Tag: Easter

God’s Name is holy among us. From the prelude music through the words of today’s public order of service, in hymns, and especially through the proclaimed Bible readings for the day, God is continually sanctifying His Name among us. That teaches that we, dear Christians, are living in the times foretold by the prophet Ezekiel. …For more, click on the title above.

This Sunday Rogation (that is, prayer) day has been handed down to us through faithful generations of the members of the Church. This prayer day has existed in faithful congregations throughout some 1,700 years. It can be used to establish a time of fasting before the Great High Feast that celebrates Christ’s Ascension….For more, click on the title above.

Many of you heard this past Sunday that that was the day the Church Year readings remind us to sing a new song. That theme is meant to be carried through this week. We are to hear and participate in the new song of Salvation that is ours in Christ Jesus. The united Voice of the Church continues to be lifted up in thankfulness and praise to God, for the Lord has taken our sorrow upon Himself. Having been delivered from sadness, God grants the joy that may continue in the faithful no matter what life in this world may bring upon the Church and her members. …For more, click on the title above.

This is the day the Church Year readings remind us to sing a new song. That is the Song of God’s salvation that is ours in the Christ of the Scriptures. The reading from Isaiah reveals to us four characteristics of those who know and believe that God has saved them in Christ Jesus. Those in that state of mind and body, you we pray, the saved, receive from that Divine Salvation trust with security, an end of fear concerning their eternal destinies, strength—a fruit of trust, and song, that is, an inner welling of joy on account of that which the Lord has done, and still does, for those whom He has saved. That is what these words reveal….For more, click on the title above.