Lectio Concordia

Signs of the Savior – Saturday

Preparing for Epiphany 2

Series: Lectio Concordia

January 18, 2025 By Rev. Mark Ryman

• Online jigsaw puzzle of today's reading • Index

• Collect: Give us, Father God, hearing hearts and clear eyes, that we may receive your Word with faith and thus, see the signs of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, eternally one God. Amen.

• Psalm 40:1–17

• 2 Peter 1:16–19

• Whosoever would be saved, must hold the Christian faith above all things. Everyone who does not keep the faith undivided and undefiled will undoubtedly perish everlastingly. This is the Christian faith: that we worship God in Trinity, and Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the substance. For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit. But the deity of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is one deity: equal in glory, coeternal in majesty. [The Athanasian Creed]

• Hymn: “Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies,” Charles Wesley Tune

Christ, whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true and only Light,
Sun of righteousness, arise,
triumph o’er the shade of night;
Dayspring from on high, be near;
Daystar, in my heart appear.

Dark and cheerless is the morn
unaccompanied by Thee;
joyless is the day’s return,
till Thy mercy’s beams I see,
till they inward light impart,
glad my eyes, and warm my heart.

Visit then this soul of mine,
pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
fill me, radiancy divine,
scatter all my unbelief;
more and more thyself display,
shining to the perfect day.

• Benediction: May the Spirit of Christ pierce any gloom of sin, grief, and doubt, and fill you with the radiant glory of his peace. Amen.

• Memory Verse: ... so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 1:7–8)

• Memory Verse Aid: ...STYANLIAG, AYWFTROOLJC, WWSYTTE, GITDOOLJC. (1C 1:7-8)