and hearing the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and faith.

In uncertain times, it’s comforting to hear that Jesus knows what is happening. On his last night with his disciples, Jesus knows what he needs to do to fulfill God’s plan for our salvation and for the salvation of the world. In this Maundy Thursday sermon on John 13:1-17, 31b-35, Pastor Paige urges listeners to trust in Jesus as he acts on his knowledge and offers his abundant love to all, even to those who denied and betrayed him.

Our Holy Week worship will continue tomorrow with another pre-recorded service for Good Friday. Easter Sunday online worship will be live streamed at 9:00am here.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here. Also, if you are able, we invite you to partner with us by financially supporting Reformation here. Your generosity allows us to bring the hope of Jesus to Milford and beyond during this time of pandemic. Thank you!