GREETINGS

FROM
REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH
-​ MISSOURI SYNOD -
OF TILLAMOOK

             WE
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Proclaim the resurrection of Christ.
Extend the mercy of the Father.
Stand united in the Spirit.

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VERSE OF THE WEEK

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My soul alongs for your salvation;
    I hope in your word.
My eyes long for your promise;
    I ask, “When will you comfort me?”
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,
    yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
How long must your servant endure?
    When will you judge those who persecute me?
The insolent have dug pitfalls for me;
    they do not live according to your law.
All your commandments are sure;
    they persecute me with falsehood; help me!
They have almost made an end of me on earth,
    but I have not forsaken your precepts.
In your steadfast love give me life,
​    that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.

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          Psalm 119. 81-88, ESV

WISDOM OF THE WEEK

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        This passage is an indictment of the whole papacy. All priests, monks, and nuns—and I am now speaking of the best of them—who repose their hope for salvation in their own works, and not in Christ, whom they imagine to be an angry judge, hear this sentence pronounced against them that Christ shall profit them nothing. If one can earn the forgiveness of sins and everlasting life through one’s own efforts to what purpose was Christ born? What was the purpose of His suffering and death, His resurrection, His victory over sin, death, and the devil, if men may overcome these evils by their own endeavor? Tongue cannot express, nor heart conceive what a terrible thing it is to make Christ worthless.

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      Martin Luther, Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians; regarding Chapter V, Verse 2;
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/luther/galatians.viii.html

verse of the month - August

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          Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.

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          Luke 12. 13-21, ESV

HYMN VERSE OF THE MONTH - August

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By grace! On this I'll rest when dying;
     In Jesus' promise I rejoice;
for though I know my heart's condition,
     I also know my Savior's voice.
     My heart is glad, all grief has flown,
     since I am saved by grace alone.

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By Grace I'm Saved
     Lutheran Service Book
​          Hymn 566, Stanza 6

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Text:

Christian Ludwig Schmidt, 1709-61; tr. The Lutheran Hymnal​, 1941, alt.

Tune:

Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel, 1697-1775; setting: The Lutheran Hymnal, ​1941

Meter:

O DAS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HATTE (DRETZEL)
98 98 88

Cross-Reference:

Ephesians 2. 4-9;  Titus 3. 4-7;  Isaiah 64. 6;  Romans 3. 23-24