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Readings Psalm 2 Psalm 51 Genesis 27:1–29 Mark 8:22–38 Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, II, 27–38 Podcast Overcast Apple Podcasts Spotify

Readings Psalm 118 Psalm 38 Genesis 24:32–67 Mark 8:1–21 Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, II, 24–26 Podcast Overcast Apple Podcasts Spotify

Readings Psalm 28 Psalm 32 Genesis 24:1–31 Mark 7:24–37 Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, II, 18–23 Podcast Overcast Apple Podcasts Spotify

Readings Psalm 66 Psalm 6 Genesis 22:1–19 Mark 7:1–23 Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, II, 14–17 Podcast Overcast Apple Podcasts Spotify

Readings Psalm 126 Psalm 127 Psalm 143 Genesis 21:1–21 Mark 6:35–56 Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, II, 9–13 Commemoration Today we commemorate Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs . In the third century AD, Roman Emperor Septimus Severus forbade converting to Christianity. Among the many who disobeyed his edict were Perpetua and Felicitas, a noblewoman and her maidservant. During their imprison...

Readings Psalm 91 Psalm 130 Genesis 18:1–15 Mark 6:14–34 Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, II, 5–8 Podcast Overcast Apple Podcasts Spotify

Readings Psalm 139 Psalm 102 Genesis 16:1—17:22 Mark 6:1–13 Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, II, 1–4 Podcast Overcast Apple Podcasts Spotify

Readings Psalm 32 Psalm 3 Psalm 51 Genesis 15:1–21 Mark 5:21–43 Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, I, 50–62 Podcast Overcast Apple Podcasts Spotify

Readings Psalm 73 Psalm 133 Psalm 38 Genesis 13:1–18 Mark 5:1–20 Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, I, 16–48 Podcast Overcast Apple Podcasts Spotify

Readings Psalm 107 Psalm 47 Psalm 32 Genesis 11:27—12:20 Mark 4:21–41 Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, I, 1–15 Podcast Overcast Apple Podcasts Spotify

Amos 5:6–7, 10–15 Psalm 90:12–17 Hebrews 3:12–19 Mark 10:17–22 Perhaps I am not prudent. On who is prudent shows a great deal of care and thought for the future. As our Old Testament reading states: Those who are prudent will often hold their tongues in an evil age — the implication that speaking the truth may be futile or even harmful (most likely to the speaker). And we are to walk as the wise,...

Genesis 2:18–25 Psalm 128 Hebrews 2:1–18 Mark 10:2–16 Adam walked with God in the Garden., and yet God says that it is not good for man to be alone. We tend to pass over this section of Scripture too quickly. Man, in Paradise, walks with God, and yet God states unequivocally that Creation is incomplete because man has no helper fit for him. God makes woman specifically for man — more, all other cr...

Numbers 11:4–6, 10–16, & 24–29 Psalm 104:27–35 James 5:1–20 Mark 9:38–50 Wealth is a blessing, but it is also a test. Will you be faithful with what God has given you? Or will the corrosion — the idleness — of your wealth testify against you at the Judgement? Do you trust in your wealth or do you trust in God? To trust in your wealth is to set it up in your heart as idol — as your god. For tha...

Isaiah 50:4–10 Psalm 116:1–9 James 3:1–12 Mark 9:14–29 You may be operating under the belief that our reading from James does not apply to you. ‘I am not a teacher.’ you may say — ‘at least not a teacher in the Church’ you may think. And that may be true, in a strictly limited sense, but the proper understanding of Scriptural warnings and duties is seldom the strictly limit...

Isaiah 35:4–7a Psalm 146 James 2:1–10, 14–18 Mark 7:24–37 For God shows no προσωποληψία — a word that appears only four times in Scripture: in the verse in Romans just quoted, in our reading from James, in Ephesians 6:9, and in Colossians 3:25. A curious word in Greek — if we take the ‘literal’ meaning, then it would be something like ‘face taking’, which sounds quite odd u...

Isaiah 64:1–9 Psalm 80:1–7 1 Corinthians 1:3–9 Mark 11:1–10 Mark 13:24–37 It is always darkest before the dawn, and things in our society certainly seem quite dark right now. We live in an apostate nation in an apostate time, and matters are certainly not — presently — trending upward. We undoubtedly commiserate with the psalmist in today’s reading: »O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry...