December 17, 2023 Third Sunday of Advent Worship Service

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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 button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service.

We are blessed to have Pastor Rod Kopp lead worship and preach this morning as the Evers family travels to Massachusetts for Pastor Eric's father's memorial service.

We also encourage you to use the button above to go to our “giving” page where there are links to a survey about how you could become more engaged in the ministry and life of Reformation as well as an Estimate of Giving Form for 2024. You can print the survey out, complete it, and return it at church; the estimate of giving form can be completed online.

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. Thank you!

December 13, 2023 Blue Christmas Worship Service

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Welcome to our Blue Christmas service. We know that “the holiday season” is not always easy for everyone. Grief, loss, sadness, for whatever reason, can make this season difficult. We pray that this time of worship will be encouraging, healing, and comforting. You can click on the image to be taken to our online worship, and you can use the button above to access a copy of the bulletin to help you follow along.

After the service, we invite you to fill out an online response card here.

December 10, 2023 Second Sunday of Advent Worship Service

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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 button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service.

We also encourage you to use the button above to go to our “giving” page where there are links to a survey about how you could become more engaged in the ministry and life of Reformation as well as an Estimate of Giving Form for 2024. You can print the survey out, complete it, and return it at church; the estimate of giving form can be completed online.

The word "repent" can carry a lot of baggage. It can sound like an angry God giving us an order. But what if repentance is actually a gift of God's love? The second Sunday of Advent brings "repentance" into focus, with readings from Isaiah 40:1-11, 2Peter 3:8-15a, and Mark 1:1-8. Pastor Eric invites us to see repentance as God's invitation to enter more deeply into life, joy, and peace.

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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. Thank you!

December 3, 2023 First Sunday of Advent Worship Service

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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 button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service.

We also encourage you to use the button above to go to our “giving” page where there are links to a survey about how you could become more engaged in the ministry and life of Reformation as well as an Estimate of Giving Form for 2024. You can print the survey out, complete it, and return it at church; the estimate of giving form can be completed online.

Advent is here! The four Sundays leading up to Christmas Day are a time of preparation, hope and longing for the peace and promise of the Savior’s coming. Join us for worship as we prepare our hearts to welcome Christ!

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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. Thank you!

November 26, 2023 Christ the King Sunday Worship Service

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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 button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service.

We also encourage you to use the button above to go to our “giving” page where there are links to a survey about how you could become more engaged in the ministry and life of Reformation as well as an Estimate of Giving Form for 2024. You can print the survey out, complete it, and return it at church; the estimate of giving form can be completed online.

What is noble? What is truly glorious? What defines "greatness?" These are good questions to ask on Christ the King Sunday. In this sermon based on Ephesians 1:15-23 and Matthew 25:31-46, Pastor Eric invites us into the way of humility, led by Jesus our King. This road, however, is also the road of glory, for in Christ, service to others is true greatness.

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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. Thank you!

November 19, 2023 Commitment Sunday Worship Service

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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 button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service.

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On Commitment Sunday, we invite our members to make estimates of giving for the coming year. As we explore our calling to sacrificial generosity, Pastor Eric's sermon based on Matthew 25:14-30 puts the question before us: "what's it all for?" What if our society's assumptions that we've got to achieve and amass everything we can for ourselves because there's nothing else for us to trust is wrong? What if there is someone we can trust, who not only provides for us, but desires to lead us into deeper faith and a higher purpose? This sermon will encourage and challenge you as you consider how you make use of all the treasures God has entrusted to your use. You can go to our online giving page to find a link to an Estimate of Giving form you can fill out online.

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. Thank you!

November 12, 2023 Pentecost 24 (Sermon Only)

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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 button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service.

This week's edited video is only of the sermon; we hope that this time in the Word of God will help you to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus and grow in your love and service.

The parable of the five foolish and five wise bridesmaids that Jesus tells in Matthew 25:1-13 invites us to reflect on our preparation, readiness, and commitment to the ministry Jesus has called us to do. In this sermon, during this season focusing on generosity and stewardship at Reformation, Pastor Paige reminds listeners that Jesus is committed to us for the long haul. The more generous we are able to be in our response, in terms of our financial gifts, and our sharing of our time and skills, the more we will be able to bear fruit for our church, our community, and the Kingdom of God.

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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. Thank you!

November 5, 2023 All Saints Sunday Worship Service

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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 button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service.

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As we begin our annual financial generosity focus, Pastor Eric leads us to consider our identity as God's beloved children, or "saints," and how living into that identity will lead to renewed generosity in all aspects of our life. In 1John 3:1-3, we learn that we are children of God. But the emphasis isn't on "child," it's on "of God." Your identity flows from the loving intention of God. You are an expression of God's generosity, created to generously bring more good into this world. Who do you think you are? You are a child of God.

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. Thank you!

October 29, 2023 Reformation Sunday Worship Service

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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 button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service. You can also download a daily devotional guide for the coming week with Bible readings & reflections, prompts for your prayer time, and a schedule of Psalms to read & pray each day.

We also encourage you to use the button above to download a survey about how you could become more engaged in the ministry and life of Reformation. You can complete it and bring it to church, and on October 29th, we will be dedicating these to God’s glory during worship.

This past week, multiple communities in the US have been advised to "shelter in place." This is a powerful metaphor for the state of our society as a whole. But as Christians, God calls us out of spiritual isolation to be involved in his loving work for the world. On this Reformation Sunday, Pastor Eric explores how God's free gift of grace both empowers and calls us to greater engagement and commitment. This sermon, based on 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8, is a part of our annual stewardship campaign, "Re-Engagemnt, Re-Commitment, Re-Formation."

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. Thank you!

