Category: Mid-Week
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Lent IV Midweek
Text: 2 Samuel 11 Additional Reading: Luke 19:1-10 The Sixth and Seventh Commandments protect gifts of God. The Sixth Commandment protects the gift of chastity. The Seventh Commandment protects the gift of possessions. Neither chastity nor earthly goods come from ourselves. Both come from the Lord. Concerning chastity, it says in Proverbs 19:14, “House and…
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Lent III Midweek
Text: 2 Samuel 15:1-14 Additional Reading: Luke 10:25–37 The Fourth Commandment concerns God’s authority on earth. Through father and mother God rules households. Through president, emperor, king, and other civil offices God rules the nations of the world. The authority of father or president is not the authority of a mere man, but it is…
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Lent II Midweek
Text: 1 Kings 18:20-40 Additional Reading: John 5:1-18 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The Second and Third Commandments flow from the First. In the First Commandment the Lord indicates that he is giving us himself. He says, “You shall have no other gods,” which certainly is…
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Lent I Midweek
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, OR Readings: Psalm 81:1-16 | Exodus 32:1-35 | John 8:31-59 Text: Exodus 32:1-35 At Mount Sinai, as recorded in Exodus 20, God Himself spoke to the people of Israel, saying, “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.…
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Ash Wednesday
Readings: Joel 2:12-19 | 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 | Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 Text: Joel 2:12-19; Job 13:23 Our forefather Job asked the Lord in the midst of his suffering, “How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin” (Job 13:23). This seems like a dangerous question and request. Don’t…