Jesus Speaks about a change/movement in the Old Testament

Jesus Speaks!!! Honestly, this isn’t something new, but what if I told you Jesus spoke in the Old Testament long before He rend the heavens and came down to us. What did he say? What is our response? What does Chuck E. Cheese, Back to the Future, Superman, and the Wizard of Oz have to do with all this? Only one way to find out…

The Meyer Minute for Call Day

My first call into the pastoral ministry was to a dual parish in New Memphis and Venedy, Illinois. Diane and I arrived in 1974 and took up residence in the Venedy parsonage, an old two story frame house next to the church and cemetery. Now, 30 years after moving away, the congregation is taking that old house down in order to build a parish hall. The parsonage comes down but the memories remain dear in our minds. Yes, even the memory of shoveling coal into the old furnace!

Today is “Call Day” at Concordia Seminary, the day 99 graduates will be given their first assignments in ministry. In the 19th century, Dr. C.F.W. Walther wrote, “When a place has been assigned to a candidate of theology where he is to discharge the office of a Lutheran minister, that place ought to be to him the dearest, most beautiful, and most precious spot on earth. He should be unwilling to exchange it for a kingdom. Whether it is in a metropolis or in a small town, on a bleak prairie or in a clearing in the forest, in a flourishing settlement or in a desert, to him it should be a miniature paradise.”

I pray for our students the joy we had in our first assignment.

-Well said Dr. Meyer

Preach The Word

This was the New Testament Reading for CPH’s PrayNow app which is built off the Treasury of Daily Prayer for Feb. 1

 

2 Timothy 4:1-18

1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2       preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3       For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4       and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5       As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.    6       For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 7       I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8       Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.       9       Do your best to come to me soon. 10       For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 11       Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry. 12       Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. 13       When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments. 14       Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds. 15       Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message. 16       At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! 17       But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. 18       The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

The Holy Bible : English Standard Version. (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001). 2 Ti 4:1–18.

Paul is clear. Enjoy your day! 🙂