We the members of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church believe that in response to God's Good News we give God praise in all that we do, specially through worship together, Bible study groups, fellowship and mission outreach. We also believe that we can't always live our faith perfectly. That is why we need the forgiveness of our Savior Jesus.

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.” Isaiah 1:18

Around Christmastime, I often can’t help but sing, "I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know." Truth be told, white Christmases are pretty, but also cause a bit of a headache with travel and shoveling and everything else that comes along with snowfall. Still, snow covers up the leaves that didn’t quite get raked and the other yard projects that you still have going and it makes everything look clean and fresh. Sometimes it’s nice to have clean and fresh over the whole world.

We need the world to be clean and fresh, not simply to cover the yard-work we haven’t done, but to cover all the things that we have done that we shouldn’t have, and to cover all the things we haven’t done that we should have. That’s a long list. As we celebrate Christmas, we celebrate a white Christmas, not in the sense of always having snow on Christmas day, but in the sense that Jesus Christ has come into the world to make our sins go away. He has taken the bright scarlet stain of our sin, and covered it with snow.

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