Lectio Concordia

The New Life – Friday

The Baptism of Our Lord

Series: Lectio Concordia

January 10, 2025 By Rev. Mark Ryman

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• Collect: Father God, source of all righteousness, grant us through Holy Baptism to die to self and live with you forever through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, who himself lives in eternity with you and the Holy Spirit, God forever. Amen.

• Psalm 29:1–11

• 1 Peter 3:18–22

• After God through the Holy Spirit in Baptism has kindled and effected a beginning of the true knowledge of God and faith, we should pray to him without ceasing that through the same Spirit and his grace — by means of the daily exercise of reading and practicing God’s Word — he would preserve in us faith and his heavenly gifts, strengthen us from day to day, and keep us to the end. For unless God himself is our schoolmaster, we can study and learn nothing that is acceptable to him and salutary to ourselves and others. [The Formula of Concord, Free Will, Affirmative Statements]

• “Shall We Gather at the River”

Shall we gather at the river,
Where bright angel feet have trod;
With its crystal tide forever
Flowing by the throne of God?

Refrain: Yes, we’ll gather at the river,
The beautiful, the beautiful river;
Gather with the saints at the river
That flows by the throne of God.

On the margin of the river,
Washing up its silver spray,
We will walk and worship ever,
All the happy golden day. Refrain

Ere we reach the shining river,
Lay we ev’ry burden down;
Grace our spirits will deliver,
And provide a robe and crown. Refrain

Soon we’ll reach the shining river,
Soon our pilgrimage will cease;
Soon our happy hearts will quiver
With the melody of peace. Refrain

• Benediction: Because Christ died the death we deserve, and gave us new life in himself, may we continue to live in him, walking with him in the new life of grace and peace with God. Amen.

• We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4)

• Memory Verse Aid: WWBT WH BBID, IOT, JACWRFTD BTGOTF, WTMWINOL. (R 6:4)