Koinonia Youth Ministry - Pilgrim Lutheran

04/09/2023

Thank you to everyone who attended our Easter Breakfast Buffet! We had a great turn out to enjoy the fantastic food our Youth prepared. Your presence was a blessing and your donations will help support our upcoming youth events.

Have a blessed Easter! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!!

04/07/2023

May your Good Friday be blessed as you reflect on the depths of your Savior's love for you.

Good Friday
The Crucifixion

Collect of the Day
Almighty God, graciously behold this Your family for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed and delivered into the hands of sinful men to suffer death upon the cross; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

02/22/2023

Despite the solemn nature of this Ash Wednesday we must not forget that the placing of ashes upon the forehead of the believer is done so in the sign of the cross. The symbol of the cross serves as a sign of hope during this darkened occasion.

12/13/2022

Join us in praying for all the students working hard before finals! Do your best in your vocation as a student, but remember that your identity is ultimately in Christ, not in your grades! You've got this!

Praying for everyone who is deep into preparing for finals. May God give you wisdom, encouragement, and all you need to make finals week great!

12/07/2022

While traveling, you get to share the gospel with strangers. Most people are open to listen. It doesn't have to be super deep. Just mentioning God, the fact that you pray, or Christ’s kindness towards us, is a seed planted. If you shy away, don't condemn yourself for being intimidated or nervous. There's always next time. God is patient.

11/16/2022

11/05/2022

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights,…” -James 1:17 🗣️ Open hands, to me, represents that we live the receptive life. Posturing myself to receive from my LORD. Extra Nos. 📸 Tarcea Renee

10/31/2022

"We need to hear the Gospel every day because we forget it every day." - Martin Luther

09/01/2022

# 862 / Vol.9
Ps 4:8, “In peace, I will both lie down and sleep, for you alone, O YHWH, make me dwell in safety.”

Sleep can be the process of rest and waking that we go through every night, but Scripture also speaks of death as sleep (Jn 11:11; 1 Thess.4:13-18). The one who lives in covenant with YHWH and entrusts themselves to Him lies down and sleeps the sleep of death in peace because YHWH his God makes him dwell in safety. Notice, when we apply Ps.4:8 to the sleep of death, the implication is that death, though an end, is not the end because the one who has lain down and slept the sleep of death in YHWH does not cease to live (for “all live to Him” Lk 20:38), rather, he continues to dwell in the peaceful and unassailable safety of YHWH Himself. Death holds no terror for the one found in YHWH. They are able to lie down in peace, knowing that—even as they sleep in the womb of the earth, awaiting new birth—they dwell with their Lord and God. Every night when we entrust ourselves to the Lord in sleep, we are rehearsing our death, and every morning when we wake because He has sustained us, we are rehearsing resurrection.

Finally, these words must be applied to Him of whom all Psalms speak, and in whom alone any Psalm may be applied to anyone other than Him: the crucified and risen Jesus. Jesus is foundationally and finally the one to whom these words apply. He is the one who willingly and peacefully lays His life down in the sleep of death (Jn 10:18), knowing that He will dwell in the safety of His God and Father (Jn 13:3, 14:28 etc.). Jesus enters the sleep of Death and the night of Curse as and for His people, committing Himself wholly into the hands of His Father. And because of this, He also wakes again, sustained through the night by the covenant faithfulness of God (Ps.3:5, Heb.12:20-21).

Because HE entered the sleep of death in peace and woke from that sleep in joy, we too, in Him, may lie down peacefully in that same bed, knowing that while we sleep we will dwell in safety, united to the woken one who slept this Night in our place, and that we will—in Him—certainly wake again, sustained by and satisfied in our Lord and our God (Ps.3:5, 17:15).

08/31/2022

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
- 1 John 1:9

04/16/2022

“Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Amen.