The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Divine Service

 

Faithful stewards of God’s gifts anchor themselves in constant prayer, intercession, and thanksgiving.  Meager gifts of the poor ought to be intentionally safeguarded; the position and wealth of kings are to be highly regarded.  Yet we know wealth belongs to a fallen world.  Obsession with riches threatens our loyalty to God.  Christ surpasses the value of all material possessions.  He is our lasting treasure, who paid the greatest price – ransoming our lives at the cost of His own.   

 

Amos 8:4-7  

1 Timothy 2:1-15     

Luke 16:1-15

 

Collect of the Day:
O Lord, keep Your Church in Your perpetual mercy; and because without You we cannot but fall, preserve us from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

“Lift High the Cross”     LSB 837

“Seek Where You May to Find a Way”     LSB 557

“Salvation Unto Us Has Come”     LSB 555

“Jesus Thy Blood and Righteousness”     LSB 563

“O Light Whose Splendor”     LSB 891

“By Grace I’m Saved”     LSB 566