Lectio Concordia

The Word of the Lord – Wednesday

Preparing for Epiphany 3

Series: Lectio Concordia

January 22, 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

• Psalm 25:4–5, 8–10

• The power of the Keys is exercised only by teaching or preaching the gospel and administering the sacraments, either to many or to individuals, according to their calling. In this manner, eternal, not bodily, things are granted such as eternal righteousness, the Holy Spirit, everlasting life. These things only come by the ministry of the Word and the Sacraments, as Paul says, the gospel “is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (Romans 1:16). [The Augsburg Confession, The Power of Bishops]

• 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)