Lectio Concordia

The Two Ways – Monday

preparing for The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany

Series: Lectio Concordia

February 10, 2025 By Rev. Mark Ryman

• Online jigsaw puzzle of today's reading • Index

• Collect: You have set before us the ways of life and good, Father, of death and evil. Help us to choose the good that we may know the everlasting joy of life in your Son. Amen.

• Psalm 34:8–14

• Romans 12:14–21

• There was a doctor sent here to Wittenberg from France, who stated publicly in our presence that his king was more than certain that there was no church, no magistrate, no marriage among us, but that all carried on promiscuously like cattle, and each one does as he pleases. Now imagine: how will they—who by their writings have instilled such gross lies into the king and other countries as though it were pure truth—face us on that day before the judgment seat of Christ? For Christ, Lord and Judge of all, knows well that they lie and have always lied. They will have to hear his sentence; that I know full well. May God bring to repentance those who can be converted! Regarding the rest it will be said, “Woe,” and, “alas” forever. [The Smalcald Articles, Preface]

• Take My Life, and Let It Be Tune

Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days;
let them flow in endless praise,
let them flow in endless praise.

Take my hands and let them move
at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
swift and beautiful for thee,
swift and beautiful for thee.

Take my voice and let me sing
always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
filled with messages from thee,
filled with messages from thee.

Take my silver and my gold;
not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use
every power as thou shalt choose,
every power as thou shalt choose.

Take my will and make it thine;
it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart it is thine own;
it shall be thy royal throne,
it shall be thy royal throne.

Take my love; my Lord, I pour
at thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be
ever, only, all for thee,
ever, only, all for thee.

Lyrics: Frances Ridley Havergal

• Benediction: May you delight in God’s Word, loving both him and his ways, so that you are not among the wicked, those who reject him and his law. Amen.

• For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. (Psalm 30:5)

• Memory Verse Aid: FHAIBFAM, AHFIFAL. WMTFTN, BJCWTM. (P305)