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For your listening pleasure… Holy Cross 11:00am Easter morning worshippers heard this Easter Anthem sung by the choir and accompanied by a string quartet (Amie Vredenberg, Jim Ieda, Derek Chazen, Katie Weissman):  Click here to listen if you missed it: Spring Adult Inquirers Class Beginning April 5 Holy Cross offers a Spring “Adult Inquirers” class for members, prospective members… Read More

Surprise! Some say the greatest surprise about Easter is not that Jesus is alive, risen from the dead… not that He conquered death and hell… not that He comes to meet you as He promised. They say the greatest surprise is that He did all that and is not angry. We need not fear His return because He is not angry with… Read More

“Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen!” ~ the angels to the women at the empty tomb, Luke 24:5b-6a (ESV) This year our Lenten and Easter Gospel readings are drawn from Luke’s account of our Lord’s preaching and His Passion. Each Sunday, Luke takes us to a… Read More

Gospel Seder Meal in K-Hall and Lord’s Supper in the Sanctuary A sign-up sheet has placed in the Narthex for the Gospel Seder Meal on Thursday, March 24, at 6:30pm. Please sign up to bring an item to share. Also please be sure to give us a count so we can be prepared. If you… Read More

Lenten Devotions & Lenten Services Midweek Lenten Devotions begin on Ash Wednesday (Feb. 10) at noon in the Sanctuary (with imposition of ashes) and continue on Wednesdays at noon in the HCCC conference room through March 16. Evening Lenten services will be held at Holy Cross at 7:30pm on Ash Wednesday and on March 2,… Read More

“Give us this day our daily bread.” As we pray these words in the Lord’s Prayer, we are mindful that God certainly gives daily bread to people with or without our prayers, even to evil people, but we pray that He would lead us to realize this and receive our daily bread with thanksgiving to… Read More

Adult Inquirers Class Beginning January 6 Do you want to learn more about the Christian faith? Pastor Nickel will be teaching a 5-week “Adult Inquirers” class on Wednesdays from 6:00-7:00 pm beginning January 6th. We will meet in the conference room of the Holy Cross Christian Center (next door). The class is intended for prospective… Read More

“And He Himself gave the apostles and the prophets and the evangelists and pastors and teachers, for bringing the saints to completion, for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all should attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to… Read More

DECEMBER 2015 WORSHIP CALENDAR: Wednesday, December 2: Noon Advent Devotions – K-Hall 6:00 pm Soup Supper 7:00 Advent Worship @ St. John’s Lutheran Church, Orchard Park Sunday, December 6: 8:00 am Worship Service 9:30 am Children’s Program Rehearsal & Confirmation 11:00 am Worship Service 4:00 & 7:00 pm Christmas Candlelight Vespers, First Trinity Lutheran Church,… Read More

“Thus says the LORD: ‘Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls’. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” ~Jeremiah 6:16 The holiday season from Thanksgiving, through Advent and Christmas, into New Year’s, can… Read More