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Love over Fear and Anxiety Third Friday in Lent - March 5, 2021 " for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control." (2 Timothy 1:7) LSB 430 My Song Is Love Unknown (Verse 7 of this week's hymn served as inspiration for today's devotion.) What are you looking for in your life? What are you looking for to give you some meaning...

Third Saturday in Lent - March 6, 2021 57When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.58He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.59And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud60andlaid it in his own new tomb,which he had cut in the rock. And ...

Third Thursday in Lent - March 4, 2021 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,the God of our fathers,glorified his servantJesus, whomyou delivered over anddenied in the presence of Pilate,when he had decided to release him.But you deniedthe Holy andRighteous One, andasked for a murderer to be granted to you,and you killedthe Author of life,whom God rai...

Third Wednesday in Lent - March 3, 2021 Behold,my servant shall act wisely;he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted 14As many were astonished at youhis appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind 15soshall he sprinkle[b]many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths because of him, for that which has not b...

Second Tuesday in Lent - March 2, 2021 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, "Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. 3 If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing t...

Second Monday in Lent - March 1, 2021 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Philippians 2:6-8) LSB 430 ...

Life Second Saturday in Lent - February 27, 2021 We wereburied therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just asChrist was raised from the dead bythe glory of the Father, we too might walk innewness of life. (Romans 6:4) LSB 420 Christ, the Life of All the Living (Verse 1 of this week's hymn served as inspiration for today's ...

Second Sunday in Lent February 28, 2021 'By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.' (Psalm 42:8). LSB 430 My Song Is Love Unknown (Verse 1 of this week's hymn served as inspiration for today's devotion.) There is a popular quote that goes like this "Life is a song. Love is the music" and who i...

Thanksgiving Second Friday in Lent - February 26, 2021 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! (Psalm 118:29) LSB 420 Christ, the Life of All the Living (The repeated ending of this week's hymn served as inspiration for today's devotion.) In this week's hymn, Christ, the Life of all the Living, each ve...

With His Wounds We are Healed Second Thursday in Lent - February 25, 2021 But he was pierced for our transgressions;he was crushed for our iniquities upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5) LSB 420 Christ, the Life of All the Living (Verse 4 of this week's hymn served as inspiration for today's devotion...