Johann Gerhard looks to John 5, the pool by the sheep market, as a picture of the healing that Baptism gives us from our malady of sin. Source: Sacred Meditations by Johann Gerhard, pages 94-95. http://media.blubrry.com/sacredmeditations/sacredmeditations.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/JGSM005-The-Benefits-of-Baptism-2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More
Johann Gerhard has contrasted our love for God with our love for other things—created things and even ourselves. In this fifth and final part of his Meditation IX, “Loving God Alone,” Pastor Gerhard leads us to ponder God’s love for us, which then leads to our love for God. And …
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: …
Before His passion, our Lord Jesus prayed that His disciples might be one, just as He and the Father are one. So …
Today we ask our gracious God to guide us both in what we think and in what we do. Collect for Proper …
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). …
The believing Christian meditates on the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the Feast of Pentecost. In today’s meditation, we join Johann …
On the Day of Pentecost God opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by sending the promised gift …
