May 22, 2022 Worship Service (“Jesus’ Parting Gifts to Us”)

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. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service, and a daily devotional guide based on this Sunday’s readings to keep strengthening your faith through the week.

As the end of the Easter season draws near, today's gospel reading, John 14:23-29, returns to Jesus’ “farewell discourse” and his last teachings to his disciples before he died on the cross and rose again to new life. In this sermon, on the joyful Sunday we are receiving 26 new members into our church family at Reformation, Pastor Paige highlights three of the promises Jesus gives us. Those promises, passed down from Jesus to his first disciples to us, continue to guide our lives and help us grow in faith. Even though we face hardships in our world, Jesus’ parting words of promise give us peace and hope for our daily lives, as well as the courage to share the good news of his promises with others.

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!

May 15, 2022 Worship Service ("Impossible 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. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service, and a daily devotional guide based on this Sunday’s readings to keep strengthening your faith through the week.

Love is not always easy. It can be a challenge, sometimes, to love even those closest to us. But in our reading from John 13:31-35, Pastor Eric shows how Jesus challenges us with a call to love that seems impossible. But in that impossibility, the door opens for us to grow in grace and find Christ's power at work in and through us. You will be challenged, but also encouraged!

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!

May 8, 2022 Worship Service ("Courage and Hope")

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.

Today's reading from the book of Revelation was written to offer hope to early Christians suffering persecution, famine, and other trials. It offers us a vision that can open our eyes beyond the evils that we see, allowing us to fight spiritual battles with hope, love, and grace. In this sermon, Pastor Eric uses an example from The Lord of the Rings to show how seeing a vision of hope gives courage to face our ordeals.

NEW RESOURCE: Click the button above to download a copy of the Sunday bulletin for this service! You can also download a copy of our daily devotional guide to help you keep growing in faith through the week.

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!

May 1, 2022 Worship Service (“Our Easter Calling”)

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.

After the joyful excitement of Easter morning, we now hear a wonderful story from John 21:1-19 about Jesus eating breakfast with his disciples on the beach. After they share fish and bread, Jesus’ conversation with Peter gets at the heart of what it means to be a disciple, especially now that we follow a Lord who was raised up from death to life everlasting. In this sermon, Pastor Paige invites listeners to sit around the morning campfire with their risen Lord, be fed by Jesus’ words of love, and take up his new call for our lives today.

NEW RESOURCE: Click the button above to download a copy of the Sunday bulletin for this service! You can also download a copy of our daily devotional guide to help you keep growing in faith through the week.

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 24, 2022 Worship Service (Second Sunday of Easter)

Christ is Risen! Alleluia!

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 celebration of Christ’s resurrection continues today, as the season of Easter lasts 7 Sundays. We are blessed to have Pastor Judy Moller-Gavlick as our guest pastor this morning.

NEW RESOURCE: Click the button above to download a copy of the Sunday bulletin for this service! Our daily devotional guide will return next week.

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 17, 2022 Easter Worship Service ("A New Game!")

Christ is Risen! Alleluia!

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 it! The day that matters most: Easter. On this day, Jesus rose from the grave, victorious over sin and death. And now everything is different. But let's be honest: most of the time, we live as though death is still final. We have not learned what it is to be forgiven. And so, in the game of life, we end up running towards the wrong goals. In today's sermon, Pastor Eric lifts up Christ's victory for us, and his call for us to live in a new way by his power.

NEW RESOURCE: Click the button above to download a copy of the Sunday bulletin for this service! Our daily devotional guide will return in two weeks.

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!

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!

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.