NEXT SUNDAY: Fifth Sunday of Easter 

As we continue to celebrate the fifty days of Easter, today's gospel includes Jesus' promise that he goes to prepare a place for his followers in his Father's house. Our baptism commissions us to share Jesus' mission in the world. As First Peter reminds us, we are a holy people, called to proclaim the one who called us out of darkness into light. In words and deeds we bear witness to the risen Christ-our way, our truth, our life.

• 8:30 a.m. - Simple Eucharist
• 9:15 a.m. - Choir Rehearsal  
• 9:30 a.m. - Adult Forum and Sunday School
• 10:30 a.m. - Sung Eucharist
  
  • Music: Choir

The Way, the Truth, and the Life - Josh-Judd Herzfeldt

Christians today acknowledge that through Jesus, one finds God. Join in conversation as we explore different ways in which scholars have reconciled the fact that much of the world is not Christian, and what that means given Jesus' words in John that no one comes go God except through him.

This week's lessons 

Almighty God,
your Son Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.
Give us grace to love one another,
to follow in the way of his commandments,
and to share his risen life with all the world,
for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and forever.

Team Trinity: Social Ministries Supported by Holy Trinity
Lakeview Food Pantry
Night Ministries of Chicago
PAWS Chicago Animal Shelter
Lakeview Action Coalition
Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches
Lutherans Concerned
Christian Peacemaker Teams
The Crib
Refugee One
Holy Family Ministries
Lutheran School of Theology Chicago
Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries
Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues
ELCA World HungerAppeal 

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

8:30 - 30; 10:30 - 191

Take a break from the busy city life, and join us for a simple, contemplative eucharist amid the Easter candle and flowers.

Sunday, June 12 (Pentecost), 11:00 a.m - noon. St. Mark's Room. All are welcome. Topics will include the civil union law, estate, planning for same-sex couples, and adoptions concerns. Led by Michael J. Drabant, an attorney who specializes in issues related to same-sex couples and LGBT rights.

Do the everyday food choices you make matter? What does faith have to do with the sustainability movement? Can one really eat locally? Can cooking be a spiritual practice? Spend midsummer digesting these and other questions. Learn what the Bible says about food and being stewards of creation, sharpen your cooking skills, and get some dirt under your nails at an organic vegetable farm. Member Matthew Petersen will lead a 7-8 week class on Saturday mornings beginning July 9. For more information, or to sign-up, email Matthew.   

SUMMER SCHEDULE

Last Sunday's Sermon

The Fourth Sunday of Easter
May 15, 2011
John 10:1-10
Pr. Craig M. Mueller

THE HAPPY LIFE, THE GOOD LIFE, OR THE ABUNDANT LIFE?

What kind of life do we want for our children? For our community? For ourselves?

Maybe it's happiness-the happy life. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are part of our American psyche.

A recent report on CBS Sunday Morning named the happiest places in the country. Actually, it's a well-being index which includes physical and emotional health, as well as work satisfaction. The happiest city? Boulder, miles from where I grew up. Great views. Healthy, interesting people.

The happiest state? Hawaii. But before you think it's just the weather, the next were Wyoming, North Dakota, Alaska and Colorado. No southern state made the list.

THURSDAY, MAY 19  

COMMEMORATIONS FOR THE WEEK

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Member Aana Vigen and Luther Seminary professor Christian Scharen are pleased to announce that their new book, Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics, is now available. Here is a synopsis of the work:

In response to a variety of critical intellectual currents (post-colonial, post-modern, and post-liberal) scholars in Christian theology and ethics are increasingly taking up the tools of ethnography as a means to ask fundamental moral questions and to make more compelling and credible moral claims. Privileging particularity, rather than the more traditional effort to achieve universal or at least generalizable norms in making claims regarding the Christian life, echoes the most fundamental insight of the Christian tradition-that God is known most fully in Jesus of Nazareth. Echoing this "scandal of particularity" at the heart of the Christian tradition, theologians and ethicists involved in ethnographic research draw on the particular to seek out answers to core questions of their discipline: who God is and how we become the people we are, how to conceptualize moral agency in relation to God and the world, and how to flesh out the content of conceptual categories such as justice that help direct us in our daily decisions and guiding institutions.

Link to the book on Amazon here

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