LENT 2021 – DAY 34

Jeremiah 31:27-34 Romans 11:25-36 John 11:28-44      I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more. [Jeremiah 31:34c] There’s a hymn in our Evangelical Lutheran Worship Hymnal [ELW #792] that I’ve most often used at funerals for those departed souls who have suffered from Alzheimer’s or dementia. It is titled “When Memory Fades,”Continue reading “LENT 2021 – DAY 34”

LENT 2021 – DAY 33

Jeremiah 29:1-14     Romans 11:13-24     John 11:1-27      Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.”  [John 11:21-22] As I write this morning, the winds are whipping outside my window and my light hasContinue reading “LENT 2021 – DAY 33”

LENT 2021 – DAY 30

Jeremiah 25:8-17   Romans 10:1-13   John 9:18-41   “The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will beContinue reading “LENT 2021 – DAY 30”