A hymn text for you: "If God My Lord Be For Me" by Paul Gerhardt - ELW 788
If God my Lord be for me, I may a host defy;
for when I pray, before me, my foes, confounded, fly.
If Christ, my friend and master, befriend me from above,
what foe or what disaster can drive me from his love?
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
ASLC Devotions - Monday
A hymn text for you: "Take, Oh, Take Me As I Am" by John Bell - ELW 804
Take, oh, take me as I am;
Summon out what I shall be.
Set your seal upon my heart
and live in me.
That is our prayer for today.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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Take, oh, take me as I am;
Summon out what I shall be.
Set your seal upon my heart
and live in me.
That is our prayer for today.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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Friday, August 16, 2013
ASLC Devotions - Friday
Hebrews 10:36 For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
A couple of weeks ago, we were engaged in Kingdom Rock Vacation Bible School. The church walls rang each and every day with dozens of children shouting "Stand Strong." We taught and re-taught that lesson. We learned and re-learned all the times we can stand strong and all the ways God helps us stand strong.
That is a huge lesson. For you need endurance to continue to do the will of God, to continue to claim the promises of God, the grace of God promised in your baptism. Stick with it. Believe in the face of doubt. Do the right thing in the face of pressure. Trust in times that seem unsure. Stand strong.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
This message is a ministry of All Saints Lutheran Church. If you wish to be unsubscribed, please send us a message. Visit our website for full calendar and information about our ministries. Worship with us this weekend at 5 pm Saturday or 9 am Sunday.
A couple of weeks ago, we were engaged in Kingdom Rock Vacation Bible School. The church walls rang each and every day with dozens of children shouting "Stand Strong." We taught and re-taught that lesson. We learned and re-learned all the times we can stand strong and all the ways God helps us stand strong.
That is a huge lesson. For you need endurance to continue to do the will of God, to continue to claim the promises of God, the grace of God promised in your baptism. Stick with it. Believe in the face of doubt. Do the right thing in the face of pressure. Trust in times that seem unsure. Stand strong.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
ASLC Devotions - Thursday
Today is the Feast Day, Mary, Mother of our Lord:
Luke 1:46-55 46And Mary said,
"My soul magnifies the Lord,
47and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
48for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.
Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
49for the Mighty One has done great things for me,
and holy is his name.
50His mercy is for those who fear him
from generation to generation.
51He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
52He has brought down the powerful from their thrones,
and lifted up the lowly;
53he has filled the hungry with good things,
and sent the rich away empty.
54He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy,
55according to the promise he made to our ancestors,
to Abraham and to his descendants forever."
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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Luke 1:46-55 46And Mary said,
"My soul magnifies the Lord,
47and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
48for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.
Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
49for the Mighty One has done great things for me,
and holy is his name.
50His mercy is for those who fear him
from generation to generation.
51He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
52He has brought down the powerful from their thrones,
and lifted up the lowly;
53he has filled the hungry with good things,
and sent the rich away empty.
54He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy,
55according to the promise he made to our ancestors,
to Abraham and to his descendants forever."
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
ASLC Devotions - Wednesday
Philippians 2:5-11 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
7 but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
8 he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
ASLC Devotions - Tuesday
Psalm 28: 8-9 The Lord is the strength of his people;
he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
O save your people, and bless your heritage;
be their shepherd, and carry them for ever.
Psalm 28 ends with this strange mixture of pleading with God and sounding as if the salvation has already been granted. Verse 8 sounds like a celebration of God's saving in the past: "The Lord is the strength of his people..." while verse 9 returns to praying for the saving.
This is a wonderful example of the great mixed-up chronology of the Bible, and of faith. We know that God saves, and yet we don't experience it every moment. We pray for deliverance, and we know that it's there. We know that God has defeated death, and yet we still die. It's a jumbled world of faith in which we live. But it always comes back to an assurance that God is a God who saves. Every time.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
O save your people, and bless your heritage;
be their shepherd, and carry them for ever.
Psalm 28 ends with this strange mixture of pleading with God and sounding as if the salvation has already been granted. Verse 8 sounds like a celebration of God's saving in the past: "The Lord is the strength of his people..." while verse 9 returns to praying for the saving.
This is a wonderful example of the great mixed-up chronology of the Bible, and of faith. We know that God saves, and yet we don't experience it every moment. We pray for deliverance, and we know that it's there. We know that God has defeated death, and yet we still die. It's a jumbled world of faith in which we live. But it always comes back to an assurance that God is a God who saves. Every time.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
This message is a ministry of All Saints Lutheran Church. If you wish to be unsubscribed, please send us a message. Visit our website for full calendar and information about our ministries. Worship with us this weekend at 5 pm Saturday or 9 am Sunday.
Monday, August 12, 2013
ASLC Devotions - Monday
2 Chronicles 33:12-13 While King Manasseh was in distress he entreated the favour of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors. He prayed to him, and God received his entreaty, heard his plea, and restored him again to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord indeed was God.
Manasseh was one of the many kings of ancient Israel who, to quote Chronicles "did what was evil in the sight of the Lord." What this usually means is that they promoted the worship of the native false gods instead of worshiping the one God. It also usually means they took from the poor and neglected to care for the widows, aliens, and orphans as God commanded. Manasseh was one of those kings. Things went badly for him, he prayed and God restored him.
Is it really that simple, we often ask? Can you just pray and God forgives, no matter what it is that you've done? We want the answer to be "yes" when it's about us and "no" when it's about someone else. God doesn't work like us, though. God's Word is God's Word, whether it's for you or the people who have harmed you. God is ALWAYS ready to forgive. No matter whom, no matter what.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
This message is a ministry of All Saints Lutheran Church. If you wish to be unsubscribed, please send us a message. Visit our website for full calendar and information about our ministries. Worship with us this weekend at 5 pm Saturday or 9 am Sunday.
Manasseh was one of the many kings of ancient Israel who, to quote Chronicles "did what was evil in the sight of the Lord." What this usually means is that they promoted the worship of the native false gods instead of worshiping the one God. It also usually means they took from the poor and neglected to care for the widows, aliens, and orphans as God commanded. Manasseh was one of those kings. Things went badly for him, he prayed and God restored him.
Is it really that simple, we often ask? Can you just pray and God forgives, no matter what it is that you've done? We want the answer to be "yes" when it's about us and "no" when it's about someone else. God doesn't work like us, though. God's Word is God's Word, whether it's for you or the people who have harmed you. God is ALWAYS ready to forgive. No matter whom, no matter what.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
This message is a ministry of All Saints Lutheran Church. If you wish to be unsubscribed, please send us a message. Visit our website for full calendar and information about our ministries. Worship with us this weekend at 5 pm Saturday or 9 am Sunday.
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