Maundy Thursday, April 14, 2022 Worship Service ("What Is This Meal?")

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! Maundy Thursday gets its name from the Latin word “commandment,” and on this night we remember Jesus’ “new commandment” that we love one another. We also remember how Jesus instituted the sacrament of Holy Communion, and in this service, Pastor Eric uses the artistic idea of “negative space” to help us discover the riches God offers us in this holy meal.

This service will be live streamed and available, on YouTube only, as a recording of the live stream. The buttons above will take you to Reformation’s YouTube channel and allow you to download a copy of the worship bulletin for use at home.

If you are participating online, 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 10, 2022 Worship Service ("Change Is Coming!")

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.

The Palm/Passion Sunday worship service is full of Bible readings, music, and congregational responses that share the story of how Jesus spent the final week of his life on earth. All of these elements powerfully convey how Jesus suffered and died for our sake and for the sake of the world. In this sermon on Luke 23:1-49, Pastor Paige highlights the abrupt change in the crowd’s reaction to Jesus throughout these events, from praising him with palms to condemning him to death. She invites listeners to spend time during Holy Week reflecting on our own sin and on the ways we have rejected God’s Son, so we can hand those burdens over to Jesus and then anticipate with joy his triumph over them, and over death itself, through his death on the cross.

NEW RESOURCE: Click the button above to download a copy of the Sunday bulletin for this service! You can use the other button to get our daily devotional guide that will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray.

This is a recording of our 8:30 service. 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 6, 2022 Mid-Week Prayer Bulletin (Mostly!)

We don’t have a digital copy of this week’s prayer service, but if you are planning to participate in the live stream of tonight’s Lenten Mid-Week Prayer, you can use the button above to get a copy of last week’s bulletin. The readings are different (Psalm 130 and Romans 8:18-30), and the hymns are ELW #765, “Lord of All Hopefulness” and ELW # 565, “All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night.”

April 3, 2022 Worship Service ("Use the Good Stuff")

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.

When is the last time you did something ridiculous, something over-the-top, or something that didn’t compute, on behalf of another person? In today’s reading from John 12:1-8, Jesus’ friend, Mary, acts in an unexpected and extravagant way. She does it to express her love for Jesus, who is the guest of honor in her home on the night this story takes place. As the season of Lent draws to a close, Mary’s outpouring of devotion helps us remember Jesus’ great love for us and for the whole world. In this sermon, Pastor Paige points out how Mary’s story nudges us to freely show our love for Jesus. We can ask the Holy Spirit to help us express our devotion to our Savior and Lord as his earthly life nears its end on Good Friday, and as we anticipate his resurrection to new life on Easter Sunday.

NEW RESOURCE: Click the button above to download a copy of the Sunday bulletin for this service! You can use the other button to get our daily devotional guide that will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray.

This is a recording of our 8:30 service. 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!

March 27, 2022 Worship Service (Pastor Gordon Simmons, 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.

We are blessed to welcome Pastor Gordon Simmons, with the Delaware Lutheran Office of Public Policy, as our guest preacher today.

NEW RESOURCE: Click the button above to download a copy of the Sunday bulletin for this service! You can use the other button to get our daily devotional guide that will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray.

This is a recording of our 8:30 service. 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!

March 20, 2022 Worship Service

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.

Have you ever heard someone say, "I'm sorry that you feel that way?" Did you know that's not really an apology? In today's sermon based on Luke 13:1-9, Pastor Eric explores how an unwillingness to admit our need for forgiveness is spiritually deadly. The antidote is the grace of God that sets us free to walk in humility and love.

NEW RESOURCE: Click the button above to download a copy of the Sunday bulletin for this service! You can use the other button to get our daily devotional guide that will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray.

This is a recording of our 8:30 service. 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!

March 13, 2022 Worship Service ("Humiliation, or Humility?")

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.

We don’t usually like to think about our limits. So much of modern life is about leaving our limits in the past, after all. But what happens when we deny our natural, God-created limits? Do we become more than human, or less? In this sermon based on Philippians 3:17‐4:1, Pastor Eric invites us to consider the ways of humility and lowliness.

NEW RESOURCE: Click the button above to download a copy of the Sunday bulletin for this service! You can use the other button to get our daily devotional guide that will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray.

This is a recording of our 8:30 service. 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!

March 6, 2022 Worship Service ("No Short Cuts, No Compromises")

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.

Have you ever had someone try to get you to do something you knew wasn’t right? That’s what the devil attempts in today’s reading from Luke 4:1-13. Satan is trying to derail Jesus from his mission to save people from sin, death, and the power of evil, by offering Jesus a life of ease and a short cut to glory. In this sermon, Pastor Paige focuses on how Jesus is unwilling to compromise with the devil. His singular focus on God’s mission shows us the great extent of the Son of God's love for us and for the world he came to save.

NEW RESOURCE: Click the button above to download a copy of the Sunday bulletin for this service! You can use the other button to get our daily devotional guide that will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray.

This is a recording of our 8:30 service. 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!

February 27, 2022 Worship Service ("A Well-Tuned Faith")

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.

