Verse for the week: “the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.” Mt 20.28
Prayer for the week:
Almighty God, by the blood of
the lamb, you give us what we cannot earn or deserve: forgiveness of our sins,
life, and salvation. Send your Holy Spirit and grant us to believe with joy
what the scriptures proclaim, through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. Amen.
Bible reading for the day: Exodus 12.1-14
1 The Lord said to
Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month
shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the
year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel
that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according
to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household. 4 And
if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor
shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat
you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb
shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the
sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it
until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the
congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
7 “Then they shall take
some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the
houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the
flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter
herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw
or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner
parts. 10 And you shall let none of it remain
until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall
burn. 11 In this manner you shall eat it:
with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your
hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. 12 For I
will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of
Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 The
blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the
blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when
I strike the land of Egypt.
14 “This day shall
be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to
the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you
shall keep it as a feast.
Prayer (based on TRIP* method): Gracious and almighty Father, thank you
for the true Passover Lamb who is Jesus; for taking away our sin through him
and guarding my household against the destroyer with Christ’s life-giving
blood. Thank you! Repent me and my
congregation of dawdling in our old bondage… of lagging and malingering when you
are already executing your will for us.
Each day, call us out of our old slavery and into the freedom of
following you… and use us to pass this freedom on to our children and
grandchildren. In Jesus’ name I ask this, amen.
Hymn: an excerpt to whet your appetite: https://www.baytonemusic.com/audio/RockHymnal/07_He_ll_Be_There.mp3
What is Holy Communion?
It is the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ under
the bread and wine, given to us Christians to eat and drink, as it was
instituted by Christ himself.
Where is this written?
Matthew, Mark, Luke and Paul say:
Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night in which he was betrayed,
took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his
disciples saying:
Take and
eat, this is my body, which is given for you.
Do this
in remembrance of me.
Again, after supper he took the cup, gave thanks, and
gave it to them, saying:
Take and
drink of it, all of you.
This cup
is the new testament in my blood,
which
is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this,
as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
(from The Small Catechism, by Martin Luther
©Reclaim Resources, Sola Publishing, 2011)
T: thanksgiving
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