The WORSHIP SERVICE WITH HOLY COMMUNION
Worship begins at 10:30 am.

Our service includes great music accompanied by our original Furst Pipe Organ. 

Most people use the rear entrance off the parking lot for convenience. Christ Lutheran Church is Handicap Accessible with an elevator to all floors from the parking lot entrance, ADA restrooms on all floors,  and Telex Assisted Listening Devices available upon request. The sanctuary is warm in the winter and air conditioned in the summer months for your comfort. 
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The First Lesson for July 13 2025, the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, is found in Deuteronomy 30: 9 - 14
The Second Lesson for July 13, 2025, the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, is found in Colossians 1: 1 - 14
The Psalm for July 13, 2025,  the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, is found in Psalm 25: 1 - 9
The Gospel for  July 13, 2025,  the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost is found in Luke 10: 25 - 37



Today’s Meditation in Preparation for Worship 
To love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind is to reflect God’s mercy in responding to one’s neighbor. That mercy found its most profound expression in the “gospel that has come to you”—namely the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. That gospel mercy comes to us again today: at the font, at the table, and from the pulpit. It is very near to you.

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​ BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE GOSPEL
Mark (12:28-34) and Matthew (22:34-40) include similar exchanges between Jesus and a Jewish authority, but Luke’s narrative skill adds the parable to illumine and modify Jesus’ answer. Luke’s gospel previously cited Samaritans as refusing to receive Christ (9:52-53), but here the representative of the hated ethnic group epitomizes the compassion of God so important to Luke. Jesus’ answer to the lawyer cites Deuteronomy 6:4 and Leviticus 19:18, yet by highlighting the Samaritan’s merciful conduct, rather than the Torah and Jewish religious status, the parable was especially welcoming to Luke’s Gentile audience. Jericho is sixteen miles northeast of Jerusalem and “down” below sea level.
 
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Our Church Organ
Church Organ—A Brief History
Originally a Moller Organ and a Bar Chest organ, (the part that the pipes sit on) it was probably built in the late teens-early 1920’s. The actual workings of the organ were composed of small leather pneumatic pouches located in bars, low voltage DC chest magnets, relays, and other electrical parts.
After removed from its original location by Fred Furst (we don’t know where it came from originally), it was rebuilt and installed in CLC by Furst Church Organs, York, PA in the 1940’s. 
The existing console (the keyboard that Virginia sits in front of) was built by Furst Church Organs for this installation and is not the original Moller console. 
 In 1997, Taylor Miller Organ Company in York PA did a major rebuild of the instrument. The Furst console was rebuilt using new solid state technology. New wind chests were installed that are electric action and a new rank of “Trumpets” was added, as well as other updates like new Chimes and Chime Action and a new organ blower.
An interesting fact is that during the war years organ parts were hard to come by so Fred Furst would use low voltage relays and other parts made by Lionel Train Company for some console relays.

Please come visit with us and let the elegant sound of this beautiful instrument fill your soul and enhance your worship