Cross of Christ Lutheran Church
As a fellowship of believers, it is our mission to joyfully proclaim the gospel of Christ in word and deed, inviting people to worship together, nurturing them in the Christian faith, loving one another, and serving a world in need. We invite you to visit us.
Cross of Christ
Sunday Worship Service
8:30 a.m.
Facebook Live Sunday Service
Bulletins
(Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-725137.
All rights reserved.)
This church bell originally hung in St. Peter's bell tower on Grant Street. (now the Early Childhood building) It is well over 100 years old. Kind of cool as we celebrate our nation's 250th.
Summer Worship
Services will be held at
Cross of Christ
at 8:30 a.m. on
Aug 2
All other Sundays we worship at the Stone Church at 8:30am.
July 6 - July 12
Monday:
9:00 a.m. Quilting, Potluck, Business Meeting
Tuesday:
9:00 a.m. Quilting, Potluck
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Office Closed
Friday:
Pastor’s Day Off
9:00 a.m. Hobby Huddle
Saturday:
9:00 a.m. Hobby Huddle
Sunday:
8:30 am Worship Service at Stone Church
Communion
Facebook Live
Coffee
Stone Church Cemetery Meeting
Upcoming Events
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1st Sunday of each month Noisy Offering
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3rd Sunday of each month Non-Communion Worship & Caring Collection
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July 19 Caring Collection Cereal (please no Cheerios)
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August 16 Caring Collection Peanut Butter & Jelly
Would You Like to Contribute to
Cross of Christ?
As easy as sending a text!
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Send Text Amount to the phone number 833-987-5990.
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You will receive a text message back with a link to register.
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Click on the link and register.
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You will receive a message when completed that says. "Thank you for donating $(amount donated) to Cross of Christ Lutheran Ch!
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Text "repeat" to make this recurring or "refund" to cancel this donation."
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Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 (NIV) — The Parable of the Sower
13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake.
2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore.
3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying:
4 “A farmer went out to sow his seed.
5 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
6 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.
7 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
8 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.
9 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
10 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
The parable invites self-examination, not judgment of others.
The parable is not primarily about four kinds of people. It is about four conditions of the heart that can exist within any one person at different times.
A faithful Christian may experience:
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seasons of hardness,
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moments of shallow enthusiasm,
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periods of choking distraction,
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and times of deep fruitfulness.
The seed is the Word of God.
The sower is Christ (and all who proclaim the Gospel). The soil is the human heart — its openness, resistance, distractions, and endurance.
The parable is not about the skill of the sower. It’s about the condition of the soil.