"The Fun Is on the Field" (October 22, 2023 Pentecost 21 Worship Service)

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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 button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service.

Instead of a daily devotional guide this week, we encourage you to use the button above to download a survey about how you could become more engaged in the ministry and life of Reformation. You can complete it and bring it to church, and on October 29th, we will be dedicating these to God’s glory during worship.

As we kick off a season of focusing on stewardship and generosity, Pastor Paige explores Paul’s message in 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10. The Apostle says he is thankful for and encouraged by the new believers’ faith, hope, and love. The message of Jesus Christ came to the Thessalonians through the power of the Holy Spirit. They responded in ways that their neighbors couldn’t help but notice. Pastor Paige asks listeners how the Holy Spirit is guiding them to become involved in, or re-commit to, serving at Reformation Lutheran Church, so they can experience the joy of sharing their gifts and serving the Lord, together.

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. Thank you!

October 15, 2023 Pentecost 20 Worship Service

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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 button above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service; our daily devotional guide is taking the week off due to staff illness.

What is truly important in your life? Our priorities direct our actions. In this sermon based on Matthew 22:1-14, Pastor Eric explores how Jesus invites us into the celebration of his Kingdom, but the reality is we too often allow other priorities to distract us. Will we let Jesus rearrange our inner world and lead us into a transformed life? Or, will we "take it too lightly" and try to remain unchanged by his grace?

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. Thank you!

October 8, 2023 Pentecost 19 Worship Service

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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 for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.

If you’ve ever had a sense that God made you for more, today’s readings from Isaiah 5:1-7 and Matthew 21:33-46 will encourage you. Both readings are about vineyards and harvests. In this sermon, Pastor Paige draws upon the memory of an important person from her childhood to show that when we trust in all that Jesus has done for us, God produces good fruit in us. God creates an abundant harvest for the sake of our neighbors, through us and through the life of our church, as the body of Christ, together.

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. Thank you!

October 1, 2023 Pentecost 18 Worship Service

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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 for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.

"Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.” In Philippians 2:1-13, Paul challenges the "me-centered" shape of life that has our culture anxious, angry, and isolated. But he not only offers a critique, he offers a cure, a call into a higher life of purpose, meaning, and empowerment. In this sermon, Pastor Eric looks at the pressure to live a "closed-in circle" life, and invites us to allow Jesus to stretch us into an... eccentric 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. Thank you!

September 24, 2023 Pentecost 17 Worship Service

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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 for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.

Today’s parable from Matthew 20:1-16 is incredibly timely for our lives. Our society and culture make us hyper focused on accounting for every bit of time we work and receiving every last penny we deserve. With the parable of the generous landowner, Jesus turns our ideas of earning, worthiness, and fairness upside down. In this sermon, Pastor Paige dives into Jesus’ story and how it invites us to experience new ways to be generous. When we orient our lives toward God’s generosity and receive his grace as a gift, we can increase the peace and joy we experience and pass God’s love on to others.

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. Thank you!

"How Can We Forgive Like That?" (September 17, 2023 Pentecost 16 Worship Service)

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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 for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.

Matthew 18 contains Jesus' teaching about reconciliation and forgiveness. But he isn't just giving relationship advice; he is charting the course for the integrity of the Christian community and for our growth in spiritual and personal maturity. In this sermon based on Matthew 18:21-35, Pastor Eric reaches back to last week's Gospel on the process for reconciliation that Jesus commands, and looks at how this week's words can point us to the strength and compassion to put that process into practice. What is essential is not what we do, but what has been done for us: the life-giving mercy of Jesus has been poured out on you. His love is what makes our healthy relationships possible.

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. Thank you!

September 10, 2023 Pentecost 15 Worship Service

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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. Thank you!

"The Best Kind of Life" (September 3, 2023 Pentecost 14 Worship Service)

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There are many ways to explore what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. In this sermon on Matthew 16:21-28, Pastor Paige focuses on Jesus’ promise, “‘those who lose their life for my sake will find it.’” What kind of life is Jesus inviting us into? What role do other people play? Why is the life Jesus offers better than anything we could come up with on our own? These are some of the questions Pastor Paige addresses as she encourages listeners to ground their lives of discipleship in a community. Serving alongside other disciples of all ages is the best way to discover the abundant life that is ours through Jesus.

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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. Thank you!

"How Do I Discover God's Will?" (August 27, 2023 Pentecost 13 Worship Service)

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It might sound a bit irreverent to think of God's will in terms of a car salesman's pitch, but even more so if the salesman won't let you test drive the car until you buy it! What's going on? In this sermon based on Romans 12:1-8, Pastor Eric challenges us to see how the world's way of "all-about-me" thinking keeps us trapped in a life far smaller than what God has created us for, and encourages us to entrust ourselves to Jesus, who gives us a life of freedom and glory. Not only is that "glory" very different than what the world would call glory, but it is also discovered in a very different way.

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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. Thank you!

"Don't Give Up" - August 20, 2023 Pentecost 12 Worship Service

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When faced with rejection and the word “No” over and over again, it’s easy to feel discouraged. In today’s gospel reading from Matthew 15:21-28, we hear about a woman who came to Jesus with a dire need. She wouldn’t take No for an answer. In this sermon, Pastor Paige unpacks what we can learn from her persistence about ourselves, our ultimate future, and our Lord. She explores how we can trust in Jesus enough to not give up.

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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. Thank you!

August 13, 2023 Pentecost 11 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. Please use the buttons above to download a bulletin to help you follow along with the service and a daily devotional guide for the coming week with reflections on this Sunday’s Scripture readings, a schedule of psalms to read and pray through, and guides for your prayers of intercession.

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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. Thank you!