Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rahway NJ

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ELCA Worship News

Dear friends, One of my favorite verses from the book of Lamentations is: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, the Lord’s mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness (3:22-23). Recently, I was reminded of this verse by a friend while […]

ELCA Worship News: September 2016

09/24/2016 in Church News / Worship & Music tagged ELCA Worship News by John Page

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:4) “What’s gotten into you?” I remember my mother asking me that throughout my teenage years. “What’s gotten into you?” the wife asks, as the husband sails through the week on his bottom lip. “What’s gotten into you?” the church […]

Worship News: May 2016

05/22/2016 in Church News / Worship & Music tagged ELCA Worship News by John Page

Christ is risen. Christ is risen, indeed. Alleluia! Let the sound flow into our ears and the truth stream into our hearts. And do not be afraid to cry. If you are a new creature in Christ you will be happy in your tears. – Gerald S. Sloyan This quote […]

Worship News: April 2016

04/25/2016 in Church News / Worship & Music tagged ELCA Worship News by John Page

Dear friends, As a parish pastor, I always looked forward to Holy Week. It is a week filled with worship and lots of it. It is a week that we invite the world into the holy three days. It is a week that we once again are invited into the […]

ELCA Worship News: March 2016

03/28/2016 in Church News / Worship & Music tagged ELCA Worship News by John Page

Dear friends, During the month of February we hear a lot about love, at least from a Hallmark perspective with the commercialization of Valentine’s Day. But in some ways I find it fitting that during a month in which there is so much emphasis placed on love that we find […]

ELCA Worship News: February 2016

02/23/2016 in Church News / Worship & Music tagged ELCA Worship News by John Page

Worship is a living art, continuously being reformed and renewed for the particular community gathered, in light of the current needs of a hurting world, all to the praise of a God who never changes and whose love is infinite.

ELCA Worship News: January 2016

01/27/2016 in Church News / Worship & Music tagged ELCA Worship News by John Page

We have a song of thankfulness that God intends for us to sing – singing this song with the melodies of our lives, the harmonies of our neighborly service to the stranger and the imperfect beats that mold so tenderly together, allowing us never to keep our thanks silent, but to live it out daily.

Worship News: November 2015

11/21/2015 in Worship & Music tagged ELCA Worship News by John Page

Mary Harris Jones, once said, “Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.” During the month of October, we Christians who live out our faith lives as Lutherans remember the Reformation, but do so knowing that it is still occurring in our lives of faith. If we view the Reformation and what it means to be a reforming people of faith – as a journey not destinations – then we have to be honest with ourselves that along that journey, discomfort and challenges will accompany joy.

Worship News: October 2015

10/21/2015 in Worship & Music tagged ELCA Worship News by John Page

Each and every time we gather for worship, in our midst, we have a profound opportunity that the world cannot give. We gather around the gifts of God’s grace; these gifts that remind us “God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in […]

ELCA Worship News September 2015

09/19/2015 in Worship & Music tagged ELCA Worship News by John Page