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The Word for our meditation today comes from our epistle reading in 1 Corinthians 10.  6. Let us pray ... Lord God, heavenly Father, You have blessed us abundantly with life and salvation, and you sustain us in the wilderness of this world with your heavenly bread. We implore You, protect us from ourselves, deliver us from our selfish pride, and help us to rejoice always, sharing your gifts willingly with our brothers and sisters in need, through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. 5. [Catechism] Please now open your [Lutheran Service Book] to Page 324 and join me in confessing our faith doctrine on the Sixth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer.  What is the Sixth Petition? ... What does this mean? 4. Paul writes, Let the one presuming that he continues to stand, pay attention [so that] he may not fall (v 12). This is the goal of Paul’s discourse for us today, because nothing, Paul says, is worse t...

And now I commend you to God and to the Word of his Grace, which is able to build you up and to give the inheritance among all those being sanctified (v 32). 1. [Prayer] Lord God, heavenly Father, you would have all to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. By your almighty Word of Grace, break and hinder all counsels of those who despise your Word and Sacraments and who, by corrupt teaching, seek to turn us away from your means of grace. Enlighten us with the knowledge of your glory ... through the cross and the empty tomb ... until that day when our Lord returns on the clouds in glory ... through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.  2. [Catechism] Please now turn to page 322 in your [Lutheran Service Book] and join me in confessing our faithful doctrine on the second article of the Apostles’ Creed. As the head of the family should teach it to his household ... What is the Second Article?...

Then YHWH Elohim formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his face the breath of life, and the man became a living being. And YHWH Elohim planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the earth, YHWH Elohim made to spring up every tree that is to be desired to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. A river flowed from Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is the Pishon. It went around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stones [are] there. The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. And the name of the third river is the [Tigris], which flows around Assyria. And the fourth river is the [Euphrates]. Then YHWH Elohim took the man and brought him to rest in the garde...

Dear Curtis and Steve ... dear family and friends ... dear brothers and sisters in Christ ... all of you who have gathered today to commemorate ElDean Arthur Wachs: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. You heard the reading from The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Saint John the apostle. In chapter 7, Jesus revealed ... and behold, Saint John saw ... a great crowd that no one was able to number ... [a great crowd] out of every nation and tribe and people and tongues ... Behold, this great crowd was standing before the throne and before the Lamb! And behold, they were clothed in white robes !  And what did Saint John hear? ... He heard crying and singing ... He heard the kind of crying that has no tears ... the kind of crying that is an exclamation of joy at the full realization that Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb! (v 10). He heard the eternal song of Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and hono...