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Welcome to
CROSS LUTHERAN
CHURCH & SCHOOL
LOVE | WALK | GROW
Cross Lutheran is a vibrant and active family of faith in Yorkville, Illinois where people of all upbringings and identities can learn about and follow Jesus. All are welcome to join together on a mission as we Walk with God, Grow in Faith Together, and Love Our Neighbors.
We believe a follower of Jesus will mature as a disciple of Jesus through the intentional processes of spiritual formation and leadership multiplication. Jesus’ work on earth is not limited to a few people in a few places but is gifted to all believers in all places. At Cross we encourage and challenge each other to be in the presence of Jesus right where you are.
Home for the Holidays: Advent and Christmas Sermon Series
Happy New Year!
I know that groaner of a pastor joke, welcoming the New Year on the church calendar, isn’t as funny as I think it is.
Please humor me.
Advent is the first season of the church year, and it is here! Once again, the Sunday after Thanksgiving sees us turn our eyes toward the manger in eager anticipation of what is to come!
A moment or two of reflection will allow your mind to embrace and your faith to engage this season. In Advent we “wait” on many different levels. We wait with the people of God in the past with their journey of waiting for the promised Messiah. We wait in the present in anticipation of our favorite Christmas traditions, and for the gatherings of family and friends. We wait in anticipation for what is to come: that Jesus is promised to come back again, this time to judge and renew all of creation once and for all!
Our series this Advent season will help us to engage with the faithfulness of our waiting. This series has two names: “Our dear Christ enters in” and “Home for the Holidays.” You can see by the two names how we find ourselves in this space of waiting. Christ enters in at the first Christmas, and will enter in again. In the meantime, we are here and active, now waiting for family to gather this Christmas season.
We pray this series will be a blessing to you and your family as you prepare, and maybe even travel, this holiday season. In your preparing and traveling, we will experience the joys today as a foretaste of the eternal joy that is to come in Christ’s return. It’s the same joy we celebrate in Advent and Christmas, when He first entered in, Home for the Holiday.
Check out the full Pastor’s Corner on the series written by Senior Pastor Erik Gauss from our November 26 E-Newsletter!
Cross Lutheran brings us together in celebration
Our Lutheran church is home to an inspiring and fascinating celebration of faith and love. Our community is not only fun – it lifts the hearts of all of us who believe in a better world and gives us hope for tomorrow. Cross is a place where people of all ages can worship and encourage harmony.
For by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:8-10