Lectio Concordia

The Word of the Lord – Tuesday

Preparing for Epiphany 3

Series: Lectio Concordia

January 21, 2025 By Rev. Mark Ryman

• Online jigsaw puzzle of today's reading • Index

• Collect: Only you, O Lord, are my light and salvation. Therefore, I ask that you would have me as a houseguest, dwelling in your presence all the days of my life, so that I may perceive your beauty and goodness in this life and the one to come. Amen.

• Psalm 78:1–8

• John 14:21–26

• So that we might obtain faith, God instituted the ministry of teaching the gospel and administering the sacraments. The Holy Spirit is given through the Word and Sacraments, as through means. He works faith where and when it pleases God in them who hear the gospel. He teaches us that God justifies those who believe that they are received into grace for Christ’s sake, not for their own merits, but because of Christ. We condemn the Anabaptists and others who think that the Holy Spirit comes to people without the external Word, through their own preparation and works. [The Defense of the Augsburg Confession, Ministry of the Word]

• Hymn: “Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Your Word,” Martin Luther Tune

Lord, keep us steadfast in your Word;
curb those who by deceit or sword
would seek to overthrow your Son
and to destroy what he has done.

Lord Jesus Christ, your pow’r make known,
for you are Lord of lords alone;
defend your Christendom that we
may sing your praise eternally.

O Comforter of priceless worth,
send peace and unity on earth;
support us in our final strife
and lead us out of death to life.

• Benediction: May the Word of the Lord sustain you, keeping you in a grace and peace that the world cannot deliver but which is freely yours through faith in Christ Jesus. Amen.

• Memory Verse: For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
(1 Corinthians 1:18)

• Memory Verse Aid: FTWOTC IFTTWAP, BTUWABS IITPOG.
(1C1:18)