How Lutherans Worship -13: The Hymns & The Sermon

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Hymns and The Hymn of the Day God’s people have been encouraged to sing their prayers, praise, and thanksgiving to God. Why [...]

Treasury of Daily Prayer–Wednesday after Pentecost

What If God Was One of Us? A chapel message based on the Old Testament Reading for the day from Numbers 23:4-28, especially verse 19.

Titus 2:11-14 Christmas Eve

St. Paul wrote Titus of the grace of God that had appeared in Christ for the salvation of all men. It is a blessed Christmas truth that in the Babe of Bethlehem the grace of God became embodied. God’s love became localized in time and space, manifest, evident, visible. What had always been the attitude, the disposition of God toward men, now became personified in the swaddled shape and form of a newborn child.

Luke 24:44-53 Ascension

“Sir we would see Jesus!”

If that’s why you’ve come, you’ll not leave disappointed. You, just like me for so many years, you may have come to church tonight thinking that Ascension Day is a great day of celebration—and it is—a great day celebrating the Lord Jesus’ leaving for heaven—but it’s not.

Matthew 27:54—Passion (Palm) Sunday

“When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “‘ruly this was the Son of God!’ ” (Matthew 27:54)

What was it that gave it away for this Centurion, this Roman soldier? How did he come to know that Jesus was the Son of God? Was it the thunder and lightening? Was it the temple veil being ripped in two? Was it the dead rising from their graves and going about in the city? What was it that proved to this Roman soldier that Jesus was the Son of God?

St. Paul pondered this question in the first hymn of the Christian Church, found in Philippians chapter 2: “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:5-11)

Holy Week

The week before Easter is called Holy Week and culminates the preparation time of Lent. During these days, we focus on the events of Jesus’ life from His entrance into Jerusalem until His glorious resurrection from the dead. Prayers and readings for Holy Week following the one-year lectionary

John 19:29-30 – Good Friday

It is finished.John 19:29-30 Each year upon this day we walk in spirit down the way of the cross and out onto Calvary’s hill. We witness the travesty of justice as an innocent man is delivered into the hands of a murderous mob to be crucified. We follow those bloodstained steps all the weary way [...]

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