Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church - Olive Branch, MS

Rev. Jake Bennett, PhD Professor of Physics on Biblical Cosmology

Stump the Pastor/Head coverings

Color: Green

Old Testament: Proverbs 9:1–10
Psalm: Psalm 34:12–22; antiphon: v. 11
Epistle: Ephesians 2:13–22
Epistle: 1 John 3:13–18
Gospel: Luke 14:15–24
Introit: Psalm 18:1–2a, 27, 30a, 49; antiphon: vv. 18b–19
Gradual: Psalm 120:1–2
Verse: Psalm 7:17

The Gospel Call Goes Out to All
 
Wisdom has issued an invitation to the divine feast: “Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight” (Prov. 9:5–6). This is the call of the Spirit of Christ to believe the Gospel and to receive His saving gifts in the Holy Supper. Many make excuses and reject this invitation, even as the Jews did in the days of Jesus, yet the Master’s house will be filled. The Gospel call therefore goes out to the lowly and despised, into the highways, even to all the Gentiles (Luke 14:15–24). For “you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ” (Eph. 2:13–22). In Christ, believing Jews and Gentiles are no longer strangers but fellow members of the household of God. The enmity of class and race is put to death through the cross. Having been reconciled in the one Body of Christ, we are enabled to love one another (1 John 3:13–18) as we await the marriage feast of the Lamb in His kingdom which will have no end.

Lectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship

Leviticus Cont. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Yni__tn-bCYL8XWHmaMlNbrXaGul8dcSGi0DbDgodA/edit?usp=drive_link

Color: Green

Old Testament: Genesis 15:1–6
Psalm: Psalm 33:12–22; antiphon: v. 20
Epistle: 1 John 4:16–21
Gospel: Luke 16:19–31
Introit: Psalm 13:1–4; antiphon: vv. 5–6
Gradual: Psalm 41:4, 1
Verse: Psalm 7:1

Faith Trusts in Christ for Life Eternal
 
When the beggar Lazarus died, he was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. For he was truly Abraham’s seed. Like Abraham, he believed in the Lord, and the Lord “counted it to him as righteousness” (Gen. 15:6). The name Lazarus means “God is my help.” The unnamed rich man, on the other hand, did not love and trust in God. For he evidently cared little for the beggar at his gate. And “he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1 John 4:20). He who loved and trusted in possessions and prestige died and was in torments in Hades (Luke 16:19–31). Repentance and faith are worked only through Moses and the prophets—that is, the Word of God, for it points us to Christ. Only through His death and resurrection are we brought the comfort of life everlasting.

Lectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship

Leviticus Cont. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Yni__tn-bCYL8XWHmaMlNbrXaGul8dcSGi0DbDgodA/edit?usp=drive_link

Color: White

Old Testament: Isaiah 6:1–7
Psalm: Psalm 29; antiphon: v. 2
Epistle: Romans 11:33–36
Gospel: John 3:1–17
Gospel: John 3:1–15
Introit: Psalm 8:1–2a, 3–5; antiphon: Liturgical Text
Gradual: Liturgical Text
Verse: Liturgical Text

The Holy Trinity Reveals Himself to Sinners
 
When Isaiah beheld the glory of the Lord, he cried out “Woe is me!” For the sinner cannot stand in the presence of a holy God and live (Is. 6:1–7). But God the Father lifted up His Son Jesus for us on the cross, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. This eternal life of Christ is given us according to the Holy Spirit’s good pleasure in Baptism. “Unless one is born [again] of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:5). To sinners in fear of death, the messengers of God place on our lips the living body and blood of Christ and speak His words of absolution, “Your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for” (Is. 6:7). Having received forgiveness and life from the Father through the Son by the Holy Spirit, we join with the angels in praising the blessed Trinity, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts!” (Is. 6:3). “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen” (Rom. 11:33–36).

Lectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship

Book of Acts Cont.