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Mar 20 / Wed Lenten Worship – Gethsemane: A Place of Strength – Lutheran Weekend Worship
This evening, we meditate upon the simple words of our Lord’s prayer in Gethsemane: “Thy will be done.”
As we listen to Jesus pray, the Spirit brings about a change in our hearts. So often, our prayer can be about our will. With this prayer, our eyes are opened to God’s will. Rather than struggle to make God part of our lives, we see our Lord struggle because we are part of His life. His work in this world was for our salvation.
When disciples enter into places of sorrow, places where they struggle and fail to carry out God’s will, Jesus bears their weakness before His Father. His prayer and labor turn our places of sorrow into the places of God’s strength.
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Mar 16/17 – Even Unbelief Doesn’t Stop Jesus – Lutheran Weekend Worship
During Jesus’ earthly ministry, countless people saw Him. But not everyone came to see
Him by faith for who He truly is: the blessed One who comes and saves them in the name
of the Lord. People today often “see” Jesus from a safe distance, but they refuse to see
Him for the Savior He truly is, and they reject the work He has done to make the world
right with God. Today we seek to be different than the majority around us. We long to
see Jesus up close and personal, receiving Him in faith, acknowledging with heart and
voice the redeeming work of His death and resurrection. Seeing Him now through His
Word and Supper, and believing in Him by grace, we look forward to the day when we
shall see Him face-to-face in the glories of heaven, singing forever with all of God’s
gathered children: “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”
Mar 13 / Wed Lenten Service – The Upper Room: A Place of Service – Lutheran Worship video
Tonight, we gather and listen to Jesus. In the Upper Room with His disciples, He
takes an argument about glory and turns it into an invitation for service.
Jesus knows that His people often get things wrong. From the Israelites who
elevated their worship of God over the God they worshiped, to the disciples who placed
their following of the Lord over the Lord they followed, God’s people frequently struggle
with glory and service.
Tonight, Jesus has gathered His disciples for the Passover, and yet, as He looks over
the room, He witnesses division and strife. The disciples are broken apart by arguments
over greatness and glory.
Into this place of broken discipleship, Jesus brings the wholeness of salvation. His
body and blood, His betrayal and death, transform the Upper Room from a place of
strife over glory to a place of glorious service.