The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany

Prayer and Preaching

 

To know God intellectually, merely to exercise a fasting ritual without faith, can be devoid of purpose.  But through the Holy Spirit, the wisdom of God is made known to us in our hearts and minds.  Then acts of mercy for those enmeshed in poverty, wickedness, and hunger season the world with God’s graciousness and righteousness.  In these moments, God’s favor is made known, light shines, good works are done, and God alone is glorified. 

 

 

O Lord, keep Your family the Church continually in the true faith that, relying on the hope of Your heavenly grace, we may ever be defended by Your mighty power; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

 

“This Little Light of Mine”        

“Thy Strong Word”     LSB 578

“Not All the Blood of Beasts”     LSB 431   (February hymn of the month)