EChurch@Wartburg 02/01/2020: Foster Care Sunday


Horsehead Nebula in Infrared-NASA

1 Clement c. 96 link

We ask you, Master, be our helper and defender.
Rescue those of our number in distress; raise up the fallen;
assist the needy; heal the sick;
turn back those of your people who stray; feed the hungry;
release our captives; revive the weak; encourage those who lose heart.
Let all the nations realize that you are the only God,
that Jesus Christ is your Child, and that we are your people and the sheep of your pasture.
Amen

Ambrose of Milan, c 339-397 link

O Lord, who hast mercy upon all, take away from me my sins,
and mercifully kindle in me the fire of thy Holy Spirit.
Take away from me the heart of stone,
and give me a heart of flesh,
a heart to love and adore thee,
a heart to delight in thee,
to follow and to enjoy thee,
for Christ’s sake.
amen

Patrick c 389-461 link

Our God, God of all men
God of heaven and earth, seas and rivers,
God of sun and moon, of all the stars,
God of high mountain and lowly valley,
God over heaven, and in heaven, and under heaven.
He has a dwelling in heaven and earth and sea
and in all things that are in them.
He inspires all things, he quickens all things.
He is over all things, he supports all things.
He makes the light of the sun to shine,
He surrounds the moon and the stars,
He has made wells in the arid earth,
Placed dry islands in the sea.
He has a Son co-eternal with himself…
And the Holy Spirit breathes in them;
Not separate are the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Amen

John 4:12 NIV

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

 

Scottish Benediction link

May the blessing of light be on you – light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you like a great peat fire,
so that stranger and friend may come and warm himself at it.
And may light shine out of the two eyes of you,
like a candle set in the window of a house,
bidding the wanderer come in out of the storm.
And may the blessing of the rain be on you,
may it beat upon your Spirit and wash it fair and clean,
and leave there a shining pool where the blue of Heaven shines,
and sometimes a star.
And may the blessing of the earth be on you,
soft under your feet as you pass along the roads,
soft under you as you lie out on it, tired at the end of day;
and may it rest easy over you when, at last, you lie out under it.
May it rest so lightly over you that your soul may be out from under it quickly; up and off and on its way to God.
And now may the Lord bless you, and bless you kindly.
Amen.

Comments

EChurch@Wartburg 02/01/2020: Foster Care Sunday — 5 Comments

  1. Jon: Why do you do this?

    I’ll answer the 2nd question first: “do you do this?”
    ANSWER: Yes, I’ve been doing this for many months.

    First question: “Why?”

    A question that has challenged mankind from the beginning of time. In this case, I do it for fun and to entertain Dee and her pugs.

  2. drstevej,

    Got it. I’ll admit, it’s a little jarring to me to read a lovely devotional or a heavy and painful entry by Dee, followed by what looks to the uninitiated eye like typical Internet troll-goofery. But, really, who am I to question the in-crowd?

  3. Jon,

    Look forward to getting to know you. I am a retired pastor with 35 years of ministry. Did my doctorate at WTS in Reformation History and I have a degree in Engineering (Ga Tech)> That would explain my “uniqueness.”

    I also care about the people here and the issues that face us as believers in this “Super-Bowl Halftime” Era.