Evening Prayer, March 8, 2023, 7 p.m.

 The livestream may be found here.

EVENING PRAYER

for Wednesday in 2 Lent

Vespers

Commemoration of Perpetua and her Companions,  Martyrs at Carthage, 202 (transferred from March 7)

(Lutheran Book of Worship, page 142)

Daily Bible Readings - Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Opening Prayer: 

O God and Father, in the waters of baptism you bring us to new birth to live as your children. Strengthen our faith in your promises, that by your Spirit we may lift up your life to all the world; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

Amen

Daily Bible Readings - Tuesday, March 7, 2023

 Opening Prayer: 

O God and Father, in the waters of baptism you bring us to new birth to live as your children. Strengthen our faith in your promises, that by your Spirit we may lift up your life to all the world; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

    Amen

Sermon, Second Sunday in Lent

 '[T]o enter the kingdom of God is really not a choice we can make for ourselves.

We are utterly powerless in the one thing

that can make an eternal difference to us.

To be born, whether once, again, or from above,

is completely outside of our control.'

Daily Bible Readings - Monday, March 6, 2023

 Opening Prayer: 

O God and Father, in the waters of baptism you bring us to new birth to live as your children. Strengthen our faith in your promises, that by your Spirit we may lift up your life to all the world; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

    Amen

READINGS: Jeremiah 1:11-19; Romans 1:1-15; John 4:27-42

LORD'S PRAYER

APOSTLES' CREED

Martin Luther's Morning Prayer:

I thank you, heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ your dear Son,

that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger.

I ask you to keep me this day, also, from sin and every evil,

that my thoughts, words, and deeds may serve and please you.

Into your hands I commend my body and soul and all things.

Let your angel be with me,

that the evil one have no power over me. Amen

OR - 

Martin Luther's Evening Prayer

I thank you, heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ your dear Son,

that you have graciously kept me this day.

I ask you to forgive me my sins and the wrong I have done,

and graciously to keep me this night.

Into your hands I commend my body and soul and all things.

Let your angel be with me,

that the evil one have no power over me. Amen

The Holy Communion on the Second Sunday in Lent, 10:30 a.m.

 The livestream may be found here.

‘Nicodemus Came to Jesus by Night’