Devotion

Drawn from the themes of Scripture itself, these devotions consider the salvation plan of God fulfilled in Jesus and carried to the world through the Church. The in-depth, thought-provoking content offers rich insight into Scripture and the Christian life and encouragement in the faith. Along the way you will drink deeply of the fountain of eternal life and gain in understanding of the message of God's Word.

DEVOTIONAL CONTAINS- A brief service for daily prayers- Psalms- Prayers- Hymns- Scripture lessons- Emergency Baptism and burial

This book provides encouragement for the realities of daily care giving challenges. Through brief Gospel-focused readings and Scripture verses, this small book offers refreshment and renewal for the exhausted caregiver. Each reading focuses on Jesus as the source of our hope and strength. Blessings and Prayers for Caregivers can be tucked in a pocket or a purse to go with you wherever you are and to be at your fingertips whenever you have a minute or two and need a word of encouragement.

Busy parents, sponsors, and churches look to you for confirmand gifts. The new Blessings and Prayers for Confirmation offers on-the-go devotions with handy, portable prayers, hymns, psalms, and canticles. ESV Scripture takes readers through their day. The book includes the Rite of Confirmation from Lutheran Service Book.

- Compact size goes anywhere
- Affordable price puts resource in the price range of many
- Prayers and Scripture passages arranged by topic
- Follows a daily prayer format
- Created without dates for perpetual use
- Prayers from the Daily Office
- Psalms
- Hymns and canticles
- Scripture readings
- A brief summary of the Christian faith from Luther's Small Catechism

For women who are on the move, it's comforting to carry along a compact, pocket-size devotional resource to help them meditate anywhere on God's Word and His forgiveness and grace through Christ Jesus. Blessings and Prayers offers a suggested order for devotions based on the Daily Office. Women using Blessings and Prayers spend their devotion time reading and meditating on daily prayers, psalms, hymns and canticles, and Scripture. A wonderful gift. DEVOTIONAL CONTAINS- Daily Prayers- Psalms- Hymns and canticles- Scripture readings- A brief summary of the Christian faith

As a supplement to the sanctoral calendar in Lutheran Service Book, Celebrating the Saints presents the saints not as great exceptions but as great examples for Christians today. Each saint or event is given a short historical sketch, and readers are given related devotional thoughts or liturgical material. Lutheran parishioners, students, and Christians interested in the Churchs history as viewed from the saints perspectives will come to know, love, and thank God for these saints.

This special collection of daily devotions has been carefully drawn from every year o Portals of Prayer. Some devotions were picked to remember the significant dates on which they first appeared, and some were chosen to speak to us today from years gone by. All of these devotions proclaim the Word of God, the message that God loves us enough to send a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

The Psalms are an important part of Christianity and understanding the Bible. They have been used for years as a core to the Bible and can even stand as a summary of Scripture and all that it offers. The Psalms are also a wonderful and easy introduction to the Bible and the devotional aspects that come with studying God's Word for people of all ages. All 150 Psalms will take you through a full range of human emotions from God's creation and can help you transform your own understandings of your faith as well. This devotional companion shows the text of the Psalms with a one-page reflection that lets you dig into the Word. Each reflection includes a basic introduction with useful information and a structured way to pray, meditate on, and apply the psalms to your life. This follows the Lutheran Understanding of the study of God's Word: oratio (prayer), meditatio (meditation), and tentatio (struggle).

Johann Gerhard (1582-1637) was one of the leading dogmatic theologians of his time and was the authoritative voice of seventeenth-century Lutheran Orthodoxy. Yet, he also published numerous devotional works and meditations that were meant to be used in the daily lives of ordinary believers. The Handbook of Consolations sought to provide comfort and encouragement not only to those approaching death, but also to those who provided care for the sick and dying. Gerhard himself was no stranger to sickness and death, having lost his infant son and young wife, and faced numerous life-threatening illnesses throughout his life. In this pastoral work, which is the first complete English translation based on Gerhard's original Latin to be published since the seventeenth century, Gerhard brings together his extensive understanding of Scripture, theology, and church history in a practical and easy-to-understand manual that is as relevant and meaningful in the twenty-first century as it was in Gerhard's day.

This Christ-centered devotional is designed as a convenient take-along resource to help those who grieve find the comfort provided by the Christian understanding of death. It offers brief meditations, prayers, Scripture verses, psalms, and well-known hymns.