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Discover More: In Worship

Worship is where we start and end as a community of faith in Christ.   We offer different styles of worship at a variety of times each week to help people engage in faith when and where they are most comfortable. 


5 p.m. Saturdays:
Piano-led traditional worship with modified liturgy, and special music primarily through vocal and instrumental solos. Our pastors give the message and wear traditional vestments, or robes. Holy Communion is celebrated every week and is open to all. There is use of our cry room during this service.


9 a.m. Sundays:

Organ-led traditional worship with modified liturgy, and vocal and bell choirs and occasional solo music. Our pastors give the message and wear traditional vestments, or robes. Holy Communion is celebrated every week and is open to all. Childcare is available during this service.


11 a.m. Sundays:

A contemporary style band-led worship service with music from popular Christian recording artists along with familiar congregational songs of our Lutheran heritage. Our pastors give a weekly message with Holy Communion celebrated and open to all. Childcare is available during this service.


6:30 p.m. Wednesdays:

Our Wednesday Evening Midweek Worship is meant to echo the themes of weekend worship in a youth-led format at a day and time when many active members are already at First Lutheran.

Filled By God's Love

Worship During Lent


In a discussion about the good life, Jesus draws together two passages from the Old Testament about love: Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind. Love your neighbor as yourself. When our hearts are filled with God’s love, this is what a loving life looks like: Loving God. Loving People.  


During the weeks of Lent, we will explore what it means to love God and to love people. We will slow down and take each facet of love in turn:

• Love the Lord with all your heart.           • Love the Lord with all your soul

• Love the Lord with all your mind.          •  Love the comfortable neighbor. 

• Love the uncomfortable neighbor.


The journey of Lent places love in its proper setting. God loves, so that we might love. God fills, so that overflowing, we might reflect the love of God. When we begin with the mark of the cross on Ash Wednesday, we begin with an awareness of how we can turn even the good things of God wrong. Apart from God’s mercy, we turn love into a burden, a command, where the life of faith becomes a drudgery or some kind of moral achievement. Ash Wednesday begins with words of contrition, confession, which is another way of saying, we begin with an act of self-awareness. We confess sin, so that we can clear a space for God to go to work, to forgive and to show a new way of love forward. 

Live Online

Our Sunday Morning and Wednesday Evening worship services are streamed live online so you can participate from wherever life takes you!

firstlutherancr.org/live


Over-the-Air
We produce a 30-minute radio worship service of beautiful music and a contextual message broadcast at 8:30 a.m. every Sunday on KMRY Radio at 93.1 FM and 1450 AM.

Holy Communion
is offered as part of most of our worship services.

At First Lutheran, the communion table is open to all who believe in Jesus Christ; read more here.


What we believe
following the teachings of the Great Reformation we believe we are saved by grace through faith in Christ.


Read more.