e v e n t s to n o t e Dec. 1................................................................... LES “B team” tip off games at LLHS | 8a Dec. 2......................................................A Cappella @ St. St. John, Jefferson | 8 & 10:30a Dec. 5, 12, 19................................................................... Advent services in area churches Dec. 4, 11 & 18................................................. Home Boys Basketball games | 6 & 7:30p Dec. 9....A Cappella @ St. John, Cold Spring (8:15a) & St. James, Cambridge (10:15a) Dec. 10 & 21...................................................... Home Girls Basketball games | 6 & 7:30p Dec. 16............................................................................................. Christmas Concert | 7p Dec. 18.....................................................................Review Day: classes dismiss at 12:05p Dec. 19-21.....................................................................................................Semester Exams Dec. 20................................................................ Home Wrestling Dual v. Cambridge | 7p Dec. 22–Jan. 2..........................................................................Christmas Break: no classes Dec. 27–28................................................................................V Boys BB (LMills) tourney Dec. 27–28.....................................................................JV/V GBB (Home at LL) tourneys Jan. 3..................................................................... Classes resume/Second semester begins
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Luminaries for Loved Ones... Help us let His light shine by making a $5.00 donation to Lakeside in memory or honor of a loved one this Christmas. The luminaries line our sidewalks (weather permitting) and names are published in the Christmas Concert program on December 16. Please remit by December 10 and enclose a minimum of $5.00 per memorial name. Include the following info with your donation: Name(s) in Memory: 1) _____________________ 2) ________________________
December 2018
a publication of Lakeside Lutheran High School Volume 8: Issue 4
FED eration CONnection
From rags to riches is a common theme in literature, pop culture, and music. In real life, losers sometimes become champions. It’s appealing. After all, who wouldn’t want to go from failure to success, from poverty to wealth? For Christians, the themes of Advent and Christmas are the opposite: from riches to rags. John’s gospel begins, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Jesus is the living Word of God. He existed with his Father and the Holy Spirit from eternity. He was the active Word at Creation. He was the Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament. Old Testament prophesied him as the Messiah. Indeed, Christ had it all as Lord of heaven and earth. But, sin entered the world through humankind. The hope of living in holiness disappeared. Humans would know only misery, guilt, and death. Here we witness God’s boundless love. Christ did the unthinkable. He surrendered heaven’s glories, “became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14). He became what he was not so that we could become what we are not. Christ who is “in very nature God...made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant… [suffering] even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:6-8).
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We will never fully understand Christ’s actions this side of eternity. Yet, he set aside heavenly glory—his “riches”— and took up humanity—our “rags”—as prophesied. His boundless love and undeserved grace are the greatest gifts ever!
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From rags to riches. It’s a great story. Everyone loves cheering for an underdog.
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Yet, Christ’s riches to rags story is far greater. He laid aside heaven’s riches for us. Now, as our risen and victorious Savior, he reigns again in glory. From all of us at Lakeside: God bless your Christmas celebration of his love through Christ. May he also bless you with a joyous New Year. Jim Grasby is principal of Lakeside Lutheran. Reach him at 920.648.2321 or jgrasby@llhs.org