Pilgrim Christmas Eve Worship

 

Angels Announcing Christ's Birth to the Shepherds

Govert Flinck (1615–1660)

Pilgrim Lutheran Church

Christmas Eve Candlelight Worship

December 24, 2025

We're thankful you've come here to watch our service and to worship the one true God!

If you live in the Burton area, please consider joining us on Sunday mornings!  Anyone can watch our services live on Facebook or on Pilgrim's website.

Here is information about this worship service:

SCRIPTURE READINGS

  Old Testament:  Isaiah 9:2-7

       Psalm:  Psalm 96

      Epistle:  Titus 2:11-14

      Gospel:  Luke 2:1-20

THEME FOR WORSHIP

In our daily lives, we sing the song of sorrow, along with all people around the world.  We sing sorrow over our suffering, our pain and our sins.  But tonight, an angel of the Lord gives you a new song to sing!  Come, sing with us, the song of your Savior, the song of peace and joy and freedom!

To watch the video of today's service, please click HERE.

Your servant in Christ,

Pastor Mark

Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS    Burton, Michigan

office:  810.744.1188   

We are Pilgrims with a Purpose:  

       Sharing God’s Love & Mercy with Each Other & the World.

Pilgrim Website           Pilgrim Facebook page

Soli Deo Gloria

"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."  Psalm 119:105

Pilgrim Worship Sunday December 21, 2025

 

Pilgrim Lutheran Church

The Fourth Sunday in Advent

December 21, 2025

We're thankful you've come here to watch our service and to worship the one true God!

This was another exciting Sunday at Pilgrim Lutheran Church!  We've returned to our regular Sunday schedule, starting with Adult Bible class at 9:15 am and then our 10:30 am Worship service.  Afterward, we gathered for food and conversations, while the children enjoyed Sunday School.  These classes are full of activities and teaching, so the children learn how much God loves them!

If you live in the Burton area, please consider joining us on Sunday mornings!  Anyone can watch our services live on Facebook or on Pilgrim's website.

Here is information about this worship service:

SCRIPTURE READINGS

  Old Testament:  Isaiah 7:10–17

       Psalm:  Psalm 24

      Epistle:  Romans 1:1–7

     Gospel:  Matthew 1:18–25

THEME FOR WORSHIP

Amid the hectic obligations and the never-ending to-do lists, today you’re invited to hear the Christmas story form Matthew’s gospel.  The Apostle Luke gets most of the air-time during Christmas hymns & programs, but Matthew gives us a different focus, with Joseph as the featured character.  Joseph finds himself in a difficulty situation over which he has no control, yet how does he respond?  What can you learn from Joseph today?

To watch the video of today's service, please click HERE.

Your servant in Christ,

Pastor Mark

Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS    Burton, Michigan

office:  810.744.1188   

We are Pilgrims with a Purpose:  

       Sharing God’s Love & Mercy with Each Other & the World.

Pilgrim Website           Pilgrim Facebook page

Soli Deo Gloria

"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."  Psalm 119:105

Thursday Psalms: The King of Glory!

Blessed Thursday to each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, your Savior!

Today's is a beautiful Advent psalm, proclaiming God's presence among His people.  There are three sections here for us to study, the first two verses begin by proclaiming the Lord as Creator, Owner, Founder and Establisher of the earth and everything around us.  And then David asks "who can be in the presence of the one true God?"  Certainly we are not deserving of this honor!  However, we find the answer in verses 4&5.

Psalm 24     A Psalm of David.
¹ The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof,
   the world and those who dwell therein,
² for He has founded it upon the seas
     and established it upon the rivers.
³ Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?
     And who shall stand in His holy place?
⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
     who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
⁵ He will receive blessing from the Lord
     and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
⁶ Such is the generation of those who seek Him,
     who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
⁷ Lift up your heads, O gates!
     And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
⁸ Who is this King of glory?
     The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle!
⁹ Lift up your heads, O gates!
     And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
¹⁰ Who is this King of glory?

     The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory!

Do you meet the standards set in verse four?  If you're like me, the answer is "...sometimes, I think?"  You and I don't like to admit it, but our hands are never really clean, our hearts are never really pure and deception and dishonesty are tools of our daily lives.  Things are really hopeless, if our own merit is all we have.  

But Jesus has intervened for you!  If you believe in Jesus as your Savior, you receive great blessings (v 5) from the Lord!  Because Jesus took your punishment for all your sins, you have received His righteousness and salvation!  We are the people, we are the "generation" who seek Him by seeking to live lives which glorify Him.  Because Jesus has cleaned our hands and made our hearts pure, we can joyfully ascend the hill of the Lord and stand in His holy place!  

In the final four verses, David calls all creation (including you & me!) to worship Jesus, the King of glory!  What a fitting psalm and theme for Advent, as we await the King of glory's birth in just a few days!  We also keep our heads uplifted as we wait for His second and final return, when the the Lord, strong and mighty, returns for His final judgement of the world, and the bodily resurrection of all believers to eternal life!

Your servant in Christ,

Pastor Mark

Pilgrim Lutheran Church, LCMS    Burton, Michigan

office:  810.744.1188 

We are Pilgrims with a Purpose:  

     Sharing God’s Love & Mercy with Each Other & the World.

Pilgrim Website       Pilgrim Facebook page

Soli Deo Gloria

"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."  Psalm 119:105