Events to Note Dec. 2..............A Cap St. John, Cold Spring • 8:30 AM A Cap St. James, Cambridge • 10:15 AM Dec. 4............. First Home Wrestling Match • 6:30 PM Dec. 5, 12, 19.............Advent services in area churches Dec. 9................... A Cap St. John, Whitewater • 9 AM A Cap Christus, Richmond • 10 AM SCLBC tryouts at LLHS 6–7:30 PM Dec. 11............................Lakeside Ladies Guild • 7 PM Dec. 16.................................Christmas Concert • 7 PM Dec. 18.....................Review Day: classes dismiss noon Dec. 19–21.............................. Semester Exam schedule Dec. 22-Jan. 2.................... Christmas Break: no classes Dec. 28–29.......... GBB (Fort) & BBB (LMills) tourneys Jan. 3.............. Classes resume/Second semester begins
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Federation Connection December 2012
a publication of Lakeside Lutheran High School Volume 2: Issue 4
Do you consider your family a past, present or future “Lakeside family”?
If so, please send
Lakeside one of your 2012 Christmas family photos! Many of our families take photos and turn them into Christmas greetings to share with family and friends. We have a group of Lakeside friends who plan to transform the main bulletin board here at Lakeside into a collage of families who are proud to call themselves Lakeside supporters. Let us add your photo to the board! Drop off a photo in the office, send it with a student or visitor, even e-mail it as an attachment and we will print it out! Then come to campus and enjoy the wonderful collection of families blessed by Christian education at Lakeside!
Contact Info Phone: 920-648-2321 Fax: 920-648-5625 E-mail: info@llhs.org Website: llhs.org
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dvent is a season of reflection and preparation for the joyous Christmas season that follows. Although some Advent hymns are quiet and somber, one in particular has a different character. Philip Dodderidge was pastor of a “dissenting” church that did not accept the authority of the Church of England. He was a prolific hymn writer, penning 400 hymns for use primarily in his PRINCIPAL’S PEN congregation. In 1735, he wrote Hark, the Glad Sound! Little did he know that his hymn would become a beloved Advent hymn. The original text has seven stanzas. Christian Worship contains four of them. In the hymn, Dodderidge masterfully communicates law and gospel, sin and grace. With terms like prisoners, bondage, fetters and broken, he conveys sin’s reality in our lives. The sinful nature with which we are born separates us from God’s love and destroys our relationship with him. However, the hymn also expresses gospel comfort with words like bind, cured, grace and restored. They explain the Savior’s work of restoration through his perfect life, innocent death and glorious resurrection. A spirit of reflection and preparation – along with the believer’s only source of comfort and hope in Jesus Christ – is conveyed in one hymn.
God bless your Advent preparation with the sure knowledge that the Prince of Peace brings you true forgiveness and life. Hark, The Glad Sound! Mr. Jim Grasby is principal of Lakeside Lutheran; his column is featured in every Federation Connection. Reach him at 920.648.2321 x 2204 or jgrasby@llhs.org