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July 17, 2009thanks to the influences
July 17, 2009The influences which make this blog possible are several and deserve recognition as we get going. First, I owe a great debt of gratitude to “Issues Etc.” for it’s strong, uncompromising faithfulness to Christ-centered, cross-focused worship and it’s influence on our daily life. Issues, Etc. – Christ-Centered Cross-Focused Talk Radio www.issuesetc.org
Secondly, I am thankful for the work of a fellow layman, Chris Roseborough in managing Pirate Christian Radio. There, you can hear Confessional Lutheran talk radio, sermons that ground us in the Gospel, and much, much more. Visit them at Pirate Christian Radio. www.piratechristianradio.com
For further promotion of corporate worship’s influence on daily life, go to www.ctsfw.edu where you can listen to the daily chapel office. Worship isn’t rocket science, but it is purely held each class day at Kremer Chapel on the campus of Concordia Theological Seminary, where they are training men to be Confessional Lutheran pastors in service of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
In Vocation
July 17, 2009God calls us to receive His gifts. He draws us, His Church, to His divine service. He gives and forgives through His Word and Sacraments.
By His favor, we receive His salvation. From Sunday to Sunday, we gather in His Triune Name—the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. With words God gives him, our pastor calls on the Lord to serve us—invocation.
God feeds us. He sends us. He goes with us into our everyday world and our everyday life. By the care of our parents, through the harvesting of a farmer, by the work of store clerks, He feeds us. He continually showers His Word upon us and calls us to love our neighbor—in vocation.
This blog features the knitting together of the Lord’s divine service to His Church in corporate worship with our daily lives. On the one hand, the two seem separate. In worship, God calls us to where His locatedness—in Word and Sacrament. In daily life, He gives us our neighbors to love for whom He also died and conquered death.
Even so, grounded in the cross of Jesus, God’s divine service is the ebb and flow of our lives. He draws us to Himself. (Ex. 19:1-6) and sends us forgiven. (John 20:21-23) He forgives and gives us words to speak His pardon to others. (Matt. 6:14-15) Jesus’ forgiveness of our sins is the heartbeat and center of life at His altar and at our dinner table. It shapes our study of His Word from Sunday School to Confirmation to adult Bible class, from history to math class.
Jesus shields us as a hen does her chicks under her wings. (Ps. 91:10) and yet bears us as on eagle’s wings to Himself to serve us His gifts. (Ex. 19:1-6) From His invocation, He sends us in vocation bearing His forgiveness of sins.
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