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Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Gospel Fridays - John 6:35-40 ​“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty again. But as I told you, you’ve seen me, and yet you do not believe. Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Theology Thursdays 1 John 5:13-17 I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have before him: If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked of him. If anyone s...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Psalm for the Week Psalm 135:13-14 Lord, your name endures forever, your reputation, Lord, through all generations. For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants. O God, whose will is done without our prayer, we pray that it may be done also by us. To this end frustrate and bring to nothing every evil counsel and purpose – such as t...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Tuesdays in the Old Tetstament 1 Chronicles 17:10b-14 “‘Furthermore, I declare to you that the Lord himself will build a house for you. When your time comes to be with your ancestors, I will raise up after you your descendant, who is one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his thr...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Prayer from the Catechism "Thy Kingdom will be done..." O God, whose will is done without our prayer, we pray that it may be done also by us. To this end frustrate and bring to nothing every evil counsel and purpose – such as the will of the devil, the world, and our own flesh – which would hinder the hallowing of your name and prevent the coming of y...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Gospel Fridays Mark 8:34-9:1 Calling the crowd along with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and the gospel will save it. For what does it benefit someone to gain the whole world and...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Theology Thursdays Romans 14:13-17 Therefore, let us no longer judge one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in the way of your brother or sister. I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean. For if your brother or sist...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Psalm for the Week Psalm 127 Unless the Lord builds a house, its builders labor over it in vain; unless the Lord watches over a city, the watchman stays alert in vain. In vain you get up early and stay up late, working hard to have enough food— yes, he gives sleep to the one he loves. Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, offspring, a reward. Like arrows in...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Tuesdays in the Old Testament 2 Kings 17:6-13 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes. This disaster happened because the people of Israel sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the la...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 18th Sunday after Trinity Ezekiel 20:1-12; John 20:26-31 A look at the 1st petition of the Lord's Prayer - "Hallowed be Thy Name". How does it connect us to the 2nd/3rd Commandment? How is that we cling to our names more than God? How is God's name made holy in and of itself?

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Prayer from the Catechism "Thy Kingdom Come" O God, everlasting Father, whose kingdom comes of itself, we pray that it may come also unto us. To this end give us your Holy Spirit, so that by his grace we may believe your holy Word, and live godly lives here on earth and in heaven forever. Amen.

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Gospel Fridays John 20:26-31 A week later his disciples were indoors again, and Thomas was with them. Even though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Don’t be faithless, but believe.” Thomas responded...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Theology Thursdays Acts 4:8-12 Then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders: If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man, by what means he was healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and who...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Psalm of the Week Psalm 124 If the Lord had not been on our side— let Israel say— if the Lord had not been on our side when people attacked us, then they would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger against us. Then the water would have engulfed us; the torrent would have swept over us; the raging water would have swept over us. Blessed be the Lord, who...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Tuesdays in the Old Testament Ezekiel 20:1-12 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain elders of Israel came to consult the Lord, and sat down before me. And the word of the Lord came to me: Mortal, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Why are you coming? To consult me? As I live, says th...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Prayer for the 18th Sunday after Trinity O God, whose name is holy of itself, we pray that it may be hallowed also by us. To this end help us, O blessed Father in heaven, that your Word may be taught in truth and purity, and that we, as your children, may lead holy lives in accordance with it; through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. Amen.

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Gospel Fridays Luke 15:17-24 But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger! I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.”’...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Theology Thursdays Romans 8:12-17 So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slav...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary (September 21st) Psalm for the Week Psalm 2 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers conspire together against the Lord and his Anointed One: “Let’s tear off their chains and throw their ropes off of us.” The one enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord ridicules them. Then he speaks to them in hi...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary (September 21st) Tuesdays in the Old Testament 2 Kings 12:4-16 Then Joash said to the priests, “All the dedicated silver brought to the Lord’s temple, census silver, silver from vows, and all silver voluntarily given for the Lord’s temple— each priest is to take it from his assessor and repair whatever damage is found in the temple.” But by the twenty-third yea...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary (September 20th) Prayer from the Catechism Our Father in Heaven... Our Father in heaven, with these words we ask that you would entice us so that we come to believe that you are truly our Father and we are truly your children, in order that we may ask you boldly and with complete confidence, just as loving children ask their loving father, knowing that you hear...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Fridays in the Gospels John 4:7-15 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift o...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Theology Thursdays Revelation 22:1-5 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healin...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Psalm for the Week Psalm 76 God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel. His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion. There he shatters the bow’s flaming arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. You are resplendent and majestic coming down from the mountains of prey. The brave-hearted have been plundered; they have slipped into their f...

Send us Fan Mail Words for the Weary Tuesdays in the Old Testament 2 Kings 2:9-14 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me what I may do for you, before I am taken from you.” Elisha said, “Please let me inherit a double share of your spirit.” He responded, “You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it will be granted you; if not, it will not.” As t...