Today's readings highlighted catechetically with Zebrite markers. Orange is for allusions to the Ten Commandments, green for Apostles Creed, blue for the Lord's Prayer, pink for Sacraments...and yellow for all else. Jeremiah 15:15-21 Psalm 26 Romans 12:9-21 Matthew 16:21-28 Get your own Zebrite highlighters here.
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It was promised of old that salvation would come, that God’s righteousness would be revealed so that his way might be known throughout the earth. So it is that in Christ, many have been gathered and still more will be gathered. Even those who are considered lost will be found and receive the Lord’s irrevocable gifts of mercy, grace, and salvation. God will have mercy even on Gentiles and the lost
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God speaks to us all when he answers Job out of the whirlwind. The God of all creation is in control. Even when our souls are poured out within us (Job 30:16), the Lord is our strength. When death assails us, even then he is in control of our lives. He has drawn us out of many waters already — even through baptism, the water of death (Rom 6:3; Gal 3:27). So let us make the good confession of faith
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Here is a page of Scripture puzzles from Sola Publlishing. There are lots of puzzles there.
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This evening's service features the singing of the Service of Evening Prayer (Vespers, LBW page 142), along with the evening hymn, "All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night" (LBW hymn 278), a lesson from Romans 11:25-36, and a reading from the Large Catechism with a comment from Pastor Ryman.
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God makes an everlasting covenant, not simply with David but, with all whom he represents. When he says that he will make a covenant with “you,” that “you” is plural. This everlasting covenant, in Pauline terms, is with the Israel of God. That is how his steadfast love endures forever: it extends to all of the elect, the children of Abraham. He feeds all who follow him from the bounty of his stead
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