Lutheran Hour Ministries Devotions
Available in the Narthex.
Devotions will help strengthen and encourage your faith.
Advent Meals
The youth group is serving meals on Advent Wednesdays before the evening worship service. Dinner is served from 5:30 until 6:15 PM
Congregational Christmas Breakfast
In the Fellowship Hall to celebrate the birth of our Savior by enjoying food and fellowship, (maybe some trivia and other games). Come, be known and encouraged.
Cookie Walk
Christmas Cookies Exchange/Walk is an opportunity to eat and take home delicious cookies made with love and maybe a few made by faceless bakers bought in a chain store. Satisfy your Christmas cookie appetite and help support the youth group.
Youth Christmas Party
The Youth Christmas Party is a mystery dinner set in the North Pole. We are citizens of town, who, by-the-way, desperately need to hear the good news of the Savior's birth. See Curtis for your character assignment.
Lacey Kringel is once again hosting the annual Kringel’s Block Party in Holly Hills. The RSVP list for this year’s event has you on edge. Hollyberry Town’s rumor mill has been churning with scandals—blackmail, backstabbing, and deception have shaken this once-peaceful community. You’re certain drama is inevitable. With a few personal grudges of your own to settle, you’re eager to see what unfolds.
Christmas Pictures 2025-2021
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Christmas Day(Series C)
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 52:7-10
Epistle Reading: Hebrews 1:1-12
Gospel Reading: John 1:1-18
Pastor Eric Klemme preached from 1John 4 on God’s perfect love revealed in Jesus Christ. He emphasized that love is not something we create or master on our own, but the gift of God, most clearly shown in sending His Son to be our Savior. While the world’s versions of love are fleeting or self-serving, God’s agape love is unconditional, sacrificial, and enduring. Pastor Klemme reminded us that this love equips us, through the Spirit and the means of grace, to love even our enemies and to live as witnesses of Christ’s peace. At Christmas, we celebrate not only Christ’s first coming but also prepare in faith for His second coming, keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, who is true love in action.
Christmas Eve(Series C)
Mary's Story: Luke 1:26-38
Caesar's Decree: Luke 2:1-7
Shepherds and Angels: Luke 2:8-14
Shepherd's Jubilee: Luke 2:15-17
John's Nativity: John 1:1-18
Pastor Eric Klemme preached from 1John 4 on God’s perfect love revealed in Jesus Christ. He emphasized that love is not something we create or master on our own, but the gift of God, most clearly shown in sending His Son to be our Savior. While the world’s versions of love are fleeting or self-serving, God’s agape love is unconditional, sacrificial, and enduring. Pastor Klemme reminded us that this love equips us, through the Spirit and the means of grace, to love even our enemies and to live as witnesses of Christ’s peace. At Christmas, we celebrate not only Christ’s first coming but also prepare in faith for His second coming, keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, who is true love in action.
Christmas Eve(Series B)
Mary's Story: Luke 1:26-38
Caesar's Decree: Luke 2:1-7
Shepherds and Angels: Luke 2:8-14
Shepherd's Jubilee: Luke 2:15-17
John's Nativity: John 1:1-18
In his Christmas Eve morning sermon, Family Life Minister Curtis unpacked the meaning of biblical love by contrasting the flexible English word love with the Greek categories eros, philia, and especially agape—God’s unconditional, sacrificial love revealed in sending His Son. He explained that while human love is often distorted and false, appealing to our sinful desires and cultural idols, God’s agape love stands apart: it rescues sinful people who cannot save themselves, just as God promised deliverance to Judah even amid their rebellion. Curtis traced this promise from Isaiah’s prophecy of the virgin-born Immanuel to its fulfillment in Jesus’ birth, emphasizing that God saves not through human power but through weakness hidden in the manger and revealed in the cross. Because Christ delivered us from sin, death, and the devil through grace alone, believers are freed to love their neighbors with genuine, Christ-shaped agape as we celebrate the advent of our rescue.
Christmas Day(Series B)
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 52:7-10
Epistle Reading: Hebrews 1:1-6 (7-12)
Gospel Reading: John 1:1-14 (15-18)
Christmas Eve(Series A)
Mary's Story: Luke 1:26-38
Caesar's Decree: Luke 2:1-7
Shepherds and Angels: Luke 2:8-14
Shepherd's Jubilee: Luke 2:15-17
John's Nativity: John 1:1-18
Christmas Day(Series A)
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 52:7-10
Epistle Reading: Hebrews 1:1-6 (7-12)
Gospel Reading: John 1:1-14 (15-18)
Christmas Eve(Series C)
Mary's Story: Luke 1:26-38
Caesar's Decree: Luke 2:1-7
Shepherds and Angels: Luke 2:8-14
Shepherd's Jubilee: Luke 2:15-17
John's Nativity: John 1:1-18
Christmas Day(Series C)
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 52:7-10
Epistle Reading: Hebrews 1:1-12
Gospel Reading: John 1:1-14
Christmas Pictures 2020-2016
Poinsettias
Help to provide poinsettias for the Sanctuary in celebration of Christmas by donating $10 for a poinsettia. We can receive you gift through an envelope in the offering plate or online at shalimar.church/give.
The poinsettias association with Christmas began in 16th-century Mexico, where legend tells of a girl who was too poor to provide a gift for the celebration of Jesus' birthday. So she gathered green foliage and place them in front of the church altar where red blossoms miraculously sprouted from the greenery. The plant was introduced to the United States by the first US Ambassador to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett, in the 1820's.
The star-shaped leaf pattern is said to symbolize the Star of Bethlehem, and the red color represents the blood sacrifice of Jesus's crucifixion.
Christmas Pictures 2015-2011
Christmas Tree Decorating
The Altar Guild beautifies the sanctuary for Advent to include setting up and decorating the Christmas trees with handmade Chrismons. Chrismons (Christ monograms) are ornaments based on symbols of Christ including monograms of Jesus' name in Greek. The Chrismons Tree originated at Ascension Lutheran Church in Danville, VA in 1957.
Christmas Pictures 2010-2009
