The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – Divine Service 1

 

Christ’s compassion and pardon embrace, console, and encourage believers.  Sinners will abandon wickedness, confess transgressions, and receive the Lord’s forgiveness.  Prisoners of the faith will remain steadfast in conflict, endure hardship, and yet be confident in the Gospel of Christ.  God’s kingdom is revealed to us by a continuum of generous, undeserved grace for all those who seek Christ, call upon His name, and believe in Him.

 

Readings:

 

Collect of the Day: 

Lord God, heavenly Father, since we cannot stand before You relying on anything we have done, help us trust in Your abiding grace and live according to Your Word; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

 

Hymns:

“Salvation Unto Us Has Come”     LSB 555  sts. 1-5

“Salvation Unto Us Has Come”     LSB 555  sts. 6-10

“Gracious God, You Send Great Blessings”     LSB 782

“The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation”     LSB 723

“The Saints in Christ Are One in Every Place”     LSB 838

“Here, O My Lord”     LSB 631

“We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight”    LSB 720   (Hymn of the Month)