God has taught us to love Him and our neighbor. Thus we pray that He would grant us His Holy Spirit, so that we may be devoted to Him and to one another. Collect for Proper 9 (the Sunday closest to July 6), from The Book of Common Prayer. http://media.blubrry.com/sacredmeditations/sacredmeditations.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/10-Proper-9-BCP-2.mp3Podcast: …
God has brought us safely to a new day. We pray that He will preserve us from all sin and adversity. Source: A Collect for Grace (Morning Prayer II), from The Book of Common Prayer http://media.blubrry.com/sacredmeditations/sacredmeditations.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/A-Collect-for-Grace-BCP100.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More
In his Meditation IX, “Loving God Alone,” Johann Gerhard contrasts loving God with loving created things (Listen to part 1 here.). In today’s portion 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, …
In keeping with the Second Commandment and because of His lovingkindness, we pray that our Lord and Savior would grant us a …
In today’s meditation, Pastor Johann Arndt sets before us two goals that direct our course of life. Taken together, these two goals …
Today we ask our gracious God to guide us both in what we think and in what we do. Collect for Proper …
Since God orders all things in heaven and on earth, we pray that He would give us what is good and profitable …
Because the Holy Spirit truly is God—the Third Person of the Holy Trinity—we pray to Him even as we pray to the …
By God’s grace we acknowledge that He is the Holy Trinity–Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We pray that He would keep us …
In today’s prayer we pray stanzas 2 and 3 of the hymn “Creator Spirit, by Whose Aid,” attributed to Rabanus Maurus (776-856). …
