Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

Proverbs 4:25 - ESV

Living in the past may bring some comfort - “Oh, wasn’t it better back when we didn’t have all this technology?” - but that isn’t what our human race has ever been about. We’ve always looked forward. If we kept our heads in the past, we’d never have landed on the moon or sent a rover to Mars. Living our faith is the same. We always look forward to telling the story of Jesus’ Gospel to everyone. None of us should think that the days of yore in church were the good days. Instead, we look forward to helping our Lord grow His church where more people live their confession of Jesus Christ as Lord.

PRAYERS

Keep in Your Prayers:

1. The people of the panhandle of Texas where wildfires are raging.

2. Our community is facing some difficult weather later today.

Prayer for Wednesday:

Heavenly Father, give my faith a rebirth day as I try to focus on living the Gospel so more people can see the blessings of confessing Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. In His name, I pray. Amen.

Luther’s Morning Prayer:

I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have kept me this night from all harm and danger; and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please You. For into Your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen.. Amen.

Apostles’ Creed:

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.

And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

The Lord’s Prayer:

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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