1. Pray (or write out a prayer) for your pastor to have courage and faithfulness to his calling. If you are so inclined, tell your pastor that you have been praying for him and ask… 

Moses Excuses Moses said, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”  Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “Isn’t Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, he… 

Moses Excuses But Moses replied to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent—either in the past or recently or since you have been speaking to your servant—because my mouth and my tongue are… 

Moses Excuses Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”  The Lord asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A… 

Moses Excuses Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what… 

Moses Excuses But Moses asked God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” He answered, “I will certainly be with you, and this… 

1. How does Mark 1:4,15 show the importance of repentance? 2. German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “We Lutherans have gathered like eagles round the carcass of cheap grace, and there have drunk the poison which… 

Lent Do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? Romans 2:4 Jesus said that God “makes His sun to rise on… 

Lent You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder,’ and whosoever murders will be in danger of the judgment. But I say to you that whoever is angry… 

Lent He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Isaiah 53:12 God the Son assumed true…