Pastor’s Pen

First Lutheran Church of Tacoma is proud to announce its 25th season of “Listen Live at Lunch.”
CONCERT SERIES 2024
Wednesday at Noon in the First Lutheran Sanctuary
JUL 3: Elliot Sander & Alex Swanson, organists July 10: Reid Wolch, pianist, Dan Wolch, trombonist, Benjamin Sawrey, pianist
JUL 17: Wyatt Smith, organist
JUL […]

LISTEN LIVE AT LUNCH SUMMER CONCERT SERIES 2023
WEDNESDAYS AT NOON
FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH
524 S I St
Tacoma, WA 98405
FREE ADMISSION
 
LISTEN LIVE AT LUNCH
JUL 5—Cassio Vianna & Ronaldo Rolim, piano. A Brazilian Jazz and Classical Conversation
JUL 12—Wyatt Smith, organ. American organ works
JUL 19—Jensina Oliver, piano. Work […]

Grammy-nominated pianist Duane Hulbert joins his longtime friend soprano Elizabeth Procuronoff, in a recital that will benefit Tacoma’s Emergency Food Network, Aug. 20, 2:00 at First Lutheran Church, 524 S. “I” St, Tacoma.
The recital, Songs in the Key of Me, is a musical travelogue of the USA, South America and Europe featuring bot […]

LISTEN LIVE AT LUNCH SUMMER CONCERT SERIES 2022
WEDNESDAYS AT NOON AT FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH
FREE ADMISSION
JUL 6—Rachel Nesvig, Hardanger fiddle, and violin. A program of Norwegian folk music, and more.
JUL 13—Two Lilies: Liliya Linder, flute; Liliya Sitdikova, piano. Works by Bach, Gossec, Handel, Loeillet, Mozart, Pachelbel, and Viv […]

LISTEN LIVE AT LUNCH SUMMER CONCERT SERIES 2021
WE ARE BACK FOR LIVE, IN-PERSON PERFORMANCES THIS YEAR!
WEDNESDAYS AT NOON AT FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH. FREE ADMISSION.
July 7 Wyatt Smith, organ. A program of works by American composers
July 14 Corvid Ensemble. Clarice Alfonso, soprano; Marjorie Bunday, contralto; Lark Powers, piano. A Flight […]

Friends of First Lutheran Church,
I suspect very few of us will be sorry to see the calendar change from the year 2020 to 2021. I heard one person say, “I’m staying up until midnight on December 31st, not to welcome in the New Year, but to make sure 2020 leaves!”
It’s been a difficult and challenging year, to say the least […]

In times of uncertainty, as the people of God, we need a hope that is unshakeable. All the things we have been putting our hope in, be it a growing economy, longer life expectancy, or increasing personal freedom and self-understanding, are suddenly revealed as a glass castle. What we need is an unshakable hope.
Surprisingly for some, this […]

Loving God, Holy One, your desire is for our wholeness and well-being.
We hold in tenderness and prayer the collective suffering of our world at this time. We grieve precious lives lost and vulnerable lives threatened. We ache for ourselves and our neighbors, standing before an uncertain future.
We pray: may love, not fear, go viral. Insp […]

I wish coronavirus was my first epidemic. As a medical missionary and a relief team leader in war zones around the world I’ve risked my life trying to save lives in more epidemics than I can count. There is nothing special about that. It has been the normal Christian life throughout history. Christians don’t run from a crisis. They ru […]