Verse for the week: “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3.11
Prayer for the week: Dear heavenly Father, hallow your name among us: see to it that your Word
is taught in its truth and purity and that we as your children live in harmony with
it; through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. Amen.
Bible reading for the day: Psalm 9.1-8
I will give thanks to
the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
2 I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
3 When my enemies turn
back,
they stumble and perish before[c] your
presence.
4 For you have maintained my just cause;
you have sat on the throne, giving righteous
judgment.
5 You have rebuked the
nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;
their cities you rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.
7 But
the Lord sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for justice,
8 and he judges the world with righteousness;
he judges the peoples with uprightness.
Prayer of the Day: Gracious and Almighty Father, of all your wonderful deeds this is chief:
you chose the cross as your throne and sat yourself, your son there to give
your righteousness to unrighteous ones like me. Thank you! In so doing, you
brought the Enemy to everlasting ruin; he stumbles and perishes before you.
Still somehow, he manages to prowl around seeking whom he may devour, so keep
up your work Lord until I breath my last or Christ returns… then I finally will
give you thanks with my whole heart. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.
Hymn: follow this link to a beloved classic that gives
further voice to today’s conversation with the Lord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKP_XxCBDZY&ab_channel=MartijndeGroot
“I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord…”
What does this mean for us? I believe that Jesus Christ — true God,
begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin
Mary — is my Lord. He has redeemed me, a lost and condemned creature, and has
freed me from sin, death, and the power of the devil, not with silver and gold,
but with his holy and precious blood and his innocent suffering and death. He
has done all this in order that I might be his own, live under him in his
kingdom, and serve him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and
blessedness, even as he is risen from the dead and lives and reigns for all
eternity. This is most certainly true! (from
The Small Catechism, Martin Luther)
Benediction: For the Lord takes pleasure
in his people;
he adorns the humble with salvation. Psalm 149.4
*This is now
our congregation’s 99th year in the Word. In 2025, we are reading
from Genesis to Revelation, with a few interludes along the way.
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