Our Gospel reading on Transfiguration Sunday includes Jesus revealing his glory to his disciples on the mountaintop and healing a boy afflicted by an unclean spirit. The combination of these events shows us that the life of Christian discipleship is anchored in a connection to Jesus as well as a connection to the needs of others.

NEW RESOURCE: Click the button above to download a copy of the Sunday bulletin for this service! You can use the other button to get our daily devotional guide that will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray.

This is a recording of our 8:30 service. 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!

February 20, 2022 Worship Service ("Do Not Fret!")

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.

Our world is a "fretful" one. While "fretting" sounds very old-fashioned, it is a reality that is quite alive for us now. What does it mean to "fret," and how should we rightly respond to evil around us? In this sermon based on Psalm 37:1-11 & 39-40, Pastor Eric invites us to rest in the Lord and do good, rather than let the anger and division around us drive us to do evil.

If you have a hymnal at home, our hymns this morning will be ELW 835, 588, and 612.

Our daily devotional guide will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray. You can download it by clicking here.

This is a recording of our 8:30 service. 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!

February 13, 2022 Worship Service ("Bifocal Faith")

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.

A skill Christians need is the ability to see with "bifocal" vision, where we set our eyes on the glorious hope of the resurrection and on the needs of our neighbors today. If we are fixed on one at the expense of the other, we may miss Christ's power. In this sermon based on 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 and Luke 6:17-26, Pastor Eric invites us to see through spiritual bifocals so that our congregation may be a bridge between the future God promises and the present reality that God loves.

If you have a hymnal at home, our hymns this morning will be ELW 717, 723, and 858.

Our daily devotional guide will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray. You can download it by clicking 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!

February 6, 2022 Worship Service ("Going into the Deep")

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 8:30 service. There were some technical glitches, but we should have them sorted out soon.

Today’s Gospel offers a vivid and dynamic scene with fishermen cleaning their nets, crowds of people pressing in on Jesus to hear him teach, and boats on the shore, poised to be launched into the sea. In this sermon on Luke 5:1-11, Pastor Paige explores this exciting story in which Jesus calls his first disciples and they leave everything to follow him. Hearing where it all started for Simon, James, and John helps us reflect on how God calls us to be disciples of Jesus, and on how we can go deeper in our faith so we can serve the world he so loves.

If you have a hymnal at home, our hymns this morning will be ELW 413, 798, & 574.

Our daily devotional guide will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray. You can download it by clicking 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!

January 30, 2022 Worship Service ("A More Excellent Way")

We are so glad you’re joining Reformation for online worship! Today's service is a little different, as it was recorded without a congregation present due to the snow. Music and live people in the sanctuary will be back next week!

What does Christian maturity look like? In a consumerist world that teaches us we can have anything we want just the way we want it, the Apostle Paul's words of love in First Corinthians 13 call us to a higher, more noble purpose. You may have heard these words at many weddings, but they are about much more than romance. Listen, and be challenged and inspired!

Our daily devotional guide will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray. You can download it by clicking 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!

January 23, 2022 Worship Service ("An Exciting Launch")

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 8:30 service.

Even though it seems like we just heard the story of Jesus as a baby at Christmastime, today we hear how the adult Jesus launched his pubic ministry from his hometown of Nazareth. In this sermon, Pastor Paige describes what happened the day Jesus announced his mission in Luke 4:14-21. Jesus’ very brief speech in the synagogue is a jumping off point for us to explore how God’s Word is still living and active in our worship services and in our lives today.

If you have a hymnal at home, our hymns this morning will be ELW 886, 510, & 239.

Our daily devotional guide will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray. You can download it by clicking 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!

January 16, 2022 Worship Service (The Wine of Joy)

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 8:30 service.

In John 2:1-11, we hear the story of Jesus’ first miracle. A wedding feast runs out of wine - something that would cause a major loss of face in that day. But as a sign of his power to provide overflowing joy, Jesus transforms the water in six stone jars into wine so that the celebration may continue. In today’s sermon, Pastor Eric encourages us to drink deeply of Christ’s presence instead of the cheap alternatives the world offers. But he also challenges us: are there vessels in our lives that can receive the grace of Jesus?

Our daily devotional guide will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray. You can download it by clicking 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!

January 9, 2022 Worship Service (The Baptism of Our Lord)

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 8:30 service.

Early in the new year, we get to celebrate the Festival of the Baptism of Our Lord. It’s a wonderful reminder to start the year by giving thanks to God for our baptism, and to reflect on all the gifts we receive in this sacrament. In this sermon, Pastor Paige highlights the words God speaks to Jesus as he is baptized. In Luke’s account (Luke 3:15-17, 21-22), God says, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” God’s love is for everyone who has been baptized into Christ Jesus. Our Heavenly Father's love is a solid foundation on which we can continue to build our lives, from the time of our baptism onward.

Our daily devotional guide will help you to go deeper into Sunday’s readings throughout the coming week. It has reflections on today’s Scripture passages, prayer guides, and a schedule of psalms for you to read and pray. You can download it by clicking 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!

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.