Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate our Risen Lord and Savior on the Fifth Sunday in Lent. In today’s message “Both Live Within Us”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the Gospel of Mark 10: 32-45 and reflects on James and John’s request to be in places of honor in Christ’s glory.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate our Risen Lord and Savior on the Fourth Sunday in Lent. In today’s message “Let’s Look Up”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the Gospel of John 3: 14-21 where Jesus explains to Nicodemus how God’s love for us through Christ’s sacrifice relates to Numbers 21: 4-9.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate our Risen Lord and Savior on the Third Sunday in Lent.
In today’s message “Business as Usual”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the Gospel of John 2: 13-25 where Jesus visits the temple in Jerusalem, a Holy place set aside for worshiping God, and drives out the money changers and people doing business.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate our Risen Lord and Savior on the Second Sunday in Lent.
In today’s message “Contradictory Moments in Our Life”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the Gospel of Mark 8: 27-38 where Jesus contrasts His disciples knowledge that He is the Christ, by declaring the destiny of His crucifixion and Resurrection.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate our Risen Lord and Savior on the First Sunday in Lent.
In today’s message “Leaving Home”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the Gospel of Mark 1: 9-15 where Jesus goes to the wilderness after His Baptism by John.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate our Risen Lord and Savior on Ash Wednesday. In today’s message “Where is My Place”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the Gospel of Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 where Jesus talks about living our faith through inward devotion to God our Father.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate the Fourth Sunday in Lent.
In today’s message “Looking, but Never Seeing ”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the Gospel of John 9: 1-41 where Jesus heals the blind man and teaches about spiritual sight.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate the Third Sunday in Lent.
In today’s message “Christ is the Well of Life”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the Gospel of John 4: 5-26 where Jesus talks with a Samaritan woman at the well in Sychar about His ministry on earth.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate the Second Sunday in Lent.
In today’s message “The Light of Christ in the Darkness”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the Gospel of John 3: 1-17 where Nicodemus meets with Jesus to hear the good news of the Gospel.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate the First Sunday in Lent.
In today’s message “Rethinking Temptation”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the Gospel of Matthew 4: 1-11 where after his baptism, Jesus is tempted by the devil in the wilderness, and rejects them.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate Ash Wednesday. In today’s message “Reclaiming and Re-treasuring”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the Gospel of Matthew 6: 1-6 16-21 where Jesus teaches His disciples the importance of storing up spiritual treasures in heaven.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California on the Fourth Sunday in Lent.
In today’s message “Making Disciples of Christ”, Vicar Eric Meux explores the lessons of the Gospel in Luke 15, and talks about the ways in which we are all called to be disciples and be a witness to others that they too might follow Jesus.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California on the Third Sunday in Lent.
In today’s message “One Precious Life”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the lessons of the Gospel in Luke 13: 1-9 where Jesus breaks the myth of tragedy as a consequence of sin, and focuses his disciples on what will bear fruit in their ministry.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California on the Second Sunday in Lent.
In today’s message “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem…”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the lessons of the Gospel in Luke 13: 31-35 where Jesus is warned by the Pharisees about Herod’s intent to kill him.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California on the First Sunday in Lent.
In today’s message “Temptation is more than just saying ‘No’ ”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explores the lessons of the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness as recorded in Luke 4: 1-13.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we begin the season of Lent on Ash Wednesday.
In today’s message “Our Dusty Beginning”, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu talks about the meaning of the season of Lent, and why we begin the season with a mark of ashes.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent.
Pastor Temesgen Dabsu explains the message in the service, “In today’s Homily I talk about remembering the life we were given, how it was before this time, and how it is now. The preciousness of life is found in its fragility and mortality. Life is short and uncertain. There are no guarantees. But that doesn’t negate the value and beauty.”
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Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate the Fourth Sunday in the Season of Lent. In today’s message, Pastor Temesgen Dabsu focuses on the Old Testament lesson from the book of Numbers where the Israelites were afflicted by poisonous snakes in the wilderness, and how this relates to Christ’s sacrifice for us.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate the third Sunday in the Season of Lent.
Pastor Temesgen Dabsu’s message today focuses on John 2:13-22 where Jesus casts out the money changers from the temple. The people at that time were living on “auto-pilot” and not seeing the temple which God made in them. Jesus came to disrupt their thinking and to show us His true purpose, focusing our lives on His Grace.
Join us for our virtual worship service from Grace Lutheran Church El Cerrito, California as we celebrate the second Sunday in the Season of Lent.
In today’s message Pastor Temesgen Dabsu focuses on Mark 8 where Jesus explains the future of His ministry as He heads towards Jerusalem. When Peter voices his disappointment in the future that Jesus reveals, Christ’s response guides us to center our identity in God’s plan for our salvation.
