Lectio Concordia

The Two Ways – Saturday

preparing for The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany

Series: Lectio Concordia

February 15, 2025 By Rev. Mark Ryman

• Online jigsaw puzzle of today's reading • Index

• Collect: You have set before us the ways of life and good, Father, of death and evil. Help us to choose the good that we may know the everlasting joy of life in your Son. Amen.

• Psalm 34:8–14

• James 4:1–8a

• Concerning repentance, we teach that those who have sinned after their baptisms are forgiven whenever they repent, and that the church should not deny them absolution. Now, repentance consists of these two parts. One is contrition, that is sorrow or even terror afflicting the conscience through the knowledge of sin. The other is trust in the gospel and the absolution which believes that sins are forgiven through Christ. Repentance therefore, comforts the conscience and delivers it from terrors. Then good works are bound to follow because they are the fruits of repentance. [The Augsburg Confession, Concerning Free Will]

• Take My Life, and Let It Be Tune

Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days;
let them flow in endless praise,
let them flow in endless praise.

Take my hands and let them move
at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
swift and beautiful for thee,
swift and beautiful for thee.

Take my voice and let me sing
always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
filled with messages from thee,
filled with messages from thee.

Take my silver and my gold;
not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use
every power as thou shalt choose,
every power as thou shalt choose.

Take my will and make it thine;
it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart it is thine own;
it shall be thy royal throne,
it shall be thy royal throne.

Take my love; my Lord, I pour
at thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be
ever, only, all for thee,
ever, only, all for thee.

Lyrics: Frances Ridley Havergal

• Benediction: May you delight in God’s Word, loving both him and his ways, so that you are not among the wicked, those who reject him and his law. Amen.

• For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. (Psalm 30:5)

• Memory Verse Aid: FHAIBFAM, AHFIFAL. WMTFTN, BJCWTM. (P305)