150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ

God doesn’t need our good works, Luther would insist.God needs nothing.Our relationship to him is based solely on his grace, which he offers freely through the life, death, and resurrection of his Son.Though God doesn’t need our good works, our neighbor does.Our neighbor is in need.God commands us to love and serve that neighbor.” (Veith, Family Vocation, p. 29, Crossway, 2012)

Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm

Meal and Fellowship to follow.

150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ

Luke 11:28
Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it. (ESV)

Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm

Meal and Fellowship to follow.

150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ

“Recognizing that both the flesh and the devil incessantly attempt to derail the practice of prayer, Luther counsels the barber out of his own experience: ‘When I feel that I have become cool and joyless in prayer because of other tasks and thoughts (for the flesh and the devil always impede or obstruct prayer), I take my little psalter, hurry to my room, or, if it be the day and hour for it, to the church where a congregation is assembled and, as time permits, I say quietly to myself and word-for-word the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and, if I have time, some words of Christ or of Paul, or some psalms, just as a child might do.’Luther sees this verbal meditation as kindling the heart for prayer.” (Pless, Praying Luther’s Small Catechism, p. 10, CPH, 2016).

Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm

Meal and Fellowship to follow.

150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ

Mark 14:38
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation.  The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak. (ESV)

Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm

Meal and Fellowship to follow.

150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ

The Third Petition of the Lord’s Prayer
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

What does this mean?
The good and gracious will of God is done even without our prayer, but we pray in this petition that it may be done among us also.

How is God’s will done?
God’s will is done when He breaks and hinders every evil plan and purpose of the devil, the world, and our sinful nature, which do not want us to hallow God’s name or let His kingdom come; and when He strengthens and keeps us firm in His Word and faith until we die.  This is His good and gracious will.

Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm

Meal and Fellowship to follow.

150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ

Mark 9:24
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” (ESV)

Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm

Meal and Fellowship to follow.

150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ

The Second Petition of the Lord’s Prayer
Thy kingdom come..

What does this mean?
The kingdom of God certainly comes by itself without our prayer, but we pray in this petition that it may come to us also.

How does God’s kingdom come?
God’s kingdom comes when our heavenly Father gives us His Holy Spirit, so that by His grace we believe His holy Word and lead godly lives here in time and there in eternity.

Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm

Meal and Fellowship to follow.