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Readings for:
October 20, 2024
21st Sunday after Trinity Sunday
First Reading
Genesis 1:1-2:3
Second Reading
Ephesians 6:10-17
Gospel Reading
John 4:46-54
Liturgical Color
Green
Stewardship
Genesis 1:1 – “In the beginning God created ...” Many studies report that atheism is on the rise in our culture. The appeal of atheism is in the denial of a Creator. If the world just happens to exist, and we are just accidents that arose out of a long process of random, directionless evolution, then we get to make our own rules, and nobody has any right to tell us otherwise. Because if there is a Creator, then obviously He would know best, and we would do best, to follow His commands. Of course, we Christians know this Creator very well, and we have seen not only His power and commands, but also His grace and mercy in His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.Life Message
“God’s grace is costly (the Cross is the best symbol of all) and God is ‘for us, not against us’ because God is the God of creation and nature, history and eternal destiny (Romans 8). Here St. Paul reminds us that we are all adopted into Christ. Just as we are all transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12), so the Gospel has shaped our earthly adoptions and our families—now including three beautiful granddaughters! In our Triune God we are born to a new and living hope, a pro-life and pro-adoption one!” Pastor Leon and Terri Rosenthal - A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life www.lutheransforlife.org
What About Life
- www.word-of-hope.org
- LCMS Life Ministries
- Lutherans for Life
- The Gospel - Forgiveness (PDF)
- unPLANNED - book