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2020

The Sunday after Christmas honors the patient, the steadfast, the lingering ones; as Simeon and Anna receive evidence of their answered prayers.

Join the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church of La Grange for their annual Christmas Eve Worship Service. Nine lessons and carols are celebrated this year, spanning texts from the Fall in the Garden of Eden through God's promise to Abraham, from the words of the Prophets making way for the Messiah through the Good News of Christ's Birth. There are greetings from families and a special visitor. Merry Christmas!

You can follow the Christmas Eve video service with our Christmas Eve bulletin, which includes hyperlinks to the full scripture readings.

Join us for our annual Family Christmas Service. Children and youth help us celebrate the news of Christ's birth here on the 4th Sunday of Advent.

This is the Sunday of Joy. In worship today we explore how joy and revenge are incompatible in the Kingdom of God.

Join us for a celebration of the beginning of the Advent Season. The driving beat of the prophets propels us into the word of hope. Sing, hear and pray with us.

Reviewing the liturgical year. The flow of seasons moves the heart, motivates the soul and inspires the spirit. Join us for Liturgical Year in Review, 2020 edition.

In Matthew 25, Jesus compares our responsibility to being entrusted with treasure while the Master is away. How we choose to risk is what will be rewarded, it is the Master's return.

Joshua was a leader, the principles of his leadership were most evident in his retirement speech from Joshua 24. This week's installment of Sermon Sense analyzes his words and suggests things we can learn about leadership in our age, principles from an ancient warrior.

Join in the celebration of Saints at First Presbyterian Church of La Grange. We encourage our confirmation students, ordain and install officers, recall the faithful who have passed into glory. Worship with us!

This Sunday's video is the texts from last Sunday's rained out service. So while the 25th of October 2020 is the 21st Sunday after Pentecost, we are still using last week's texts. This week's texts will be shared today at our 4:30 outdoor service.

From Sunday, October 11, 2020, a parable about a wedding feast, a golden calf for Aaron, the high cost of healthcare and why banks used to have beautiful lobbies. Outdoor worship makes for strange connections. Join us!

October 4th, 2020 Outdoor worship.

When we’re not sure what to be, Be the Church!

With deep apologies for the sound quality, our outdoor worship service was celebrated on September 20. To see a schedule of live worship services go to our homepage at www.fpclg.org.

This week we ask the question, "What good is knowledge if it only helps us hate?"

Pastor Krogh was on the road to visit his mother and return to some old familiar places. Looking back challenges us to see how well we looked ahead. Join us with some special working guests.

God calls Moses and Jesus rebukes Peter. Sometimes the name of God can take our breath away!

This week Pastor Krogh reviews 25 chapters of Genesis in 15 minutes. 'Land O Goshen' that's fast!

The genealogy of the Matriarch and Patriarch in scripture demonstrates how untraditional is God's call. As when Peter faltered on the water, it is Christ who holds us and brings us safely home.

Elder Chris Hein offers a deep telling of Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000 with a challenge for us to engage in radical generosity.

Praying in difficult times may reflect our sense of God's distance but God is not far off, in those times the Holy Spirit draws us even closer. That was Christ's message in the parables, the Kingdom of God is so very near, all around us in everyday stuff.

In this week's cooking demonstration, Pastor Krogh discusses the tensions between Jacob and Esau and Jesus' parable of the weeds and the wheat. Join us for worship!

FPCLG-TV brings us Farm Report, an agricultural news segment broadcast from studio G-11. This week's Farm Report is on the Parable of the Sower. Tune in and enjoy the show!

This Sunday includes a difficult passage from Genesis regarding Abraham, Isaac and what God expects from faith. Worship with us!

Join us for Father’s Day worship service from First Presbyterian Church of La Grange. June 21, 2020!

Worship service from First Presbyterian Church of La Grange for June 14, 2020, with a special pre-Father's Day story to get you ready for next Sunday. Pastor Krogh reflects on the laughter revealed after the tension of change.

Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2020, also Graduate Recognition and Scholarship Sunday

Pentecost Worship Service, May 31, 2020

Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 24, 2020

Each year the First Presbyterian Church of La Grange honors the saints who have chosen us as custodians of their earthly cremains interred in the Katie McGowan Memorial Garden.