Here we continue with Johann Gerhard’s Meditation IX, “Loving God Alone.” In this installment, Gerhard leads us to ponder how God’s love leads us to a saving knowledge of Him and when loving God alone will be perfected. (Listen to Part 1 and Part 2.) Source: Sacred Meditations by Johann …
In his Meditation IX, “Loving God Alone,” Johann Gerhard contrasts loving God with loving created things (Part 1). In today’s installment of that meditation, Gerhard stresses that created things cannot love us back. But God does, because He loves us first. Source: Sacred Meditations by Johann Gerhard, pages 50-51, alt. …
Johann Gerhard begins his Meditation IX–“Loving God Alone”–by declaring, “May love bind thee fast to the Lord.” Here is part one of that meditation, in which Gerhard contrasts loving God with loving created things. Source: Sacred Meditations by Johann Gerhard, pages 49-50, alt. http://media.blubrry.com/sacredmeditations/sacredmeditations.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JGSM044-Loving-God-Alone-1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: …
Johann Gerhard continues pondering how Holy Baptism brings us spiritual healing and makes us temples of the Holy Spirit. Source: Sacred Meditations …
In this meditation on the benefits of Baptism, Johann Gerhard draws from the Red Sea of Exodus 14 and the crystal sea …
God made His Son, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that in Him we might be righteous before Him. …
Our heavenly Father gives us the light of knowing His glory in the face of Jesus Christ His Son. In our many …
Jesus Christ bought us with the price of His precious blood, making our bodies temples of His Holy Spirit. We pray Him …
Through His Son’s sacrificial death and resurrection, God forgives our wrongs and builds us up to proclaim His mercy. We pray Him …
With today’s New Testament reading of Galatians 1 we pray stanzas 1-3 of the hymn “Lord Jesus Christ, With Us Abide” (Lutheran …
