Lectio Concordia

The Fourth Sunday in Lent

Series: Lectio Concordia

March 30, 2025 By Rev. Mark Ryman

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• Collect: Strengthen my faith, Lord, that I might always believe righteousness looks down from heaven, not up from me—that I may know that I am righteous in your goodness and holiness alone, not my own. Amen.

• Year A: Isaiah 42:14–21; Psalm 42:1–11; Ephesians 5:8–14; John 9:1–41
• Year B: Numbers 21:4–9; Psalm 107:1–9; Ephesians 2:1–10; John 3:14–21
• Year C: Isaiah 12:1–6; Psalm 32:1–11; 2 Corinthians 5:16–21; Luke 15:1–3, 11–32

• “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” Isaac Watts

When I survey the wondrous cross
on which the Prince of Glory died,
my richest gain I count but loss,
and pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast
save in the death of Christ, my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them through his blood.

See, from his head, his hands, his feet,
sorrow and love flow mingled down.
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
or thorns compose so rich a crown?

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
that were an off’ring far too small.
Love so amazing, so divine,
demands my soul, my life, my all.

• Benediction: May your eyes ever be on Jesus, your heart be settled in his grace, and your confidence be in his cross so that your soul is anchored in God reconciled to you through Christ. Amen.

• Memory Verse Aid: FOS HMHTBS WKNS, STIHWMB TROG. (2C521)